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Board, teachers spar over contract Offers made public as teachers say they might go on strike By NORA SHELLY
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Hundreds of people, mostly teachers and community members, showed up to the District 65 school board meeting Monday to urge board members to reach a deal amid ongoing contract negotiations. Earlier that day, offers drawn up for both sides were available on the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board’s website as part of the public posting process. The District 65 Educators’ Council, the body that represents the teachers, began the strike process last month after several meetings between council representatives and board members with a federal mediator. If a strike were to occur, it wouldn’t take place until after Thanksgiving. According to the District 65 website, teachers have to wait 14 days after the offers are publicly posted before striking. Additionally, they have to give a ten-day notice of their strike date. The offers from the council and the board show the two sides differ on several key issues, such as how long the contract should be for and planning time for teachers. The council is requesting that teachers for grades kindergarten through fifth grade receive five days with planning time a week, as they are currently allotted four.
The board has included that request in their contract offer, but has stipulated that it not go into effect until the third year of the contract. District 65 Superintendent Paul Goren said the district needs time to set aside money to pay for the fifth day of planning time. “The cost of giving the additional planning time means we have to hire actual staff to actually cover that time with those children,” he said. “The reason to go until year three of the four-year contract is that we can accrue savings in the first two years so that we can afford it so we don’t go into further debt.” According to the board’s offer, the cost of giving teachers the additional day of planning time would be $640,000. Paula Zelinski, president of the District Educator’s council, said teachers in grades kindergarten through fifth couldn’t wait for their fifth day of planning time. “ These teachers need planning time five days a week in order to better serve the students of Evanston,” she said. “Our K-5 teachers currently have planning time four days, and … their workload has increased.” Goren cautioned that although the board supports a healthy working environment for teachers, the financial outlook for the district is not ideal. Next school year, the district will have a $4.5 million deficit. In the 2020-2021 school year, the district’s deficit is projected to be $10.7 million. » See CONTRACTS, page 6
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Student Action NU co-founder Scott Brown speaks at the group’s meeting on Tuesday night. During the meeting, students expressed support for the Student Access Bill by calling state representatives and leaving voicemails encouraging them to vote in favor of the bill.
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Group backs bill that would let undocumented students receive aid By KRISTINA KARISCH
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Students expressed support for legislation that would allow undocumented students
Record number applies early to Northwestern
Northwestern received a record number of Early Decision applications by the Nov. 1 deadline, with an increase of about 23 percent from last year. A total of 3,736 people submitted applications by the deadline. The last Early Decision application
from Illinois to be eligible to receive financial aid and grants, calling state representatives during a Student Action NU meeting Tuesday. Part of the group’s higher education campaign, which lists demands for public
higher education in Illinois, is supporting the Student Access Bill, said Medill senior Scott Brown, co-founder of Student Action NU. The campaign advocates for fully-funded public higher education in Illinois, which would undo
recent state cuts to grants, such as the Monetary Award Program, Brown said. To show support for the bill, which could be voted on as early as Wednesday in the
record was set just last year, when the University received a total of 3,022 Early Decision applications. This year’s spike included an increase in international student submissions, which rose by about 39 percent, totaling 603 international Early Decision applications, Mills said. Mike Mills, associate provost for University enrollment, said NU frequently breaks its records for numbers of applicants. “It sounds like a broken record,
but that’s been true for probably the last 12 years running,” Mills said. “This one’s a new record.” Mills said he expects the Early Decision round to fill roughly half of next year’s incoming first-year class, which is expected to total 1,925 students. However, he said exact numbers will not be finalized until all of the applications are read. The source of the increase is unclear, Mills said, but one contributing factor could be the Segal
Visitors Center. When campus visits were based at the Office of Undergraduate Admission at 1801 Hinman Ave., large school groups were turned away due to a lack of space, he said. In contrast, the Segal Visitors Center has allowed the university to accommodate more visitors. Mills said Early Decision applicant decisions should be released no later than Dec. 15.
» See ACTION, page 6
— Kelli Nguyen
City considers protections for undocumented residents
Officials revive resolution urging immigration reform, look deeper into function of ‘sanctuary cities’ By SAM KREVLIN
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Evanston officials are reviving a resolution adopted in 2008 about immigration reform after the election of Donald Trump to see how the city can better protect its undocumented immigrants. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl called for members of City Council to reaffirm Evanston’s continued support for immigrants Monday night, saying Evanston should stick by the resolution passed eight years ago, which asked Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform.
The document called for the federal government to create a road to legalization, a temporary protective status for
undocumented immigrants and an end to discriminatory practices. Bobkiewicz said the
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Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl speaks earlier this year. Tisdahl called for City Council members to reaffirm Evanston’s support for immigrant rights.
