The Daily Northwestern — November 21, 2016

The Daily Northwestern Monday, November 21, 2016

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Wildcats stopped cold in Minnesota

NAISA, community members reflect on Sand Creek Massacre at commemoration

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Ease credit rules, let students balance work

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Waa-Mu confronts calls for diversity

By MARIANA ALFARO

daily senior staffer @marianaa_alfaro

D

uring “Gold,” the 84th Waa-Mu Show, Communication senior Adhana Reid found herself on stage, singing a song she never felt comfortable with.

“There were a number of microaggressive things that happened during that show’s process,” Reid said during a panel last month.

“One of the things being the song that I sang with the other singular black character in the show. When we got on stage together, we sang a gospel song, but it didn’t make sense to me because the whole rest of the show was contemporary musical theater.”

The song, “Greater than the Games,” featured Reid and her fellow black castmate singing about track runner Jesse Owens as they observe his historic win during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

Behind them, a crowd of mostly white performers quietly observed their duet, chiming in with the chorus.

Before the show premiered, Reid brought her concerns to the show’s co-chairs, but it was too late.

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Local politicians respond to Trump

By SAM KREVLIN

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When Evanston residents vented their frustration in the election of Donald Trump at an event on Sunday, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) told them she would remain firm

in her beliefs while avoiding total gridlock in Washington.

Several Democratic elected official answered questions from an audience of more than 400 on Sunday afternoon, discussing the party’s future and how it will handle Trump’s administration. Schakowsky was joined by state Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston), state Rep.

Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston) and other officials.

“If I see a plan coming out of the Trump administration or the Republicans that would actually be good for us and all of us would agree, then we certainly want to cooperate,” Schakowsky said. “But when I say we need to reach out to the people who voted for Donald

Trump, that is not to say that we will support his agenda.”

Carol Ronen, a Democratic committeewoman in Cook County and former state senator, consoled those who may feel “betrayed” or “left-behind” by the idea of working with Trump. » See ELECTION, page 5

City leaders stand with immigrants

By KRISTINA KARISCH

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Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said at a rally on Sunday that she hopes Evanston will seek to alter its code to ensure federal authorities cannot ask the city to hold people they are looking to deport.

Tisdahl reaffirmed Evanston’s status as a sanctuary city, saying the term means city police do not ask about people’s immigration status.

City manager Wally Bobkiewicz told Th e Daily last week that although there are multiple definitions of “sanctuary city,” he believes Evanston classifies as one.

“Th e threat is they’ll cut off federal funds to every city that is a sanctuary city in the

United States of America, and if we give in to that threat Trump wins. So what are we going to do?” she said. “We are going to go forth from here …

I’m terribly proud of Evanston: we love one another, we celebrate diversity.”

Tisdahl made the comments at a rally in Fountain Square on Sunday organized by community faith leaders with the intention of standing with minorities and people of all religious beliefs in response to Donald Trump’s victory on Nov. 8. A crowd of about 200 people gathered to hear speeches from Tisdahl, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and several faith leaders.

The focus of the rally was a statement from Evanston interfaith clergy, city leaders and community members outlining their commitment

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to maintain Evanston’s inclusiveness in the wake of the election.

“We who are representatives of faith communities in

Evanston are resolved to stand in mutual solidarity with those groups who may be exposed to » See FAITH, page 5

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A crowd of about 200 Evanston residents and faith community members met at Fountain Square on Sunday afternoon. The event was organized to show solidarity with those in the city feeling marginalized after the recent presidential election.

The show was close to opening day, and although Reid said she felt her concerns were heard, the number remained as written.

“I know for a fact that people raised their voices and said they had an issue with it. Black female writers in the room, and their voices were also squandered,” Reid said.

“They said they had a problem.

People said that they cared, and they didn’t do anything to change it.”

The Waa-Mu Show, a production written, produced and performed entirely by students under the direction of music theater Prof.

David Bell, has been called the “greatest college show in America” by the Associated Press and has been a part of Northwestern’s theater history for 87 years. For four quarters, students write and rehearse original songs and dialogue that will ultimately make it to the show, once approved by Bell. All in all, it takes about 200 students to put on the musical.

Bell, who had the final say on the gospel song, told The Daily he only found out about Reid’s complaints after opening night. After hearing criticism about the number, Bell said he acknowledged the concerns and apologized.

“You always have the problem

NU responds to ‘sanctuary campus’ petition

Northwestern released a statement Friday saying NU is “strongly committed” to being a welcoming and inclusive place, a few days after thousands signed a petition asking the University to become a “sanctuary” for undocumented students, workers and their families.

The petition, which began Monday morning, asks University President Morton Schapiro and other administrators to declare NU a “sanctuary campus” in the wake of the election of Donald Trump. Sanctuaries do not alert federal authorities about individuals who violate immigration laws.

The petition was closed Thursday night with 2,234 signatures from faculty, staff, students and alumni, said English Prof. John Alba Cutler, who started the petition, in an email to The Daily.

