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Campus Climate Survey breakdown Study sees higher response rate, gender disparities By DAISY CONANT

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Dave Davis at Monday’s Planning and Development Committee meeting. Davis and his fellow Northwestern representative were given 10 minutes to make a presentation to the committee.

Council talks pro events at NU Aldermen introduce ordinance for pro sports events at Welsh-Ryan By SAM HELLER

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Evanston City Council voted on Monday to introduce a controversial proposed ordinance to allow for professional sporting

and other for-profit events to take place in Welsh-Ryan Arena. The vote came after the Planning and Development Committee passed the ordinance for council introduction earlier in the evening. The ordinance, passed in committee 6-3, would amend the U2 zoning district to

allow for Northwestern to host 13 for-profit events at the arena, with a max capacity of 7,000 people a year. This would see a large increase from the seven annual non-profit events currently allowed by the law. Residents within U2 zoning districts have voiced their concern

with the plans, with more than 700 members signing a petition to vote down the amendment. During the meeting, Evanston residents also had two experts speak on their behalf to give a presentation: economic consultant Tim » See RYAN, page 6

The Assocation of American Universities 2019 Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Misconduct, released last Tuesday, recorded over one in five students reporting that sexual assault or misconduct is very or extemely problematic at Northwestern. About 25 percent of undergraduate and graduate students and one in three undergraduate students — almost 5,400 people — responded to the survey. This rate is “significantly higher” than the 15 percent participation rate from the first study conducted in 2015, according to Colleen Johnston, Title IX coordinator for the Office of Equity. The study also found undergraduate cisgender women and trans, genderqueer or nonbinary and questioning — noted as “TGQN” — students reporting sexual harassment, intimate partner violence, stalking and nonconsensual sexual contact at higher rates than others surveyed. For Spencer Colton, a

member of the Student Advisory Board for the Office of Equity, the numbers were disappointing but not surprising. “It’s of course unfortunate, but just knowing what I know from other work that I’ve done about rates of sexual violence in those communities, that was pretty expected,” Colton said. “These numbers show the work that we need to be doing here, seeing that (these students) are still affected so strongly by sexual violence. It really shows that we have a lot to do in terms of acceptance and understanding of that community.” Broken down by gender, the study showed 30 percent of undergraduate cisgender women and 30 percent of TGQN students reported being victims of nonconsensual sexual contact by inability to consent, coercion or physical force — either by penetration, sexual touching or a combination of the two — since entering school. Of the undergraduate cisgender men surveyed, 11 percent reported they were victims of this conduct. The survey asked students where sexual misconduct or assault had occurred on campus, either in the case of victimization or interference. Most frequently reported locations include » See TITLE IX, page 6

Illinois sues gov’t over changes to Endangered Species Act Conservationists emphasize the importance of focusing on enviornmental factors over economics By ZAMONE “Z” PEREZ

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In August, the Trump administration announced that it would make some of the largest changes to the Endangered Species Act in the law’s 46-year-history. Originally, the law prioritized protected species over development, such as building dams or drilling for oil. Now, the administration aims to weigh in economic factors before granting species and lands protected status. In response to the announced revisions, 17 states including

Northwestern ends fiscal year with surplus

President Morton Schapiro said after two years of operating in a multi-million dollar deficit, the University ended fiscal year 2019 several million dollars in surplus. “Instead of being 47.5 million in the red, we’re going to be

Illinois filed a lawsuit to prevent the changes from going into effect. In a news release, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul argued that the “rollbacks” make the law void by stripping it of its most essential provisions. “With these new rules, the federal government is once again turning its back on science and putting these species and the environment at risk,” Raoul said. Evanston legislators also supported the lawsuit and the current version of the Endangered Species Act. State Rep. and Chair of the Illinois Legislative Green Caucus Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston) said the lawsuit presents an

opportunity for Illinois to stand by the law and be a leader in environmental advocacy. “The repeated attempts at rolling back important protections for endangered species in Illinois is an example of how special interest groups use state level policy to advance their agenda,” Gabel said in an email to The Daily. “With environmental protections under attack federally, Illinois can and will be an environmental leader at the state level.” Prof. Keith Woodhouse, director of the Environmental Policy and Culture Program at Northwestern, said the law

modestly in the black,” Schapiro said in an interview with The Daily. Provost Jonathan Holloway first alerted Faculty Senate about a deficit in January 2018. In January 2019, the University drew $100 million from its endowment to finance the $94 million budget deficit from fiscal 2018. In 2019, Holloway also announced a seven-year capital improvement plan to lift the University from its budget crisis and

to factor into all future financial decisions. According to the plan, the University was to remain in a deficit in fiscal 2019 and 2020 and was given permission to continue to take money out of the University endowment. Though Schapiro said the audited numbers have not been finalized, the president estimated a surplus of around 5 to 30 million for last year. Schapiro said moving forward, Northwestern will work to increase funding in areas such

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Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, feeds himself inside an enclosure at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Nanyuki, Kenya, on April 18, 2015. Illinois joins multiple other states in filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act.