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resolution was heavily debated when it was adopted by the council in 2008. However, because the political climate has clearly changed, he said, City Council will work over the next several months to amend and add to the resolution. “These issues are important to Evanston,” Bobkiewicz said. “They have been important to Evanston for a long time. Last night the mayor raised a flag to say these issues are back in the forefront and will be something we need to consider over the next several months.” Bobkiewicz said although there are multiple definitions of “sanctuary city,” he believes Evanston does classify as one. Sanctuary cities typically have local laws prohibiting police
and government workers from inquiring about a residents’ immigration status. After Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) asked for clarification at Monday’s City Council meeting on whether The designation of Evanton as a sanctuary city would “benefit from full analysis and study,” city attorney Grant Farrar said. Fiske said she would support Evanston becoming a sanctuary city if it is not already. When City Council meets after Thanksgiving, they will be working on gathering information and discussing possible revisions to the resolution, Bobkiewicz said. Council members may also evaluate how Chicago has dealt with immigration over the past eight years as a
sanctuary city and discuss how a Trump administration may change current local policies. President-elect Donald Trump emphasized throughout his campaign his desire to build a wall on border between the United States and Mexico. He also called for a temporary shutdown of Muslims entering the United States. Despite Trump’s statements, Evanston will continue to work for all people, no matter where they come from, Bobkiewicz said. “Just because there is a change in the White House, that doesn’t change what kind of community Evanston is and what is important to Evanston,” » See SANCTUARY, page 6
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AROUND TOWN Post-election interfaith gathering set for Sunday By ERICA SNOW
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Evanston religious leaders plan to hold an interfaith gathering Sunday at Fountain Square for community members to show solidarity following the presidential election. The event will show that religious leaders are “resolved to stand in mutual solidarity with those groups who may be exposed to undue suffering as we move into a new season in our nation,” according to a statement from Evanston religious leaders. Rev. Michael Kirby, a member of the interfaith clergy, said the event was inspired by statements made by YWCA Evanston/Northshore and Evanston Township High School, which encouraged residents to support one another following the election of Donald Trump. Kirby, a pastor at Northminster Presbyterian
POLICE BLOTTER Evanston man arrested in connection with home repair fraud
An Evanston contractor was arrested yesterday in connection with neglecting a client since February. The client, a 74-year-old Evanston man, hired the 48-year-old contractor in October 2015 to renovate
NATIONAL NEWS Business booms at N.Y. Times, WSJ as showdown with Trump looms NEW YORK — The nonprofit news organization ProPublica typically receives about 10 donations a day. On Monday, its website was deluged with about three every minute. ProPublica is one of several outlets, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, witnessing a swell in donations or subscriptions since Donald Trump’s victory in the Nov. 8 election. ProPublica, the
Church, said different religions have much in common and he wanted to emphasize what unifies Evanston residents rather than what divides them. “The campaign itself was a campaign that resulted in lots of hurtful things about lots of different groups of people,” Kirby said. “As a result of that, and as a result of the outcome of the election, there are a number of our more vulnerable populations that are feeling at risk. We hear their expressions of fear and concern, and want to respond to them.” Kirby also said the event could show people who felt marginalized by the election that multiple religious communities supported all Evanston residents, regardless of their identity. A statement read by ETHS District 202 superintendent Dr. Eric Witherspoon over the school’s intercom the day after the election received widespread support from the Chicago community for his support of students’ identities and message of solidarity. The YWCA released a statement Thursday on their Facebook page saying, “instead of a glass ceiling
shattering, the floor had dropped out from under us.” Rather than act in fear, the statement said, residents should stand up for one another. Birch Burghardt, president of Interfaith Action of Evanston, said it was important for religious leaders to come together because of the distrust felt by many people after the election. “The fact that the candidate who put the most people down — and especially people from other countries and non-Christians — that he won is unnerving for a lot of people,” Burghardt said. “All the great faiths that I know of say the same thing and have compassion at their core.” Burghardt said she will be attending the Sunday event and encouraged students to attend as well. Rabbi Andrea London of Beth Emet Synagogue, who is also part of Interfaith Action, said she hoped Sunday’s event would focus on hope and togetherness after months of political division. She said because election seems to have brought bigotry and racism into the mainstream, it made
sense for people to lean on their religious communities for support. “Wouldn’t it be nice if we could really get the full Evanston community to say, ‘Hey, we reject any type of bigotry or discrimination, any kind of hatred,’” London said. “‘That’s not who we are as a community, and we vow to stand make sure that we stand by each other, even if we disagree politically.’” The event could also be useful to show people feeling vulnerable that religious communities they don’t know much about still care for them, Kirby said. The gathering will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday at Evanston’s Fountain Square. “It’s an opportunity for people of many, many different backgrounds to get together and express our solidarity with one another, standing together,” Kirby said.
his residence in the 1500 block of Ridge Avenue by installing new appliances and cabinets, Dugan said. The contractor was paid more than $30,000 but only changed an outlet before ceasing communication in February, refusing to respond to phone calls and other means of contact. The resident filed a report soon after, and detectives received a warrant for the contractor’s arrest, Dugan
said. He was charged with aggravated home repair fraud. Several skull caps were stolen from Campus Gear on Monday morning. Officers were dispatched to the store at 1722 Sherman Ave. at about 11:15 a.m. after one of the store’s
employees reported that a man stole six skull caps with “Chicago” written on them from an outdoor display, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. An employee said he saw the man grab the caps and put them in his backpack before fleeing westbound. The stolen caps were valued at nearly $60.
