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Jeff Sessions talks Trump’s policies Sessions weighed in on free speech, immigration

By DAISY CONANT

daily senior staffer @daisy_conant

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As former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke in Lutkin Hall Tuesday, students and community members gathered to protest his speech.

Students protest former U.S. AG Hundreds of demonstrators chant outside Lutkin, interrupt talk

By EVA HERSCOWITZ

the daily northwestern @herscowitz

Students on Tuesday protested Northwestern College Republicans’ decision to host former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, chanting outside Lutkin Hall before attempting to interrupt Sessions’ talk by climbing through open windows and pushing through doors.

Around 150 protesters,

some holding signs reading “No conSessions, No racism, No KKK, No Facist USA” and “SE$$ION$ I$ A TRAITOR,” gathered outside the lecture hall before Sessions was scheduled to speak at 7 p.m., booing and yelling as attendees entered the building. Sessions’ talk, hosted

by NUCR, was titled “The Real Meaning of the ‘Trump Agenda.’”

Some protesters chanted “Hey, hey JBS, you got us into this mess” and “I-C-E, KKK,

how many kids have you killed today?” while others called attendees “clowns” and urged them to “stop disguising (their) racism as free speech.”

“There’s a difference between having a sustained dialogue and listening to other opinions and accepting hate speech and fascism,” said a student protester, who added they were tackled by police for entering Lutkin through a back door.

“That’s the difference with the Trump administration. There

are other viewpoints, but when your actions and your words are actively killing and oppressing people, we can’t accept that.”

During Sessions’ nearly twoyear-long tenure as attorney general, the Department of Justice enacted immigration policies that resulted in the separation of families at the southern border and the holding of migrants in detention centers for extended time periods. He also repeatedly attempted to block funding to

» See PROTESTS, page 10

Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has championed students’ rights to free speech on college campuses throughout the country. On Tuesday, he spoke against the students protesting a talk he gave at Lutkin Hall on Tuesday, criticizing what he called their “stupidity” and adding that Northwestern should not tolerate such behavior.

“I’m just going to tell you, this is stupid,” Sessions remarked as students pounded on the door to the auditorium and recited phrases like “F--k Jeff Sessions” and “You are a racist, you put kids in cages.”

“They can have a right to do it, OK, but at some point I have to speak,” added the former Republican U.S. Senator from Alabama. ”You shouldn’t be blaming young Republicans for meticulously defending their beliefs and putting up with this kind of trash.”

Sessions, who was Northwestern University College Republicans’ fall speaker, was invited to discuss “the real meaning of the ‘Trump Agenda’” in a free event open to the public. Throughout his frequently disrupted speech, he spoke about several issues he

thought influenced President Donald Trump’s election in 2016, including immigration, trade and foreign policy.

Sessions attributed wage stagnation — which he considered one of the largest issues among middle-class Americans — and a lack of available jobs to the influx of undocumented immigrants under previous administrations.

He said Trump is right to support a merit-based system of immigration over a familybased system as well as a border wall, as he said both of those policies would economically and socially serve “the interests of Americans.”

“As a prosecutor in the federal system for 15 years, as an assistant U.S. attorney and 12 years as U.S. attorney, I think this issue is open and shut to me — you don’t get to come into the country illegally,” Sessions said.

Despite criticism from the president throughout his tenure as attorney general — which lasted from February 2017 to November 2018 — Sessions spoke fondly of the Trump administration’s actions over the past two years. He was fired by the president after recusing himself from the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

“I had never watched (Trump’s) program on TV, I didn’t know how many people he’d fired — maybe I’d have » See SESSIONS, page 10

Residents petition Groups talk plans for Harley Clarke church’s purchase Two requests for proposal presented to community members Tuesday Salvation Army’s plans spark petition to city leaders

By SAMANTHA HANDLER

daily senior staffer @sn_handler

Residents have created a petition to block the Evanston Salvation Army from purchasing a church on Hurd Avenue to provide additional programming, objecting to a business coming into a residential neighborhood.

The plan for the Salvation Army to purchase the church at 2715 Hurd Ave. includes programming for a Sunday worship service of about 35 to 40 people, a food pantry, a youth character-building program, a women’s ministry program, an after school music class and programming for seniors, according to city documents.

At a Design and Project Review Committee meeting

on Oct. 30, some residents expressed concern that the business would be setting up in a residential area while others said they had safety concerns.

“I moved here to be surrounded by homes, not businesses,” said Peter Boyle, who lives across the street from the church.

Last week, residents started signing a petition that asks the city to deny the Salvation Army’s request. As of Tuesday afternoon, the petition had 125 signatures, with a goal of 1,000.

When signing, some residents said the location is too close to Willard Elementary School — which is across the street from the church — while others said it would bring too much traffic to an intersection with students.

“We as concerned residents, neighbors and/or parents of the Willard community, oppose the purchase of 2715 Hurd Avenue by the Salvation » See SALVATION, page 10

Serving the University and Evanston since 1881

By JACOB FULTON

the daily northwestern @jacobnfulton1

Two groups on Tuesday presented possible plans for the Harley Clarke Mansion to Evanston residents, ushering in a new period of discussion and debate about the building’s fate.

The Harley Clarke Mansion, located at 2603 Sheridan Rd., has been vacant since 2015 when the Evanston Art Center left the property. Since then, the City Council has struggled to find a use for the mansion. Proposed plans for a hotel, an environmental education center and demolition of the building have all been denied. The city began a third request for proposal period on May 16. It will end in February.

After a pre-proposal bid meeting where interested parties could attend and ask logistical questions about the proposal process, two groups — Evanston Community Lakehouse and Artists’ Book » See HARLEY, page 10

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Evanston Community Lakehouse and Gardens board member Bill Brown. Brown presented to members of the Evanston community about his group’s new plan for the Harley Clarke Mansion.

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Violent crime rates rise in Evanston

By THEA SHOWALTER

the daily northwestern @theashowalter

Violent crime rates rose last year in Evanston, even as national levels decreased, according to data released last month by the FBI. However, the Evanston Police Department said the increase isn’t necessarily something to worry about.

Violent crimes rose by nearly 4 percent at a national level but climbed nearly 15 percent in Evanston. Robberies rose by 17.5 percent, aggravated battery increased by 7.7 percent and burglaries increased by 1.8 percent.

However, determining the significance of the change is difficult, according to Andrew Owen, a sixth-year sociology doctoral student.

“Crime is a very noisy datapoint. It changes a lot for a big variety of reasons,” Owen said, adding that those reasons may sometimes seem hard to pin down, like crime increasing during hot weather.

An increase of nearly 8 percent in cases of aggravated battery or assault marks an increase of six cases from 78 in 2017 to 84 in 2018. Robberies jumped from 40 to 47 — an increase of over 17 percent.

The numbers in Evanston are low to begin with, Owen said, which can make a percent change seem more significant.

“Because crime sort of moves around a lot from year to year, a jump in a number that small, even if it doubles, probably isn’t statistically significant,” he said.

Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said that an uptick in violent crime last year can be partially attributed to incidents like one that occurred in early 2018, where two defendants committed “quite a few robberies” at one time, which “drove up” the violent crime rate for the year.

Glew said the case was an example of one instance where the crime rate increases because of one or two people committing multiple crimes,

POLICE BLOTTER Van never returned to U-Haul The Evanston U-Haul reported a rental van as stolen after it was not returned on Oct. 31, Evanston police said.

A 29-year-old employee of the U-Haul told police that a 29-year-old male Chicago resident rented the 2019 GMC Savana on Oct. 27 and was supposed to return it on Oct. 31, said Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew. Glew said the van’s last known secure location was reported on Oct. 31 at 6 p.m. and the van was determined to be missing Nov. 4 at around 3 p.m.

Police said the attempt to contact the renter was unsuccessful. The car is worth $20,000.

Axe body spray, lotion taken from CVS

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An Evanston Police Department vehicle. The FBI said crime rates in Evanston increased this year.

as opposed to many people committing one crime apiece over a longer period.

Another important consideration, Glew said, was whether the Evanston police were still clearing — or charging suspects with — crimes at the same rate, even if the incidents became more frequent.

“I think our clearance rate for those 2018 violent crimes was where we would like it to be,” Glew said. “We always want it to be higher… We always want to solve all crime. But with violent crime, we strive for a high clearance rate… but realistically, I think our clearance rate was better than average.”

