The Daily Northwestern — November 15, 2016

The Daily Northwestern Tuesday, November 15, 2016

DAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM 8 SPORTS/Men’s Basketball

3 CAMPUS/Religion

Wildcats edge Eastern Washington behind

University chaplain named one of MuslimJewish Advisory Council’s first members

Find us online @thedailynu 4 OPINION/Off-Script

After Trump, using art as resistance

Student athlete sues NU, NCAA

Petition circulates after election Signatures urge admins to make NU a ‘sanctuary’

Former basketball player alleges mistreatment

By MARIANA ALFARO

daily senior staffer @marianaa_alfaro

By MAX GELMAN

daily senior staffer @maxgelman

Former men’s basketball player Johnnie Vassar filed a class-action lawsuit Monday against Northwestern and the NCAA, alleging the University used tactics to “run him off ” the team so his athletic scholarship could be freed up for another player.

The complaint said Northwestern put Vassar on an “internship,” during which he worked as a janitor, and “berated” Vassar, alleging coach Chris Collins told the player he had no future with the team.

At a post-game press conference Monday, Collins said he had no comment on the suit.

“We’ll let those things be handled behind closed doors,” Collins said.

The class-action suit argues that an NCAA rule requiring studentathletes to sit out a year after transferring to another program violates antitrust law. The complaint said Vassar reached out to multiple Division I basketball programs in hopes of transferring, but the programs said they would only accept Vassar if he could play immediately.

Vassar’s complaint was filed in » See LAWSUIT, page 7

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University President Morton Schapiro speaks at Fall Faith Fest on Monday. Schapiro said Northwestern’s religious and spiritual community is more vibrant than communities at many other secular universities, which he views as a point of strength.

Faith communities talk allyship Campus religious communities discuss importance of sacred spaces

By MATTHEW CHOI

daily senior staffer @matthewchoi2018

Following this year’s presidential election, it is more important now than ever to find strength in community, University President Morton Schapiro said Monday at Fall Faith Fest.

The annual event, organized by the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, brought together members of Northwestern’s different faith communities to celebrate religious diversity

and discuss ways to support marginalized identities. Schapiro, along with associate University chaplain Tahera Ahmad and alumnus Michael Knudsen (Weinberg ’15), an advocate against the Dakota Access Pipeline, spoke at the event to more than 100 attendees.

Schapiro said NU’s religious and spiritual community is more vibrant than communities at other secular universities, which he views as a point of strength. As an observant Jew, Schapiro always felt welcomed at NU, he said, and he hopes

students and staff of all other faith identities feel the same.

After Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, protecting faith communities is an even greater priority, Schapiro said, though he never mentioned the president-elect by name.

“I’ve been in places where they say anyone who has a religious faith is being superstitious,” he said. “I don’t find that here. We can get together, particularly when times are tough. And I have to tell you, I don’t know when times have been tougher than they are now

… the challenge we all have not just to retreat into ourselves but to act and act in the right way. ” After Schapiro’s remarks, several students were recognized for being leaders in faith communities on campus and received imported bonsai trees. Ahmad presented the last tree to Schapiro for his work advocating safe spaces on campus.

The trees represented the recipients’ deep roots in their faiths and their resilience in the face of challenges, » See FAITH, page 7

Council approves lower Sheridan speed limit

By ERICA SNOW

daily senior staffer @ericasnoww

Aldermen unanimously decided to lower the speed limit on Sheridan Road Monday night, decreasing it from 30 mph to 25 mph.

A motion to consider lowering the speed limit passed last month after students, faculty and aldermen called for action following the death of firstyear Chuyuan Qiu in a biking accident on Sheridan Road in September.

The limit will be reduced from South Boulevard north to the city limits. According to council documents, the area south of South Boulevard is under control of the Illinois Department of Transportation, and thus the city has no control over the speed limit. The city has sent a request to IDOT to lower the speed limit on

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Sheridan Road south of South Boulevard.

After Qiu died, Communication senior Emily Blim made a petition calling for the speed limit reduction, and Associated Student Government and Faculty Senate passed resolutions calling for the reduction.

Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) said Sheridan Road used to be safer.

But with shuttles and construction vehicles intermixed with everyday traffic, she said Sheridan Road now serves many purposes for residents and Northwestern construction teams. Now, she advocates for making Sheridan Road three lanes: one for each direction of traffic and one a shared turn lane. “(Sheridan Road) was designed as a pleasure drive. It was designed to be quiet. It was designed to be the front yard of the university,” Fiske told The Daily at Monday’s meeting.

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Powell also advocated for the speed limit reduction in October. Powell also recommended greater action, suggesting Sheridan Road could be used more as a “public space” with no vehicular traffic in the future.

ASG’s resolution recommended a task force to examine safety on campus and the possibility of closing Sheridan Road to through traffic.

“The problem with Sheridan is it’s people (driving) who have no interest in the university, are not going to anywhere at the university, have no involvement with the university and may not live in Evanston or Chicago,” Powell said at the October ASG Senate meeting.

Fiske said the proposed bike lane plans slated for 2017 construction will be beneficial, but they will also widen the street and might not serve to make the road safer.

