The Daily Northwestern — October 27, 2016

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Quest Scholars present new goals Group considers toll of course expenses, meal plans

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ASG Vice President Macs Vinson speaks at Senate on Wednesday. Senate unanimously passed a resolution authored by Vinson to create a judicial branch reform committee.

ASG looks to create judicial branch

By YVONNNE KIM

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Associated Student Government Senate unanimously passed a resolution to form an ad hoc Judicial Branch Reform Committee, which

would perform the research and work necessary to create a student-run judicial branch.

The resolution said that although ASG currently has both a legislative and executive branch — Senate and its committees, respectively — it lacks an official judicial branch. According to the

resolution, the new committee would “explore judicial branches in other universities’ student governments and recommend changes to shape a judicial branch of ASG” to promote accountability and transparency.

Six candidates were nominated to be members of the

committee, after which Senate held a Q&A to better understand the goals and viewpoints of each nominee and conducted a final election. “(The committee) should be fair and just and well » See SENATE, page 2

Northwestern Quest Scholars Network is working to address topics ranging from course expenses to meal plans for low-income students on campus this year.

To improve course accessibility, Quest Scholars vice president Madisen Hursey said the group plans to reach out to Associated Student Government to ensure NU professors comply with the Federal Textbook Price Disclosure law, which requires professors disclose the retail prices of their learning materials for each class during course registration.

By listing these prices, lowincome students can better assess if a class is economically feasible for them, said Hursey, a Weinberg sophomore.

Weinberg senior Ashley Wood, ASG vice president for academics, said ASG has other plans to better serve low-income students at NU. “One of our priorities this year is administering funding by working with (Student Enrichment Services) and planning meetings with Quest Scholars to discuss the best

ways to help students,” Wood said.

“Whether that be through scholarship opportunities or increasing the amount of course reserves.”

Quest Scholars is working closely with SES to accomplish its goals, Hursey said. Recently appointed SES assistant director Sharitza Rivera will head Compass, a peer mentoring program for low-income students, which Hursey said will allow SES director Kourtney Cockrell to be more available to work with Quest.

SES staff could not be reached for comment by the time of publication.

Another concern the group hopes to address is the disadvantages faced by low-income students with on-campus meal plans, Hursey said.

She said Sodexo’s Weekly 14 Meal Plan places low-income students at a disadvantage because the current policy limits students to only use one meal or Equivalency Meal per meal period, meaning they are unable to swipe for a meal and buy supplemental food at a C-store during the same period.

“That’s something a lot of lowincome students rely on because they can’t go to Whole Foods and buy a lot of groceries,” she said.

Rachel Hamil, communications and engagement manager of Sodexo at NU, said the dining » See QUEST, page 2

New theater tenant planned

By NORA SHELLY

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A new concept for the Howard Street Theater project may end up saving the city in construction costs.

The theater, which has not yet received final approval from City Council, would be constructed in the 700 block of Howard Street. The city had originally for Strawdog Theatre Company to occupy the theater. In the spring, Strawdog attempted to temporarily lease another city property on Howard Street, a move that didn’t sit well with a Chicago

Chicago teen charged with student robbery

A 17-year-old Chicago resident was charged Monday in connection with an early morning robbery of a Northwestern student near a CTA station last month, police said.

On Oct. 7, the student was approached by three people near the corner of Sheridan Road and Noyes Street, according to

restaurant who also wanted to lease the space. Soon after, Strawdog pulled out of the deal. The city is now in talks with another Chicago-based theater group, cabaret company Theo Ubique.

Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said at the Administration and Public Works Committee meeting Monday she thinks the group would be a good fit.

“This is a dinner theater concept,” she said. “It’s a much more reasonable (project).”

Because Theo Ubique is a cabaret theater, the same plans that were originally drawn up for Strawdog — which is a more traditional theater group

— could not be used.

The plans drawn up for Strawdog were estimated to cost more than $5 million dollars. The estimates for Theo Ubique will be $1.4 to $1.7 million less than that, assistant city manager Marty Lyons said. Theo Ubique would be responsible for contributing about $200,000.

Aldermen at the City Council meeting on Monday narrowly approved a change order of just more than $12,000 to increase payments to Ross Barney Architects to draw up plans for another iteration of the Howard Street Theater.

a news release. The three people asked the student for his wallet and demanded he walk with them to an ATM to withdraw money.

The student was forced to withdraw $400 from the ATM near the Noyes Street CTA station. The three subjects also allegedly tried to rob another NU student on a northbound “L” train near the Noyes Street station that night, but did not end up taking anything.

Evanston police investigating the incident learned a male

17-year-old Chicago resident in custody by Chicago Police Department for similar incidences matched the description of one of three people.