Glew said clearance rates for 2018 are unavailable at this time. He added that clearance rates vary across crimes: For violent crimes, the EPD has a higher clearance rate. But property crimes like burglaries and theft “a lot of times” go uncleared, Glew said.

In 2018, there were 1,358 cases of theft, making it four-and-a-half times more frequent than the next most common crime: burglary. Theft cases decreased the most by number — by 64

cases, or 4.5 percent. The number of burglaries, the second most common crime, increased numerically by 5 — from 284 in 2017 to 289 in 2018.

Theft, motor vehicle theft and arson all decreased from 2017 to 2018 — by 4.5 percent, 12.7 percent and 25 percent respectively.

“These smaller numbers can be challenging when it comes to reliability and validity,” Glew said. “(In 2019), our violent crime is down, and our property crime is up. Last year, our property crime was down and our violent crime is up.”

And crime overall in Evanston has been trending down from the late 1990s: a 2018 police report shows crime has dropped from nearly 8,000 incidents around 1997 to under 2,000 a year today.

“Obviously our goal is zero crime. Is that realistic? Probably not,” Glew said. “Our goal is to suppress crime as much as we can through traditional policing efforts, our deployment strategy, and educating the public.” theashowalter2023@u.northwestern.edu

Two men took two bottles of Axe body spray and one bottle of Aveeno lotion from CVS Pharmacy on Tuesday, police said.

A 27-year-old employee of the CVS, 101 Asbury St., reported the theft at around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Glew said two men entered the store, took two cans of the body spray and one bottle of lotion and left.

The body spray is worth $6 and the lotion is worth $8.99, Glew said.

Officers searched the area but could not find anyone.

One man was described as around 27-years-old, 5’6” and wearing a black coat, jeans and blue and white gym shoes. The other man was between 29- and 30-years-old and was wearing a black coat, black jeans and a beanie.

Glew said there is no one in custody. ­— Samantha Handler

Setting the record straight An article published in Tuesday’s paper titled “Students debate Sessions’ event” misspelled NU College Democrats president Romie Drori’s last name in a second reference and mischaracterized the event as a debate on multiple occasions. Political Union’s intent was for the event to be an open space for conversation and dialogue. The article also mischaracterized and misrepresented Aishwarya Jois’ comments. The Daily regrets the errors.

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Cereijido wins inaugural Medill award as being a living example of someone who upheld a lot of the values that I cherish.”

In addition to honoring Vaisman, Cereijido also showed some of her work and spoke about her journalistic process, field experience and Latinx identity.

When talking about being a reporter who identifies as Latinx, Cereijido said that although she does want to report on issues important to the community, she doesn’t want to only cover immigration and the border crisis.

“Because of the mission of our show, we can’t ignore what’s happening politically or act like what’s happening with immigration isn’t important,” Cereijido said. “And we want to cover those things. But we also want to honor the complexity and richness of life and not let people be defined by their status.”

For that reason, Cereijido said she covers a wide range of subjects. She talked about pieces that she worked on about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, but also about the origins of Dora the Explorer and a day in the life of Pitbull.

Due to the added level of emotion and vulnerability in audio stories, which Cereijido said makes the content more exciting, there is room to do something more creative and still make her reporting meaningful and profound.

“One of the cool things about narrative audio storytelling is that obviously, it is journalistic — you interview people, you’re observing the world,” Cereijido said. “But also, you get to create this thing that is beautiful in its own right, that other people can also enjoy.”

Cereijido also gave advice to students in the audience about being journalists and taking advantage of their time at Northwestern. She told students to find the kinds of stories they want to tell and to work at places where they can improve on that craft.

She also stressed the importance of having others look at your work and recalled Vaisman’s harsh critiques that ultimately made her

By NATALIE CHUN

the daily northwestern

In an emotional night, Latino USA producer and Medill alumna Antonia Cereijido (Medill ’14) received the inaugural Cecilia Vaisman Award, named after the late Medill professor who died in 2015.

The award was created to celebrate audio and video journalists from the Latinx community and was conceived by students from Northwestern’s chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

“She was an amazing instructor and a journalist, and a wonderful colleague,” Medill Dean Charles Whitaker said in the event’s opening remarks. “We are all very saddened by her loss and feel her absence daily. But thanks to our students who encouraged us to create this award in her honor, we were very, very pleased to find a way to remind both us and the community of all that Cecilia’s life and legacy mean.”

Medill senior Laura Zornosa, one of the NAHJ presidents last spring, was one of the students on the committee of around a dozen people who chose Cereijino for the Cecilia Vaisman Award. Zornosa said they chose between a number of journalists who worked in audio and video and identified as Hispanic or Latinx.

Medill Professor Mei-Ling Hopgood, who worked closely with Vaisman, served as moderator Tuesday night. She said she never met Cerejido during her time at Northwestern, but she felt like she knew her because Vaisman constantly talked about her.

Cereijido said she is grateful for her relationship with Vaisman and that it “impacted her whole life,” even though she only knew her for a short amount of time.

“I’m not exaggerating when I say that I have a career because of her,” Cereijido said of Vaisman. “She helped me professionally but also personally in the sense that — just

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Let’s look at state and local elections with 2020 vision ZACH BRIGHT

ASST. OPINION EDITOR

Even after months of mind-numbing campaigning for the presidency and other congressional seats, we’re just under a year out from the 2020 presidential election.

Meanwhile, a slew of consequential state and local elections were held Tuesday in states including Kentucky, Virginia, Louisiana and Mississippi. After Tuesday’s results, a constitutional amendment on equal rights is now poised to pass, and traditionally Republican Kentucky has elected a Democratic governor.

However, leading up to these elections, the more distant presidential contest has taken up a majority of the media’s attention when it comes to coverage.

While offices like governor, state senator and county commissioner are certainly not equivalent to big-ticket positions like the presidency itself, down-ballot seats have the potential to be just as consequential to the constituents of states and localities that are holding elections.

Remember earlier in the spring when the

right to an abortion was under attack by several states?

These laws were passed by state representatives, senators, and ultimately signed by governors who were all elected in state, not national, elections. Residents of states like Ohio, Georgia, Alabama and more experienced this severe tightening of restrictions because of who was representing them.

Although such legislation was overturned by courts, it would never have gone into law had voters elected officials who actually represent their interests.

Local elected officials are the ones who make the decisions that most directly impact their immediate area. Take a body like the school board. They are usually elected to determine educational policy in a district.

They have a significant purview over an area’s public education system. My local school board decides on how funding should be distributed to schools and what services they are allocated for along with the standards of learning that are required of teachers and students. Those who win in these elections determine what direction schools across the district will take, for good or for worse.

The impact can be national as well. For instance, in this Tuesday’s election, Democrats

flipped Virginia’s State Senate and House of Delegates. With this new control, the state would be poised to become the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the last needed for it to become a Constitutional amendment. As a consequence, equal legal status would officially be granted to women across the country.

The problem is that school boards and state legislatures are low or nonexistent on the list of people’s political concerns.

The issue is presidential elections have a tendency to overshadow the boxes on the ballot that fall below it. Voters are too busy to concern themselves with what appears to be less meaningful positions.

Another big reason why American voters tend to care less about state and local elections is that there simply is far less coverage of them. According to the Pew Research Center, there were just under 1,600 reporters assigned to the 50 statehouses across the United States in 2014. Compare this to the roughly 6,800 news personnel that have at least one person covering Congress for their publication.

Yes, the Capitol and White House are clearly important, but so far, the 116th Congress has put just 66 bills into law. The

proportion of coverage both branches receive compared to the meager amounts of legislation that comes out of DC is mind-boggling.

Local government is covered to a lesser extent — if it is even covered at all. Consolidation of local news networks has fueled a nationalization of local media. Companies like Sinclair Broadcast Group snap up teetering local stations and involve themselves in the content put out by their newsrooms.

As we continue going forward into the 2020 election, voters need to remember that it is not just the presidency that is important.

If we are more cognizant of our local- and state-level officials and hold them accountable while supporting the efforts of local media, lower levels of government can rise up on people’s agendas. Ultimately, these are the offices that will be the voice of our friends, our families and our communities that we should bear in mind when casting a ballot.

Zach Bright is a Medill Sophomore. They can be contacted at zacharybright2022@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.

Coming full circle on Nelson Mandela’s number 6 jersey MARCUS THUILLIER

DAILY COLUMNIST

I grew up on rugby. Both my parents and I played the sport at some point in our lives.