She encouraged students to come to council meetings

and voice concerns for aldermen to consider when making decisions. “(Students) have an incredible amount of power,” Fiske

told The Daily. “You come out when there are issues to you …

And people listen to you. But » See SHERIDAN, page 7

Daily file photo by Noah Frick-Alofs

The speed limit on Sheridan Road is currently 30 mph. Council voted Monday to lower the speed limit to 25 mph.

A petition asking University President Morton Schapiro and other administrators to declare Northwestern a “sanctuary” for undocumented students, workers and their families in reaction to President-elect Donald Trump’s election gathered more than 750 signatures as of Monday night.

The petition references comments Trump made about his intention to immediately begin deportation proceedings against millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States, as well as his plans to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy passed by President Barack Obama.

The act tempor ar il y shielded people who were brought into the country illegally as children from being deported.

“If these policies are enacted, they will prove disastrous, subjecting students and workers who are integral to our community to punitive measures, and countering Northwestern’s stated commitment to ‘the personal and intellectual growth of its students in a diverse academic community,’” the petition said.

English Prof. John Alba Cutler started the petition Monday morning after reading a Huffington Post op-ed encouraging universities to become sanctuaries for undocumented people.

Sanctuaries do not alert federal authorities about individuals who violate immigration laws.

Cutler, who also teaches Latina and Latino studies, told The Daily the petition was drafted with the help of colleagues in the two departments.

The petition outlines seven recommendations for administrators to protect community members who may feel threatened by Trump’s comments and by “incendiary graffiti and vandalism, and hateful comments directed at students of color on our own campus” that have happened prior to the election.

The recommendations include refusing to comply with federal authorities regarding deportations or » See SANCTUARY, page 3

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016

AROUND TOWN Evanston residents request water main replacement

By NORA SHELLY

daily senior staffer @noracshelly

A petition signed by more than 150 residents requested the city replace all water main lines that contain traces of coal tar in southwest Evanston.

Members of the group James Park Neighbors presented the petition to City Council on Monday night. The group was formed to address concerns citizens have about two compounds found in water in the area, phenanthrene and fluoranthene. The city believes the materials, which are not harmful at the levels found in Evanston, were brought to the area by gas lines last used in the mid-20th century.

City staff refiled a lawsuit in May against ComEd, an electric utility company, and Nicor, a natural gas distributor, for the materials after an independent testing laboratory confirmed traces of coal tar in places on water lines around James Park.

Leo Sherman, who is involved with James Park Neighbors, said Monday that although the water is safe to drink, he still has concerns.

“Even if the city’s water is not unsafe to drink

Evanston teens arrested in connection with motor vehicle thefts

Police arrested three juveniles in two separate motor vehicle thefts that occurred this weekend.

In the first incident, a pizza delivery driver left his car running in southwest Evanston to deliver a pizza to a residence at 6:45 p.m. on Sunday.

According to a news release, an unknown person entered the car and drove away. About 30 minutes later, an Evanston police officer observed the vehicle parked unoccupied at a gas station in

today, that does not mean it will be safe to drink tomorrow,” he said. “Carcinogens do not belong in our drinking water.”

The petition Sherman and others presented to aldermen Monday demands the city “prioritize the funding and the replacement of all contaminated water mains.”

Additionally, it calls for the city to prioritize communication with southwest Evanston residents on the issue and provide “appropriate water filtration” for their homes. The group is also requesting the city ratchet up its water testing and investigation into the extent of possible contamination in the water mains.

Sherman said the citizens deserve that level of involvement from the city.

“It has to be defined what the problem is and what we’re going to do about it to fix it,” he said.

“We deserve the same quality of water that each of you drinks every morning.”

Last month, the city agreed to test 40 sites around James Park and 20 more throughout the city.

A contract for the water testing was approved at the Administration and Public Works Committee meeting Monday night.

City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said although he understands residents concerns, it

south Evanston.

The officer stopped the 17-year-old male from Dekalb, Illinois, who returned to the vehicle. The keys to the vehicle were found in the 17-yearold’s pocket.

The teenager was charged with one count of possession of a stolen motor vehicle and transported to the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center as he had an active warrant from Dekalb County.

In the second incident on Sunday, EPD officers patrolling in south Evanston just before 10 p.m. observed a white Toyota that had been reported stolen in Chicago driving southbound on Ridge Avenue from Howard Street. According

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was too soon for the city to decide to replace the water mains.

The city would have to wait until more action was taken in the lawsuit against ComEd and Nicor before deciding their next step, he said.

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Even if the city’s water is not unsafe to drink today, that does not mean it will be safe to drink tomorrow.

Leo Sherman, Evanston resident

“They want this issue resolved, and that’s certainly a reasonable request,” he said. “Until we know exactly what we’re dealing with, we don’t just want to move forward and tear out mains just to tear out mains.”

Bobkiewicz said the lawsuit could provide them with more information about the extent of possible contamination, and that the courts could make more rulings in the case as soon as January. At this point, it is important to to a news release, officers attempted to stop the vehicle, but the three occupants exited the vehicle and attempted to flee in the 7500 block of north Seeley Avenue.

Officers arrested a 16-year-old Chicago resident immediately who was driving the vehicle and arrested a 17-year-old Evanston resident a few blocks away. The third passenger of the vehicle fled on foot and was not caught by officers.

