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Artist puts life on web to resist FBI, talks art and engineering

A reflection on music as a form of protest

D65 teachers consider strike

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LEFT Ayers College of Commerce and Industry is located at 2324 Campus Drive. Students reported what appeared to be mold on mattresses in the dorm.

BELOW Six mattresses are placed outside students’ rooms in Ayers College of Commerce and Industry. Many students in CCI found what may be mold on their mattresses.

Education council takes first step toward action

By NORA SHELLY

daily senior staffer @noracshelly

Teachers in District 65 could strike as early as the end of November, after initiating the process last week.

Nearly two months into the school year, the District 65 Board of Education and the District Educators’ Council have yet to come to an agreement about teachers’ contracts.

The council notified board members at a Wednesday meeting with a federal mediator, and the earliest teachers would strike would be after Thanksgiving, council president Paula Zelinksi said.

The council is still hopeful the two sides will come to a compromise, Zelinski said.

The council and the board are stuck on several issues, she said, including compensation, classroom safety, a shortage of substitute teachers and time for teachers to plan lessons.

The move comes after nearly eight months of negotiations over the contracts. A federal mediator was brought in to help the situation in last month.

The council is required to notify the board and the Illinois Education Labor Relations Board of their intention to start the process to strike, Zelinski said. After several more steps, teachers could strike after giving the board 10 days notice of their intent to do so.

“From the union’s perspective, we have been working on (the contract) for a very long time,” she said. “We’re still hopeful that we’re going to get this thing done.”

The two sides are meeting with the mediator later this week, Zelinksi said, and another meeting is scheduled for Nov. 18.

In an update on the District 65 website, Superintendent Paul Goren and board president Candace Chow said they were disappointed the council had taken the initial steps to strike.

“Having been at the table as recently as yesterday, their action to initiate the public posting process is disappointing because we continue to make progress and have » See STRIKE, page 6

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Potential mold found on mattresses in CCI Some students report mold on bottom of mattresses, say admin response was not enough

By YVONNE KIM

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Many students in Ayers College of Commerce and Industry have found what appears to be mold on the bottom of the mattresses, and some did not sleep in their beds while staff worked to clean them.

Medill freshman Rahul Parikh, a CCI resident, said both he and his roommate

found potential mold on their mattresses after seeing other students’ mattresses in the hallway. Several mattresses were taken out of students’ rooms in CCI on Sunday night to be cleaned, Parikh said.

Parikh said on Sunday night that he would not be able to sleep in his own bed.

“Obviously it’s kind of difficult just because it’s a Sunday and there aren’t as many people working as we need … for this situation,” he said. “It

City has more cops than similar towns

By ERICA SNOW

daily senior staffer @ericasnoww

The Evanston Police Department employs about 33 percent more officers than departments of cities with similar populations, FBI statistics show.

Cities with populations between 50,000 and 100,000 people have 15.9 officers per 10,000 residents on average, according to the FBI. Evanston employs 21.1 officers per 10,000 residents.

Community policing and outreach efforts can help account for EPD’s larger police force, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said.

Officers can spend more time responding to calls, patrolling the neighborhood and getting to know community members, he said, because they have the personnel needed to respond

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to calls and engage in community events.

A study analyzing the volume of calls received to help determine the number of necessary officers would not be sufficient, he said, because officers have other duties beyond responding to calls for help or assistance.

“We ask our officers to do a lot of their activity on nonlaw enforcement related functions,” Dugan said. “Between the outreach, enforcement stuff and officers in the schools and traffic division … we’re pretty unique to just sit there and compare to other agencies … We do a lot more out in the community.”

The statistic does not include the Northwestern University Police Department.

Alan Anderson, NU’s executive director of neighborhood and community relations, said » See POLICE, page 6

does seem like they’re working as fast as they can to fix the problem.”

Paul Riel, assistant vice president for residential and dining services, said administrators are not sure what the substance is and said it might not be mold. Samples of the substance are being sent to a third-party laboratory to determine what it is, Riel said.

Riel told The Daily late October that reports of mold are typically followed up by a

Second group revokes Kirk endorsement

Political action committee Americans for Responsible Solutions revoked its endorsement of Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) on Saturday, after he made a jab at Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) heritage during Thursday’s debate.

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visual inspection and passed off to a third party to test the space for mold. Most of the time, the third party company determines nothing is there, he added.

Students living in Plex also encountered mold in their rooms and said they thought the University did not properly address their concerns.

In Plex, Riel said, the reports of mold were ultimately cleared after one room was tested and results came back negative.

“We haven’t seen anything (reported) since that one test,” he said.

Riel said staff was sent over to CCI to clean them with an inhibitor product.

Students also had the option of being relocated or having their linens washed, but no one accepted the offer, he said.