We’ve watched as many games as we could during the 23 years I have been alive. This past weekend, I woke up at 4 a.m. to watch the Rugby World Cup final. South Africa put in a dominant performance to beat out England for the World Cup trophy.

At first sight, this is an exciting yet unremarkable event. South Africa has now won the tournament three times. New Zealand is the only other team to achieve that. They were the second most fan-favorite team coming into the tournament. However, when the South African captain accepted the trophy, it triggered something really emotional within me.

The captain, Siya Kolisi, is a black man.

Rugby in South Africa has traditionally been — and still is — a sport aimed at Afrikaners: the white descendants of Dutch colonists. When South Africa won the Rugby World Cup for the first time in 1995, they

were captained by Francois Pienaar, an Afrikaner. During the victory ceremony, South African president Nelson Mandela walked out and handed him the trophy, an event depicted in the movie “Invictus.” Mandela — symbol of the fight against apartheid — came out wearing the Springbok number six jersey, the same jersey that Pienaar donned during the tournament.

That South African team back then had one black player.

The situation in South Africa 26 years after removing apartheid laws is still dire. This country has had trouble bridging the gap between its white and black populations — which has resulted in making it the most economically unequal country in the world. Success in sports for a country struggling with such a form of inequality is always beneficial. However, this success is heightened by circumstances and the racial component of seeing the first black captain of the South African rugby team lift the trophy.

This victory is even sweeter when the captain wears Mandela’s jersey.

All of this has a point. There have been many think pieces written about seeing representation in movies or films and media. Due

to my background, it never affected me seeing people of different skin color being featured more prominently. I recognize the importance of representation, but growing up as a white man in a Western European country, it wasn’t hard for me to find representation in any activity I wanted to try. Sports, politics and media were dominated by people just like me and I never even thought twice about what that really meant.

When I saw Kolisi raising the Webb Ellis Cup this Saturday, I was incredibly moved.

That moment was so powerful, so consequential in that moment in time. One generation removed from Mandela winning the presidency, a black player rose to the top of a structure that was, for so long, synonymous to apartheid. Kolisi is truly a leader for black Africans in South Africa.

South African coach Rassie Erasmus seemed to acknowledge the significance of Kolisi’s feat when declaring after the final win that “when you sit down and think about it, there was a stage when Siya didn’t have food to eat and, yes, that is the captain and he led South Africa to hold this cup and that is what Siya is.” Rugby is often called a “sport of hooligans played by gentlemen”. It was invented in

In college, what is cultural exchange really?

YUJIA HUANG

DAILY COLUMNIST

Diversity is often a celebration at elite universities. It has become synonymous with exchanging different cultures, ideas and even world-views. Black, Asian, Latinx and white students alike smile on brochures, effortlessly agreeing with each other.

However, is “cultural exchange” truly as effortless as it seems? What actually happens behind the scenes in such an exchange?

Culture, unlike an apple or a bar of chocolate, is not a commodity.

It is not purchasable and cannot be easily defined in terms of a price tag. We might be able to boil down the actual entity of culture into a single word — which is conveniently also “culture”. However, if we unpack it, culture becomes a massive fabric of human history and human identity that is heavy, sensitive and complex. Culture is so much more than the food we eat and the clothes we wear, which are easily digestible and accessible.

Instead, it exists in multiplicity: It is the identity, values and philosophies that people across time and space have carried and continue to carry. It is the sorrowful and vulnerable memories of those who have come before us. It is the pride and identity of our ancestors.

Culture is a container of endless human

lives, carrying emotions, thoughts and sensations that are deeply personal, sensitive and private.

As a result, culture is naturally difficult to convey and exchange.

Our brochures have made cultural exchange seem like an extremely easy task. A black student, an Asian student and a white student standing in the same picture, talking and smiling at each other, reduces this concept to make it simpler than it actually is. Cultural exchange is not always all smiles — it can be extremely difficult and challenging. It requires the incredible ability to tolerate, emphasize, compromise, understand and even forgive.

For example, sharing my Chinese culture with my American friends is so much more than having them try bubble tea and hot pot.

There are many things about my culture that are a lot more difficult to share, even embarrassing, sometimes.

For example, Chinese culture gives priority to values such as obedience, collectivity, respect and silence. These are values that are less important in American culture, which means it can be incredibly difficult for me to communicate the importance of these values in an America-centric environment. Moreover, a large part of my culture carries a history that is humiliating because of the West. We were hurt by the British during the Opium War, and following the Opium War, the sovereignty and humanity of my people continued to be violated by Japan and the West. It is easy to invite

friends to eat Chinese food with me, but it is never easy to talk about the controversial and personal memories of history.

Even though globalization has now brought me closer to those from other countries, we still must acknowledge the past as well as the legacy it continues to carry in our modern times.

Culture, in its wholeness, is inherently difficult to access.

Still, that does not mean we should not keep going. We can start by sharing our food and customs, just like the way I invite my friends to eat Chinese mooncakes with me during festivals. However, we are only at the very start of our journey when we do this. We need to do more work to better understand each other from different countries and regions of the world. To make this journey increasingly possible, we must start challenging ourselves to be more patient, generous, open-minded and tolerant. We have to listen even when things become uncomfortable. We have to appreciate the complexity of history.

We have to acknowledge that we are all humans, and that we all have a story that deserves to be shared and listened to.

Yujia Huang is a Weinberg Sophomore. She can be contacted at yujia@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.

England, then spread across the British diaspora to places like South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.

All those teams integrated people of color in rugby except for South Africa.

It is almost indescribable how incredible the accomplishment of this South African team is when looking at the context of history.

I needed to see this happen to really understand what representation means to so many people. Seeing images of townships across South Africa celebrating the South African victory was truly a transcendent moment for me. It is hard for me to truly comprehend what this experience is like for black Africans living there. But by experiencing this in the sport that I love, I was able to connect second-hand with how representation makes this kind of success significant.

Marcus Thuillier is a second-year graduate student.

He can be contacted at marcusthuillier2019@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.

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By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

daily senior staffer @2021_charlie

It’s just Boo. No one calls him Daniel, his given name. Even when he was in trouble at home, his mother called him Boo. When a science teacher asked him a question in class, it was Boo. Or when coach Chris Collins saw him play for the first time, introduced himself and asked the 6-foot-2 guard his name.

It was Boo. “That’s what people called me when I was little,” he said. “And it stuck.”

He’s the only man of his name in college basketball, but Northwestern freshman Boo Buie doesn’t mind standing out. Collins said one of the first things he learned about Buie was that he’s “not bashful,” and Collins said he thinks Northwestern could use a player with that mentality right now.

The Wildcats lost over 60 percent of their scoring from last year and are in need of a guard who can make shots off the dribble. Buie hasn’t even played a real game yet, but he’s shown he can really shoot. In NU’s purple-white scrimmage, he led all scorers with 13 points and three 3-pointers, and he scored 18 off four from beyond the arc in the Cats’ exhibition against Quincy last week.

If there’s one defining image of NU’s preseason, it’s Buie getting the ball on the wing, dribbling a few times, pulling up well beyond the arc and nailing it.

“We need that,” Collins said. “It’s been no secret offensive production is something that has to be improved for us. When we’ve had our struggles, it’s been when we struggled to score. One of the things we feel he brings is that, when things break down, he can get his own shot. That’s in his DNA.” Buie has always been a productive scorer, despite being a lightly-recruited high school player. One of the best shooters in the Northeast, Buie only held an offer from Massachusetts when Collins first saw him in Washington D.C in July 2018.

And Collins only saw him by accident.

His primary focus entering the game was Tyrell Terry, a four-star guard who now plays at Stanford.

Collins attended the Adidas Gauntlet, a high profile AAU Tournament, that summer to see Terry and some other prospects. Collins didn’t know much about Buie, but when he saw him shoot the ball he was hooked.

“I came out thinking, ‘Hey, he’s pretty good,’” Collins said. “His level of recruitment at that time was mostly mid-major, so he was a little bit under the radar. Playing against big prospects, eventually we said, ‘Hey, he can do it at this level.’ He still

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The freshman guard from NY is primed to have a big role for Northwestern this season plays with a chip on his shoulder because he knows he was undervalued in the recruiting process.”

Buie committed two months after the Collins saw him for the first time. He didn’t even take a visit to campus before deciding he wanted to play for NU. Then, during his senior year of high school, Buie proved how he was being undervalued.

He averaged 26.5 points per game at a top prep school and became the second most highly rated recruit from New York by the end of his senior year.