The 16-year-old driver was charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle, and the 17-yearold was charged with Criminal Trespass to Vehicle.

Both were petitioned to juvenile court..

— Nora Shelly

remember the water is safe to drink, Bobkiewicz said.

According to city documents, the highest concentration of phenanthrene found in testing thus far was 0.054 ppb, while the potable water standard is 210 ppb, meaning that the water passes the EPA standards for safe drinking.

For Fluoranthene, the highest concentration found was 0.029 ppb, while the potable water standard is 280 ppb.

Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) said she “absolutely supports” the residents’ request to replace the water mains. Fiske said she has taken measures in her own home to ensure water quality, including replacing any lead pipes that lead into the house.

Replacing the water mains would be “money well spent,” she said.

“It was really important for me to trust what was coming out of my faucet. And again these folks, absolutely I get it,” she said. “We’re not Flint, but we want people to first of all know their city is being responsive to them and secondly we really care about their well-being.”

Max Gelman contributed reporting. norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu

Setting the record straight

An article in Monday’s paper titled “Local student decorates utility boxes” misstated that Barnes and Nobles helped sponsor the decoration of the utility box. The box was sponsored by the Evanston Arts Council, Downtown Evanston and First Bank and Trust.

The Daily regrets the error.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016

ON CAMPUS NU chaplain named member of MuslimJewish Advisory Council Northwestern’s associate chaplain and director of interfaith engagement Tahera Ahmad was named one of the first members of the newly-formed Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council on Monday.

The council, created by the American Jewish Committee and the Islamic Society of North America, aims to unite prominent business, political and religious leaders from Jewish and

that we live in … it’s really significant to send a message to other marginalized communities that there are ways to come together on shared values and work together.”

ISNA is a non-profit organization that supports Muslim communities through education, outreach and civic engagement.

AJC, a not-for-profit organization, works to protect the rights of Jews around the world as well as promote human rights and intergroup understanding while combating anti-Semitism and bigotry.

That’s how we’ll be more united.”

Currently, University policies state all applicants must be considered in the same pool, regardless of citizenship or DACA status.

The Office of Undergraduate Admission reviews applications from undocumented students under a “need blind” basis, just like U.S. citizens. Only international students are reviewed under a “need aware” basis.

NU also doesn’t require students to disclose their citizenship status when applying, and the University is not legally bound to report citizenship status of its students to any federal organization.

Because NU has its own police department, Cutler said he believes University Police should fall under similar jurisdiction as law enforcement in sanctuary cities when it comes to federal requests to conduct immigration raids on campus.

The petition also asks University officials to protect the visa status and funding of international students.

In an August speech, Trump said the country needs to control the number of temporary visitors and permanent immigrants coming from the Middle East. During the 2015-16 academic year, 3 percent of NU’s international student population came from the Middle East, according to data released by NU’s International Office.

Trump also outlined a policy that could affect international students on campus. Last month, he said the United States would stop issuing visas to countries that refused to take back citizens who have been deported from the United States.

Cutler added that part of the petition’s motivation is to hold the University “to a standard of being a sanctuary.”

“Any clarification would be really welcome right now because, right now, it’s not clear what the University is doing at all when those situations arrive,” Cutler said. “I am not a legal expert, but my understanding, based on the way sanctuary cities work, is that because immigration is enforced on the federal level, cities have been able to basically refuse assistance to federal law enforcement because cities are under state jurisdiction.”

In 2008, Evanston passed a resolution asking the federal government to reform immigration policies.

Evanston city manager Wally Bobkiewicz told The Daily the council needs to talk more about what the city’s definition of a sanctuary city is, given that the city already doesn’t require residents to disclose their immigration status.

“I’d say we are (a sanctuary city), but it’s a matter of how you characterize it,” he said.

Matthew Choi contributed reporting.

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immigration raids, guaranteeing student privacy by refusing to release information about citizenship status and reaffirming admission and financial aid policies regarding undocumented students.

Students and other NU community members began sharing the petition through social media Monday evening.

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Muslim communities to advocate on issues of “common concern,” according to a news release.

Ahmad told The Daily the MJAC has three specific goals for its work: fighting antiSemitic and Islamophobic bigotry, recognizing Muslim-American and Jewish contributions to the American landscape and civic engagement, and ensuring hate crimes are properly reported and taken into account.

Ahmad added that MJAC is focused on domestic affairs, rather than international issues where communities may disagree, such as conflicts between Israel and Palestine.

“It’s been something both communities have thought about for a long time,” Ahmad told The Daily. “But now, in the time and space

I’d like to say we are (a sanctuary city), but it’s a matter of how you characterize it.

Wally Bobkiewicz, city manager

Amy Glazier-Torgerson (SESP ’15), research study coordinator at the Institute for Policy Research, said the petition is a way for the University to be directly involved in protecting students’ rights.

“It’s important for administrators to be a part of this,” she said. “This is only really going to work if everybody gets on board.

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Bridging A&E and Opinion This op-ed is the second installment of “Off Script,” a series fusing the Opinion and Arts & Entertainment sections, featuring regular columns about the intersection of performance and social issues. The series explores 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.