as IT, salaries for faculty and staff, filling vacant positions and financing student affairs. Schapiro credited the unexpected surplus to higher sponsored research and several large donations that came in over the course of the summer, including a $50 million gift to financial aid. However, moving forward, he said the University will take extra precaution to prevent a large scale deficit from happening again. For example, budget

meetings — which prior to the deficit occurred quarterly — have been taking place weekly. The credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Service knocked Northwestern down from the top rating of Aaa to Aa1 earlier in October, a decision Schapiro said was largely due to Northwestern’s recent budget crisis. While Schapiro said he was sorry the University lost the top credit score, the change did not cost the university financially,

equating the market penalty of the downgrade to “basically just a rounding error.” He said the surplus, though smaller than previous years, will allow the University some flexibility in its spending. “I’m really glad we’re back in the black, because the last two years have been hard on a lot of people — everybody in our community,” Schapiro said. — Amy Li

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AROUND TOWN Aldermen discuss issuing bonds to more nonprofits By CASSIDY WANG

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Aldermen discussed the city’s role in issuing bonds for local nonprofit organizations at a public hearing Monday. The public hearing was held for a proposal to issue city revenue bonds and loan the proceeds to Chiaravalle Montessori School, a nonprofit. In the City Council meeting, aldermen voted 6-3 to introduce the ordinance to council. Hitesh Desai, the city’s chief financial officer, said Evanston has financed Chiaravalle and Roycemore School similarly in the past through bonds. He said the city has no liability to pay for the debt if Chiaravalle defaults on payments. The bank, not the city, will be providing the money. Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) requested a memo from staff that explains the city’s role in the issuance of bonds, specifications on which nonprofit organizations are eligible and the process, which she said have not been made clear. She also said the city should discuss whether other organizations can receive bonds. “There should be a way we make this available because we have a big city full of nonprofits, all of which probably call us tomorrow and say ‘I didn’t know that you all loan money,’” said Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th). “Whenever we do something particularly around money we have to make sure that other people know that they might be

POLICE BLOTTER Two men shot on Dewey Avenue Two 35-year-old men were shot near the 2100 block of Dewey Ave. around 12:30 p.m. on Friday. Officers responded to 911 calls reporting shots fired near the 1700 block of Payne Street, according to Perry Polinski, Evanston

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Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th). Rue Simmons expressed frustration that residents are struggling to preserve organizations like Family Focus, while the city hasn’t talked about helping such organizations.

eligible as well.” Fleming said there is “a little bit shame on us” that the city has issued bonds to schools like Chiaravalle and Roycemoore in the past,

without including other nonprofit organizations. She called on the city to do a better job to make opportunities available to “particular populations,” being clear with rules, eligibility and the

police communications coordinator. The officers located the two men around the corner on Dewey Avenue. One man was shot in the leg and hand, the other was shot in the hip. The two were transported to Evanston Hospital and are reportedly in stable condition, according to Polinski. The shooters were described as two to three males wearing dark clothing, with their faces obscured by either hoodies or masks. They ran

northbound from the scene where they entered a dark-colored vehicle that drove westbound in the alley. The investigation is ongoing.

Attempted theft at Whole Foods

A 57-year-old man tried to steal $58.96 in alcohol from the Whole Foods located at 1640 Chicago Ave. The store reported an attempted theft around 6:20 p.m. on Saturday.

application process. “So it never looks like we’re playing favorites or you have to be in a certain know to know to apply for these things,” Fleming said. Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) said organizations like Family Focus, which need funds, might qualify for such bond issuances. She expressed frustration that residents are struggling to preserve these organizations, while the city hasn’t provided opportunities and resources. “There’s an information disparity in this community that is keeping other institutions in other communities oppressed and not enjoying the same quality of life and freedoms and liberties as others,” Rue Simmons said. “I’m hoping that the community at broad is not withholding information and opportunities to uplift other parts of the community that we say we’re all concerned about.” Rue Simmons said she plans to share this information with other nonprofits in the city, so they can determine if they could benefit from applying for bonds. However, Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said the city is not in any position to qualify organizations for bond issuances or to support a program for them. She said the banks send organizations to the city. “The city really is the entity that is the last resort here,” Rainey said. “We’re not going to run a program of bonds… that’s not the way it’s going to work.” cassidywang2022@u.northwestern.edu The man walked past the last point of sale with four bottles and was confronted by a Loss Prevention employee outside the front doors to the store, who called the police. He admitted to the responding officer that he had attempted to steal bottles of alcohol from the store. The man was issued a city ordinance violation citation for retail theft. — Natalie Chun

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The committee to digitalize the Student Organization Finance Office announced they received university approval to build a program that streamlines the reimbursement of club expenditures. The voucher approval process will establish an online form where club representatives can submit receipts and send automatic confirmation emails to club officials, and then the documentation will transfer to SOFO for processing. This model will cut through the back-and-forth sign off process and return reimbursements faster, said Izzy Dobbel, the president of the Associated Student Government and a member of the committee. “Students can expect their money faster and that is the best part,” the SESP senior said. “It minimizes barriers for low-income students to be in leadership positions.” Northwestern organizations utilize SOFO to deposit and withdraw funds, but its users have complained about its paper-based approval system. Currently, students sometimes have to wait for weeks or even months at a time to receive reimbursements for club spending. Students also brought up that this financial burden particularly impacts low-income students who may be discouraged from seeking club leadership. The SOFO Digital Workflow Committee was formed in February as a response to such student feedback under Norris Executive Director Jeremy Schenk. Since its formation, the committee has brought together 20 representatives from ASG, the Chicago Organizations Finance Office, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern IT and other NU departments to determine the best method to improve the paper-based system. “Oftentimes the most difficult part for our student organizations is getting all the required signatures on the voucher form,” Schenk said. “I