Times and the Washington Post got a boost Sunday from HBO comic John Oliver, who lamented “fake facts” that circulated on social media during the campaign and urged viewers to “support actual journalism.” “A lot of people after the election feel compelled to respond in one civic way or another, and journalism is an important part of that,” said Richard Tofel, ProPublica’s president. The support is a hopeful sign for an industry looking to answer how so many journalists missed the Trump surge. Hurt by the loss of readers and advertisers over many years, newspaper publishers have had to
cut their staffs and pare their coverage. The Wall Street Journal cut at least 50 positions this month. At the Times, new print and digital subscriptions have risen at four times their normal rate since Election Day, according to spokeswoman Eileen Murphy. The company saw record traffic on its website Nov. 8 through Nov. 10, the newspaper said in a statement Monday. In a Nov. 13 letter to readers, New York Times Co. Chairman and Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and Executive Editor Dean Baquet vowed to “rededicate” the newspaper “to the fundamental mission of Times
Skull caps stolen from Campus Gear
Nora Shelly contributed reporting. ericasnow2019@u.northwestern.edu
— Ben Winck journalism.” While the two said they believed their coverage of both presidential candidates was fair, they also asked, “Did Donald Trump’s sheer unconventionality lead us and other news outlets to underestimate his support among American voters?” Baquet also said separately in a Times story that journalists have “to do a much better job of being on the road, out in the country, talking to different kinds of people than the people we talk to.” — Gerry Smith (Bloomberg News/TNS)
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ON CAMPUS Safe Ride requests down from last fall By JONAH DYLAN
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In the first 53 days of the quarter, Safe Ride but only received around a third of requests compared to Fall Quarter last year. Safe Ride also completed a larger proportion of requested rides this past quarter. Since September, Safe Ride has completed about 72 percent of requested rides — higher than the roughly 41 percent of rides completed during Fall Quarter in 2015. Weinberg junior Jayleen James said they are still experiencing issues with the app. Safe Ride recently transitioned to using a new app, TransLoc Rider, at the beginning of the academic year. “I feel like I’ve been a lot more frustrated with the app recently than I was with (TapRide),” James said. “I’ve had a lot of cancelled trips lately, where I confirm a trip and it never comes, and I’m waiting for a very long time.” James said using the new app is a complicated process and is not any better than TapRide, an app students previously used to request rides. “I feel like they’re trying to make it more efficient, but it’s a lot more complicated, and it makes things even longer,” James said. “TapRide was way easier to use.” At a Campus Safety and Crime Prevention meeting Monday, Safe Ride coordinator Bernie Foster said it takes about 10 steps to call a Safe Ride, which can be difficult for students, especially before they’ve signed up and created an account through the app. Although some students previously said using the app for the first time is a complicated process, Weinberg freshman Serena Salgado said she has started to figure it out. “Before, sometimes it would say there were no rides available, but it doesn’t do that
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anymore,” Salgado said. Despite fewer requests for rides, Safe Ride has improved its average wait times, from 39 minutes last year to 10 minutes this quarter, according to statistics gathered by the ride service. Foster said he’s pleased with the improvements under TransLoc Rider. “The app is living up to what it was promised to do, which was lower our wait time and give us a higher capacity to accept rides and complete rides,” Foster said. But some students say the wait time has not decreased. James estimated that the average wait time this year is about 40 minutes. Safe Ride statistics, however, say the maximum wait time this year is 18 minutes.
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At Monday’s meeting, Foster also said the new app lets student drivers transport multiple passengers at the same time and decreases their stress. “(They) actually think they’re less busy,” Foster said. Despite the consolidation of rides, Foster said the number of rides has gone up. On Oct. 28, Safe Ride completed 244 rides with just five drivers, he said. Foster said he hopes to hit 300 rides a night but only has 22 drivers right now. Although he would like to have about 40 drivers total, he said he’s very happy with the progress this year. “We’re getting back to where we should be, and that’s what I’m happy about,” he said. jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu
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Coming out as bisexual is not as sexy as you may think ALLYNA MOTA MELVILLE
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This essay is part of The Spectrum, a weekly forum in our Opinion section for marginalized voices to share their perspectives. To submit a piece for The Spectrum or discuss story ideas, please email spectrum@dailynorthwestern.com. I’m a two on the Kinsey scale. Developed in the late 1940s to categorize sexual orientation, the Kinsey scale is based on a sex-positive, action-based approach. Zero is 100 percent heterosexual, and a six is 100 percent homosexual. The scale was created in an attempt to break the binary of categorizing people as heterosexual or homosexual. By identifying as a two on the scale, I am predominantly heterosexual with more than incidental homosexual leanings. I’m attracted to guys more than girls, but my attraction to women is more than just a random occurrence. I never had the language to describe my sexuality until Lane Fenrich’s Sexual Subjects class during Fall Quarter of my freshman year. He introduced Kinsey, and, although a very simplified scale, it was what I needed to be able to fully understand my identity.