Buie didn’t waver on his commitment, and now he’s arguably the most exciting player in the program. Against Quincy, he pulled up from 27 feet for a three-point shot and threw a half-court alley-oop pass to graduate guard Pat Spencer. The Cats didn’t have a single player who could make plays like those all last season.

Buie has barely missed from the field in the two preseason games that have been open to the public, and senior forward A.J. Turner believes he can keep up that production when the real games start.

“At this level, it’ll be difficult to come in and put up the same numbers he did in high school, obviously,” Turner said.“But I think he’s learning to expand his game, and everyone is really accepting him for who he is, knowing he was predominantly a scorer in high school.”

Buie admits he’s still adjusting to being a pure point guard. Collins wants the NU offense to be more free-flowing and uptempo this season, and that won’t happen if Buie shoots like he’s Russell Westbrook. The most common advice Buie has received so far is to be a floor general and get more players involved when he’s running the offense.

It’s unlikely Buie will be the team’s leading scorer right away, but he seems like a lock to lead the team in shots per minute — there isn’t another player on the roster as aggressive as him.

“You’re going to live with, at times, him taking a couple bad ones,” Collins said. “But we know that if you give him the freedom to be creative and get into the paint, he’s going to get shots and find ones for other guys.”

Collins said he’s certain Buie will make plenty of mistakes this season. He’s a freshman guard.

Despite that, Buie is going to be “thrown his into the fire and play a lot,” according to Collins.

After his impressive preseason, it’s possible Buie becomes the first guard since Bryant

McIntosh to start the first game of his freshman season.

While sophomore forwards Miller Kopp and Pete Nance are primed to be NU’s leading scorers, Buie will be the team’s spark-plug. Kopp and Nance will probably take the most shots, but Buie is going to get his turn to run the show often.

The Cats need Buie’s scoring so badly that Collins said he is willing to live with the mistakes he makes along the way.

“When they recruited me here, they told me they needed a point guard who can really push the ball,” Buie said. “It’s just like football; as a point guard you’re the quarterback of the team. I’m sure I’m going to get a lot of opportunity to play, as long as I perform the way I need to.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern. edu

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Opinion: Don’t expect NU to be great, despite your hopes GREGORY SVIRNOVSKIY

SPORTS COLUMNIST

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A.J. Turner, Miller Kopp and Anthony Gaines play in the intrasquad scrimmage. The three players will look to have big roles on this year’s team.

I want to have high expectations for Northwestern. They’ll win 21 games this year, steal a winter break home game from top-ranked Michigan State, beat down on the little guys like Merrimack and Norfolk State.

It could happen, right?

But then I thought about it. And then it hit me. The Wildcats might be the little guys.

NU enters this year ranked by many as the worst team in the Big Ten. But the underlying facts paint an even bleaker picture.

Last season, the Cats finished with a 13-19 record, winning just four of its 20 Big Ten matchups. Dropping three of five against Illinois and Rutgers NU lost 10 straight games in the middle of the year, not tasting victory for the entire month of February. After finally breaking that skid with a win against Ohio State on March 6, the team went on to lose their final two games of the season.

Last year’s top three scorers, Vic Law, Dererk Pardon and Ryan Taylor, have all graduated. Role players Aaron Falzon and Barret Benson have also left the program, transferring to smaller schools in search of bigger roles. This mass exodus of veterans has left Northwestern without a whopping 63.4 percent of its offensive production from last year.

Yikes.

It’s a new year though. Fall optimism, that feeling you get before the ball is dropped

and when every squad in the country can say they’re undefeated, has replaced the disappointment of last spring.

So there’s hope. For the Cats to succeed this year, they need highly touted returning sophomores Pete Nance and Miller Kopp to step up in a big way. Nance, whose first year at Northwestern was marred by a bout of mononucleosis, averaged only 2.9 points per game last year. He’s back,looks buff and is ready to go this year.

The squad has also welcomed freshmen Boo Buie and Robbie Beran. Buie’s 18 points in last week’s exhibition matchup against Quincy were second best on the team. On the other hand, Beran struggled, with five personal fouls committed while scoring just two points. Still, with just ten scholarship players on the team, he figures to be a key piece for Chris Collins.

The Cats will play against Merrimack onFriday in their season opener. By all accounts, it should be a win. What remains to be seen, however, is how the following five games will go, and the five after that. And the rest of the season.

They’ll struggle and they’ll grow. It’s a young team with few expectations. They’ll need to earn victories against smaller schools and fight like hell against top opposition.

That way, while they may be the little guys, they won’t play like them.

Greg Svirnovskiy is a Medill sophomore. He can be contacted at gregorysvirnovskiy2022@u. northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, 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.

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Schedule G Ryan Greer

G Anthony Gaines

6’2” sophomore Atlanta, Georgia

F Miller Kopp 6’7” sophomore Houston, Texas

6’4” junior Kingston, New York

C Ryan Young

6’10” freshman Stewartsville, New Jersey

F Pete Nance 6’10” sophomore Akron, Ohio

11/8 Merrimack 11/13 Providence 11/19 Radford 11/22 Norfolk State 11/25 Bradley 11/27 Kansas State/Pittsburgh 12/3 Boston College 12/8 Purdue 12/15 SIU-Edwardsville 12/18 Michigan State 12/21 Depaul 12/29 Hartford 1/5 Minnesota 1/8 Indiana 1/11 Nebraska 1/14 Iowa 1/18 Illinois 1/21 Maryland 1/26 Ohio State 1/29 Michigan State 2/1 Purdue 2/9 Rutgers 2/12 Michigan 2/15 Penn State 2/18 Maryland 2/23 Minnesota 2/27 Illinois 3/1 Nebraska 3/4 Wisconsin 3/7 Penn State Home games are in bold

Head Coach Chris Collins

Centers Ryan Young (Fr)

Assistants Brian James Emanuel Dildy Jon Borovich

Fearless Forecasters

Predicted Record

Forwards Miller Kopp (Fr) Pete Nance (Fr) A.J. Turner (Jr) Robbie Beran (Fr) Jared Jones (Fr)

Guards Ryan Greer (So) Anthony Gaines (Jr) Boo Buie (Fr) Pat Spencer (So) Chase Audige (Fr) Tino Malnati (Jr) Roy Dixon III (Fr) Dylan Sandhu (Fr) Eric Zalewski (So)

Season Outlook

ANDREW

14-16 (6-14 Big Ten)

The team’s effort on defense has never been a problem and, with Anthony Gaines leading the team, it won’t be this season. But I don’t think this team can score enough and are a year away from being competitive in the Big Ten.

CHARLIE

13-17 (6-14 Big Ten)

NU will look better than it did last year, even if it wins the same amount of games. The Cats won’t finish with a winning record, but they’ll learn who the pillars of the program are moving forward.

GREG

13-17 (7-13 Big Ten)

This season will be a success if Pete Nance and Miller Kopp can make the jump from fringe producers to team-leading basket getters. I wouldn’t put too much stock into many games we win. It’s all about player progress.

13-17 (5-15 Big Ten)

This will hopefully be better than last year’s for the Cats, in part thanks to new blood like graduate guard Pat Spencer and freshman guard Boo Buie.

While the Cats will improve on last year, nothing will be drastic.

BENJAMIN

14-16 (6-14 Big Ten)

The non-conference schedule should give NU a chance to feel good about itself heading into Big Ten play, but the conference is simply too loaded this year and the Wildcats, with their youth, won’t be able to keep pace.

PETER

16-14 (8-12 Big Ten)

Yes, this team is young and the talent level isn’t top of the Big Ten. But the 10man rotation has some guys. Pete Nance will make a jump. Boo Buie is going to play well. Pat Spencer is the truth. All I’m saying is don’t sleep on the Cats.

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The Cats search for offensive identity in 2019-2020

By PETER WARREN

daily senior staffer @thepeterwarren

Last year, Northwestern’s offense was tough to watch. Leading scorer Vic Law got hurt in January and never fully recovered. Low-post threat Dererk Pardon’s production dropped as opposing teams doubled-teamed him relentlessly. Pure shooter Ryan Taylor was not the marksman he was labeled as when he came in as a graduate transfer.

Yet, those three players led the team in scoring, and now all three are gone, leaving a large hole to fill on offense.

“Last year, we relied heavily on Vic and Dererk, for good reason, they’re great players,” senior forward A.J. Turner said. “This year, it’s more everyone spreading the ball around and not just looking into the post or swinging it out on the perimeter for Vic. We have a lot of versatile guys.”