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think (the new system’s) gonna make that experience a lot better for our students who are incredibly busy on campus.” After the committee develops the approval process, it will launch a pilot program in the winter quarter for a few accounts at the Evanston and Chicago campuses. During the quarter, the committee will collect feedback from users in the pilot program, Schenk said. The committee will then try to implement new process campus-wide for Spring Quarter 2020. “Our hope is by creating this potential workflow solution we can at least start to introduce more electronic workflow into the SOFO accounting system, which I think is going to move us a step forward into better serving our students,” Schenk said. Maanas Bhatt, a Weinberg junior and vice president of student activities finances at ASG, worked with the committee on gathering student feedback and identifying how SOFO could be improved. Bhatt said they emphasized improving the slow

reimbursement process. He added he was excited for the digitization effort to move forward. “We’re just looking to make the voucher process digitized so that students don’t have to track down the various constituents of their leadership to get signatures and it can happen from behind the laptop,” Bhatt said. The development of the approval process was a long-awaited result of cross-departmental collaboration, Dobbel said. Her previous position as ASG vice president of A-status finances focused largely on digitalizing the SOFO system, she said, and she ran on a platform of improving the reimbursement process. Dobbel also said she was satisfied with the administrative involvement in the committee and proud of the progress they made “They understand what it feels like to front money for their departments,” Dobbel said, “It went from a seed to a full plan — it was beautiful.” yunkyokim2022@u.northwestern.edu

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In families, where do politics stop and mortality begin? TANISHA TEKRIWAL

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I wonder how many Northwestern students are not going to spend Thanksgiving with their families next month to avoid the impending disagreements over campaign season. Countless publications attempt to broach the topic of political polarization — specifically the sensitive, pulsing, gunpowder keg that is familial disagreements. The years 2016 and 2018 saw more disparate Octobers than any before; I lose count of the stories of estrangement I read in this spell in American history — because yes, this will make history. Years later, when college students analyze this time, they will link it to the emerging patterns in the world: the polarization beyond American soil and the common themes of divide and disparity. I am tempted now to make this about the United States, to zoom in on one specific zone of fraught and frayed relations, and conveniently leave out my own narrative. In this Trumpian age that wouldn’t be particularly difficult. But it would be a half-truth, and I am trying to be honest.

As my fingers work these keys, I heed the protest in solidarity with Kashmir simultaneously materializing in Chicago, past these sequestered suburbia roads. I almost attended it, and I almost forgot how differently the conversation leading up to it would have played out back home in India. Often, the widening rift between my parents and me is easy to dismiss as a crossgenerational divide, a difference of era. It is easy, but not right. We christen this “politics,” dismiss it as the affairs of the state that cannot, and should not, penetrate familial ground. Increasingly, I ask where the difference between political and moral beliefs lies. I am told that “maturity” plays a role in keeping estrangement and discord at bay and that “higher level values” are not the same as partisan inclinations. What of the higher level values involved in accepting the threadbare and hungry and homeless and stateless that turn up at your doorstep, and of the values of living and letting live? The easily ruffled and offended person in me says yes — yes these are things worth severing ties over, that relationships are, and should be, subject to a political litmus test. Where politics and personality overlap, what choice does one have but to “take offense,” to take these things “personally”? I read a story about a woman who left

her husband of 16 years over a RepublicanDemocrat spat, and another of a woman who has remained best friends with someone for the same period despite the same fight. Yet both these stories are different from the question of blood: because in all versions of the family chronicle, we first instigate and then eventually make peace. And all our real-world complexities run like this: all resolutions of disagreement are hurtful, so we choose the one least likely to wound: pacifism. How do I equate a ruined friendship or a lover lost, with a feud of siblings — childhood cohabitants engendered to love wholly, unconditionally? What of the strife and struggle with those who reared us, who brought us up to be both like them and yet separate from them — from the handed-down biases we shirk and yet cannot shirk? How is it that those closest to us can often be farthest to us? In this age of Trump, Erdogan, Modi, Netanyahu, Orban and al-Assad, can I dine in disagreement? Can I forget my mother because she will not have me love a woman? Is that even politics? Can I leave this childhood threshold, this adolescent hearth, because once a week we disagree on television tragedies? And am I even framing this right — how do I raise this question unemotionally, impartially, surgically? Politics is, after all, not simply a weekly

occurrence. It is the silent subversion of votes gone separate ways, a rising argument after a vigil only some attended and the hush over dinner-table candles after national announcements and national ridicule. I suppose the real struggle is drawing the lines of differentiation: where does politics end and morality begin? The task now is to come to a compromise — to coexist and avoid the cycle of first chafing and then withdrawing. Psychologists suggest keeping the conversation about individual issues, rather than ideologies is more fruitful, and that further connecting these issues to emotions shall yield favourable results. In this fractured time, can we afford more fragmentation, to step away from our few tethers to this world? Or is that precisely why we must do it; because in choosing head over heart (Is that even the struggle, is it heart over heart?) we are sewing these clefts and crevices back together? Tanisha Tekriwal is a Weinberg first-year. She can be contacted at tanishatekriwal2023@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.