Weinberg freshman Ulyana Kurylo and McCormick freshman Alex Nica said they

came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington,” Kirk told Duckworth during the Oct. 27 debate after Duckworth said her family’s military history dated back to the American Revolution.

Duckworth, who lost both her legs while serving as a helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army in Iraq, was born in Bangkok, Thailand, to a Thai mother and American father.

ARS, a PAC that focuses on reducing gun violence, originally

endorsed Kirk because of his support for gun policy reform.

ARS was formed by former Sen. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was shot in the head during a 2011 assassination attempt.

Giffords formed the PAC in 2013 in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

The group said Kirk had been an advocate for “bipartisan, responsible change” on gun control in the Senate. But following his comments Thursday, ARS said Kirk was “not worthy” of their endorsement.

“Senator Kirk’s racist attack on Congresswoman Duckworth is unacceptable and represents a low point, even in this election season,” ARS PAC executive director Peter Ambler said in a statement released Saturday. “While we believe the path to responsible change and communities safer from gun violence must include Republican champions, we cannot continue to support Senator Kirk.”

ARS is the second group, following the Human Rights Campaign, to revoke its endorsement of the incumbent senator.

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Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill) answers questions from the Chicago Tribune editorial board during an appearance in October. After making racially charged comments about his opponent Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill), Kirk has lost endorsements from the Human Rights Campaign and Americans for Responsible Solutions.

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AROUND TOWN Know your ballot: Transportation fee amendment

By NORA SHELLY

daily senior staffer @noracshelly

Illinois voters are being asked to decide on a constitutional amendment that would block legislators from using funds slated for transportation projects for anything other than their outlined purpose.

The Illinois Transportation Taxes and Fees Lockbox Amendment is up for a referendum vote in this month’s election. If the measure is approved, the Revenue Article of the Illinois Constitution will be amended to include a line that does away with legislators’ ability to allocate funds intended for transportation to other uses.

The proposed amendment says no funds derived from taxes, excises, fees or license taxes related to registration, operation or use of vehicles, or from the use of any roadways “shall be expended for purposes other than as provided.”

The measure is similar to similar measures in Wisconsin and Maryland and passed through the Illinois House with a vote of 98-4 and through the Illinois Senate with a vote of 55-0.

Rep. Laura Fine (D-Glenview) was one of the four “no” votes in the House. Fine said she thinks the amendment may start the state on a “slippery slope.”

“We are saying that we are having dedicated funds

POLICE BLOTTER Northwestern student charged with retail theft

A Northwestern student was caught stealing a hooded jacket from The North Face on Sherman Avenue on Wednesday.

The woman went into a dressing room with three items, but only came out with two, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. After checking the dressing room and realizing she had taken an item, the manager contacted the police.

for transportation. And don’t get me wrong, because transportation and safe roads are very important,” she said. “We don’t have dedicated funds for things like human services and education, and I think it’s sort of opening up to say, well, ‘if we’re having dedicated funds for one thing, why not something else’.”

Fine and others who oppose the amendment say it would limit the power of legislators to allocate funds to another source if an emergency came up. If the state didn’t have enough money to open schools in the fall, not being able to use transportation funds would be frustrating, Fine said.

Fine said she would feel much better about the amendment if it had a “pressure-release valve” that would allow legislators to divert funds if needed. In the proposal’s current state, the amendment would be permanent unless the legislation was amended again to reverse the action.

“So we could have extra money sitting in there and not enough money to pay for anything else,” she said.

“You never want to have sweep funds, but sometimes you need to borrow, and in this particular case, we want to be able to do that.”

Proponents of the amendment, however, said the roads in Illinois are in a dangerous state of disrepair.

The lockbox amendment, they said, would ensure the funds collected from motor vehicle related activities go to repairing them.

Michael Sturino, the president and CEO of the

Illinois Road & Transportation Builders Association — which supports the amendment — will make the state more accountable to taxpayers.

“These fees were raised for a specific purpose,” he said. “They’re user fees, and the folks who pay into them have reasonable expectations that they’ll go right back into the transportation that they use.”

Sturino said he doesn’t agree with the argument that the amendment would limit the ability of legislators to use transportation funds for other purposes in an emergency. The amendment will force legislators to make “responsible decisions” during budget season, he said.

The amendment is supported by Sturino’s group and others, such as the Illinois AFL-CIO and the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, who hold the position that it is time to end the diversion of transportation funds away from their intended purposes.

Dan Lesser, the economic justice policy director at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, said they opposed the amendment both because they disagree with “lockbox” policy and because they feel it is an improper use of the constitution.

Lesser said they are worried that, if passed, the amendment would be difficult to change.

“We think it’s very, very bad policy to enshrine fiscal policy in the Illinois constitution,” he said. “That’s not the purpose of the Constitution — to tie our hands in perpetuity to particular spending requirements.”