Coach Chris Collins has plenty of potential options to fill the void. Throughout training camp, Collins has said there are 10 guys he believes will fill in the rotation — with two point guards, four wings and four bigs.

That group of personnel has led Collins to make an adjustment to the Wildcats’ offensive tendencies.

“We are trying to play this year with a little more pace,” Collins said. “It doesn’t necessarily mean you have to shoot faster if it’s not there, but we are trying to play a little bit faster than we have in the past and be committed to that.

Turner is the team’s leading returning scorer at 8.9 points per game. Without a true ball-handler, Turner played most of last season as the de facto point guard, which Collins said affected his shooting — his field goal percentage dropped 35 percentage points from his final season at Boston College.

This year, Turner will return to his natural position on the wing. Turner said playing out of his typical position helped expand his game. He added he has spent a lot of time working on his one-onone moves and creating off-the-dribble.

“We have a bunch of guys who can be playmakers,” Turner said. “We are looking for the team to show versatility as a whole, myself included.”

With Turner playing off ball, point guards Ryan Greer, a sophomore, and Boo Buie, a freshman, will be the two lead ball handlers. Both are natural point guards but are different in their styles. Greer is an old-school point, while Buie is a dynamic playmaker.

Collins said he has told the two to be themselves and not try to play like the other. Buie said he wants to become a better floor general.

“I’m gonna still look to score, but I’m going to try to get more guys involved,” Buie said. “Making it all more fluid.”

According to Collins, there’s a chance a lineup featuring both Greer and Buie becomes part of the rotation. He also said graduate guard Pat Spencer, who has impressed with his athletic ability and competitiveness, could see some time running the offense.

Sophomore forward Miller Kopp was the team’s leading scorer on its August trip to Europe. Kopp scored 86 points over four games while shooting 50 percent from the field. And while the competition in Italy and France wasn’t great, it showcased the Texas native’s ability to put the ball in the basket and Collins’ belief in Kopp’s scoring ability.

Fellow sophomore forward Pete Nance is also expected to become a bigger part of the offense after a disappointing freshman campaign. Nance can play in both the post and around the perimeter.

Junior guard Anthony Gaines should see a jump in usage after playing in a minor offensive role the past two years. Used mostly as a slasher and rim-attacker since arriving on campus, Gaines can improve his offensive output by developing and illustrating a consistent ability to hit a jumper.

“Being able to be a competent 3-point shooter is something that’s the next step for him,” Collins said, “because now, all of a sudden if you have to guard him out there, his driving ability and slashing is magnified.”

Gaines isn’t the only one who needs to be a better shooter for the offense to improve. NU was one of the worst shooting teams in Division I last season, finishing No. 315 in 3-point percentage and No. 337 in field goal percentage.

The Cats need to be better inside and outside the arc.

Two of college basketball’s top statistical analysts — Ken Pomeroy and Bart Torvik — don’t have high hopes for NU. Before the season started, Pomroy projected the Cats to be ranked No. 151 in adjusted offense, and Tovik had NU at No. 230 in his adjusted offensive efficiency statistic.

Expectations are low for NU — almost all preseason predictions place them in last or second-tolast in the Big Ten. The Cats are young, unproven and hungry. If they want to win games, it starts and ends on the offensive side of the court.

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Gaines look to anchor NU’s defense through his play

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

daily senior staffer @bxrosenberg

Daily file photo by Noah Frick-Alofs

Anthony Gaines drives to the basket. The junior guard will be tasked with guarding the Big Ten’s best players this season.

Anthony Gaines said the idea just came to him.

With Vic Law graduated, Gaines knew he would have to be the lynchpin of Northwestern’s defense. So the junior guard went to work by handcuffing his teammates in practice — literally.

“He comes to practice every day with handcuffs and puts them on someone’s locker to say, ‘This is who I’m locking up today,’” junior forward A.J. Turner said. “He’s running with that, and he sets the tone defensively.”

Gaines is not shy about his goal of being Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year, and Turner expressed his confidence in his teammate’s ability to win the award. Over his four years, Law usually guarded the opposing team’s leading scorer, and that responsibility now falls on Gaines.

And it’s clear he’s embracing it, too, buying a badge in addition to the handcuffs.

“I always joke about shackles around people’s wrists,” Gaines said. “The idea came to me to get handcuffs. When I was looking up handcuffs, I saw the badge, so I got the handcuffs and the badge and started calling myself Officer Gaines.”

Gaines added that his teammates have taken to calling him “Officer Gaines” as well, saying they get nervous whenever he guards them. He said sophomore forward Miller Kopp and graduate guard Pat Spencer are his favorite teammates to “handcuff ” in practice, citing Kopp’s offensive skill set and Spencer’s competitive spirit.

But once the season starts, Gaines will be tasked with defending some of the best

players in the nation. The Big Ten has a plethora of talented guards, including Michigan State’s Cassius Winston, Maryland’s Anthony Cowan Jr. and Illinois’ Ayo Dosunmu, all of whom were named to the preseason all-conference team.

“The main part of my game is defending the other team’s best player, being that energy guy, that tough player defensively,” Gaines said. “Getting the last stop and taking the key player on the other team out. That’s my mindset going into this year, like it is every year. It’s something I’m looking to lock into more.”

Before missing time this summer while recovering from a foot injury, Gaines played the best defense of his career toward the end of last season. He set a career high with four steals on Feb. 28 against Minnesota, then topped it with five steals in the Wildcats’ Big Ten Tournament loss to Illinois on March 13.

Gaines said he has learned a lot about communicating on the defensive end of the floor from Law, who was named to the Big Ten All-Defensive team in 2017, the year NU played in the NCAA Tournament. Although Law is three inches taller, Gaines said the two are similar players.

Coach Chris Collins said Gaines has improved significantly on offense as well, but his play was a constant on defense, even though the Cats’ struggles in conference play.

“I’m not a big gimmicky guy, I’m not a big costumes guy, but if seeing those handcuffs gives him a mindset of ‘I’m going to go out and lock you up defensively tonight,’ if that gets him in that mode, I’m all for it,” Collins said. “We really believe he can be one of those shutdown defenders that you have to have to be successful in our conference.” benjaminrosenberg2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Evanston residents discuss possible impeachment

By DELANEY NELSON

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Some Evanston residents expressed support for the House’s vote to formalize impeachment inquiry proceedings into President Donald Trump, but doubt a successful conviction.

Last week, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) voted with 231 other House members to pass a resolution that formalized the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump and publicized its hearings.

The resolution also allows for the president and his counsel to take part in future hearings. The House committees leading the inquiry will report their findings to the Judiciary Committee, who will then decide whether to move forward with the process of impeachment and the drafting of impeachment articles. “(I) voted yes to protect my country and its constitution for generations to come,” Schakowsky, who has represented the 9th District since 1998, said in a Thursday statement. “No person is above the law, not even the president.”

If passed, Trump will become one of three presidents in U.S. history to be impeached. Talk of impeachment began in his first year of presidency, later fueled by former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report into potential election interference. The report did not give a direct conclusion on whether the president was guilty of obstruction of justice.

This round of impeachment debates was sparked by the Trump-Ukraine controversy, after it was revealed that Trump may have pressured the Ukranian president to investigate Hunter Biden, the son

Ike Ogbo named new director of Health and Human Services Dept.

Ike Ogbo has been appointed director of Evanston’s Health and Human Services Department, the city announced Tuesday.

Ogbo was appointed to the position by interim city manager Erika Storlie.

He has been serving as the department’s interim director since March, when former

of former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

A survey conducted in July by Indivisible Evanston found that over 60 percent of its members were in favor of starting an impeachment inquiry, according to organization co-leader and co-founder Laura Tanner Swinand. Now, however, she said the group is in general support and pleased with the House’s decision but not happy with the country’s state of affairs.

“It’s certainly not a happy day for this country that we’re impeaching a president, especially for the reasons he’s being impeached,” Swinand said. “It’s a grave and serious matter, and we all want to show our respect for the process.”

Some Evanston residents, like Dan Hinkle, are supportive of impeachment of the president, partly because they think it is necessary to hold the president accountable. Hinkle said he supported impeaching former President Bill Clinton in 1998 and is able to see things technically.

While Hinkle knows Trump committed a crime, he said he didn’t care about the Ukraine scandal but just wants to see Trump out of office.

“Not impeaching him does not seem morally right,” Hinkle said. “If you don’t, there’s no consequence for this. What’s he gonna do next?”