South Asia has a colorism problem, and it’s absurd PRIYANSHI KATARE

OPINION EDITOR

South Asia has a colorism problem. This is a region that is racist against itself. Many people subconsciously look down on dark skin and hold a fetish for fair skin. My goal here is not to pit two skin colors against each other but to talk about the beauty standards and social mentality in nations that were once ruled by imperialists. If you were to flip through television channels in any country in South Asia, you would stumble on a commercial for a skin whitening product. To give you a better idea of what this commercial might look like, let me provide you with the common storyline: A woman in her twenties is struggling to find a job. She relentlessly tries and gets rejected after every interview. Dejected and tired, she seeks assistance and is immediately handed a fairness

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Jeff Sessions’ core beliefs are conservative beliefs worth hearing In regard to Miss Chang’s response on October 21st, 2019: Miss Chang attempts to justify her intellectual intolerance with false and misleading claims on Mr. Sessions’ credibility. She notes that one news outlet ranked Mr. Sessions as a heavy conservative out of 55 senators 12 years ago alluding that it makes Mr. Sessions as a conservative extremist. It does not: Mr. Sessions’ core beliefs are

cream. In the course of a few days, her complexion becomes five shades lighter, and suddenly, her life becomes perfect. Sounds absurd, doesn’t it? This is a stark portrayal of the social cost attached to beauty standards that governed the decision-making process in the commercial at every step. Imagine being an impressionable teenager and watching this commercial. How do you not give into such a depiction of self-worth when you are constantly bombarded by it? I was this teenager, and I struggled with the way I looked for a long time. I am what the average Indian woman looks like: dark skinned, petit and black haired. Yet, I felt the need to comply to this Eurocentric ideal. It almost felt like a necessity. Diversity was an unknown concept in beauty when I was growing up. There was one ideal and if you didn’t fall under it, you weren’t considered to be beautiful. Unfortunately, even in its evolution, this ideal is still influenced by the social myths its European colonizers left behind. This region considers

everyone but its own women to be beautiful. People don’t talk about it, much less question it. The notion of self-worth and desirability is skewed toward whiteness, and this Eurocentric

held by a majority of every type of conservative, according to 2017 data from the Pew Research Center. It would be quite fair to say his beliefs are that of the average conservative. This is troubling, since Miss Chang writes that “even if Sessions does hold the views of the average conservative… students should not simply accept this as the reality of conservative thought.” Translation: reject conservatism whether Mr. Sessions is radical or not. Or: “(protest) all conservatism,” which is the conflicting title of her response. In another contradiction, Miss Chang states that there are 1) both many alternative options for conservative speakers (naming none) and 2) whether “‘most conservatives are not hateful or intolerant at all’ cannot be confirmed or denied.”

Accordingly, whether most Leftists are hateful or intolerant cannot be confirmed or denied either. Mr. Sessions is your fellow American. Does he not deserve any meaningful interaction at all? How can any college student so vehemently resist an opportunity to have his/her core beliefs challenged? A baseless refusal to grant Mr. Sessions intellectual credibility ignorantly dismisses the views of millions of fellow Americans. “Conservatives exist who have not actively oppressed others.” Living with this sizeable subpopulation of the US will be less divisive if you do not assume their epistemology is based in hatred. Finally, Miss Chang nonsensically states that a letter urging her to engage with Mr.

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This region considers everyone but its own women to be beautiful. People don’t talk about it, much less question it.

ideal puts women at an economic and social disadvantage. Take for example the profitable and influential entertainment industry in this region. Producers and directors actively work to employ women who work to make themselves look less Asian. Many actresses get hair highlights and plastic surgeries with the core agenda of changing

traditional facial and bodily features. Ironically, I happen to be a misfit in a region where most women look like me. So I ask myself, how do I account for this, and where are we headed with inclusivity? The obvious solution to this is to showcase diversity instead of simply preaching it. If years of colonial rule conditioned us to view fair skinned individuals as superior, then we must implement the same methods leaders used to gain official independence to decolonize our mindset and standards of beauty. As a society, we need to demand bringing women of all shapes and sizes into mainstream media that allows people to create their own authentic ideals. Priyanshi Katare is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at priyanshikatare2022@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. Sessions instead of protesting his appearance is somehow an “attempt to subdue (her) First Amendment right to assemble.” It isn’t, but confronted with the reality of Mr. Sessions’ views, Miss Chang does exactly as I predicted: declares a crisis, refuses to interact meaningfully, and falsely associates blind hatred with Mr. Sessions’ beliefs. Protesting Mr. Sessions confronts nothing but an imaginary and quite vapid avatar of intolerance. If anyone wishes to truly confront him, that involves speaking directly with him. I implore Miss Chang again to consider attending Mr. Sessions speech. If you aren’t challenging his beliefs, you aren’t challenging your own – you accomplish nothing but the affirmation of your own bigotry. — Ryan Abbott, McCormick Junior

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2019

Rebuild Illinois includes $8 million for Evanston By BENNETT BAKER

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Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Oct. 21 that the government intends to dedicate $23.5 billion over the next five years to improving the state’s network of roads and bridges, including $5.5 million for pavement rehabilitation for streets in Evanston and $5.9 million for replacement of the Central Street bridge. Driven by the Illinois Department of Transportation, the Fiscal Year 2020-2025 Proposed Highway Improvement Program takes aim at improving and expanding 4,212 miles of road and 9.2 million square feet of bridge deck. Also known as the Multi-Year Plan, the program is part of Illinois’ larger $45 billion Rebuild Illinois infrastructure improvement plan that was signed into law in June. Although Rebuild Illinois strives to consider the needs of each part of the state, certain communities received more investment and resources. Based on the projects specified and budgeted in House bill 62, Senate bill 262 and the Multi-Year Plan, $19.5 million is allocated for improvements in Evanston. Of this total, $5 million is appropriated “for a grant to Northwestern University for the acquisition of science equipment,” according to the House bill. Included is $270,000 for refurbishments to the wood doors of the Evanston History Center, the third phase of a restoration project that began in 2009. The first two phases include structural work and improvements to the building’s mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems.