Police were able to confirm the 17-year-old was one of the people who allegedly robbed the NU student at the corner of Sheridan Road and Noyes Street.

He was charged Monday with one count of felony armed robbery and one count of felony unlawful restraint.

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A Chicago Cubs fan celebrates after the Cubs clinched their first World Series berth since 1945. Evanston is planning on setting off the emergency alarms if the team wins the World Series.

If Cubs win, expect sirens

By NORA SHELLY

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Evanston is planning to do a little more than just “Fly the W” if the Chicago Cubs win the World Series.

The city will set off its emergency sirens if the team wins the World Series. The Cubs are tied 1-1 with the Cleveland Indians in the best-of-seven series, and could clinch either

Sunday, Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.

The city flew “W” flags in front of city facilities and Fountain Square after the Cubs victory this weekend, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said.

Bobkiewicz said the flags were a way for the city to “properly recognize” the team after they won the National League pennant but wanted to do something more if the Cubs won the World Series.

“The emergency sirens are something that are used only in emergencies,” Bobkiewicz said. “In this special instance, setting them off would make sense.”

In anticipation of a potential victory, the city also waived a rule limiting block parties to the summer and early fall. If the Cubs win, Evanston residents will be able to celebrate with their neighbors in the » See SIREN, page 6

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From page 1 policy is nothing new, but meeting the needs of all students remains a top priority.

“Student security is a huge concern for our team,” Hamil said. “We’re constantly meeting with various student groups.”

Still, until the policy changes, many low-income students — especially freshmen, who tend to have the Weekly 14 Meal Plan — are left to choose between buying groceries and eating a meal at the dining hall, Hursey said.

Hursey also said Quest Scholars is working to help students who will be affected by the upcoming

termination of long-term counseling at the Women’s Center. Because of the stigma associated with Counseling and Psychological Services, many low-income students currently rely on the Women’s Center for support, she said.

“A lot of times, low-income and first generation students face really specific mental health issues related to their socioeconomic circumstances,” Hursey said.

She said the group plans on reaching out to student organizations such as NU Active Minds to help bridge the gap left by the termination of long-term counseling at the Women’s Center.

Quest Scholars is also working to expand the prevalence of on-campus events through increased

programming, the group’s president Steffany Bahamon said. Quest plans to host events every two weeks as opposed to every four, the McCormick senior said.

Past community-building events include an ice cream social and an event with McKinsey and Company. Bahamon said Quest Scholars plans on conducting similar events with Google in which students will have the opportunity to learn how to interview successfully and how to navigate the job application process.

“Mostly what we’ve been trying to do is build a sense of community,” she said.

“Rules (Committee) looked at the code last year and we made changes, but I think there’s still changes to be made to either make the code more flexible toward interpretation or even certain areas that need to be more specific,” she said.

Whether or not the Rules Committee, which is responsible for reviewing legislation for formatting and content, will remain separate from the judicial branch is still up for debate, Justine Kim told The Daily.

Lumpkin said during the Q&A that separating the judicial branch from the current Rules Committee could be helpful in distinguishing between checking legislation for constitutionality and serving as a disciplinary body.

“The most important thing going into the committee is not that I necessarily have a

specific design of what I want,” she told The Daily. “It’s important for us to do a lot of factfinding beforehand and a lot of comparisons with … what other people are doing with their (schools).”

She also said she would like there to be space on the Judicial Branch Reform Committee for people who are not senators. The Rules Committee is made up exclusively of senators and the parliamentarian.

The committee will present its recommendations for a judicial branch by the end of Fall Quarter, create a preliminary draft of legislation to enact these recommendations by the end of Winter Break and give a final proposal during Winter Quarter, the resolution said.

spending money and moving in this direction, and we haven’t approved it,” he said. “We haven’t gotten all the information that we need to make this decision in a properly-informed manner.”

A concept design estimate included in documents for this week’s canceled Economic Development Committee meeting shows the plans consolidating the two storefront spaces to make room for a 86-seat cabaret theater with a bar and catering kitchen, as well as dressing room space for the actors.

According to a draft copy of the lease, Theo Ubique group would pay $3,800 a month to the city for rent for the first two years, if the project is approved. The rent would increase after that.

“This is really just exciting — a perfect concept — and it’s a reasonably priced one,” Rainey said. “I think we finally have this figured out.”

The plans, and Theo Ubique, will be discussed at the Economic Development Committee meeting next month.

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representative of the student body,” Weinberg senior Hayeon Kim, who was elected to be on the committee, said during the Q&A. “It should be separate from other parts of ASG, and most importantly, founded in the constitution.”

The other two senators elected were SESP sophomore Justine Kim and Weinberg junior Daniella Lumpkin.