According to a memorandum from the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning — which has not taken an official position on the matter — a total of $519.5 million was diverted from various transportation funds between fiscal years 2004 and 2015. These funds “represent only a small fraction of total transportation budgets,” it said.

“Our state’s and region’s transportation networks do suffer from significant state-of-good-repair needs,” the memorandum said. “Funds to modernize or expand the system are limited. When those funds get swept, it is indeed a direct diversion from transportation revenues.”

The memorandum criticized aspects of the amendment, including its ambiguity concerning impacts on home rule, which gives certain municipalities more control over policies than higher levels of government.

“While the proposed amendment does not affect local governments’ ability to tax, it certainly calls into question their ability to devote local transportation revenues to non-transportation purposes,” the memorandum said.

In an Evanston budget memo, city staff said if the constitutional amendment is ruled to limit home-rule authority, it may impact how the city dedicates or restricts funds from the local gas tax or wheel tax for transportation related taxes.

The NU student left The North Face to go shopping at American Apparel where police found her and recovered the merchandise from her purse, Dugan said. She was charged with misdemeanor retail theft.

was drinking alcohol and became physical, shoving her against the wall and then choking her on the ground.

The woman bit her boyfriend’s finger to try to escape, but the man continued choking her and bit her on the right eye, Dugan said. After the altercation, she left and alerted police.

Jameson Whiskey from Jewel-Osco, 1763 Howard St., on Friday.

Police arrived at Jewel Osco at at about 7:45 p.m. after an employee said he observed a man conceal two bottles of Jameson Whiskey and leave the store without paying.

Th e employee stopped the unarmed man before he was able to exit. The man has previous convictions for retail theft and his charge was upgraded to a felony retail theft, Dugan said.

Man charged with domestic battery

A man was charged with misdemeanor domestic battery on Thursday after allegedly physically attacking his girlfriend.

The woman said she was visiting her boyfriend’s residence in downtown Evanston on Oct. 22 when they got in an argument, Dugan said. She said the man

Man arrested in connection with stolen whiskey

A man was charged with felony retail theft, an upgrade from previous convictions for retail theft, after allegedly stealing two bottles of

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ON CAMPUS Artist puts life on web to resist FBI

By YVONNE KIM

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Ironically, recording and publicizing his entire life served as a form of resistance against an FBI investigation for Hasan Elahi.

During his talk — which aimed to explore the intersection between art and science — presented by the McCormick School of Engineering and the Block Museum of Art, the Bangladeshi-American artist spoke to more than 40 people about data and art in his work.

After erroneously becoming subject to a

months-long FBI investigation following 9/11, Elahi said he decided to channel the experience into an art project that tracks and publicizes his entire life.

Though he originally sent detailed emails and photos of his everyday life to his FBI agent as an alibi against suspicions, he eventually decided it would be more effective to make his life accessible to the public, he said.

“All these photos that you’re seeing are photos that I sent to the FBI, but there’s also a parallel (public) database,” Elahi said, showing a slideshow of his photos. “Obviously I have an FBI file, and the FBI has information about me, but by me giving it to you directly, it cuts

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Interdisciplinary artist Hasan Elahi speaks at an event co-hosted by the Block Museum of Art and the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Elahi discussed the intersection of art and engineering.

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out the middleman and thus it devalues the currency of the FBI.” He compared the public database, which is called Tracking Transience and is available online, to social media platforms like Facebook, which has more than a billion users worldwide. Anyone who documents their life online is practically doing the same thing as he is, he said.

“On an individual basis, this is purely symbolic,” he said. “But if 1.6 billion people start doing this to this level of detail, it would force an entire restructuring of the intelligence system.”

Susy Bielak, Block’s associate director of engagement and curator of public practice, said Elahi was a great first speaker for the series to explore art in the context of engineering.

“Part of the work that we do at the museum is build connective tissue around the University and between the campus and civic life,” she said. “The artists who we’ve selected to come here have the kind of curiosity, vision, insight that again is that point of simultaneity between artistic practice and engineering.”

Elahi explained his artistic work — which is often referred to as media art — incorporates a variety of multimedia techniques such as probability and science to tackle interesting questions.

“I’m not interested in solving the art problem in the most direct way,” he said. “I’m interested in going around it and how to navigate it from a very different experience.”

Abraham Chen, second-year graduate student in Kellogg and member of the Segal Design Institute’s Science, Engineering Design Innovation program, said he would like to see more events like this that connect arts with science.

“I really liked how he was taking sort of quotidian experiences and connecting it to much broader theories and trends,” Chen said. “It would be great to see a lot more of this stuff in my program, for example.” yvonnekim2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Bridging A&E and Opinion This op-ed begins “Off Script,” a new series fusing the Opinion and Arts & Entertainment sections, featuring regular columns about the intersection of performance and social issues. The series will explore the way students (and faculty) interact with the arts.