Artist to seek input for Robert Crown art installation Public artist Blessing Hancock, tasked with creating an art installation for the new Robert Crown Community Center, will seek input from Evanston residents this upcoming weekend, according to the Chicago Tribune. Hancock creates pieces that encourage interaction

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Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Pritzker announced an infrastructure plan that allocates some money to Evanston.

Evanston History Center director of development Jill Kirk said the third phase is the final part of the $4 million campaign to restore the house. “To date we’ve raised about $3.65 million, so that $270,000 will go a long way toward helping us reach that goal,” Kirk said. Madeline Norris, legislative aid to State Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston), said she and Gabel’s

office firmly believe in the importance of investing in Evanston’s cultural and historical assets. “I think they’re what makes Evanston unique,” Norris said. “It brings a vibrancy to our city- people want to live here, people want to work here, people want to visit. It’s what makes us who we are.” Gabel’s top priorities also included investing in road and bridge improvements and promoting clean

through “touch, sound and movement,” according to her website. Evanston’s City Council, in collaboration with the city’s Arts Council, selected Hancock to create the installation, and she will attend three events on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 to gather community input, according to a city news release. “The art installation is expected to feature an interactive sculptural shape with etched words that embody the themes of learning, recreation and community within the context of the Evanston community,” the news release stated. Hancock told the Tribune that the sculpture’s design is based on the community center’s function

as both a skating rink and library. She’s looking for suggestions for the words that will eventually be etched into the sculpture. A city spokesperson told the Tribune that the total budget for the art project is $400,000. The spokesperson said Hancock will receive $325,000. The remaining amount of the budget funds several other components of the project, including coordination and infrastructure for the sculpture’s construction. “This is going to be a fun activity for everyone who wants their story told… people will be able to go back later and point to their contribution,”

transportation initiatives and projects. Norris said she and the rest of Gabel’s office are excited for the expansion of public transportation and bike lanes across the state, noting that these cleaner and healthier options can also be more cost effective than their alternatives. Gabel’s office is particularly excited about the appropriation of funds for Foster Center Our Place, a volunteer group that maintains the old Foster School building currently housing multiple nonprofits. Foster Center Our Place has been slated to receive $1.5 million for the acquisition and renovation of the building. “Robyn Gabel knows the importance of the vitality and the value of the assets that exist in Evanston’s fifth ward,” said Mary Collins, a Foster Center Board Member. “By supporting the redevelopment of the former Foster School into a dynamic, innovative center for nonprofits, she really signals the importance of investing in this type of project in this type of neighborhood.” Collins said that while the money is specifically appropriated for supporting architectural and mechanical improvements to the physical building, the state’s investment is a kickstarter to a larger fundraising effort for the space. Kirk and Collins are both grateful for Gabel’s efforts to secure the funding that will help provide an important physical space for community-based programs. “The funding is a vote of confidence for the community and also for this terrific group of people,” Collins said. bennettbaker2021@u.northwestern.edu Hancock told the Tribune. “There’ll be a lot of sharing in the future.” The first meeting will occur Friday at 1701 Main St. at the Robert Crown After School Program from 3:30 to 6 p.m. The second and third meetings will be held Nov. 2 at Evanston Public Library from 9 to 11 a.m. and the Robert Crown Flea Market from noon to 3:30 p.m. Residents who are unable to make the meetings can also submit their suggestions online by 5 p.m. on Nov. 15. — Emma Edmund

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non-dorm university housing university residence halls or dorms, “some other place,” fraternity housing, and restaurants, bars or clubs. Reports of sexual misconduct or assault also varied across student backgrounds. Both non-heterosexual students and students with disabilities had a prevelance rate about 10 percent higher than their heterosexual peers and peers without disabilities, respectively. Rainbow Alliance senator Alyssa Peterson said while the rates of nonconsensual sexual contact were similar amongst undergraduate cisgender women and TGQN students, looking at rates of sexual harrasment based on gender paints a different picture. The Weinberg junior highlighted that 45 percent of TGQN students who took the survey reported experiencing sexual harassment that created a hostile or offensive environment or limited their ability to participate, “significantly more” than the 34 percent of cisgender women and 14 percent of cisgender men who reported sexual harassment. Peterson said she found these statistics “alarming,” especially when coupled with the administrative gray area “into which trans, genderqueer and nonbinary students are swept.” “In order to create a safe and rich environment for LGBTQIA+ students to live and grow without fear of harassment, there needs to be an accurate way to gauge what this population looks like on campus in order to identify ways to target support for their specific needs,” Peterson said. Sexual Health and Peer Education director Samuel Berston echoed Peterson’s call for administrative action. Berston said while he believes the Office of Equity is “committed to bringing perpetrators to justice,” there is a lack of student awareness and perception of assistance availability from university resources.