In the age of Trump, we will sing truth to power

MAGGIE MONAHAN

OP-ED CONTRIBUTER

On Wednesday night, I had to pull myself out of bed. As director of the 75th Annual Dolphin Show, “Little Shop of Horrors,” I should have felt the six months’ worth of daily preparation and giddy anticipation I had put into our very first rehearsal. The joy of my boss Rep. Tammy Duckworth’s victory in the Illinois race for U.S. Senate had vanished late Tuesday, and the panic for my family and friends whose rights may be abridged by President-elect Donald Trump had set in. On the day after that unprecedented election, how could I possibly ask 20 college students, many of whom are now targets of the Trump administration, to sing or dance, let alone to perform a goofy musical about a sentient carnivorous flytrap?

Although creative work may feel

inconsequential at times, Wednesday night was the most healing I have ever spent in a rehearsal room. The cast, representing every corner of Northwestern’s campus, raised their voices in song, echoing throughout the halls of the Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts. Members of the rehearsal and production teams shed silent tears as the company-wide opening number, “Downtown,” came together. For at least a few hours, we were together and unapologetic.

A heightened musical satire, “Little Shop of Horrors” follows the employees of a particularly miserable flower shop as they grapple with the arrival of an extraterrestrial plant with powers and hungers beyond their understanding. In our production, we will explore the perverted mythos of American meritocracy. I believe our country is a beautifully ambitious experiment in aspiration, one that is necessarily messy and chaotic.

However, that does not mean the powerful don’t exploit the powerless.

Our youth was characterized by post-9/11

hopelessness and marked social immobility.

Understandably, our impulse is then to upend, to break, to shatter, to game the system, to do just about anything in order to get what we deserve. I think 2016 now rivals the 1960s, in which “Little Shop” is set, in terms of social upheaval: rapid progress and fierce resistance to that progress, vast polarization and expanding wealth gaps.

Young people search for some way out of the bleakness of our futures, and sometimes this selfserving impulse takes the form of an oversexed, xenophobic demagogue or of a sentient flytrap.

Our society has often turned to realism in the tone of our public discourse as well as of our art.

We do so as a method of coping with this era of hopelessness, a method of honestly portraying our lives in all their bleakness. But if something much darker and more insidious lies beneath the surface, we must turn to other forms, such as satire, if we want to exorcise our demons through art.

Within the protections of this university, we

have the opportunity to create the art we feel we need to see, to make, to experience. Not all college student theater is free to produce content without fear of censorship. I am thankful that Northwestern so protects our freedom of speech and creative freedom, onstage and off.

We must now come to terms with a bigot’s presidency. As artists, our responsibility is to speak truth to power. And sometimes we must sing truth to power, belt truth to power and dance truth to power. In doing so, we expose the foundational flaws of a system that so exploits and divides our beautiful country. That is our resistance.

Maggie Monahan is a Communication senior. She can be contacted margaretmonahan2017@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.

We must pressure leaders to work for two-state solution BEN WEINBERG & DAN TOUBMAN OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS

The result of last week’s election challenged the values that many students on this campus hold dear. A Trump presidency poses dangerous threats to our country’s most vulnerable people. Trump’s policies could shut out immigrants, entrench a discriminatory criminal justice system and limit women’s right to choose.

Trump’s campaign rhetoric has emboldened hateful discourses of misogyny, racism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and a range of other forms of bigotry.

Donald Trump’s nationalist populism empowers politicians and power-holders, in the United States and abroad, to undermine the values of security, democracy and equality. As board members of J Street U Northwestern, we are particularly concerned that these changes threaten the future of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Jewish Americans voted overwhelmingly against Donald Trump in this election, and

it is fairly clear why. Our values compel us to support inclusion and to fight against hate.

We support a peaceful and secure world with a responsible American foreign policy. Most American Jews support a Jewish and democratic state of Israel, existing peacefully alongside a secure and sovereign Palestinian state.

When Trump takes office in January, he will be the first American president to officially reject a commitment to realizing the two-state solution.

Two states is the only viable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that ensures security, peace and self-determination for both peoples.

We, in the American Jewish community, must strengthen our commitment to this goal.

Leaders on the Israeli right have already begun to celebrate the results of the American election and extol the virtues of the new administration. For Israeli politicians committed to maintaining the military occupation of the West Bank and the expansion of the settlement enterprise, the Trump administration presents an opportunity to gain American governmental support in killing the two-state solution once and for all. It is a chance to further entrench the occupation –– and diminish

long-term prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace –– while American Jews look away.

On Tuesday, the Israeli government will decide whether to demolish the Palestinian village of Susya in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank. The village’s 340 inhabitants live in makeshift shelters without running water or electricity. They pose no threat to Israeli security. A decision in favor of Susya’s destruction would leave roughly 100 families homeless and signal a governmental commitment to further eroding the viability of the two-state solution.

We as J Street U students are not alone in our concern: In August, the U.S. State Department vocalized its opposition to the planned demolition. Some brave communal institutions, such as the New Israel Fund and Union for Reform Judaism, have also spoken out against the proposed demolition. But thus far, the broader American Jewish community has remained worryingly silent. If American Jews are to take leadership in the fight for social justice and equality, let Susya be the first test.