When asked about issues the judicial committee could address, Justine Kim said it should re-examine ASG’s code — its core governing document — and constitution to provide a clearer interpretation for the governing body.

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That money is coming from the Howard Ridge TIF fund.

Ald. Brian Miller (9th), voted against the change order both in the committee meeting and at the council meeting later that night.

Miller said he would like to do more “due diligence” before spending more money on the project.

“We’re beginning to go down this path and

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NU alumna Kate Shindle returns to Chicago with ‘Fun Home’ tour

By STAVROS AGORAKIS

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Stardom was not on Kate Shindle’s agenda while she attended Northwestern.

Although she was single-minded in pursuing a full-time career in professional theater, Shindle (Communication ‘99) took her academic work seriously, former NU acting Prof. Dominic Missimi said.

“Kate was a very interesting student, because she was not always in the incrowd,” Missimi said. “She worked very diligently and very hard to perfect her craft, but wasn’t necessarily very into the, ‘Let’s sit around and talk theater 24 hours a day’ attitude.”

Hopping from one theater production to another at NU, Shindle’s theater experience in college was later defined by a long series of acting achievements. From getting cast in major roles in multiple Dolphin Shows to starring and later cochairing Waa-Mu productions, Shindle was never afraid to take risks with her performing style, Missimi said.

Shindle is now traveling across the U.S. with the national tour production of “Fun Home,” the five-time Tony Awardwinning musical that opened on Broadway in 2015.

“Fun Home” is a musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel of the same name, which recounts the author’s life as she comes to terms with being gay, her struggling relationship with her gay father and the various events that defined her childhood. The show is the first musical produced on Broadway that stars a lesbian protagonist, Alison, whom Shindle portrays.

Missimi said it’s very “Kate-like” for her to be involved in a show of such high artistry, dealing with social issues American audience members can identify with.

“Kate went where she thought the work would make her better,” Missimi said. “Even if it was a tour of an unusual

little musical about the wives of the president, she’d go out into the regions and work there because she knew that she was learning … She was opening doors for herself, which is a sign of a really serious actress.”

Shindle said she didn’t watch the original musical on Broadway until January, as she was working abroad for most of this past year. But by the time she left Circle in the Square Theatre, where “Fun Home” played, and knowing the tour was getting cast, she told herself she had to do that show.

“It’s not only a great piece of theater, but also one with a strong message of acceptance and respect for yourself, for the people around you, for your family,” Shindle said. “Even when we go through difficult or dysfunctional times, we’re always trying to make it work. Most people are trying to make the best out of their lives, and in this show that’s certainly true.”

Shindle said she was especially impressed by the direction of the memory play, in which her character narrates her life events and never leaves the stage.

Throughout the show, the audience takes a glimpse at Alison in three different stages of her life — during childhood, college and the present day — all of which are portrayed by different actors.

Still, Shindle said “Fun Home” allows for viewers to feel sympathetic toward all characters, no matter who provides a focal point.

“I feel like audiences care about the entire family, about each of these characters in different ways, even if they disagree with some of the choices these characters make,” she said. “They find the stories sympathetic and compelling.”

“Fun Home” comes to Chicago on Nov. 2 and will play at the Oriental Theatre until Nov. 13.

In addition to a full-time acting career, Shindle also serves as the president of the Actors’ Equity Association, a national labor union. Touring with “Fun Home” will allow her to visit the union’s liaison

cities and discuss the different challenges actors face all over the country, she said.

Most recently, Actors’ Equity has been involved in a Los Angeles-centered dispute over the 99-seat theater plan it drafted, which calls for owners of 100-seat-or-fewer theater venues to pay minimum wage to the actors they employ for rehearsals and performances.

“Across all of our contracts … we believe and fight for the concept that, even though actors love what we do, our work also deserves to be compensated,” Shindle said.

Social advocacy has been a major part of Shindle’s career, dating back to her participation in the 1998 Miss America beauty pageant, Missimi said.

While he coached her for the talent portion of the pageant, for which she sang “Don’t Rain on My Parade” from the musical “Funny Girl,” Missimi said Shindle shared with him a platform on AIDS prevention, which at the time was a particularly controversial topic. “(Everyone knew) she’s a little not like a typical beauty queen,” he said.

Matt Dudley (Communication ‘99), who co-chaired the 1999 Waa-Mu Show with Shindle and Kate Strohbehn Sinclair (Communication ‘99), said Shindle was always “grounded” and never driven by the desire to make it big. Instead, she approached everything with an optimistic, can-do attitude.

Even when she won the Miss America pageant, Dudley said she maintained her “goofy, loving and hard-working” attitude, which in turn lifted the entire production.

Dudley added he has not found it “surprising at all” Shindle has taken this trajectory with advocacy for social issues, both through Actors’ Equity and the shows she’s involved in.