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The SESP senior attributed these student attitudes to understaffing and underfunding, adding that the idea that Northwestern and faculty staff support victims of sexual violence should be “integrated into everyday life on campus.” “In my opinion, the biggest issue that the data revealed is the lack of support students feel from the University around sexual assault and harassment,” Berston said. “The question I’m left with is: what should the University do to make students more aware of these resources and help them feel supported?” Berston referred to the statistic that 58.5 percent of students believe it is very or extremely likely that campus officials would conduct a fair investigation in response to a report of sexual misconduct. In a University statement sent on October 15, Johnston noted this was a “bright spot” in the study’s results. However, when the numbers are broken down further by gender, only 33 percent of undergraduate cisgender women and 34 percent of TGQN students perceived that it is very or extremely likely that Northwestern campus officials would conduct a fair investigation in response to a report of sexual assault or other misconduct. A little over half of undergraduate cisgender men reported the same. “(A rate of ) 58.5 percent is well above the peers, but scarily low,” University President Morton Schapiro told The Daily in an October interview. “That’s not acceptable… Students deserve to believe that we’re going to do this, we’re going to take it seriously and we’re going to do a fair investigation.” Nationally, the AAU surveyed 32 other colleges and universities, reporting that 53 percent of undergraduate cisgender women and 43.6 percent of TGQN students believed officials would conduct a fair investigationcompared to 65 percent of cisgender men. The survey was circulated last spring, representing the second large-scale effort to study NU students’ perceptions and experiences of sexual

misconduct issues. The data from the 2015 survey resulted in multiple changes within the Office of Equity, including the creation of the Equity Outreach and Education Specialist position, currently held by Kate Harrington-Rosen. The 2019 survey will most likely produce similar improvements, Johnston said, especially considering students’ awareness of resources was lower than they hoped — only 50 percent of students indicated an awareness of the Office of Equity, and 50.8 percent indicated an awareness of the Center for Awareness, Response and Education. “We have already implemented a few action items to assist with our outreach and education efforts, including the elevation of Kate HarringtonRosen’s role and the creation of the new equity outreach and education coordinator role,” Johnston said. Despite revealing multiple opportunities for improvement within campus safety and wellbeing, the survey showed promising results in regards to students’ willingness to take action against acts of sexual violence. Of the students who witnessed a situation that they believed could have led to a sexual assault, 83 percent reported having taken some type of action to prevent it. Since arriving at Northwestern and having to initially access resources from CARE and the Office of Equity, Colton said he has felt his sense of safety increase as he has come to know the “human side” of these organizations. Overall, he said the best way for the campus to feel the same is if they hear it from students like himself. “It’s time to start leveraging student voices to have those who know these resources really go out and say, ‘Hey, this is all you need to know about this, this is something that you should be using and you should have a working knowledge of in case you ever need it or somebody that you care about needs it,’” Colton said. daisyconant2022@u.northwestern.edu

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deserted on large event days,” said resident Judy Berg. “While we all want to support our local businesses, these days many of us choose to dine and shop in Wilmette.” Around 60 businesses on Central Street have signed a petition stating that they believe this amendment will hurt their businesses. While the Northwestern representatives did not address this issue, the executive director of the Evanston Chamber of Commerce, Roger Sosa, spoke in favor of the amendment. Sosa stated that studies have found that those who attend these events spend around $30 per person on Evanston businesses. The other problem raised by residents was that the proximity to Welsh-Ryan will decrease their property value. Sosa refuted this, although Richter vehemently disagreed with him. “To even suggestions that the number of events being held has no impact on home values is on its face impossible,” Richter said.

Lastly, many residents expressed concern that there would be no street parking near their homes. However, Davis addressed this issue by stating they would provide 1,500 free parking spaces to event attendees in the U2 district, as well as 200 more complementary spots on campus with free shuttles to Welsh-Ryan. While most of the alderman remained skeptical of the plan, those that voted in favor at the Planning and Development committee pointed to the fact that the amendment would expire in 2021, and there was little risk in testing it for two years. Ald.Thomas Suffredin (6th), who voted against the amendment, pointed out the danger in this thought process. “While it is valid it is only two years, it is two years of their lives we are playing with,” he said. Other aldermen who voted in favor of the ordinance argued people were drawing a false equivalency between football games in Ryan Field, which houses 47,130 people, and the proposed events.

“We aren’t talking about some giant place, we are talking about something pretty small,” said Ald. Ann Rainey (8th), who voted in favor of the ordinance. After Rainey finished speaking, though, many residents called out asking her to address “precedent.” They were looking for her to address the history of this amendment, which stretches all the way back to the 1950s. Since then, Northwestern has continually attempted to amended the U2 zoning district and each time has been denied. Most recently, in 1996, the University was denied the ability to host a seven-day professional tennis event. “Nothing has changed since the last time Northwestern tried to do this,” Evanston resident Stuart Gottesman said during the meeting. “Every time before this the city council has said it is going to try and protect the neighbor and its neighborhood.”