Previously, I couldn’t fully consider myself bisexual. I found myself much more frequently attracted to men, but I also knew the crushes I had on girls in high school and middle school were not random. There was something more there, but the dominant bisexual narrative of an equal attraction to men and women didn’t apply to me. How could I consider myself a part of a community when I hadn’t experienced the hardships that came from it? A few months later, I went on my first date with a girl. She was someone who strongly identified as a member of the LGBTQ community, and her comfort in her identity intimidated me. As a normally assertive person, I found myself backtracking and wanting to explain myself. I never talked about my “ex-boyfriend,” instead referring to him as “the person I dated.” I tiptoed around the fact that I had dated men, trying to prove my legitimacy in this community. Nothing came from the date, but it affirmed my identity to myself and to the world — and yet I shouldn’t have to prove my bisexuality by the action of going on a date with a woman. My fear of discussing my sexuality has led to relationships falling apart. It’s also led to the start of others. It’s why my anxiety worsened in the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub shooting and why my therapist never got the full story. My identity is not something that is written on my face for everyone to see, and I feel like I can’t identify with this group because I don’t fit into a neat definition of bisexuality. Bi-erasure, the idea that bisexuality doesn’t exist, comes up in every corner of my life. I
will either marry a man and be considered straight or marry a woman and be considered a lesbian. Bisexuality is often viewed as being the first step on a stepping stone toward being gay rather than a realistic identity. One of my favorite bisexual characters on television, Callie Torres from “Grey’s Anatomy,” wrestles with being married to a woman who belittles her for being “one of those fake lesbians, just having a vacation in lesbian land.” In “Orange is the New Black,” one of the most popular shows discussing homosexuality and transgender rights, the word bisexuality is nearly nonexistent –– the protagonist, Piper, is referred to as an “ex-lesbian” despite dating both men and women on the show. Wrestling with bisexuality in this show means that you’re transitioning from straight to a lesbian. It implies that my identity is a phase. When bisexuality is legitimized, it is in black-and-white terms of 50/50 attraction to men and women, an archaic definition that leaves out a lot of people. Activist Robyn Ochs said, “I call myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted — romantically and/or sexually — to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree.” I’ve been having an internal debate about the prospect of coming out. I don’t think it’s necessarily important for me as an individual because I could go my whole life without visibly outing myself. Up to this point I have only had relationships with men and am currently dating a man; I’ll probably end up
married to a man. However, I don’t mean to belittle the importance of coming out. As a straightpassing, white-passing individual from an accepting home, I need to take that first step. For some, visibility is what is needed. When I don’t come out, my younger cousins don’t see firsthand that not being straight is okay and that a large amount of people in this country have had some experience with same-gender attraction. When I don’t come out, the narrative of the closet gets reaffirmed over and over again. Coming out has social power –– when someone knows a person that is gay, it makes them more willing to pass legislation protecting them and more willing to fight for their rights. In this time and place, with a vice president-elect that considers conversion therapy a realistic choice to “fix” non-heterosexual individuals, I need to exercise my privilege and stand with my community. This public coming out is a first step in a much longer journey to fight for equal rights. It will entail using my voice and my political pull in the communities I am a part of to affect change, starting in the Greek and Wildcat Welcome communities, and stepping off into the world. This fight is not a new one. I am just a newcomer to the battle. Allyna Mota Melville is a Medill sophomore. She can be contacted at allynamotamelville2019@u. northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. Views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of the Daily Northwestern.
America is in need of a revitalized movement on the left CAMREN WARD & ALEX GORDON OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS
Today the sun rose on a darker America: an America where the people have decided that a bigot and sexist deserves the highest office in the country. We must try and move forward, to regain the ground that we lost. It must be the project of not only the left but of all opponents of Donald Trump to figure out where Hillary Clinton failed and how future candidates can defeat Trump and Trumpism. Our suggestion is, to quote French revolutionary Georges Danton, “some audacity, more audacity, always audacity.” Among other things, the results of election night 2016 detail the death of centrism. For 20 years, the Clinton family pushed an agenda of center-right economic policy paired with mild social liberalism. Clearly this is no longer enough: people in America are afraid for their livelihoods. The Trump phenomenon in large part is fueled by economic anxiety, and incremental neoliberalism is not going to solve their problems. Trump won states he was never expected to win because of his appeal to blue collar workers. He offered the hope of a radical economic shakeup. Since the 2008 recession, our economy has recovered and unemployment has gone down, but the material conditions of the working class have not changed. Wages are still depressed, debt is still high, and for
all but the very rich, recovery has been slow. Going forward, America needs a strong left movement to counteract the dangerous forces that gave rise to Trump. We need policies that put an emphasis on the middle and lower class. We must fight harmful laws like Right to Work at every turn and strive to bring the positive force of unionization to as many workers as possible. We must stand with the Fight for $15 and the establishment of a livable minimum wage. In a country soon to be governed by Donald Trump, we need more than ever to stand in solidarity with minorities and those in
the most danger during a Trump presidency. Hillary Clinton turned her back on the protestors at Standing Rock likely because she believed it to be politically expedient. We can no longer tolerate candidates who shy away from supporting the lives and livelihoods of Americans. We need leaders who are willing to take a strong moral stance, who will speak for what is right. We need to move the Democratic Party further toward compassion and empathy. We need more politicians willing to stand with Black Lives Matter and other social movements. Decades of globalization and