“Kate is like a quiet mover and a shaker,” he said. “She’s someone who’s not afraid to put herself in a big spot and just knock it out of the park. It’s just who she is.” agorakis@u.northwestern.edu

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Q&A: Alumna who works with ‘Hamilton’

By KELLEY CZAJKA

daily senior staffer @kelleyczajka

Kaitlin Fine (Communication ‘09) was a performer throughout her time at Northwestern, but it was only during her senior year that she realized her passion lay backstage. After graduating, Fine landed an internship under Jeffrey Seller — who would become the producer of “Hamilton” — and moved to New York. She has been involved with the hit musical since its Broadway debut.

The Daily: What day-to-day responsibilities does your job as an assistant company manager involve?

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Vertigo Productions’ fall mainstage production opens Thursday night in Shanley Pavilion. “The Queens” features two actresses portraying a pair of lionesses trapped in a cage and left to starve.

Vertigo production deals with mortality

By JENNIFER HEPP

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Shanley Pavilion will transform into a zoo cage this weekend, where two trapped lionesses will face their looming mortality.

“The Queens,” an original play written by Communication senior Cemre Paksoy, is Vertigo Productions’ fall mainstage show. It features only two characters — a pair of lionesses — who are fighting starvation after being deserted in a cage at an abandoned zoo.

The main conflict depicts the two lionesses dealing with their looming mortality, producer Andrea Canizares-Fernandez said. One of the lionesses wants to open up about her waning days of life, while the other one is more reserved.

“It’s kind of a simple, bare-bones show,” the Communication junior said. “But it covers a lot of really deep topics and really gets people

thinking.”

The play features minimalist design choices.

The only props used during the performances are a dead bird and a piece of steak, CanizaresFernandez said. The two characters are dressed in a similarly simple manner, with loose and neutral-colored fabrics.

Director Yianni Kinnas said he likes how minimalistic the play is, as it highlights the sense of dread and tension built up throughout the entire production.

The show premieres Thursday night in Shanley Pavilion.

Associate producer Chamaya Moody said she is a huge fan of plays like “The Queens,” which are staged in a single setting. This allows for the stable development of the main characters, whose minds the audience can more deeply understand and react to, she said.

“I love the concept of seeing how people unravel in that type of environment because it’s so contrary to what we as humans are drawn

to and are comfortable with,” the Communication junior said.

Kinnas called the student playwright Paksoy “brilliant” and said the launch point of the play was the fact that in the wild, male lions mostly lounge while females do all of the hunting.

The two lionesses are played by actresses Ziare Paul-Emile and Amira Danan, who are both Communication sophomores.

Canizares-Fernandez said she hopes the show’s themes are relatable to people and that audience members leave the theater reflecting on the production.

Moody added she hopes the message of compassion reaches the audience.

“Compassion is a very strong theme across the different social issues the play brings up discreetly,” Moody said. “The element of compassion shows so strongly in the plot and how far that could go, especially in this situation.” jenniferhepp2020@u.northwestern.edu

Alumni collaborate on new magician play

By OLIVIA ZAPATER-CHARRETTE

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A new play featuring the work of two Northwestern alumni is bringing together two different styles of live performance: magic and theater.

“The Magic Play” is the story of the Magician, a young performer who continues to put on magic shows even as his personal life falls apart.

The Magician must come to terms with the fact that the deception he uses in his magic tricks is also the source of his ruined relationship.

“In the end, this play is not a magic show.

It’s a play. It’s a love story,” said Brett Schneider (Communication ‘07), who plays the protagonist. “The show is about trust and letting your partner see yourself for the entire you and all the imperfections.”

“The Magic Play” opened Friday and will run until Nov. 20 at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

Director Halena Kays (Communication ‘96) and Schneider said the show aims to highlight themes of vulnerability and trust. Vulnerability and openness with loved ones is an important, though scary, part of life, Kays said.

“I hope … some things that were unexpected happen in a way that makes (the audience) rethink the way they move through the world and the way that they are present with the people they love,” she said.

Playwright Andrew Hinderaker approached Schneider nearly four years ago and asked him to collaborate on a new play he wanted to write about a magician, Schneider said. He added Hinderaker was familiar with his background as an actor and a magician.

Schneider said he has been performing magic since he was 13 years old.

“He was curious about trying to combine the live performance style of sleight-of-hand magic shows with the live performance element of a narrative play,” Kays said.

Hinderaker developed the play through the Goodman Theatre’s Playwrights Unit, a program the theater founded in 1925 to encourage the

production of new plays. He wrote his play based on memories of his uncle, Hinderaker said in a news release.