Our campus and the Chicagoland area are rich with talent, and issues of social justice and identity are more often than not inseparable from music, dance, theater and visual art. We seek to reveal the themes hidden below the surface, ones not found in the script. Engaging with these issues is far from easy; it is more comfortable to sit in the back row and watch quietly. We hope these columns will prompt audience members to become a part of challenging the stories we see on stage and of continuing a dialogue about representation and inclusivity beyond the limits of our campus.

Music is a powerful tool for political activism EDDIE SANCHEZ

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On occasion, I’ve joked that music is always better during an election year, particularly when a Republican candidate is especially vitriolic or divisive. Politics can give musicians and recording artists a sense of urgency that is necessary for the most effective and emotionally impactful records to happen, just as love and heartbreak prompt beautiful ballads. Politicallyinclined lyrics have raised our generation’s consciousness about pressing social inequalities and popularized using music as a method of activism.

We are experiencing a renaissance in American music, particularly from black artists, largely because the internet has given everyone an uncensored voice and global means to distribute content. Even an artist as acclaimed and successful as Beyoncé has more artistic license now that she can release music online, free from concerns of getting censored by the FCC. Internet streaming helped allow Beyoncé the freedom to release bolder, more politically-engaging material over the past few years, beginning with her eponymous album in 2013 and reaching its zenith with this year’s “Lemonade.” The album’s lead single, “Formation,” is an unapologetic, trap-flavored manifesto about black pride and black female empowerment. Beyoncé’s call for her fellow ladies to get in formation was greeted with controversy from some parts of her white audience, but overwhelming praise from fans and critics.

Beyoncé was not alone. Solange, her sister, received a similar amount of positive attention this year for her album “A Seat at the Table,” which also directly addressed issues concerning black womanhood using mature, poetic lyrics and eccentric, baroque-tinged R&B. Kendrick Lamar’s “Untitled Unmastered” beautifully

supplemented his groundbreaking 2015 release, “To Pimp a Butterfly,” which dealt with systemic and cultural racism as well as the “survivor’s guilt” he has experienced as a black man who made it out of the tough streets of Compton.

And less intentionally political, but nevertheless relevant, is Chance the Rapper’s “Coloring Book,” which serves as a love letter to Chicago and a glorious counterargument to the patronizing, racist rhetoric

transwomen-led hardcore punk group, G.L.O.S.S. (Girls Living Outside Society’s Shit), achieved a fair amount of attention this year for their politically volatile demo, “Trans Day of Revenge.” Even the late David Bowie, a British veteran who actually pioneered the world’s earliest, most inventive expressions of gender-fluidity in rock music, released his final album early this January. “Blackstar” is one of the most shocking swan songs that the music world

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Chance the Rapper performs at Dillo Day in 2014. The artist uses his music to to make social statements.

that Trump subjected the city to during the presidential debates.

Further challenging social norms, Japanese-American rock artist Mitski made us ask what it means to be someone else’s “Best American Girl.”

Thanks to accessible online distribution platforms like Bandcamp, the

has ever experienced.

Not only was the record a herald for a boundary breaking year, but the album, heavily inspired by “To Pimp a Butterfly,” was a symbol for the way that old political and aesthetic ways of thinking are learning from and yielding to the new ones ahead.

These artists pushed our musical and social

consciousness and further broke with traditionally rigid white and male dominance in storytelling.

Music serves as a powerful tool to reclaim public narratives around race and identity, which is especially powerful in the context of this election year’s divisive and racist rhetoric. Trump rejects “political correctness” in favor of simply “locking her up,” building a wall to keep the rapists (Latinos) and terrorists (Muslims and Syrian refugees) out, and, in reference to women, “grab(bing) them by the pussy.” Artists have used the power of popular media to respond to these systemic oppressions.

Protest imagery, whether consumed on Twitter or through song, are vital to spreading awareness and creating social change. The democratic, populist power of the media has uplifted some of the most important progressive movements in the past century. This includes the Black Lives Matter movement which, frustratingly enough, might not have been possible without the global access to horrific videos of the brutal murders of black men and women at the hands of the police. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was bolstered by national access to the televised documentation of black protesters marching the streets.

Yet politically engaging music from these prolific artists isn’t enough to keep us satisfied with the social progress we still have yet to make.

In this election, narratives that dominate our perception of what it means truly to be American are also being contested. If pop music is any indication, progress, empathy, diversity and the fight for equality are leading the polls.

Eddie Sánchez is a Communication senior.

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With canopy vanishing, Evanston looks to Amazon

By ALAN PEREZ

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In ten years, Evanston lost more than 2,000 trees. Today, city officials have turned to Amazon to replenish the “urban canopy.”

Evanston officials are asking local online shoppers to contribute to the “I Heart Evanston Trees” program by donating a portion of their Amazon purchases to the campaign through AmazonSmile.