However, impeachment does not mean removal from office. If the House votes to introduce articles of impeachment, the Senate will then hold a trial and vote on whether to convict the president. With a Republican-controlled Senate, Swinand said it may be unlikely for the Senate to convict Trump.

Evanston resident Alex Sykes also expressed doubt regarding the likelihood of Senate Republicans voting against Trump. The president will be removed from office only if two-thirds of the Senate director Evonda Thomas-Smith left the post.

As director, Ogbo will oversee the city’s social service, public and environmental health programs, according to a news release.

“Ike brings more than a decade of experience working to support Evanston’s diverse public health and human services needs to this important position,” Storlie said in the release. “I look forward to working with Ike and our Health and Human Services Department staff to improve and protect the health and well-being of all who live, work and play in our city.”

Ogbo’s department will be impacted by the

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U.S. Rep Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) at an event in May 2017. Evanston residents reacted to the vote to approve the impeachment inquiry last Thursday.

vote to convict.

“I think (impeachment) is good, but I don’t know if it’s futile,” Sykes said. “It’s probably just going to die in the Senate anyway, which is why I don’t really pay attention that much.”

While impeachment is up in the air, Swinand said Indivisible Evanston will keep their sights on the 2020 elections.

Swinand said the organization is focused on

registering voters for those elections and continuing to advocate for issues they care about.

“I just hope that people don’t in a way get complacent thinking impeachment is the solution,” Swinand said. “It’s just gonna be part of the process of cleaning house in all three parts of the government.”

city’s proposed two-year budget for 2020 and 2021, which is currently under review and discussion. One of the biggest proposed adjustments is a shift of the city’s social services from the general fund to the human services fund to “provide for a holistic approach and improve coordination between the various services being provided,” according to city documents.

Social services will operate out of Health and Human Services, which is set to gain three new full-time positions as part of the restructuring.

“Social services are a priority and should remain a priority,” Storlie said at a meeting in

early October. “Now we’re giving it its own dedicated funding source.”

Ogbo began working for the city in 2008 as a licensed environmental health practitioner, according to the release. Starting in 2015, he was the city’s public health manager. Previously, Ogbo worked for the Illinois Department of Public Health and the McLean County Health Department. He holds a bachelor’s in biology and a master’s in public health from the University of Illinois.

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House — presented their ideas to attendees.

Though other groups can submit their ideas for the mansion until Feb. 28, when the request for proposal period ends, Susie Hall, a management analyst for the city, said the two that attended have been the only groups the city has heard from so far.

Hall said this meeting is the first of its kind when it comes to proposals for the property. The city did not hold similar meetings during the previous two RFP periods.

“We’ve never done this before with any of the requests for proposals that we’ve had for Harley Clark,” Hall said. “We know that the community wants to be a big part of what happens at the mansion. We wanted to make sure that there was an opportunity for the proposers to show their proposal, but also for the community to hear them and get an idea of what’s out there.”

Evanston Community Lakehouse and Gardens shared a reworked plan after their initial proposal was denied in 2018 in favor of a demolition plan. In a referendum held last November, residents overwhelmingly voted to preserve the mansion for public use, a result which is not legally binding.

Evanston Community Lakehouse and Gardens board member Bill Brown said the group has deviated somewhat from the plan the city denied. Both plans wanted to preserve the building for public use, but Brown said the new one focuses more on engagement within the community and incorporating ideas that

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sanctuary cities.

Sessions also rescinded an Obama-era policy that prevented prosecutors from pursuing certain drugrelated cases in states where recreational marijuana is legal and encouraged federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for certain drug-related crimes. He has routinenely threatened protections for LGBTQ+ people, including when he rescinded the Obama administration’s 2016 guidance detailing protections for transgender students under Title IX. After attendees at his speech finished filing into the lecture hall, protesters moved to the back entrance, attempting to enter the room by climbing through windows and pushing their way through open doors.

University Police officers followed the protesters inside, knocking some to the ground and pushing others out. Those who remained inside pounded on side doors to the lecture hall and yelled through cracks in the doors. Outside, protesters continued to chant, shouting “No justice, no peace, abolish I-C-E.” Communication junior Mikey Walden entered through a back entrance. As protesters made their way down the hallway and toward the lecture hall, police officers formed a shoulder-to-shoulder wall blocking the Lutkin foyer.

“They grabbed me by my arms and were pushing

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Army,” the petition reads. “We ask the city of Evanston to deny the Salvation Army’s request for ‘special use’ of the property.”

Some residents added that the location in general is not suitable for the Salvation Army. Sixth Ward resident Dennis DeCapri, who lives close to the church, wrote on the petition that he and his family have lived there since 1990 and are concerned about the possible relocation.

DeCapri wrote that there could be an adverse impact on the neighborhood with increased traffic and parking.

“These are not appropriate uses for any residential neighborhood,” DeCapri wrote, “and given the view that there is little, if any, need in this neighborhood for the majority of services provided, it’s hard to understand why the Salvation Army

citizens have presented to them.

“It is well-worth the asset that is in place now, and what it will become when you do that work,” Brown said. “It will be a vibrant, active place with many different uses.”

The organization Artists’ Book House hopes to turn the mansion into a literary center for Evanston and the Chicago area. Founder Audrey Niffenegger, an Evanston-based based author of novels, including “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” said her plans will transform the mansion into a multi-functional space for community members to appreciate many facets of the literary world.

Some elements of the plan included a papermaking center in the conservatory, a cafe facing the lake and a variety of printing presses in the basement.

Niffenegger said the prospective layout would also include a library of rare books.

“The idea behind the organization is that we are all about the book,” Niffenegger said. “If you want to make a book, if you’re interested in writing, if you’re interested in paper-making, installation work, sound — we’re interdisciplinary.”

Hill said the event was intended to assist both groups in evaluating their next steps as they approach the Feb. 28 proposal deadline.

“I hope the questions the community asked of both of the proposals was beneficial to them,” Hall said.

“They now have three more months to tweak their ideas, and take that feedback and have a really great response to offer to the city.” jacobfulton2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Bloom said he interjected because he felt the questions were not addressing the concerns of the Northwestern student body.

“The questions were like slam dunks for him… they were just trying to make Jeff Sessions look good,” Bloom said. “Also, his rhetoric I found very disturbing as an American citizen. It didn’t represent my values, and it didn’t represent America’s values. He talked about immigrants being harmful and detrimental to our society, when in reality they built this nation.”

Some of Sessions’ remarks received strong applause from the audience throughout his talk, including his recognition of a police officer for serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Members of a support group from Northwestern’s Division of Student Affairs were present in anticipation of tensions surrounding the event — an official “Night of Action” was planned to occur at the same time.

Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, interim vice president of student affairs, said the group worked with organizers from NUCR and the “Night of Action” to ensure student safety and coordinate security.

“For me, this is a University, and we value academic freedom, and we value creating an environment where we are listening and engaging and understanding different points of view,” PayneKirchmeier said.

NUCR was unavailable for comment at the time of publication.

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been more careful,” Sessions said. “The president is allowed to fire you, but fortunately he doesn’t get to shoot you.”

The former U.S. attorney general also criticized Chicago’s status as a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants, as he said it allows individuals to come to the city “illegally” to “deal dope” and avoid deportation — though little evidence exits to support those claims.

Attendees were able to questions via notecard for the Q&A after Sessions’ speech, which was moderated by NUCR vice president and former Daily columnist Dominic Bayer. Sessions’ answers were interrupted by numerous rebuttals from crowd members, including requests that Bayer “stop censoring the questions” and that the former U.S. attorney general address the legalization of marijuana. Bayer then asked about Sessions’ opinion on Illinois legalizing recreational use of the drug in January.

“I don’t think the country’s better off with more people using pot,” Sessions responded. “‘Big Marijuana’ is a lying bunch of skunks… This is not medicine.”

SESP freshman Joshua Bloom was one of the people in the crowd who interjected, shouting “false” to Session’s assertion that the Trump administration had not rolled back protections for LGBTQ Americans and that Trump had not committed an impeachable offense by asking foreign countries to investigate his political rivals.

me backwards,” Walden said. “I got knocked down a couple times and eventually pushed out the side doors.

We made it clear that we wanted to be in the space and make our presence known.”

The protest outside Lutkin overlapped with the “Night of Action at Northwestern University,” another demonstration that drew students, Evanston residents and political groups to a parking lot outside the lecture hall. Organizer and Weinberg junior Aishwarya Jois said the event sought to protest NUCR’s decision to bring Sessions to campus, as well as his promotion of racist policies.