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Stem cell transplants can reverse autoimmune diseases By VIVIAN XIA

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A new study from Northwestern Medicine and the Mayo Clinic found that a stem cell transplant is capable of reversing autoimmune diseases like neuromyelitis optica, an aggressive neurological disease that causes many patients to lose their sight and ability to walk within five years following diagnosis. Formerly classified as a subtype of multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica is now categorized as a separate disease. What sets it apart from MS and other autoimmune diseases is that it has a biological marker known as AQP4, which increases the chances of a relapse. Researchers discovered that following a stem cell transplant, AQP4 disappeared in the blood of patients. The transplant procedure involves collecting stem cells from patients before “knocking down” their immune system and then giving the stem cells back to them after a few days of drugs, when the immune system resets. Dr. Richard Burt pioneered this approach, also known as hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The professor of medicine at Feinberg said the idea came to him when he was a fellow at Johns Hopkins, and patients had to be re-immunized for childhood vaccines after receiving transplants for cancer. “It occurred to me that losing an immune response to self-antigens in an autoimmune disease is exactly what you want,” Burt said. “We first did this in animal models of autoimmune diseases such

as (experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis), an animal model of multiple sclerosis, and long story short, it worked.” Burt said that is why HSCT isn’t actually a stem cell-based therapy, but rather an immune-based therapy. HSCT is not only effective in reversing neuromyelitis optica — it is also a very cost-efficient treatment method so patients can avoid paying for expensive drugs every year. “The only official treatment for neuromyelitis optica is eculizumab, which is a drug that costs about half a million dollars per year,” Burt said. “The transplant, however, is a one time treatment that costs $100,000. For multiple sclerosis, drugs cost $70,000 per year for the rest of the patient’s life.” Dr. Roumen Balabanov, an associate professor of neurology at Feinberg, said the future implications of this study are that chronic autoimmune diseases will be able to be treated through “a single, radical approach.” “The point of this treatment being radical is that the patients will actually have normal lives,” Balabanov said. “They don’t have to take those lifelong medications.” According to Burt’s January 2019 research, HSCT reverses diseases like neuromyelitis optica, systemic sclerosis, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy and multiple sclerosis. Researchers added they hope it can be used to treat even more autoimmune diseases. vivianxia2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Martin Stadium was rocking in the 87th minute. The crowd cheered and stomped their feet as Northwestern lined up for a free kick that could break their 0-0 tie against Michigan State and give the squad a win going into Homecoming weekend. At the start of the play, sophomore midfielder Richie Bennett rolled the ball backward in an attempt to distract the wall of Spartan defenders. Senior midfielder Matt Moderwell then stepped up and fired a curving shot past the defense. However, Michigan State goalie Hunter Morse dove and saved it, getting his fingertips on the ball just enough to deflect the shot. “That was the first time I had tried (that shot) in a game,” Moderwell said. “It worked well — hoping next time it can slide through there. I knew after that I was due for a goal.” And three minutes later, Moderwell’s prediction came true, giving the Wildcats their 1-0 win over Michigan State. With 45 seconds left in the match, NU (7-7-1, 3-3-1 Big Ten) had a throw-in on the Spartans’ (3-9-3, 3-21) side of the pitch. The throw landed in a crowd of Cats and Michigan State players near the left side of the goal. Sophomore forward Jose Del Valle

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flicked his leg up and softly passed the ball to the right side of the goal, where no defenders stood. Moderwell sprinted to the ball, and as Morse stuck out his shin for a save, the senior sent his fourth goal of the season into the top right corner, pumping his fist before embracing his teammates. “I knew overtime wasn’t really going to be an option for us,” Moderwell said. “We’ve worked on that play before. It’s one of our set plays and it was executed perfectly.” NU’s win over the Spartans places them fifth in the conference and, for the first time since 2014, the Cats have now won back-to-back games against conference opponents. Furthermore, NU’s win against Michigan State is their second against a team that participated in the 2018 College Cup of the NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Tournament. The squad previously defeated defending national champion Maryland 3-1 in September. Coach Tim Lenahan said the Cats have struggled with set pieces throughout the year. Attempts to work on the strategy have been difficult, he said, because of the team’s early season

schedule, where NU usually had one day to practice in between games. However, the Cats’ 13 days off over the last three games have helped develop the team’s efficiency on set pieces. “We kept talking about (how) we haven’t been great at set pieces, and if we’re able to add that our arsenal, that we could become a pretty dangerous team,” Lenahan said. “So that was good that we scored on a set piece tonight.” NU struggled offensively in the first half. Despite taking three corner kicks, the Cats couldn’t manage to get a shot in the first 45 minutes. The Spartans didn’t play much better, only getting one shot on goal, which junior goalie Miha Miskovic saved in the 24th minute. Miskovic notched his second straight shutout in the victory and his fourth of the season. In the second half, NU’s offense improved. The team took six shots to Michigan State’s four and added one corner kick. Miskovic said the Cats, who are gunning for a home playoff game in the Big Ten Tournament, have a positive mindset going into their Big Ten finale. “We’re going to win (our next game),” he said. “We’re going to make sure we end up as high as possible in the Big Ten and focus on the tournament after that.” drewschott2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Wildcats fall in 5 sets NU loses tight battle against Iowa By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