AmazonSmile is a charity fundraising initiative run by Amazon which lets online shoppers donate 0.5 percent of their purchase to a charity of their choice. City officials registered with Amazon about six months ago to raise additional revenue for the “I Heart Evanston Trees” program aimed at replenishing urban trees.

“Evanston has lost so many trees in recent years,” Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th) said. “It’s great to have a new program to raise additional funds to replace trees and enhance our urban forest.”

Amazon requires a minimum amount of money to be collected through AmazonSmile in order for the charity to receive its fundraised donation.

“I Heart Evanston Trees” has failed to reach the minimum amount of money since joining, but hopes this shopping season will be a turnaround for the effort, Environmental Services Bureau Chief Paul D’Agostino said.

“Half of one percent doesn’t seem like much, but it adds up quickly,” D’Agostino said. “It’s the holiday season — that’s when obviously more people are shopping.”

A tree costs somewhere between $250 and $400 to buy and plant, environmental project coordinator Kumar Jensen said. The main source of revenue for “I Heart Evanston Trees” has been the campaign’s tree plant express program, which allows residents to buy replacements for trees that have been cut down near their homes.

Jensen said the express program raises somewhere between $5,000 to $7,000 a year for new trees.

Since 2006, Evanston has lost more than 2,000 trees, according to the “I Heart Evanston Trees” website. This is mainly due to the Emerald Ash Borer, an exotic beetle that disrupts the flow of water and nutrients in trees causing them to die.

This beetle first appeared in the Detroit area in

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A park in Evanston’s 8th Ward. Evanston is experiencing a decline in its tree population. City officials say Evanston residents can help the city buy new trees by ordering from Amazon.

2002 and has since spread to most of the West and Midwest, causing a nationwide epidemic.

Because of the beetle epidemic, the city has been cutting down more trees than it has been planting in the past few years, D’Agostino said.

In 2013, Evanston started the “I Heart Evanston Trees” program to address the issue. Since then, the city has raised $25,000 to plant more than 100 trees in the community mainly through the tree plant express program, according to the

campaign’s website. This year, the city has raised $2,525 of its $10,000 goal.

The biggest constraint in planting new trees is raising the funds to purchase them, Jensen said.

With this new effort, the city is now planting about as many trees as it has to cut down and is trending toward more new trees, she said.

However, the initiative is not only about raising money and planting more trees, Jensen said. The campaign also hopes to raise awareness about the

benefit of planting trees and the urban canopy in general.

“I Heart Evanston Trees” also hosts an annual art contest that encourages competition between local artists.

“The value of that was to get people to express their thoughts and feelings on the urban canopy,” Jensen said. alanperez2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Points for a Purpose starts new initiative ‘Faces of Hunger’ portrait series highlights food insecurity in Evanston

By KRISTINA KARISCH

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Points for a Purpose launched a new social media campaign that features photos and stories of people in Evanston who are food insecure, hoping to raise awareness on the issue.

The group started “Faces of Hunger” on Thursday, said Weinberg junior Matthew Griswold, co-president of the organization. Griswold said the campaign was modeled after the popular photo series “Humans of New York,” a social media blog that features pictures of New Yorkers — and individuals from other countries — who tell their stories through quotes.

Point for a Purpose members went into Evanston to find people to feature in the campaign, Griswold said. The student group aims to combat food insecurity at Northwestern and in Evanston.

“One lady came here from Pakistan because her parents kicked her out because she was dating a foreigner,” he said. “(She) sleeps in the parking lot by Whole Foods, which is just crazy to think about.”

Griswold said the campaign emphasizes that food insecurity is a ongoing issue in Evanston.

Last spring, the Institute for Student Business Education conducted a survey on behalf of Points

POLICE

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“I understand that it’s a humid place and there can be a risk for this developing,” Nica said. “But once we told someone, I don’t think it was handled well.”

Though he received his mattress back after it was cleaned, he said he does not feel comfortable sleeping on it.

for a Purpose and found a large portion of students at NU were unaware of hunger in Evanston, said Medill sophomore Kayla Reardon, a member of the group.

The survey indicated a majority of NU students do not believe there is a food insecurity problem in Evanston, Reardon said. She

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I hope that this increases people’s awareness but also their emotional reaction, or willingness to help.

Kayla Reardon, member of Points for a Purpose

chalked this up to students’ isolation on campus or because they’ve only seen “nice houses” in Evanston.

“Faces of Hunger” will be promoted through Facebook and Instagram, Reardon said.

In addition to anecdotes from Evanston residents, “Faces of Hunger” may also feature facts and graphics that educate students about food insecurity in the Evanston area, Reardon said.

“I hope that this increases people’s awareness

but also their emotional reaction, or willingness to help,” she said. “If this campaign can make them feel like they gain more from helping or donating, that’s even better.”