Friday’s statement — signed

by Schapiro, Provost Dan Linzer, vice president for student affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president and general counsel Philip Harris and Executive Vice President Nim Chinniah — said the University’s commitment to inclusivity has not changed as a result of the presidential election.

NU will keep providing full financial aid to undergraduates who graduate from high schools in the United States, regardless of the their citizenship status, the statement said. As in the past, the statement said, University Police will not question anyone it stops

that the majority of the writers, certainly the experienced writers, were not people of color,” he said. “We were actually writing shows that are specifically targeted for an African American, in this case, character, that were written by senior, nonAfrican-American writers.”

Reid’s complaint is one of several Waa-Mu leaders have faced in the last few years as the show attempts to become more inclusive.

Students who criticized the show’s inclusivity pointed to casting practices, representation in the writers’ room and the historical whiteness of NU’s theater program. This year’s Waa-Mu co-chairs told The Daily they are making a concerted effort to create a show that more accurately represents the student body.

But in about five months, they also need to put on a full-scale musical.

A story from the Oregon Trail

Lorenzo Gudino couldn’t bring himself to go to 2016’s Waa-Mu Show, “Another Way West.”

In telling a story about the historical colonization of the West, an » See WAA-MU, page 6

about their citizenship.NU takes the petition signatories’ concerns seriously, the statement said, and the University will continue to provide support for all members of its community.

“We hope all members of the Northwestern community will join us in our efforts to make the University a safe and welcoming environment,” the statement said.

The petition, which was also published as an open letter in The Daily, references Trump’s plans to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which was passed by President Barack Obama and temporarily shields people brought into the United States illegally as children from being deported. It also references comments Trump made about his intention to immediately start deportation proceedings against millions of undocumented immigrants in the country.

Although it’s too early to know what may happen, the statement said, the University is “following closely” any changes to visa programs and the DACA program, which may affect students, faculty and staff.

“Northwestern today is a diverse place, with students, faculty and staff from many different countries and many different backgrounds,” the statement said. “The result is a vibrant intellectual and social community that includes people with widely divergent beliefs and ideas.

We’re proud of that — it’s one of the things that makes Northwestern such a special place. We are determined to keep it so.”

— Peter Kotecki

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AROUND TOWN

Council approves new liquor license New license class will allow indoor recreation facilities to serve beer, wine

By NORA SHELLY

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A new liquor license class approved by City Council last week allows indoor recreation facilities to serve alcohol.

The license was brought to council after the owner of Quad Indoor Sports, 2454 Oakton St., went to the city to inquire how they could get a liquor license for their domed practice field facility. No existing license class would have done the job, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said.

Bill Kindra, one of the owners of Quad Indoor Sports, said the liquor license would help them expand their business.

“Our target is the adults and the leagues that they play in,” he said. “We’re looking for the added revenue … We’re also looking to draw a wider group of customers.”

Quad Indoor Sports is hoping to increase the number of adult sporting leagues who use the facility, Kindra said.

Quad Indoor Sports opened in February of this year. Patrons will be able to take food and drink into the spectator area, but not onto the field, Kindra said. The facility includes a lobby with a concession stand serving fare such as pizza and hot dogs. There is a turf field in the building, with a large glass wall separating the field and the spectator area, Kindra said.

The license also limits facilities to only

Evanston man injured in car crash on Sunday

A 20-year-old Evanston resident was injured Sunday afternoon in a car crash.

The man was leaning into a car through the

serving beer or wine. Kindra said serving alcohol will be an “amenity” to their patrons.

According to the ordinance, patrons will not be able to buy more than two drinks in a day.

“We want to make sure people don’t abuse the alcohol (and) the facility,” Kindra said.

The license includes other limitations. Alcohol can only be served between 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Sundays. Additionally, recreational facilities can only serve alcohol if they “provide expanded food service” including sandwiches flatbreads and other a la carte items, according to the ordinance.

This is the second liquor license class to be approved by the council in the past two months. A liquor license class to allow for the sale of cider was approved for North Shore Cider Company, last month. Bobkiewicz said the city has a unique range of businesses that serve alcohol.

“Ironically having been dry here, until 1973, we have a wide variety of businesses that have alcohol as part of what they do,” he said. “It’s great that we have all these unique uses that perhaps many other communities don’t have.”

Bobkiewicz said creating new, specific, liquor licenses was not only cost-free, but allows the city to limit the possibility of illegal uses of alcohol.

“Other communities have seen, when they try to do something like that, sometimes that’s when abuses occur,” he said. “From a liquor control perspective, it’s better to have licenses

that are very specific and very tailored to the use, rather than trying to fit everyone into a small number.”

driver’s side window on the corner of Pitner Avenue and Nathaniel Place at about 2:40 p.m. when the driver — a 19-year-old Evanston resident — sped forward, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said.

The car hit a tree, causing the 20-year-old to be thrown from the vehicle and hit a light pole.