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As the Rutgers players proudly sang their school’s alma mater and celebrated in the stands with the pep band at College Avenue Gym, Northwestern quietly exited the premises in a state of shock. Since joining the Big Ten five years ago, the Scarlet Knights were an inconceivable 1-108 in conference matches and had lost 80 in a row dating to 2015. But that was before the Wildcats (9-13, 0-10 Big Ten) dropped a grueling fiveset match in New Brunswick, New Jersey on Sunday, missing out on their best chance to get in the Big Ten win column. “Any time (the other team) is cheering, it’s tough,” coach Shane Davis said. “It was a tough loss — tough for the team to hear.” To add injury to insult, NU also lost its best player, freshman outside hitter Temi Thomas-Ailara, late in the second set when she landed awkwardly on the foot of a Rutgers player while making a play at the net. Thomas-Ailara returned briefly in the third set, but sat out each of the last two after Davis said the injury worsened. Davis said the team will evaluate Thomas-Ailara on Monday after they return to Evanston. Junior outside hitter Nia Robinson tried her best to fill the void, finishing with a match-high 18 kills and hitting .484. Robinson led the Cats back from two sets down to force a decisive fifth set, but NU was unable to finish off the comeback. NU had all the momentum entering the fifth set, but that was squandered when the Scarlet Knights (7-14, 1-9) jumped out to a 7-2 lead. After the Cats pulled within one, Rutgers won four straight points to close things out with a 15-10 victory. There might not have been a fifth set, however, if NU had not started so poorly — the Scarlet Knights sprinted out to leads of 11-4 and 21-12 in the first set.

NU rallied to tie it up after graduate setter Payton Chang replaced sophomore Kiara McNulty, but Rutgers finished it off in extra points when Robinson committed an attack error. “Rutgers, like they have every match, came out really strong in that first set,” Davis said. “We weren’t doing too well handling the ball. Kiara was struggling, so we made a change to Payton, and Payton did a good job for us coming in and steadying the offense.” The second set was even more gutwrenching for the Cats. NU thought it had evened the match at a set apiece when Scarlet Knights middle blocker Merle Weidt appeared to hit the ball past the baseline. But a Rutgers challenge revealed that junior opposite hitter Danyelle Williams had deflected the shot, giving the point to the Scarlet Knights instead. Rutgers won the next two points to win 26-24 and go up two sets to none. “It was the right call,” Davis said. “It was a tough situation for us because we were out of substitutions, so we were stuck in a lineup with some non-passers passing. Going down 0-2 instead of 1-1 was really tough for our team to swallow.” The Cats responded well, though, taking the third set 25-16. Robinson had five kills in the set as NU led wireto-wire. The fourth set was as tight as the first two, but this time the Cats finished, with an ace by junior libero Lexi Pitsas sending the match to a fifth set. But NU’s serving let it down at the most critical moments. The Cats had 14 service errors in the match and just five aces, with three of the errors coming in the fifth set. With 10 matches remaining in the season, Davis said NU is still figuring out how to be consistent. “We take turns making great plays, and we take turns making poor plays,” Davis said. “We just haven’t found a good consistency throughout a match yet, and that’s where it’s really hurting us.” benjaminrosenberg2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern played a great game. It just wasn’t enough. No. 8 Iowa defeated the No. 10 Wildcats on Saturday 2-1 in an even matchup dominated by the midfield play. Now, NU (12-6, 4-3 Big Ten) finds itself in fourth place in the Big Ten standings and faces an uphill battle to reach the NCAA tournament. The Cats took a 1-0 lead in the first quarter. Freshman forward Bente Baekers evaded the Hawkeye defense to create a two-on-one opportunity. She passed the ball in from outside to senior midfielder Saar de Breij, who hit it in from the center of the circle for her eighth goal of the season. The goal was the team’s only shot in the period. But the Hawkeyes (12-4, 6-1) came out strong in the second half and scored in the third quarter to tie the game. They subsequently took the lead in the fourth off a transition pass deflection. NU did not take a single shot in the second half. “We certainly had our chances,” coach Tracey Fuchs said. “They’re a good defensive team. We just need to get the ball in the circle more and really be scrappy. That was the difference today — they were a little bit more scrappy in the circle.” The Cats looked like the better team for much of the first half. NU scored first and controlled the pace of the game, something they struggled with in early losses. But as the match progressed, Iowa gradually began to chip away, buoyed by three green cards that left the Cats playing shorthanded. By the end of the game, NU played almost exclusively on its defensive end. The Big Ten regular season title is out of reach for the Cats. They have played a tough schedule and are 7-4 against ranked opponents — but they are now 1-4 against teams ranked in the top 10. That one win was against Michigan, who was No. 9 at the time

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— on Sept. 29. NU struggled after its loss to Maryland on Oct. 3 to regain its team mindset, which was the start of a three-game losing streak. But with the Big Ten Tournament only two weeks away, the Cats can’t afford to slip back into that state. Despite the loss, Fuchs said NU matched up well with Iowa. She praised

the Cats’ defense, which allowed only nine shots to an Iowa team that averages almost 18 per game. Senior defender Kirsten Mansfield said the way the team played at the end of Saturday’s game makes her confident they can have success going forward. “In the fourth quarter, knowing we were down, we pulled the goalie (and) we still kept fighting and fighting,” Mansfield said. “It didn’t work out, but we definitely didn’t give up. It was good to see that we didn’t let up and that we kept putting pressure on and trying to get something in.” gabrielacarroll2023@u.northwestern.edu

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