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automatization created incredible amounts of wealth. But they also destroyed the systems of employment by moving jobs to robots or workers overseas. Donald Trump said he could reverse this process by ending free trade; Hillary Clinton could have offered a different alternative, one that shared the wealth with the marginalized. Instead, she represented stability and status quo in an era when many people are seeking revolution and release. The way forward is to create a strong, vibrant and inclusive left wing movement that combats Trump’s bigoted and racist rhetoric with a message of inclusivity and economic equality that will improve the lives of every single American. Our generation has proven itself to be more open-minded and progressive than the generation before us, and it is our duty to carry that spirit onward. As the Young Democratic Socialists, we will continue to work with and express solidarity with fellow organizations that seek to make America the best country it can be, for all of us. Camren Ward and Alex Gordon are the president and vice president, respectively, of Young Democratic Socialists. Camren can be contacted at camrenward2018@u.northwestern.edu and Alex can be contacted at alexgordon2017@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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ASG aims to grow support for Durbin textbook bill By ALLYSON CHIU
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Members of Associated Student Government aim to gather faculty and student support for a bill that would create public online textbook resources for college communities. The Affordable College Textbook Act was introduced by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) last October and aims to reduce the price of textbooks by using digital collections of textbooks, which are purchased by universities rather than individual students. ASG’s Community Relations committee is planning to advocate for the legislation at this year’s Association of Big Ten Students winter conference, said committee vice president Ross Krasner, a Medill junior. “We’re hoping to build a coalition, so it’s not just Northwestern students supporting this, but it’s a bunch of schools supporting this,” said Krasner, who is also the association’s director of public relations. The committee plans to present the legislation during the conference, which will be held at The Ohio State University, Krasner said. In January, ASG passed a resolution in support of the bill and wanted to introduce the bill at last year’s winter conference, but was unable to do so, said
committee member Shayna Servillas, a Weinberg sophomore. Servillas said the committee hopes to get Durbin’s act included in the packet of legislation ABTS will lobby for during Big Ten on the Hill, the association’s annual spring conference in Washington, D.C. If passed, the bill will make it easier for universities to implement open textbook resources by awarding grants to schools that submit proposals, Servillas said. Rising textbook costs are a major concern for all students, especially those who are low-income, said McCormick senior Steffany Bahamon, president of NU Quest Scholars Network. “It’s not just a massive economic cost, but it’s also a massive mental cost,” Bahamon said. “Oftentimes you don’t know what textbooks you need up until the very first day of class. Trying to scrounge … to find a book you can afford if your budget is pennies on the dollar can be very mentally taxing.” Concrete plans to advocate for the bill are still in “beginning stages,” as the committee is focused on spreading awareness about what open education resources are and how a digital textbook pool would function, Servillas said. One of the keys to successful implementation is collaborating with other universities, committee member Michael Deneroff said. “The more people we know within a community, the better, because they can connect us to
resources, or in the future if this does pass, help us with best practices,” the SESP sophomore said. Having the support of faculty members is also an essential component of implementation because it lends “legitimacy” to the initiative, Servillas said. Despite some concern about the results of this year’s presidential election and how they could
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Medill profs: Find ways to cover Trump By KRISTINE LIAO
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In the wake of president-elect Donald Trump’s victory, Medill professors said it is more important now than ever for journalists to be aware of their role as public servants and to get out of their comfort zones to talk to people. “It made us all sensitive to how imperfect our reporting was,” Medill Prof. Loren Ghiglione said. “I suspect it humbled us.” Since becoming the president-elect, Trump has turned down news agencies’ requests to coordinate a press pool, breaking a long-standing practice intended to ensure the public has a watchful eye on its new leader. On Thursday, Trump denied media requests to travel with him to his first meeting with President Barack Obama and also refused requests to travel with him immediately after Election Day if he won. “This (anti-transparency) creates a new challenge for journalists or a continuation of a challenge,” Ghiglione said. “But the watchdog function of the press, which is always there whatever the administration is, is extremely important.” Medill Prof. Ellen Shearer, founder of Medill on the Hill, said she has been thinking about what this means for students going to Washington, D.C., for the program. “This may be a chance for journalists to reinvent themselves in a more citizen-focused way, to make sure we understand people who aren’t like us, whatever that ‘us’ might be,” Shearer said. She said the biggest mistakes journalists made this election cycle was relying too much on conventional wisdom of the U.S. electorate and misunderstanding how midwestern Americans were affected by the Great Recession. Medill Prof. Stephanie Edgerly identified the lack of understanding in how to interpret polling as another journalistic error. However, she said Medill has been focused in educating its students on basic research methods as well as polling methodology and limitations. “If anything, the election really reaffirmed what we’re trying to teach our students in today’s crazy media world,” Edgerly said. “Journalism is home to people who can understand numbers, tell stories with numbers and tell stories about numbers.” Medill Prof. Peter Slevin said there has not been a more important time in modern U.S. history for great journalism. This could be a “Watergate moment,” he said, ushering in a wave of watchdog journalism. Edgerly emphasized the need for journalists to be self-reflective to improve the profession. Although Medill has been strong in teaching the fundamentals of journalism, Slevin said, the school now needs to stress to its students the need to go deep in their reporting, be fair in their analyses and to always look for the unexpected. “This is why we do it — to hold a mirror up to society in really complicated times, to hold the powerful accountable,” he said. “My hope is that the seismic shift in this election will motivate more students to do better journalism.” kristineliao2020@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 1 Illinois Senate, students who attended the meeting called representatives and left scripted voicemails encouraging them to vote in favor of the bill. Student Action NU aims to serve as a space for students who want to organize around social justice issues with an intersectional perspective. Group members met for the first time in October. The group is affiliated with a student collective called Chicago Student Action, the student-led branch of The People’s Lobby, a Chicago-based political organization. The collective has chapters at colleges across Illinois. The meeting focused on the results of the presidential election, as well as ways to move forward and channel students’ energy into