So far, Points for a Purpose has a handful of stories, Reardon said, but it is looking for more people and hopes to extend the campaign as long as it can.

In addition to “Faces of Hunger,” Griswold said the group plans to provide food and care packages to students during Thanksgiving Break because not all dining halls will be open during the break.

Rachel Hamil, marketing and communications specialist at Sodexo, said meetings for the Thanksgiving program will be held in the coming weeks.

Sodexo — the private company that provides the University’s dining services — plans to meet with Points for a Purpose and other organizations on campus to come up with a comprehensive plan, Hamil said. The group has already planned to host a food bank with Sheil Catholic Center during Thanksgiving, Griswold said.

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From page 1 scheduled several bargaining dates over the next several weeks,” the update said. “With the initiation of the public posting process

by DEC, the threat of a strike becomes more likely.”

The notice said the board will continue negotiating in “good faith” and that they will try to make arrangements if a strike occurs.

Bill Farmer (Weinberg ‘03), who is the Teacher’s Council president at Evanston Township High School, said the strike could have implications for District 202 as well.

“Parents are going to have to find alternative daycare. A lot of the people that work in (District) 202 have children that attend (District) 65, so that creates internal strain for us,” he said.

Although Farmer acknowledged the strike could make things difficult for ETHS teachers, he said from the outside, it was clear the two sides were not on the same page.

“Both sides say that they ultimately want to have a fair agreement, but between the two of them it doesn’t seem like they’ve really made much progress to that,” he said.

Farmer says he keeps in contact with Zelinski on the issue as District 202 is also negotiating their contracts for next year.

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(Teachers would strike) if they really felt that they’re trying to do something ... in the best interest of students.

not be … who are on a beat or on a patrol and have limited knowledge or engagement with the community.”

Dugan said the overall decrease of violent crime of just over 5 percent from 2014 to 2015 was a good sign.

Gun control activist Carolyn Murray said if EPD employs more officers than average, gun violence should not be as big of a problem as it is in the city. There were 99 incidents involving handguns in 2015, with 10 injuries and three murders caused by guns, according to police

department data.

Murray, a candidate for 5th Ward alderman, said she has concerns about EPD’s accountability and pointed to a perceived delay in response times to service calls from 5th Ward residents.

“The numbers really don’t mean anything when you don’t have effective policing in the community,” Murray said. “If they have this overage in staffing … then why are we not getting the effectiveness from having that overage?”

“I don’t think they’re clean yet,” Luca said.

Other students in CCI echoed Parikh and Nica’s concern that disinfecting the mattresses is not enough.

“They’re not going to be replacing mattresses, which is … ridiculous,” Kurylo said. “Mold isn’t going to go away if you wipe it off.”

Kurylo, who received her mattress Monday morning after it was wiped down, said administrators’ response to the situation “definitely wasn’t efficient.”

On Monday afternoon, Riel said the results of the test will likely be determined within 48 to 72 hours.

“We think we’ve treated whatever was there and we are gonna be testing it tomorrow to find out what it is and what’s going on there, so we’ll … have an action plan going forward,” Riel said.

“But in the meantime we are aware of it, and we are actively working on a solution.”

Although the two negotiations have no bearing on each other, Farmer said in September the two districts face similar challenges in the process.

Farmer — who said he feels some of the steps the District 65 Board have taken would never happen in District 202 — said he knew the decision to strike is tough to make.

“A strike is kind of like the last resort,” he said. “Teachers don’t want to be walking away from their students in the classroom, and they would only be taking that step if they really felt that they’re trying to do something that is going to be in the best interest of the students that they’re serving and the district as a whole.”

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FIELD HOCKEY From page 8

field. The Cats, however, went without a single shot or corner in that span.

NU also struggled in the exceedingly rare penalty stroke shootout, its first since 2006.

All four shooters had their attempts saved.

“We definitely need to have a little more practice at them,” von der Luft said. “I definitely wish we had pulled it out in the regular time or in overtime. You hope that you don’t

get to shootouts.”

The loss continued a downward trend for the Cats against ranked foes. After statement wins in late September against Maryland and Penn State, both ranked in the top six, NU has gone 0-4 against top-20 teams. Two of those losses — to Stanford and then-No. 16 Iowa on Oct. 14 — came against teams outside the top 15.

Nonetheless, Friday’s win kept the Cats in the top half of the conference and gave them a preferential seed. They will, however, need

to break their streak against ranked opponents to defeat Iowa in the tournament’s opening round.

Though Saturday’s loss was a difficult one for NU, Fuchs said it could be good preparation for postseason games.

“It’s great practice. We got a lot of kids in,” Fuchs said. “We just have to move on from (Saturday), a tough loss, and get ready for Iowa.”

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Cats are the seventh seed in the Big Ten Tournament and will face Indiana, who is the second seed, in Bloomington next Sunday.