“I wanted to write about my uncle, who is a talented artist but a dysfunctional, isolated person, and I have always felt I share some of his traits,” he said in the release.

After finishing an early draft of the play, Hinderaker began collaborating with Kays, who went on to direct the production’s first public reading.

Kays also directed the show’s first performance at the 11th annual New Stages Festival in 2014.

“We got to put the play on its feet and experiment with some technical stuff and, more importantly, watch the audience’s response to the play and ask the audience questions,” Kays said.

She said developing the new play required a lot of flexibility. With a new play, the audience and production team influence the final script, which adds challenges compared to already published shows, Kays said.

Working with a new play requires strong

collaboration with the playwright, she said, and allows for the director to be involved in the creation of what ends up in the story and the script.

“It’s not just my vision of the play or my take on the play,” Kays said. “It’s such a super equal and strong collaboration with the playwright and his intentions.”

Kays said the elements of surprise and joy that magic brings to the stage add a liveness and energy theater artists always strive to include in their work.

Schneider added that because each performance of a play “only exists when the performers and the audience are present in the same room together,” each show is unique. This amplifies the elements of surprise in the production, which may be unscripted at times, he said.

“I hope (audience members) have an experience that is more fundamentally instinctual and emotional than intellectual,” Schneider said. oliviazc@u.northwestern.edu

Fine: Company manager is kind of like a weird, catch-all position. It’s part therapist, part camp counselor, part HR, part accountant, part ticket broker — anything that doesn’t specifically fall under someone else’s purview. It’s cool; you’re very much at the center of everything.

The Daily: What is it like working for such an insanely popular show?

Fine: What’s weird about it is, inside the building, we’re just doing the same thing every other show does. But with “Hamilton,” it’s when you step out of the building that it’s such a different beast than anything we ever imagined.

I ran the live lottery in New York, and by the end we had 3,000 people showing up on 46th Street. It’s been totally overwhelming from top to bottom and exhilarating and challenging …

It’s the definition of ‘once in a lifetime.’

The Daily: Can you share an anecdote about an experience you’ve had through this job?

Fine: It was our very first week of performances on Broadway, and we found out a few days before that the president was coming to the Saturday afternoon show. When we (later) went to the White House, watching Chris Jackson (who played George Washington) sing “One Last Time” four feet from the president was unbelievable. So much in the show is about legacy and about how you’re remembered and about moving on from that. Just sitting in the same audience as him watching that was unbelievable.

The Daily: Why did you end up coming to Chicago?

Fine: I’m from here, and I like it better here.

I’ve always said commercial theater and Broadway only exist in New York, but if I could do what I do in Chicago, that would be the dream.

So when this came up, I was like, “Yes please.”

Thankfully it worked out for me to come here — and when the Cubs are in the World Series.

What a dream.

The Daily: What plans do you have for the future?

Fine: I always say I never could have imagined I’d be here, so why would I imagine what’s next? It’s been super awesome to find this job that really combines my skills and interests in a really interesting way, and I’m happy to do it until I don’t want to anymore. kelleyczajka2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Brett Schneider (Communication ‘07) stars as the Magician in the Goodman Theatre’s production of “The Magic Play.” The play began performances Oct. 21 and will run until late November.

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Latest Dittmar exhibit breaks down ideas of femininity

By MADDIE BURAKOFF

the daily northwestern @madsburk

Artist Carrie Ann Schumacher seeks to deconstruct gender roles in the most literal way possible: by ripping pages out of romance novels that she believes fit women into stereotypical boxes.

Schumacher’s exhibit, “Build Her a Myth,” opened Friday in Norris University Center’s Dittmar Gallery and will be on display until Dec. 4. It features intricate dresses made out of pages taken from romance novels, all hand-cut and glued together by Schumacher, a Chicago-based artist and teacher at College of DuPage.

The dresses are a statement on the “myths of womanhood” perpetuated in our culture, Schumacher said. The medium of the pages and the words inscribed on them are meant to comment on the unrealistic expectations and gender roles that place demands on women. “(The dresses) are really these useless things that are going to fall apart and disintegrate over time, like all these ideas that we sell ourselves,” the artist said.

Both the fashion industry and romance novels are responsible for perpetuating these myths, Schumacher said. Magazines establish restrictive beauty standards, and romance novels create images of perfect relationships that do not reflect reality, she said.

Gallery curator Joy Kim said “Build Her a Myth” is part of Dittmar’s first season in recent history that features only female artists. She thought the exhibit was fitting with the student-run gallery’s mission of highlighting underrepresented voices in the arts.

“It’s a very unique take on femininity, what defines femininity and putting it in a historical context,” the Communication junior said.

Although her dresses are still clearly feminine, Schumacher said she has been incorporating more of a “warrior” look into her work. The newer dresses appear sharper and more protective because she developed them as a response to feeling attacked both in her art and in her personal life.