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2016 organizing. Weinberg senior Jackson Paller, the other co-founder of Student Action NU, said many students on campus “felt so much pain, so much anger, so much anguish” as a result of the election’s outcome. He added that although expressing these emotions is valid, now is the time to react by making change. “I feel optimistic,” Paller told The Daily, “but I still feel grounded in the fact that we got all these people here. The desire to be involved in something is clearly there, but the work has to be done.” Nicolas Wagner, a Bienen senior who attended the meeting, said he thinks it is important to participate in local movements, such as those sponsored by Student Action NU, to create change. “We need to be organizing right now,” Wagner told The Daily. “We need to keep the
energy going, and we need a way to be involved and to be doing something and have an organization to work through.” Paller said the values President-elect Donald Trump represents did not emerge at the start of his campaign but have been around for years. He also said the status quo in U.S. politics has “failed” Americans for a long time and that Democrats pushed that status quo during the election. Brianna Tong, an organizer with Chicago Student Action, encouraged the meeting’s attendees to get “ready to fight for a vision of the world that works for us.” “It’s the time to be fighting for local victories,” Tong said. “We need to get organized … and we need to use the people power that we build up.” kristinakarisch2020@u.northwestern.edu
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Bobkiewicz said. “It may change some of our tactics. It may change some of our policies, but the city of Evanston values all people, and that won’t change just because there was a national election.” Other than the election, the Syrian refugee crisis poses a different debate for City Council members looking to amend the 2008 resolution, Bobkiewicz said. During Tisdahl’s State of the City address in March she praised the Syrian community in Evanston. “They are people with grace, courage, hope and humor,” Tisdahl said. “You can be proud to be from Evanston. Our residents welcome Syrians, hold rallies for Muslims … and our commitment to celebrate diversity brings us together as does a belief that we can create the community we want to have.”
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Goren said the board’s contract offer is an attempt to balance the financial situation with improvements to working conditions. “We want to be able to recruit and retain the best-level teachers and provide a fair and competitive compensation process, but we also have to do all this within very real financial constraints,” he said. “If we don’t address those deficits, we will have to do reductions of staff … that will have an even bigger impact on all working conditions.” Zelinski said the board should focus on the teachers. “The board has focused on the financial, but we’re really fighting for the working conditions for our teachers, the learning conditions for our students,” she said. However, the council and the board do agree those involved in the council should receive more days in the year to attend events with other teacher unions. Additionally, offers for both sides include the provision that the council president be privy to interviews for building principals. Goren said he was focused on maintaining the literacy and equity conditions touted by the district as well as the competitive salaries for teachers. Zelinski said the two sides are meeting on Thursday and Friday of this week, and the council was confident in a good outcome that would prevent a strike. “We hope to get this contract resolved then,” she said. “Obviously we have to plan for … (the) worst case scenario … but we’re always hopeful that we’re going to get this thing done.” norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Last month, the District 65 Educators’ Council began a strike process to urge board members to strike a deal on contract negotiations. On Monday, offers drawn up for both sides were available on the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board’s website as part of the public posting process.
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From page 8 opportunity in Evanston. He had to decide if he should move his family and have a “complete start over.” He said it was the toughest choice in his life, but the decision came down to everything the Cats had to offer outside of the gym. However, Davis ultimately explained that Northwestern had everything he wanted in a coaching position — referencing academics, facilities, leadership and resources as among the most important.
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This coaching staff is taking our program into a positive direction. Things are only going to get better. Sarah Johnson, freshman libero
“All of those things that you want to be able to address when you’re selling a recruit on your university,” Davis said. “Northwestern could check all of those boxes.” He made his decision, and on Dec. 28, 2015, Davis was hired as the Cats’ coach. Davis said he didn’t know if he would be able to find the sense of family at NU that he
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company, it also gives the Cats the opportunity to prove themselves on a national stage. “I have amazing respect for their coach, their program, their tradition,” Collins said of the Bulldogs. “And certainly Hinkle (Fieldhouse) is one of those special places to play, so we’re excited about it.” Though the tough upcoming slate means McIntosh will have to step up, he certainly won’t be alone. Law is off to a terrific start on both ends of the floor and should factor in offensively, even if his energy is spent primarily on the defensive end. Elsewhere, freshman guard Isiah Brown has made an immediate impact, averaging 11 points in his first two collegiate games. Junior guard Scottie
had grown so accustomed to at Loyola. But he quickly realized that wouldn’t be an issue. “On my interview, as well as when I first started the job, the amount of coaches and staff that reached out to me to make sure I was doing OK was almost overwhelming, in a good way,” Davis said. “We’re a year in, and that wasn’t just a one-week thing. The family feeling and the feeling of support is unreal.”