But for Hopson and the other seniors, Sunday’s win was more than just three points.

“It meant everything to me to be able to get a goal and a win on Senior Day,” Hopson said.

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By JONAH DYLAN

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Northwestern might have suffered another 0-2 weekend, but there were some bright spots.

The Wildcats (8-16, 1-11 Big Ten) were swept at the hands of No. 1 Nebraska (20-1, 11-1) on Saturday, 25-20, 25-11, 25-20, after dropping a match Friday to Iowa (17-7, 7-5), 25-22, 25-18, 16-25, 26-24.

NU played several competitive sets against the Cornhuskers, but ultimately couldn’t keep up with the nation’s unanimously top-ranked team. Freshman libero Sarah Johnson said the problems started with passing.

“When we couldn’t pass the ball well we didn’t have as many offensive options as we needed,” she said. “I think that’s what really put us a little further behind.”

NU never established itself at the net in the match.

The Cats didn’t have a single hitter with double-digit kills Saturday, and only managed six blocks as a team. Nebraska hit an outstanding .308, while NU hit just .124.

Senior middle blocker Maddie Slater said the Cornhuskers overpowered the Cats with their serving.

“Nebraska’s a really solid team, and they were really strong behind the service line,” Slater said.

“This week we need to work on challenging our passers so they can be able to pass those high-caliber balls.”

The Hawkeyes edged NU on Friday under questionable circumstances. The Cats had two points

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overturned on video review in the fourth and final set, including an overturned kill by junior outside hitter Symone Abbott that would have given NU the set win.

Unlike Saturday’s match, the Cats’ play at the net helped the team stay competitive with Iowa, as they had 14 blocks in the match. Junior setter Taylor Tashima and junior middle blocker Gabrielle Hazen led the way with seven, while Slater chipped in six.

NU also had three hitters with double-digit kills, led by Abbott’s 12.

“As a group we’re trying to have everyone show up every night,” Slater said. “Our main goal right now as a group is to have everyone play their own game consistently.”

Despite failing to find a victory, the Cats continued to build on their upset win over Purdue last weekend.

On Friday, they won a set for only the second time since Sept. 21 at Indiana.

Davis said he likes the way his team is competing.

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Maddie Slater rises for a block. The senior middle blocker notched her 300th career block on Friday against Iowa.

“We just keep trying to get better each day,” he said. “The team’s doing great coming in and working hard.”

Johnson said despite a 1-11 start to the Big Ten slate, NU is still optimistic.

“We know we’re a good team,” Johnson said. “We

know we can continue to fight. We were playing the number one team in the country, and we didn’t get completely wiped out of the water. We just need to put all the pieces together.” jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu

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By BEN LEWIS

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Northwestern is one step closer to a conference tournament title.

With emotions running high, the No. 20 Wildcats (14-1-4, 7-1-3 Big Ten) advanced past Nebraska (11-5-4, 5-3-3) on penalties in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament.

A stalwart performance by junior goalkeeper Lauren Clem and a decisive penalty kick by sophomore midfielder Marisa Viggiano secured NU’s victory and the right to move forward in the Big Tens.

In the first 15 minutes, the

Cornhuskers looked primed for a victory. The Cats failed to apply immediate pressure, were caught watching the ball and consistently lost possession in Nebraska territory. Offensive production has been a point of concern for coach Michael Moynihan throughout the season.

“We weren’t maybe as crisp or as clean as we needed to be to take some pressure off our defense,” he said. “The build-up into the final third wasn’t consistent enough, and that’s what we need to keep working on.”

Even without a strong offense, NU has consistently been able to look to its defense to get the job done. The Cats had a school-record 14 shutouts in the regular season, including

a scoreless draw against Nebraska on Oct. 16.

True to form, as NU gained momentum in its attack, the Cats’ defense held firm on the opposite side of the field. Sophomore center backs Kayla Sharples and Hannah Davison gave NU the physical edge needed to hold the Cornhuskers to just five shots on goal.

“Last year we were knocked out in the first round, so this year we were hungry to come back,” Davison said.

“We’ve already made a lot of program history, and we’re ready to do some more” Nebraska was unable to capitalize on the chances it had, as Clem proved to be a steel wall. Whether it came in

breaking down Cornhusker counterattacks or blocking penalty kicks, Clem lived up to her title as the Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year.

Clem’s ability to survey the field and communicate with her teammates shifted the game in the Cats’ favor.

When NU had stretches of bad passes or failed to pick up Nebraska strikers, Clem’s calming presence in goal allowed the team to correct itself and regain control.

“We really focused on locking down on defense, starting and building up from the back,” she said. “When we get stressed out on the field, we start to freak out and it turns negative.”

The action went back and forth late into the game, but after both teams

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failed to score in regulation and two overtime periods, the game headed into a penalty shootout.