Volunteers from Indivisible Evanston, a group that promotes Democratic policies in Evanston, representatives from the presidential campaigns of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), as well as volunteers from Democratic congressional candidate Marie Newman’s campaign attempted to mobilize “Night of Action” attendees for the 2020 election.

After seeing a tweet about the event, Jois was “absolutely appalled” by NUCR’s decision to bring Sessions to campus, who she said has “throughout his entire career oppressed marginalized groups.”

After a friend suggested they protest, Jois created a private Facebook event to form a plan of action. Jois said she imagined a demonstration of 10 to 20 students holding signs and chanting outside Lutkin. But when more than 200 students expressed interest for

the event, she decided to open it to the Evanston and Chicago communities, making it public and reaching out to political organizations and local politicians.

The goal of the “Night of Action,” Jois said, was not to disrupt Sessions’ speech on campus or imply he should not be able to present his ideas. Rather, the group sought to draw attention to and protest his policies and beliefs.

“We absolutely in no way, shape or form think Jeff Sessions should not be allowed to come to campus,” Jois said. “We’re saying that we’re surprised that College Republicans chose someone with such terrible views. We’re exercising our rights to free speech and freedom of assembly, just in the same way as they are asserting their rights to free speech by bringing Jeff Sessions.”

In organizing the event, Jois said she “pledged to cooperate with the University.” She added that the “Night of Action” didn’t condone any forms of violent protest. However, as protesters began to mobilize into one group over the course of the evening, it became unclear who was affiliated with “Night of Action,” as opposed to other demonstrators who attended independently.

Some students said in a “Night of Action” Facebook post Tuesday morning that a protest which permits Sessions to speak without disruption but still involves law enforcement alienates marginalized students. Jois responded to the post that the decision to involve

would want to relocate so far from the Downtown Evanston, South Evanston and Rogers Park communities they serve.”

Mitchell Melamed, the Salvation Army’s attorney, said at the meeting that the Salvation Army’s current building, 1403 Sherman Ave., needs renovation and added that they would eventually sell the building.

He said there are no plans to operate a resale store at the church or accept donations. In a memo to the city’s zoning administrator in September, Melamed wrote that the group expects around 35 to 50 people for its senior programming, around 30 people for a food pantry, 20 for a midweek worship service and 25 to 50 children for a summer day camp.

At the meeting, Melamed said there are no immediate plans to operate a food pantry at the Hurd Avenue location.

The proposal was held in committee last week,

so the Salvation Army can clarify its plans for the property. The committee members said they can review the plan again either this week or next.

The item is not on the committee’s agenda for its Wednesday meeting. The Zoning Board of Appeals plans to review the proposal later this month.

Ald. Tom Suffredin (6th) told The Daily he has heard from many constituents and encourages residents to voice their concerns to the Zoning Board of Appeals.

“Until there is a clearly defined proposal before the City Council,” Suffredin said, “it is not appropriate for me to comment other than to say that the concerns of neighboring homeowners and unique issues raised by the property’s proximity to Willard Elementary School need to be addressed by any purchaser seeking a special use at that location.” samanthahandler2021@u.northwestern.edu

daisyconant2022@u.northwestern.edu police wasn’t “under (her group’s) control, but under the control of Northwestern since the event is on their property.”

Meanwhile, a group of protestors at Lutkin chanted “Hey hey, ho ho, corrupt police have got to go,” expressing their outrage at the police presence.

UP commander Eric Chin addressed students’ concerns that police presence creates a more threatening environment.

“We understand that there’s different opinions,” Chin told The Daily before the protest began. “It’s also how you perceive law enforcement. We’re not your typical hometown police department. We’re multi-faceted.”

When the talk ended, some protesters formed a semi-circle, booing as attendees exited through Lutkin’s back entrance. Cameron Simpson stood a foot away from an NUPD officer guarding the back entrance during the protest. As the officer avoided eye contact with the Weinberg first-yearreshman, Simpson led chants condemning the Ku Klux Klan, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and police officers. She said protesting on college campuses can lead to valuable change.

“Even though our voices are small individually, when we all fight together, that’s how our voices are heard,” she said. “It’s crucial to do that here.” evaherscowitz2023@u.northwestern.edu

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The Evanston Salvation Army, 1403 Sherman Ave. Some residents oppose the group’s plan to buy a church on Hurd Avenue.

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Across Campuses Antigua reminds Harvard that slave labor paid for its law school. It wants reparations.

The prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, annoyed that Harvard University has ignored repeated requests from his government to make amends for Antiguan slave labor contributions to the creation of Harvard Law School, has personally written to the university’s president to get results.

Harvard’s failure to acknowledge its obligations to the eastern Caribbean nation at a time when other universities are acknowledging their ties to slavery and making reparations is “shocking if not immoral,” Prime Minister Gaston Browne said.

“Reparation from Harvard would compensate for its development on the backs of our people,” Browne wrote in an Oct. 30 letter to Harvard President Lawrence Bacow. “Reparation is not aid; it is not a gift; it is compensation to correct the injustices of the past and restore equity. Harvard should be in the forefront of this effort.”

In a response to Browne dated Tuesday, Bacow said the Harvard Corporation in 2016 approved the removal of the law school’s shield, which included symbols drawn from the family crest of Isaac Royall Jr., the Antigua slaveholder who left land to Harvard College in his will to establish its first professorship in 1815 that led to the creation of Harvard Law School.

Soon after, a stone memorial recognizing “the enslaved whose labor created wealth that made possible the founding of Harvard Law School” was mounted in the plaza.

“These were significant steps for our entire community,” Bacow wrote, adding that the

Feinberg receives $10 million for research on degenerative diseases

Northwestern University trustees Louis Simpson (Weinberg ‘58) and Kimberly Querrey donated $10 million to the Feinberg School of Medicine to help treat neurological diseases, the University announced in a news release Tuesday.

The gift is for a specific center, which will be renamed the Simpson Querrey Center for

university recognizes “that there is more work to be done.”

“Harvard is determined to take additional steps to explore this institution’s historical relationship with slavery and the challenging moral questions that arise when confronting past injustices and their legacies,” Bacow wrote.

Browne told the Miami Herald that Bacow’s response is “disingenuous.”

“He has acknowledged the veracity of our claim that Harvard Law School benefited from endowments funded from profits associated with the enslavement ... at Royall Estate in Antigua, but he has failed to address the issue of reparations in a meaningful way,” Browne said. “If they fail to engage meaningfully, we will be forced to pursue all legal remedies available to us to ensure ... justice.”

It would not be the first time Harvard is sued over slavery. In March, Tamara Lanier, of Norwich, Conn., filed suit in Massachusetts state court accusing Harvard of exploiting images of her slave ancestors. The pictures of her enslaved ancestors were used in studies to prove blacks were inferior to whites, she said.

In 2017, Janet Halley, a Harvard professor who took on the distinguished Royall Professorship, called on Harvard to acknowledge its ties to slavery. She noted in a lecture that Harvard Law School was built with money derived from slave labor.

Browne’s government first reached out to Harvard in 2016 and again in 2018. After an unsatisfactory response from the elite university, Browne decided to write himself, he said. His letter came after two U.S. universities, Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria and Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey, pledged to set aside money for reparations.

Virginia Theological Seminary, the flagship Neurogenetics. It is meant to help scientists create advanced treatments for genetic neurological conditions, like Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative disorder that affects movement.

Scientists have already started work on different treatments, which are supposed to be individualized to better treat patients.

Neurology Prof. Dimitri Krainc leads the center and has researched the effect gene mutations have on degenerative neurological diseases. One of his notable studies, which was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, found that if a person has a mutation in a specific gene, then there is a higher

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An aerial view of Harvard University campus in 2013. The prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, annoyed that the university has ignored repeated requests from his government to make amends for Antiguan slave labor contributions to the creation of Harvard Law School, has personally written to the university’s president to get results.

school of the U.S. Episcopal Church, agreed to set up a $1.7 million reparations fund after it was discovered that the school had enslaved persons employed on its campus and it was involved in racial segregation even after slavery ended.

Weeks earlier, the board of trustees at Princeton Theological, a private Presbyterian school, announced a series of initiatives, including scholarships for descendants of slaves, hiring

more scholars to study the legacy of slavery and reserving $27.6 million for a reparations endowment.

Princeton’s decision was taken after a twoyear audit by faculty and administrators revealed that the seminary received financial contributions from Southern slave owners, congregations and others with ties to slavery.

risk that they develop Parkinson’s.