An inauspicious beginning
For the two-time national champion, expectations coming into his first season were high. But facing off against competition from volleyball’s best conference, the Big Ten, Davis knew that the Cats’ success would not come quickly. The team started off this season with a 7-5 record. With solid experience from its nonconference schedule, NU headed into conference play ready to compete. But eight games into their conference schedule, Davis’ Cats were winless. A valiant effort against No. 24 Purdue on Oct. 21 gave Davis his first Big Ten win, but his team has not found a way to earn another victory since. Despite wanting a better record, Davis said first-year wins are not necessarily his and his coaching staff ’s priority right now. “Year one is about understanding how Northwestern works, how the athletic department works, and all about the relationships and roles of the people within the University,” Davis said. “And getting to know the team: not just meeting them, but who they really are, where they’re from, their families and what Lindsey also looks ready to ditch the role player label, having averaged 14.5 points thus far. “This team is well rounded offensively,” Law said. “Last year, we had to lean on some guys like Tre (Demps), Bryant and (Alex) Olah, but I think this year we’re a balanced team.” But even with more scoring weapons in the lineup, McIntosh is one of the few proven commodities the Cats claim. And with the road ahead rockier than ever, the star point guard will finally have to prove why Collins’ tabbed him as the face of NU basketball. “I think (Collins) says that mostly from a leadership standpoint,” McIntosh said. “It’s not, ‘this is your time to score,’ … It’s ‘(this is) your team to lead’.” garrettjochnau2019@u.northwestern.edu
they are like.” Davis also faces the challenge of transitioning to coaching women’s volleyball from men’s. He said the change is going to take time, but that he is willing to make a significant commitment to the program. “It’s a daily vision,” he said. “It wasn’t going to happen in the first week, the first month or even the first year.”
A players’ coach
Despite the results in his first season, Davis has earned the trust of his players, the majority of whom had previously played in a different system under Chan. Davis’ arrival to the program came in the middle of junior middle blocker Gabrielle Hazen’s career. Hazen said her coach’s transition has been relatively seamless, and the team believes in his ability to lead it. “It wasn’t difficult to change anything. We were all so eager; we didn’t fight him on any changes,” Hazen said. “He’s a great coach; he’s easy to talk to, and we’ve all enjoyed having him here so far.” Although it has not manifested in wins, this sentiment is evident through the Cats’ play this season. The team has fought hard in the toughest conference in volleyball, and last Saturday took No. 3 Wisconsin to five sets before falling in a heartbreaker. Davis said although his players sometimes return to their old habits, they trust him and the system he has implemented. Freshman libero Sarah Johnson is sharing the first-year experience with her coach. She
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than 10 points per game in her first three years in Evanston and was an All-Big Ten Honorable Mention selection in her sophomore season, could provide both a scoring lift and a valuable inside presence. Just as important, McKeown said, is Douglas’ experience in late game situations. “Her ability to make plays (is huge), whether it’s a blocked shot or getting an offensive rebound at the end of the game,” McKeown said. “She’s just been in a lot of big games for us.” No one else has yet made a significant contribution. Sophomore forward Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah, who started 20 games last
did not experience the program under the previous coaching staff. However, she said she can feel the improvement throughout the program, especially in the recruitment of new players. “The recruits we are getting are very impressive, and they have so many accolades that might not have been there in the past,” Johnson said. “This coaching staff is taking our program into a positive direction. Things are only going to get better.”
A lofty goal
Davis wants to build NU toward success in several steps, he said. The Cats’ culture and attitude are his current focus. Once they are established, Davis will be ready to consistently take aim at the Big Ten’s best teams. With the right foundation, Davis believes he can bring NU to a place it has never been before. “I believe we will win a national championship here,” Davis said. “But it takes time, and these things don’t happen overnight.” It’s a lofty goal for Davis, but it’s one that he has twice proved he can achieve. As the season winds down, Davis won’t think of that. This year’s win total is not his priority. Davis is set on changing the identity of a program, a task he knows will be arduous, but one he is ready to face head-on. “The volleyball program isn’t where it needs to be or isn’t where I feel it is going to be in the future,” Davis said. “But my job is to get it there.” aidanmarkey2019@u.northwestern.edu season, has played just five minutes over the first two games. Freshmen forwards Abbie Wolf and Abi Scheid have combined for 4 points and four rebounds so far, and senior center Allie Tuttle has likewise made a negligible impact. Though all of those players are likely to play against the Bears, who were picked to finish third in the Missouri Valley Conference, Hamilton and Douglas seem in line to again hog the bulk of the minutes. Overall, McKeown is excited to have more, bigger options inside. “(Big Ten teams) have been throwing a lot of bodies at us since I’ve been here,” McKeown said. “So we’ll start throwing back.” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Despite a tough rookie season, Shane Davis is ready to take Northwestern volleyball to new heights By AIDAN MARKEY
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Shane Davis stands, arms crossed, carefully watching his team practice. It’s quiet outside, but inside the Northwestern-themed walls of Welsh-Ryan Arena, Davis’ team is loud and energetic.