She added that being a target of negative criticism is a common theme for many women, whether they are in the public eye or not.

For each dress, Schumacher said she first creates a supportive understructure, usually from flattened cereal boxes or paper towel tubes. She then cuts pages from novels by hand and glues them onto the structure. The process can take anywhere from a few days to three or four weeks, she said, depending

on the size and complexity of the dress.

Although she usually has a basic idea of what the dress will look like, Schumacher said she often ends up improvising the details. Sometimes the paper will also morph and lie differently than how it was originally placed on the understructure, she said.

Weinberg sophomore Rachana Kolli, who visited the exhibit, said she believes its feminist message is important for everyone to understand and thinks the dresses are an effective medium for expressing it.

“It communicates the message in an accessible way,” Kolli said.

Kim said visitors to the exhibit have not been exclusively women. Many were drawn initially by

the “aesthetic” of the dresses, she said, but were then prompted into engaging in dialogue about the underlying themes.

In tackling gender roles, Schumacher acknowledged that there is a fine line between demanding change in society and pressuring women to change themselves. She added that women should not feel the need to reject their femininity but should instead push for a society that accepts different forms of womanhood.

“You don’t want to define womanhood in one way,” Schumacher said. “You want it to be more open, where people can find it for themselves.” madelineburakoff2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Dittmar Gallery’s new exhibit features dresses made of pages from romance novels. The dresses are a statement on feminine myths in society.

NU alumna, playwright explores death in Chicago show

By HAYLEY KROLIK

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As a zookeeper at the Lincoln Park Zoo, former Northwestern professor Mia McCullough (Communication ‘92) had to kill mice to feed to reptiles, inspiring her to think more deeply about the concept of ending a creature’s life.

This prompted her to write “Chagrin Falls,” and its newest rendition, produced by the Agency Theater

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Mia McCullough

Collective, which will open Friday at the Den Theatre in Chicago.

“Chagrin Falls” features Patrice, a journalist, who speaks with people in the fictional town of Chagrin Falls, Oklahoma, about their experiences working in the prominent industries of the town: a slaughterhouse and a death-row prison.

The play touches on a variety of themes related to the killing institutions, director Sommer Austin said.

“Everyone in the play is complicit in some way,” Austin said. “But also, they’re the small amount of people who do the killing for everybody. The massive amount of killing that happens in this country is on so few shoulders.”

Austin added, through the experiences of the slaughterhouse workers, the play highlights the fact people have to “compartmentalize,” in order to live. If they are forced to think about the workers’ vile actions, the audience may “open floodgates” to all kinds of unfiltered thoughts.

McCullough’s job at the zoo made her to reflect on this process as a whole, she said.

“I started thinking about people who have to kill cows for a living, and what that must do to them on a daily basis, because I certainly felt like killing little mice did something to me that has never really gone away,” McCullough said.

McCullough originally wrote “Chagrin Falls” in the ‘90s, and it was produced in 2001 at the Stage Left Theatre in Chicago. She explained, at the time, theaters were prioritizing world premieres over subsequent productions, and “Chagrin Falls” was not brought back

to the stage until its current rendition.

The new version came together after McCullough met Austin in an all female stand-up comedy class in Chicago. They worked together on a few comedy projects over the years, and Austin said she thought of McCullough and her writing when she needed to pick a new play for the Collective.

“This play is just really near and dear to my heart, and it’s so nice to see it having a life again,” McCullough said. “It was really hard back in the early 2000s when ‘Chagrin Falls’ was a huge success, but all anybody wanted to do was my other plays. We playwrights called it ‘world premiere-itis.’”

McCullough said she enjoys writing plays like “Chagrin Falls” that relate to social or political issues, but added that she focuses on the characters rather than the issue itself. She also employs humor to lighten the mood while emphasizing the darker topics she tends to write about.

One of McCullough’s favorite aspects of the play’s cast is its ability to find the humor mixed into the sadness of the play, she said. Jennifer Cheung, who plays Patrice, said McCullough’s support has been one of the main reasons the rehearsal process has gone smoothly.

“It’s been a blessing to have the writer in the room because it makes us work that much harder to bring the script to life,” Cheung said. “She is great to work with and very straightforward, so it makes it easy for us to execute.”

At NU, McCullough gained experience with playwriting, but not within her theater major. She said when she was a student, NU did not have a

playwriting program. Without the Creative Writing for the Media Certificate, a program that no longer exists, McCullough would have transferred schools.

Through the certificate, McCullough was able to build her portfolio by writing two television scripts, two full length screenplays and two plays. She appreciated being able to bounce her ideas off of the rest of the small class.