From there, the Cats made the plays they needed to pull out the win. Clem came up with a big save on Nebraska’s third attempt, and after another miss by the Cornhuskers, Viggiano slotted home the penalty that secured NU’s advancement.

The Cats now advance to a Friday semifinal matchup with Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights handed NU its sole loss of the season Sept. 23, so the team is eagerly awaiting the rematch.

“Hopefully, we can right some wrongs,” Davison said. benjaminlewis2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Cats win, lose ahead of Big Tens NU tops Nittany Lions on Senior Day 4 No. 10 Northwestern

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With the Big Ten Tournament looming, Northwestern’s weekend results were mixed.

After closing the conference season with a 4-3 win at Michigan State (8-11, 3-5 Big Ten) on Friday, the No. 10 Wildcats (12-7, 5-3) lost to No. 17 Stanford (11-5) 3-2 in a penalty shootout Saturday, extending NU’s losing streak against ranked opponents to four games. Friday’s win gave the Cats the No. 4 seed in next week’s Big Tens and a Thursday matchup with fifth-seeded No. 15 Iowa.

“We battled in both games. We were fortunate to get a great win at Michigan State,” coach Tracey Fuchs said. “(We) played Stanford to 100 minutes and a shootout and couldn’t pull it off in the end.”

Friday’s win snapped a threegame Big Ten losing streak that had dropped NU from the top of the conference to the middle of the pack and onto the NCAA Tournament bubble.

The Cats managed a slight edge in shots on goal — 12 to 9 — while the Spartans earned 10 penalty corners to NU’s seven. In contrast to recent games, the Cats took advantage of their opportunities, converting on a corner in the first half and scoring three goals in a 15-minute span after the break.

Junior forward Pascale Massey was instrumental in that effort, deftly navigating through the defense to give NU a 3-2 lead midway through the second half and add a crucial insurance less than

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five minutes later.

“It was such a back and forth game that we knew that just a one goal (lead) wouldn’t decide the winner,” Massey said. “It was very

important to keep the momentum going and getting as many goals as we could.”

The Cats also took advantage of a penalty stroke save Friday from senior goaltender Lindsay von der Luft, who followed the effort up with eight saves Saturday. NU struggled to generate as many opportunities against the Cardinal, putting just five shots on goal and earning six corners in 100 minutes.

The offense went silent in the 30 minutes of the 6-on-6 overtime, which usually allows for more attacking opportunities because of the additional open space on the » See FIELD HOCKEY, page 7

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Lindsay von der Luft waits at the goalpost. The senior goaltender was called into action in Northwestern’s first penalty shootout since 2006 in Saturday’s loss to No. 17 Stanford.

By MARTY JOHNSON

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The 2016 season hasn’t gone the way Northwestern’s seniors wanted, but the departing players emerged with a silver lining Sunday, as the group helped lead the Cats to a surprise win.

In what could very well be their final game at home this season, Wildcats (5-10-1) coach Tim Lenahan started all of his seniors for Senior Day, and NU upended Penn State (8-7-2) 1-0 at Martin Stadium.

The Nittany Lions, who were playing for home-field advantage in the Big Ten Tournament, started the game strong offensively, controlling the ball through their backline and creating scoring chances by pushing the ball up the flanks.

In the sixth minute, midfi elder Connor Maloney, Penn State’s leading goal scorer, found himself with only junior goalkeeper Francisco Tomasino to beat. Tomasino, however, denied Maloney a goal with an impressive kick save. “(Tomasino) made a really good save against their best player to keep us in the game,” coach Tim Lenahan said.

NU’s defense, however, wasn’t fazed by the Nittany Lions’ potent attack, as the Cats defended Penn State’s corners and services well. The Nittany Lions ripped six shots in the first half, but only two were on goal due to NU’s solid defensive play.

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for most of the season, Sunday was different.

In the 24th minute, junior midfielder Riley Kelliher crossed the ball from the right corner to senior midfielder Jeffrey Hopson who headed it home to give NU the lead.

“We started off a little slow,” Hopson said, “but then we were able to find holes in their formation and exploit them on the flanks.”

Down a goal, the Nittany Lions ratcheted up the physicality of the game, as junior forward Elo Ozumba and Penn State defender Robby Sagel both received yellow cards shortly before halft ime. The Nittany Lions finished with 11 fouls, while the Cats only committed six.

NU was able to keep pace with the physical style of play as its defense held steadfast through Penn State’s second half offensive onslaught. In the last third of the game, Tomasino made another pair of nice saves, denying forward Aymar Sigue twice. In the second half as a whole, the Nittany Lions outshot the Cats 10-2.

“The guys played great ahead of me, and I was able to make the saves I needed to,” Tomasino said. “There’s a lot more chemistry now (than at the beginning of the season).”

Statistically, Sunday’s game didn’t affect NU’s postseason prospects. The » See MEN’S SOCCER, page 7