Hearing it, one wouldn’t think that his volleyball team has won only one of its past 16 matches. This losing record is obviously not how Davis would have liked to start his career at the helm of the Wildcats. But he knew coming in that early success would be difficult, and he has much bigger plans for the program than just a strong Big Ten campaign.
An unexpected change
Davis, an Iowa native, played on the men’s volleyball team at Loyola from 2000 to 2003. And in 2004, the then-23-year-old found himself at the helm of the program as the new head coach of the Ramblers. Eleven years later, Loyola was a national champion. The next year, the team repeated the feat. Davis was on top of the collegiate men’s
volleyball world. He told his players and peers at Loyola, who he called “family,” that he would stay there. The Ramblers signed him to a five-year contract, and a thirdconsecutive NCAA Championship was in Davis’ sights. Then, his phone rang. And with one call from NU, everything changed. “It wasn’t something that I
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anticipated or expected or even wanted at that time,” Davis said of the Cats’ offer to him. NU had just fired its coach, Keylor Chan, who had led the program since 2000. Davis had built a dynasty at Loyola, and he now had to choose between the school that had given Davis his career and a new » See SIDELINE, page 7
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McIntosh ready to lead Wildcats NU seeks to figure out By GARRETT JOCHNAU
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Heading into the 2016 season, few could challenge the notion that Northwestern was Bryant McIntosh’s team. But two games in, success from other sources have seemingly pushed McIntosh out of the forefront of the conversation. However, as the Wildcats (2-0) prepare to enter a challenging non-conference stretch, the junior point guard knows the team will turn to his leadership even as others take steps forward on the court. “I’ve got to get the guys ready to go,” McIntosh said ahead of Wednesday’s contest at Butler (1-0). “We have a tough matchup, so (I’m) just preparing them as much as I can.” The matchup with the Bulldogs is part of the Gavitt Tipoff Games, an annual series between the Big Ten and Big East. Last year’s Butler team made it to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Now, the Bulldogs stand as the first major hurdle for the Cats, who then travel to Brooklyn to participate in the Legends Classic with three former tournament teams. Even with two season-opening wins under its belt, NU is going to have to be at its best to contend with a program with such an impressive track record. Sophomore forward Vic Law has been explosive in his return from injury, but figures to have his hands full on the defensive end with forward Kelan Martin, one of the Big East’s most prolific
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scorers. That leaves McIntosh having to potentially shoulder a heavier scoring burden than he did in the opening few games, meaning he’ll have to — at the very least — match his 18-point, 7-assist output against Eastern Washington on Monday. “We need his scoring,” coach Chris
Collins said. “We need his leadership. We need his ability to be a floor general, but we need him to score too.” Against Eastern Washington, McIntosh jumped at the opportunity to get into the paint. That’ll be key with officials calling games tighter than ever, though the point guard will also have to recover his shooting stroke after a 1-for-7 start to the season from beyond the arc. While Butler undoubtedly poses a bigger challenge for McIntosh and » See MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 7
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Junior guard Bryant McIntosh dribbles a ball to start an offensive possession. McIntosh is expected to lead the Wildcats through its tough stretch of upcoming games.
its frontcourt rotation By COLE PAXTON
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Coach Joe McKeown’s frontcourt options are seemingly endless, but a clearer rotation may be coming into view. Though junior center Oceana Hamilton and senior forward Lauren Douglas have established themselves as the leading candidates to play significant minutes, the competition for playing time inside will continue when Northwestern (2-0) hosts Missouri State (1-1) on Wednesday. McKeown has cautioned on multiple occasions that the season has just begun, and the rotation is far from set, but Hamilton and Douglas have made the biggest impacts and logged the heaviest minutes of five possible contributors. Hamilton, who sat out last season after transferring from Alabama, has started both games. In her Wildcats debut Friday against Hampton, she scored six points, grabbed seven rebounds and recorded three blocks. “She did a good job of recognizing that there was a small girl on her and just posting up and finishing around the rim and making sure she had her hand up on defense,” senior forward Nia Coffey, NU’s star in the frontcourt, said. “She
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was getting those rebounds.” At 6-foot-4, Hamilton is a true center who can patrol the glass and offer an imposing presence in the paint. Though she may never match the offensive output of Coffey or NU’s star senior guards — she averaged just over 2.0 points per game in two seasons at Alabama — Hamilton still plays a valuable role. “She does the little things. She can block a shot, get a rebound,” McKeown said. “Her size, she started to impose herself deep in the lane. We haven’t had that presence, so that’s where she’s really helped.” Douglas, meanwhile, has made her mark on both ends of the floor. She scored 10 points in just 12 minutes Friday, then pulled down five rebounds and totaled six blocks Sunday. After missing all of last season with an injury, Douglas said she was ready to get back on the court. “It’s been a long year but I feel healthy, and I’m excited to get back,” she said. Douglas, who averaged more » See FRONTCOURT, page 7