“There were like 10 of us, and we had this intensive time of being able to workshop together and being able to figure out what our voice was as writers,” McCullough said. “Some of those people, I still show my writing to, and I am still in touch with.”

The first play McCullough produced was one she wrote during the certificate program and featured Tina Fey and Shawn Douglass, a current NU theater professor. She also worked with other plays through the Women’s Theatre Alliance of Chicago as well as Chicago Dramatists, where she is now the public programs director.

Following these experiences McCullough wrote “Chagrin Falls,” her first full-length production. As she got older, she recognized liberal audiences typically make up the theater community, which she now connects to the themes within the new version of the play.

“There can be a lot of preaching to the choir,” she said. “There are only so many staunch believers in the death penalty who are gonna show up and see ‘Chagrin Falls.’ That’s not necessarily the people who live in urban areas or go to theater.” hayleykrolik2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Malina, who has spoken at various Hillels across the country, has performed multiple scripts by Aaron Sorkin, gaining fame in the late ‘90s in Sorkin’s ABC show “Sports Night.”

His professional acting debut was in Sorkin’s Broadway play “A Few Good Men.” Grant Klein, co-president of NU Hillel’s

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BIG TEN CHAMPS Overtime scramble goal gives Cats a share of their first-ever Big Ten title

By BEN LEWIS

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It took 23 seasons and 98 minutes, but Northwestern is finally on top of the Big Ten. On a cold, wet and windy night at Martin Stadium, the No. 20 Wildcats (14-1-3, 7-1-3 Big Ten) grabbed a share of their first-ever Big Ten regular season title with a 1-0 overtime victory against Illinois (6-11-2, 3-6-2) on Wednesday. Sophomore defender Kayla Sharples was credited with the score after a scramble in front of the goal in the 98th minute resulted in the ball crossing the line.

From the outset, the game was physical, but NU’s defense was up to the task, holding the Fighting Illini to 10 shots and preventing major scoring chances. Even in the harsh weather conditions, Sharples and the rest of the back line were able to set the tone early by stepping up and forcing Illinois to make poor decisions in front of the goal.

“We wanted Illinois to focus on the bad weather, and for us to just play our game,” she said. “Everyone just played their hearts out.”

With wins by Penn State and Minnesota in other games, the Cats required a win of their own to earn their piece of a historic conference

title. And after being held scoreless in its previous two games, NU needed to get its offense going to make that happen.

Following previous games, coach Michael Moynihan said lackluster transition from defense to attack played a role in the Cats’ offensive trouble. But at key moments in Wednesday’s game, NU was able to capitalize off impressive defensive stands by keeping possession and creating chances on the other end.

“I think it was just a little bit of composure. Sometimes we get a little too eager,” he said. “When (the midfielders are) calm and connecting, I think a lot of good things happen and

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we’re able to maintain our attack.”

Still, the Cats were unable to find the back of the net as time wound down and tension rose. Despite quality chances in both halves, NU was unable to finish off the Fighting Illini in regulation time.

When junior forward Kassidy Gorman finally scored a goal in the 98th minute, only to be called offside, it seemed like the goal the Cats needed might never come. But NU didn’t stop pressing, and less than a minute later it broke through with Sharples’ goal off a corner kick.

“All I processed was that it went in and that we won,” Gorman said. “It feels amazing. (The Big Ten title is)

something that is so monumental for this program.”

Although the team celebrated on the field long after the game ended, the season isn’t close to being finished. The Cats now set their sights on Sunday’s Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal. NU is slated to host Nebraska, which it tied 0-0 on Oct. 16.

Moynihan said his team is motivated to earn more than a shared title in the conference tournament and continue its historic season.

“I would not bet against this group,” he said. “They’re hungry for more.” benjaminlewis2020@u.northwestern.edu

MEN’S TENNIS

Kirchheimer wins regional title As usual, Cats get just enough offense

By JOSEPH WILKINSON

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No. 20 Northwestern had scored an overtime goal from a scrum in front of the net to claim a share of the Big Ten regular season title, and nobody was sure who was responsible.

The official scorers originally counted it as an own-goal knocked in by Illinois. Coach Michael Moynihan said he thought sophomore defender Kayla Sharples had put the shot on frame, but Sharples wasn’t sure she had gotten the last touch.

“Honestly, it hit off so many people, and it happened so fast,” junior winger Kassidy Gorman said.

Sharples was eventually given credit for the goal, but the confusion was befitting the Wildcats’ (14-1-3, 7-1-3 Big Ten) season — in their moment of triumph, the program’s first regularseason conference title of any kind, no one player could take the credit.

The 1-0 overtime victory over the Fighting Illini (6-11-2, 3-6-2) was NU’s seventh 1-0 win of the year and a reminder of the team’s scoring struggles.