It is more important now than ever before to speak up loudly on behalf of peace, inclusion and equality and to make it clear that when we see actions that undermine those values, we

will not look away.

The two-state solution is under attack, and with it, the long-term safety and sovereignty of the Israeli and Palestinian peoples. Our community has the power to make change: we must hold American Jewish leadership accountable. We call on any student who opposes home demolition, supports a two-state solution or simply believes in the urgency of peace to join us in advocating for change. It is time to organize for the people of Susya and all others threatened by injustice and to build and sustain our community’s commitment to social justice. We won’t look away, and we won’t let our communal leaders and politicians look away, either. We see, and we will speak up.

Ben Weinberg and Dan Toubman are board members of J Street U Northwestern. Weinberg can be contacted at benjaminweinberg2018@u. northwestern.edu. Touhman can be contacted at danieltoubman2017@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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New committee connects artists, small businesses Group within Evanston Arts Council aims to align interests of artists with those of entrepreneurs

By SAM KREVLIN

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A new Evanston Creative Commerce Committee has been formed in an effort to facilitate work between artists and businesses in the city.

Still in its infant stages, the committee is comprised of artists, small business owners and nonprofit gathered under the Evanston Arts Council.

The process for creating the group started a couple years ago when the art and business committee in the Evanston Arts Council stagnated, committee member Charlotta Koppanyi said.

Leadership Evanston, a program through the Evanston Community Foundation, began researching alternative ways to promote the arts in business within the city.

Charlotta Koppanyi, one of the original

members of the committee, began looking at cities such as Milwaukee and Seattle to see how artists worked with businesses. She said it is important for Evanston to keep money within the community and promote local businesses, since the city may not have as much money as larger cities.

“It is important that money is spent in a town where the money is local and where the companies and organizations are local,” Koppanyi said. “When you have large corporations and the money leaves the city, it is a big loss for everybody financially.”

Sandeep Ghaey, a small business owner and member of the committee, said one of the challenges is getting the business community to see the advantages of making small investments into art.

He said these kinds of investments tend to improve quality of life and helps the local economy.

“It is a hurdle to overcome,” Ghaey said. “But

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Jewelry stolen from north Evanston residence

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Jewelry was stolen from a north Evanston on Thursday afternoon, police said.

Officers were dispatched to the 3300 block of Grant Street at about 6:45 p.m. after an Evanston resident reported that jewelry was stolen from her home, Evanston police Cmdr.

Joseph Dugan said. The 67-year-old woman left her home at about 11:30 a.m. and returned at about 6:30 p.m. to see the side door to her kitchen ajar and the glass segment of the door broken.

The crime is a felony, and the cost of the stolen jewelry totaled about $500, Dugan said

Bicycles stolen from outside World of Beer

Two bikes were stolen outside of World of Beer on Sunday, police said.

A 55-year-old Evanston man and his 24-year-old son locked their bikes to a tree outside the restaurant, 1601 Sherman Ave., at about 1 p.m. and returned at 1:50 p.m. to find their locks, helmets and bikes missing, Dugan said. The black Trek bike cost about $1,000, and the blue and white Trek bike cost about $3,000.

The crime is a felony, Dugan said. ­— Ben Winck

we also want these relationships to cultivate and outlive our involvement in them. We want them to be mutually beneficial so that both parties continue to do it after we make the introduction.”

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When you have large corporations and the money leaves the city, it is a big loss for everybody financially.

Charlotta Koppanyi, committee member

Jennifer Lasik of the Evanston Arts Council said artists and businesses can sometimes have adversarial relationships. Artists typically only want help from businesses for money, while

PITTSBURGH –– Colleges and universities nationwide have seen international enrollment grow by 85 percent the last decade, topping 1 million students for the first time, a new study finds.

But while those numbers, released today by the Institute of International Education, show America’s strong appeal with foreign learners, some on campuses including those in Pittsburgh are wondering what might be in store starting in January.

That’s when President-elect Donald Trump enters the White House, having won an election with rhetoric about immigration and foreign visitors that has raised fears about potential new roadblocks to getting visas and a less-than-welcoming climate.

The Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange is published annually

by IIE, a not-for-profit organization that promotes global education. It finds the number of international students grew by just over 7 percent from the previous year to 1,043,839 in 2015-16, the most current year available. It represented a gain of 69,000 students.

A more limited survey of newly arriving international students this fall shows the growth is continuing this academic year.

Allan Goodman, president and chief executive officer of the IIE, said the yearly report stretches back nearly a century, and during that time, only during one year did enrollment decline. That was in 2003-04, when it slipped by 2 percent amid visa restrictions imposed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he said.

That sustained pattern leaves him optimistic.

“It’s too soon to tell, but I think international student numbers in America will continue to grow,” he said. “The key drivers are the quality of our higher education, the lack of capacity in other countries for their own students and the diversity of American higher education.”

During the presidential campaign, Mr. Trump talked in varying ways about such proposals as a temporary ban on Muslim immigration and “extreme vetting” of those who want to come to this country.

At this point, it’s hard to really be sure what Mr. Trump’s specific policy intentions are regarding students studying here, or what Congress may have in mind, said Linda Gentile, director of the office of international education at Carnegie Mellon University.