Krainc has also done work on how patient-derived neurons are more effective than mice-derived neurons when developing drugs for neurological diseases.

The gift is also meant to fund other programs, such as pilot studies, recruitment and seminars.

Simpson and Querrey have been giving aid to Northwestern for over a decade. They recently donated $10 million to the University’s Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics, which creates technology that works with the body to track health. In 2015, they donated $92 million to build the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical

Research Center, which opened in June, and to expand Feinberg’s biomedical research programs.

“I am extremely grateful to Kimberly Querrey and Lou Simpson for their visionary and generous gift that will support development of personalized neurology at Northwestern,” Krainc said in a University news release. “The center will bring together experts in genetics, bioinformatics, medicinal chemistry, biomedical engineering, clinical trials, biomarkers, and cell and molecular biology to translate fundamental discoveries into clinical practice.”

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Northwestern to battle against No. 7 Nebraska

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Payton Chang prepares to serve. The graduate setter recorded 47 assists against Michigan.

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Northwestern has lost in five sets in three of its last four matches. On Wednesday, however, a five-set loss would be a welcomed improvement.

The Wildcats will travel to Lincoln, Neb. to take on No. 7 Nebraska, a team that swept NU earlier this season. Even winning one set against the Cornhuskers would be a breakthrough, as the Cats have yet to win a set against a ranked opponent this year.

NU (10-14, 1-11 Big Ten) has struggled in Big Ten play, dropping its first 10 conference matches, including a loss to Rutgers, a team that is 3-109 all-time against Big Ten opponents. But the Cats picked up their first win in a sweep of Michigan State on Friday, before dropping a grueling five-set match against Michigan on Saturday.

Nebraska (18-3, 10-2), on the other hand, has consistently been one of the top teams in the country, most recently beating then-No. 7 Penn State on Saturday. The Cornhuskers are 14-1 all-time against NU, winning 10 straight games, including seven straight sweeps.

In addition to their historical struggles, the Cats are also dealing with injury troubles this season. Freshman outside hitter Temi Thomas-Ailara, who leads the Big Ten in kills per set, has missed the last two matches with an injury. Her status moving forward is unknown.

In Thomas-Ailara’s absence, NU has been led by junior outside hitter Nia

Northwestern vs. No. 7 Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska 8 p.m. Wednesday

Robinson, who recorded double-digit kills in both matches last weekend. She ranks 13th in the conference in kills per set.

When the Cats faced off against Nebraska earlier this season, NU looked competitive, taking late leads in the first and third sets despite losing all three sets.

As usual, the Cats were led by ThomasAilara, who finished the match with 16 kills and seven digs.

NU will have to adjust to playing in Lincoln’s hostile environment. While the Cats only average 702 fans per game, Nebraska leads the conference with an average attendance of 8,198 fans. Fan involvement has been instrumental for the Cornhuskers, as they enter the match with an 11-2 home record.

With eight games remaining this season, NU isn’t technically eliminated from NCAA tournament contention. However, they’ll need to drastically improve over the next few weeks to have a chance, as they’ll face four ranked opponents, including two games against top-ten squads.

Graduate setter Payton Chang, who recorded 47 assists against Michigan, said the team is focused on “getting one percent better every day.”

“Consistency is the main thing we’ve been working on,” Chang said. “We’re just working on getting better every day. I’m excited to see what the future holds.” carlosstinson-maas2023@u.northwestern.edu

CROSS COUNTRY

NU looks to Jones Cats place 13th at Big Ten Champs and Young to step up

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Dererk Pardon might not have been the tallest in stature compared to other centers in the Big Ten, but his presence was always felt. And this season, Northwestern will have to look to its young big men to fill the void.

It won’t be easy. After being primarily a pick-and-roll player in his first three seasons, Pardon was primarily used in the post last season, and he thrived. Last season, he finished second on the team in scoring with 14 points per game while shooting 57.1 percent from the field.

In his place, coach Chris Collins and staff will look to a pair of newcomers: redshirt freshman Ryan Young and true freshman Jared Jones. With a young team that is more athletic than in year’s past, Collins is going to look for his team to push the ball more and that includes the big men.

“There’s a really good chemistry amongst the guys,” Collins said.

“We have very athletic big men.

We’re trying to get the ball up the floor a little bit quicker.”

Young, the lone member of NU’s 2018 recruiting class to redshirt last season, will likely be the starter due to the fact that he’s been in the system for a year already. In his brief time playing in the intrasquad scrimmage, the freshman from New Jersey showed the ability to maneuver in the post, while also showing the ability to hit mid-range jump shots.

But he will have to adjust to the tempo of the Big Ten game, as will Jones. According to Rivals.com,

Jones was a three-star recruit out of Georgia and a top-10 player in his state.

Jones can shoot from all parts over the court, which is an improvement from Pardon, who only expanded his range in his final year. The true freshman is also unique from Pardon and Young due to the fact that he is playing right away.

For some freshmen transitioning to playing college ball, it can be a difficult experience. However, Jones has the benefit of having help from some veteran players, including senior forward A.J. Turner.

Turner said he has taken all of the freshmen under his wing in some capacity, saying that he and Jones have connected early on.

“I can relate to each of them differently and just like spread the knowledge that I’ve gained over these past four years of school,” Turner said. “It’s important just having someone there that you can look up to.”

Fortunately, Jones and Young won’t have to carry the full load due to the Cats’ depth and length at the forward position. This will allow Collins to play smaller lineups that could feature sophomore Pete Nance and freshman Robbie Beran at center.

No matter who plays, NU’s new big men will have to learn fast as the season goes on and so will the rest of the team. But how they play could have a big impact on the Cats’ record in March.

“I see the work ethic, I see the talent that is there,” Collins said.

“We’re just a bunch of young guys and a lot of us don’t have a lot of experience.” andrewgolden2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern coach Jill Miller sees the Big Ten Championship as the most important race of the season for her team.

“When you go to any Big Ten Championship, you know the competition is not only going to be elite, but deep,” Miller said. “The Big Ten Championships, until you’re at the level to compete at the NCAA championships, is the most important race of the year.”

Heading into this year’s championship, Miller said she believed the Wildcats would compete with their conference rivals. Instead, NU stumbled, placing 13th out of 14 teams in the conference championships in Columbus, Ohio.

Coming off a fifth place finish at NCAA Pre Nationals, the Cats failed to maintain momentum. NU struggled to overcome poor positioning in the race’s first few miles and could not make up enough ground as the competition progressed.

“We didn’t get off the line as strongly as I had wanted to,” Miller said. “Most of the women on the team did a good job of not giving up any spots past 3K, but we certainly weren’t at the position we wanted to be up front. If you aren’t there, your point total is going to be way too large to be competitive.”

Seniors Kelly O’Brien and Sarah Nicholson were the first two WildcatsW across the line, though neither was able to crack the top 50. O’Brien placed 58th in 21:32.5, with Nicholson finishing six places behind in 21:38.5. Sophomore Rachel McCardell, NU’s top finisher at Pre Nationals, was the Cats’ third finisher in 86th place and 22:15.2.

The team’s disappointment over their performance was evident after the race, Miller said.

“They were certainly not happy with it, and they shouldn’t be,” Miller said. “That’s not where we want to be, it’s not where we’ll ever be again. It took them some

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Kayla Byrne runs. The freshman cross country runner finished just outside the top 100 at the Big Ten Championships.

time to shake some of that anger and turn toward ‘What can we do? How can we let this motivate us and move forward?’”

Despite the NU’s lackluster finish in the standings, the Cats’ younger runners gained valuable experience competing on a championship stage and played key roles in Sunday’s meet.

Freshmen Abby Osterlund and Kalea Bartolotto rounded out the Cats’ five scorers — placing 91st and 93rd — while sophomore Hannah Hall and freshman Kayla Byrne placed just outside the top 100.

“For all of them, I’ve seen great progress through the last three months,” Miller said.

“It’s still a shock to them to see where the competitiveness of the Big Ten is, where the bar really is. Being in the top seven is fantastic for them, but we need everybody to be better.”

Miller sees NU’s chances of qualifying for the national championships as slim, meaning the final race of the season will likely be NCAA Regionals on Nov 15.

“I’m looking for improvement in terms of the approach, the calmness that we bring to the line out there and be able to show that we’re better than what we showed at Big Ten,” she said. johnriker2023@u.northwestern.ed