The team lost its top two forwards from last season, Addie Steiner and Michelle Manning, to transfer and injury, respectively. When sophomore forward Brenna Lovera — still the Cats’ leading scorer with six goals despite missing the last eight games — was ruled out for the season with injury, NU was forced to rely on an ensemble of attacking threats to fill the gap.

“It’s been different people every night,” Moynihan said. “It’s an awful lot of attacking options that have fallen by the wayside.”

With some players unproven and with others playing out of position, the Cats have predictably struggled to score down the stretch of the season. In its past seven games, NU has scored just five goals and has had difficulty creating

chances in the run of play.

To come away from that seven-game stretch with four wins and three draws is a testament to the Cats’ ability to grind out results, shutting opponents down until an opportunity emerges to get ahead. With one of the best defenses in the country, anchored by center backs Sharples and fellow sophomore Hannah Davison, NU’s margin for error is large on the other end.

“We’re playing really great defense,” Sharples said. “A lot of teams are having a hard time scoring on us.”

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It’s been different people every night. It’s an awful lot of attacking options that have fallen by the wayside.

Michael Moynihan, coach

As the Cats pressed higher and higher up the field late in Wednesday’s game — searching for the goal that would secure their place atop the conference standings — their back four stymied Illinois’ attempts to counter into the space left behind. And when the game ticked into overtime, NU was fully on the front foot, bombing forward to generate chances and nearly ending the game on a Gorman goal that was ruled offsides.

It wasn’t pretty by any means. But when sophomore midfielder Marisa Viggiano whipped a corner into the fray in the 98th minute and the ball found its way into the back of the net, it ultimately didn’t matter to the Cats how it looked.

“However it went in, it went in,” Gorman said. “And I’m very happy with that.” maxschuman2018@u.northwestern.edu

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The team season doesn’t start for almost three months, but Strong Kirchheimer is already in midseason form. The senior won the ITA Midwest Region title Monday and qualified for the ITA National Indoor Championships in the process.

Kirchheimer was the No. 2 seed in the regional tournament, and he dominated the final against Michigan’s Kevin Wong, knocking the No. 14 seed out 6-3, 6-0.

Kirchheimer’s position at the No. 2 seed left him at the bottom of the draw, making him one of the last people to play each day, but he said he handled the waiting well en route to the title.

“I was pretty strong mentally, just getting through that,” Kirchheimer said. “It was just kind of a waiting game for me, making sure I was focused and ready to go for my match.”

The tournament didn’t go as well for fellow senior Konrad Zieba, who was the first on court as the No. 1 seed in the regional.

The team’s No. 1 singles player last year dropped his round of 16 match to the No. 19 seed, Michigan’s Myles Schalet. Schalet continued his impressive performance after his takedown of Zieba, making the semifinals before losing to Wong.

“Sometimes things happen,” coach Arvid Swan said. “Konrad did some good things in the tournament as well. We’re pleased with where his game is. I’m definitely happy where he’s progressing as well.”

Though Zieba officially retired trailing Schalet 4-6, 7-6, 4-5, Swan simply said Zieba “lost the match.”

Despite Zieba’s withdrawal, it is possible he too will get an invite as a wildcard to ITA Nationals, which begin Nov. 3.

Beyond the top two, the story for the Wildcats was the play of

sophomore Michael Lorenzini.

Lorenzini made his case for a spot in the lineup in the winter with his trip to the quarterfinals, grabbing an especially impressive 7-6, 7-6 win over No. 5 seed Jathan Malik of Michigan in the first round.

Lorenzini was not a regular in the NU lineup against top competition last year, but after the graduation of Fedor Baev and Alp Horoz’s departure from the team, there are two spots up for grabs.

“I was pretty happy with what he did, getting to the quarters, having a pretty big win,” Kirchheimer said of his teammate. “We saw a lot of good things from our guys, and hopefully, that leads to some better things in January.”

On the doubles side of the tournament, the most successful of the Cats’

three doubles teams was the duo of Zieba and freshman Dominik Starý.

The team reached the quarterfinals before falling to Malik and Wong.

Starý impressed in singles play as well, though he fell to the No. 18 seed Alex Lebedev of Notre Dame in the second round. Freshman Chris Ephron also charged through the qualifiers before losing in the first round of the main draw. Additionally, freshman Brenden Volk and sophomore Jason Seidman each lost their opening round matches.

“It was good to get out and play some of the best players in the region,” Swan said. “I think the competition we played against was pretty good, and it was a good opportunity for our guys to play.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Strong Kirchheimer hits a forehand return. The senior won the ITA Midwest Regionals final in straight sets to capture the individual title and qualify for the ITA National Indoor Championships.