“I think there is some concern, not just among international students, but among a number of people [for whom] the rhetoric has not been good,” she said.

They include students of color, LGBT individuals and Muslim-Americans, among others.

businesses want artists to donate their material, Lasik said.

The goal of the committee, she said, is to bridge this divide.

“Sometimes it is a very superficial relationship, but we want them to actually work together and to have long-term relationships,” Lasik said.

Because the committee is still in its early stages, no projects have officially begun. Lasik said some potential projects could involve business owners displaying Evanston artwork in their stores.

Ghaey also mentioned a potential shuttle service that would make it easier for Evanston residents to attend art galleries, concerts or theatrical performances.

“We don’t want them to be difficult partnerships,” Ghaey said. “We want them to be part of our everyday business.” samkrevlin2019@u.northwestern.edu “I think there are people who are unsure what the election means to them,” she said.

The Open Doors report said international students now represent 5 percent of the nation’s 20 million college students.

China continues to lead all other nations in the number of students it sends here at 328,547, up by 8 percent, roughly twice as many as the second-largest sending nation, India, which sent 165,918 students to this country. But India for the last two years has been growing at a faster rate, in large part due to graduate students, the Institute said. India’s total grew by 25 percent from the previous year.

The third-largest sending nation was Saudi Arabia, at 61,287 students, up by 2 percent.

China, India and Saudi Arabia account for 53 percent of international enrollment in the U.S. South Korea saw its total decline by 4 percent to 61,007 students, and slipped from third- to fourth-largest sending country.

Rounding out the top five countries was Canada, at 26,973, down a percentage point from the previous year.

California is the leading host state with 149,328 students, up by nearly 11 percent, followed by New York at 114,316, up by 7 percent.

Pennsylvania’s 48,453 international students made it the sixth-leading host state, up by 6 percent from 2014-15, according to the IIE. -Bill Schackner (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS)

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From page 1 Ahmad said.

“We’re at a time where it’s important to recognize the good that is there in people and to really engage with each other … in order to achieve equity and not just equality for all people,” Ahmad said when recognizing Schapiro.

“Thank you for being an ally. We recognize that we are in difficult times, and we appreciate that you with the administration are supporting us.”

Afterward, Knudsen, who is originally from Bismarck, North Dakota, discussed his work advocating against the Dakota Access Pipeline

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the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.

Northwestern announced Vassar’s intention to transfer in March 2015, but the complaint states that Vassar had not signed documents to transfer at that time. Vassar arrived in 2014 and was part of Collins’ first recruiting class as Northwestern’s coach.

University spokesman Al Cubbage told The Daily in an email that the University believes the claim has no “legal merit.”

“We will defend the University vigorously,” Cubbage told The Daily in an email.

The complaint states the program attempted to free up Vassar’s scholarship to give to another player and stay under the NCAA-imposed 13-player scholarship limit.

The complaint alleges Vassar was placed in an “internship,” to “get him to give up his athletic scholarship,” that required him to report at 7 a.m. multiple days per week and work for two to three hours.

“Johnnie picked up trash and leaves, operated a leaf blower, put salt on sidewalks and under cars, wiped down the outside tennis court bleachers, swept the baseball diamonds, and lift heavy metal planks near the football field (hurting his shoulder),” the complaint states.

The complaint also alleges that Northwestern attempted to falsify “internship” timecards in order to feign misconduct on Vassar’s part.

Vassar was allegedly “informally” asked in March 2016 if he would take a cash payment equal to the remaining value of his athletic scholarship.

The complaint said that after Vassar voiced his

and how people can be a productive ally toward marginalized identities.

In reference to the recent presidential election, Knudsen said racial prejudice has always existed, and people should not be surprised by Trump’s victory.

Rather, people with privilege should work with those of marginalized identities to fight racism, he said.

“Before (what happened Wednesday), we had 1492,” Knudsen said. “We had colonization throughout all of the Americas. It’s really pertinent to what’s happening at Standing Rock.

All of that has been happening since then.”

Linda Black Elk, an ethnobotanist and

Standing Rock reservation resident, skyped into the event.

She said the pipeline would go through land held sacred to native peoples and threaten local water supplies.

Black Elk, who is also a professor at Sitting Bull College, spoke about native peoples’ history and cultural suppression by federal actions such as boarding schools. The pipeline is just the latest in a history of abusing native peoples, she said.

“It’s not just about the water,” she said. “We are literally facing a military force. … We are basically having to fight to refuse a pipeline that white folks in Bismarck were allowed to

concern over violating NCAA rules, he was asked if he would be willing to move to a “merit based scholarship.”

The complaint claims that in April, Vassar was notified that Northwestern would be revoking his scholarship as Vassar indicated his desire to transfer but had not yet done so.

During the 2014-15 season, Vassar played 18 games for the Wildcats, averaging just under four minutes per game.

Garrett Jochnau contributed reporting. maxgelman2018@u.northwestern.edu

say no to.”

Medill senior Medha Imam, who helped emcee the evening, said the topics of protecting community and productive allyship were pertinent to national issues such as the Dakota Access Pipeline and the recent presidential election.

“The most important thing is knowing that people here can become allies for each other in upcoming struggles that we will face,” she said. “It’s important to take a step back and try to understand what’s going on in each and everyone’s lives.” matthewchoi2018@u.northwestern.edu

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it’s an incredible amount of help in the political process. It’s always a help to have the people who are affected by the legislation (we) pass come up and really comment on it.”

ASG President Christina Cilento spoke to aldermen when the ordinance was introduced in October.

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The problem with Sheridan is it’s people (driving) who have no interest in the university.

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Cilento said policy change can influence infrastructure development, which can then affect culture. She also said if policy becomes less accommodating to car traffic, then people may not drive as much.

“If people see that there are wide bike lanes and plenty of avenues for pedestrian traffic … then they’d be more (encouraged) to bike, walk, take buses as opposed to driving individual cars,” Cilento told The Daily at the October meeting. “This is not a sustainable model for future decades when we’re hopefully trying to transition out of cars.” ericasnow2019@u.northwestern.edu

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The first game, I missed all the free throws because I wanted to set a new (career-high in points) tonight.

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IT’S THE LAW Sophomore’s career-high in points lifts NU

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Vic Law’s long-awaited return from injury last Friday — a game in which the sophomore forward scored a career-high 18 points — would’ve been nearly perfect if not for his 1-for-7 mark at the free-throw line.

On Monday against Eastern Washington, those struggles at the charity stripe disappeared and the sophomore forward enjoyed another career-best performance.

“The first game, I missed all the free throws because I wanted to set a new one tonight,” he joked afterwards.

Law’s 26-point eruption, including

9 from 10 free-throw attempts, helped Northwestern (2-0, 0-0 Big Ten) escape the Eagles’ upset bid with an 86-72 win in front of 5,604 at Welsh-Ryan Arena.

“I really liked how he attacked the basket,” Collins said. “For a guy that went 1-for-7 at the foul line last game, you might have a tendency to not want to get fouled, because you don’t want to go back to the line. And he gets himself to the free throw line 10 times tonight and makes nine of them. Those are the little things I’m proud about because it shows his aggressive nature.”

Four others also scored in double digits for the Wildcats, which played only seven players for more than four minutes in the game. Junior guard Bryant McIntosh tallied 18 points and seven assists, sophomore

center Dererk Pardon chalked up 12 points and five blocks and freshman guard Isiah Brown and junior guard Scottie Lindsey joined the group too.

NU roared out of the gate and led 24-9 after eight and a half minutes, but a dominant first half from Eastern Washington forward Bogdan Bliznyuk — who scored 20 points on 8-of-13 shooting — allowed the Eagles (1-1) to cut the lead to 46-38 at halftime.

The visitors kept it close well into the second frame, trailing by as little as 6 points on multiple occasions, but Bliznyuk managed only five points after the break and the Cats pulled away in the final 10 minutes.

Both teams shot over 48 percent for the game, but NU’s ability to limit turnovers and convert its free throws ultimately made

the difference. The Cats committed only five turnovers and made 23-of-26 attempts at the line — a far cry from their subpar 19-for-29 mark against Mississippi Valley State.

McIntosh said the team game-planned to slow down Bliznyuk in the second half by guarding him closely with a number of different players — and often several at once.

“They’re a very good outside shooting team, but he’s so crafty, so we had to shrink the floor a little bit more,” McIntosh said.

“I thought the guys that guarded him in the second half, they really locked into his tendencies. And then Dererk Pardon … rotating over with his length makes shots pretty tough for (Bliznyuk) too I thought.”

Adopting a team-based approach to

defending Bliznyuk allowed Law, who was initially assigned to cover the Eagles’ star, to then take over the game on his own.

Law frustrated Eastern Washington’s defense with his backdoor cuts towards the basket and athletic finishes at the rim.

And when the Eagles were able to stop Law or another NU player from getting to the hoop, Law frequently found ways to get open on the perimeter, making 3-of-4 shots from 3-point range.

“It’s not easy to sit out a year and come back and just jump right in and play,” Collins said. “He’s a really good player, we knew that when we got him, and it’s nice to know that he’s back, he’s healthy and he’s confident.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu

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By JONAH DYLAN

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For Northwestern to beat No. 3 Wisconsin, everything needed to go right.

Almost everything did. But that wasn’t enough.

The Wildcats (8-20, 1-15 Big Ten) fell to the Badgers (22-3, 14-2) in a heartbreaker, 25-27, 18-25, 25-21, 25-22, 15-11. NU came in having lost 14 of 15, while Wisconsin was riding a six-game win streak.

The Cats jumped on the Badgers from the get-go, hanging with them throughout the first set. After each team had a chance at a potential set point, NU took a 26-25 lead, and junior middle blocker Gabrielle Hazen blasted a ball off the face of freshman defensive specialist M.E. Dodge to give the Cats the first set.

“We won purely based on our serve and pass game,” senior middle blocker Maddie Slater said. “We served better than them. We passed better than them.”

NU carried that momentum into the second set, overpowering the Badgers to

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a 25-18 win.

“Everything was just clicking consistently for two sets,” junior outside hitter Symone Abbott said. “That’s something we don’t really do. We’re not very consistent as a team, and today we were super consistent.”

But Wisconsin came out firing from the third set onward, fighting back and making the Cats pay for their 17 service errors in the match. After winning two close sets to force a decisive fifth set, the Badgers jumped out to an 8-4 lead and never looked back, eventually winning 15-11.

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Symone Abbott prepares for a kill. The junior outside hitter notched 26 kills in Northwestern’s near-upset of No. 3 Wisconsin on Saturday.

Slater said even after the loss, the attitude in the locker room was upbeat.

“We were actually really positive even though we lost, because we’ve been making a lot of strides in practices these past couple weeks, and we’ve improved on a lot of things,” she said. “We mostly talked about all the positives we had and the little plays we could’ve done better.”

There were bright spots for NU in defeat. Coach Shane Davis said Abbott, who had a career-high 26 kills on a ridiculous career-high 72 attempts, was “the best player in the gym.” Hazen had a .529 hitting percentage, junior setter Taylor Tashima had a career-high 61 assists and freshman libero Sarah Johnson had a career-high 29 digs.

Abbott said this was the first time the Cats really changed against a top Big Ten team.

“We came out and fought, and I just was super upset about this one because we were so close,” she said. “It could’ve been such an amazing win and we were right there, and it just really sucks.”

NU had a quick turnaround, taking on No. 2 Minnesota (21-4, 13-3) on Sunday night. The Cats looked tired and were overwhelmed by the Golden Gophers, 25-14, 25-13, 25-10.

Abbott wasn’t nearly effective, finishing with just nine kills and a -.053 hitting percentage. Senior outside hitter Sarah Wilhite led the way for Minnesota with a game-high 12 kills. The Golden Gophers hit a whopping .475 on the night to NU’s .097.

Although the loss to Minnesota was forgettable, the near-miss against Wisconsin was not. Davis said he was proud of the way his team executed the gameplan on Saturday, despite the tough defeat.

“It hurts,” he said. “But there’s not the disappointment. We got beat. It’s not like we lost that. We got beat. They made some plays down the stretch, and I felt like we played better tonight than the win against Purdue. It’s not the same result, but we’re taking the right steps and turning the corner.” jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu

alive in NCAAs opener

By GARRETT JOCHNAU

daily senior staffer @garrettjochnau

It took just 18 minutes on Saturday for Northwestern to do what it hadn’t in the Big Ten Tournament: score.

As sophomore defender Kayla Sharples headed in a perfectly-placed corner kick from sophomore midfielder Marisa Viggiano, the Wildcats broke a seal that had held them back in the season’s final stretch.

The goal gave NU (15-2-4, 7-1-3 Big Ten) a 1-0 lead over Kent State (15-3-2) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament — a lead it would stretch into a 3-0 victory.

“We really just wanted to score as many goals as possible, especially in the first round, because we’ve struggled scoring more than one goal,” Sharples said. “Leaving (Saturday) with three goals is a really good feeling.”

Just after the opening whistle, it seemed as though the Cats were destined to struggle to finish good looks, as they did in the second half of last week’s Big Ten Tournament semifinal against Rutgers. Five minutes into the game, junior Grace Orndoff missed a clean look off a corner kick that she sent over the crossbar.

But NU recovered, converting off Viggiano’s corner in the 18th minute to take the lead. Set pieces have been a strong suit of the Cats’ all season, and Moynihan said the team practiced them heading into the contest in the hopes that they would invigorate NU’s offense.

The score sparked life into the Cats, who extended their lead just two minutes later.

Orndoff again saw an opportunity to score but was tripped up the Kent State goalie inside the box, prompting a penalty kick.

Graduate midfielder Nandi Mehta — described by Moynihan as a “rock” regarding her consistency converting penalties — sent a dart to the top-left corner of the goal as the Cats established a 2-0 lead.

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reputation as a defensive powerhouse. But coach Michael Moynihan said his team wasn’t content to sit back and absorb pressure after grabbing an early lead.

“We don’t want to get into a position, though, where we’re just sitting on leads,” he said. “That was a big point today. We don’t just want one; we want to keep (being) hungry and keep being on the aggressive side.”

And in the 83rd minute, the team finally notched a goal in open play. Viggiano connected with senior forward Rachel Zampa streaking along the left sideline, who then crossed it to junior midfielder Kassidy Gorman. Gorman redirected the pass to lift the Cats’ lead to 3-0, solidifying the win.

NU will face SIU-Edwardsville in Durham, North Carolina, on Friday as it looks to extend its run. To do so, it’ll look to capitalize on the momentum from Saturday’s win.

“We wanted to come out with high energy from the start, and I think it’s great that we … were able to keep that energy throughout the whole game,” Viggiano said. “Our energy that we came out with and our fight to win; we want to take that into every game we play.”

The Cougars enter the second-round hot too, having upset second-seeded Notre Dame to earn its spot in the round of 32.

Notre Dame was held scoreless against SIU-Edwardsville, a fate NU knows all too well.

But with a strong offensive outing behind them, the Cats are confident in their ability to score goals heading into the next round.

“Hopefully we didn’t use them all up,” Moynihan said. garrettjochnau2019@u.northwestern.edu