He was transported to St. Francis Hospital in critical condition with head injuries, Dugan said.

The driver attempted to flee the scene but was held by citizens in the area until police arrived, a news release said.

A small amount of cannabis was recovered

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POLICE BLOTTER Woman charged with child endangerment Police arrested a 32-year-old Evanston woman in connection with child endangerment Tuesday morning.

The woman was taken by ambulance to Evanston Hospital at about 2:15 p.m. on Monday due to high levels of intoxication, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said.

At 9:15 p.m., the woman told officials she had left her two kids — ages 3 and 4 — at home alone.

Officers went to her home in south Evanston to find that the 4-year-old boy had burnt his finger slightly while heating up food in the microwave for himself and his 3-year-old sister to eat.

The woman was charged with a misdemeanor count of child endangerment.

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is involved with the case as well, Dugan said.

Sam’s Club employee charged with theft

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Wally Bobkiewicz attends a City Council meeting.

Council approved the creation of a new class of liquor licenses last week.

An employee at Sam’s Club was arrested Thursday morning in connection with three instances of theft at the store.

A security guard at the store, 2450 Main St., alerted offices to the employee, who is suspected of stealing Bose headphones on three occasions from late October to midNovember, Dugan said.

The stolen headphones are $179.99 each and total $539.64. The incidents were captured on store video.

The employee was charged with misdemeanor retail theft.

— Nora Shelly from the driver.

The driver is in custody pending investigation by the North Regional Major Crimes Task Force-Major Crash Assistance Team, Dugan said.

— Nora Shelly

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ON CAMPUS

Community remembers Sand Creek

By KELLI NGUYEN

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Members of Northwestern and Chicago’s Native American communities gathered Saturday to discuss the importance understanding the history of the Sand Creek Massacre at its annual commemoration.

More than 50 people, including professors and students, attended the event hosted in Scott Hall by the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance. The event commemorated the 152nd anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, in which U.S. soldiers attacked a Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment supposedly under government protection.

Speakers emphasized the need for the community to acknowledge the role of NU founder John Evans, who some say is responsible for the massacre.

Ninah Divine (Weinberg ’16), former NAISA member and coordinator of the Native American and Indigenous Peoples Steering Group, said it is important to acknowledge that both the University and Evans have benefited from Native American suffering.

The event featured a speech by University of Denver Prof. Ramona Beltrán, who emphasized the importance of acknowledging Native peoples’ role in U.S. history. “(I hope) our indigenous children will see themselves and their families represented in the conflictstapestry of American history,” Beltrán said. “They will know our stories are real (and) important and that, despite all efforts, we are still here. We are surviving, and we are thriving.”

In May 2014, NU published a report saying Evans was not directly involved in planning the massacre. But a University of Denver report published in November 2014 found Evans “deeply culpable” and disagreed “strongly” with the NU report.

Beltrán discussed the significance of language and said naming something allows people to call it into their consciousness and relate to it in a way that shapes their understandings and actions.

She also said historical trauma, which she defined as a collective and cumulative wounding across

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University of Denver Prof. Ramona Beltrán speaks to an audience of more than 50 people at NAISA’s annual Sand Creek Massacre commemoration. Beltrán emphasized the importance of learning history, understanding it and using it to move forward in a positive direction.

generations, is deeply connected to the indigenous concept of the interconnectedness of all things. She added that sociology Prof. Gary Fine identified the Sand Creek Massacre as the “single worst act of genocide in American history.”

Divine said the goal of the event was to commemorate and honor the victims, survivors and descendants of the Sand Creek Massacre, as well as pay tribute to the displacement of the Native community due to western expansion.

“The takeaway is to really hold your University and institutions you are involved in accountable for their actions and their history, and to know that history and how it affects communities around the country and around the world,” Divine told The Daily.

The event also showcased a display titled “Walking Through Sand Creek.” It comprised a series of banners with the names and family names of massacre victims and survivors — in English, Cheyenne and Arapaho — as well as scattered moccasins representing their struggle to escape. It will be displayed in

Norris University Center from Nov. 21 to Dec. 4.

Weinberg senior Edward Duron said the event was an interesting way to hear more about the relationship between the Sand Creek Massacre and the University. Duron said he has been reflecting on NU’s relationship with history and appreciated NAISA’s work to put on the event.

“It’s easy to exist in a place and not know the history behind it,” Duron said. “As a Northwestern student, even though I don’t feel like the space is my space, I still benefit from it. I still take part in it, so part of that process is acknowledging the history.”

Beltrán said it is the responsibility of people to understand many institutions exist on stolen land.

She said it is everyone’s responsibility to learn the true history, acknowledge it and contribute to healing from it.

“Learn the history of wherever you are,” Beltrán told The Daily. “Learn your own history.” kellinguyen2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Monday, November 21, 2016

EDITORIAL

Ease up credit requirements, help students find balance

With the School of Communication’s decision to reduce the required number of credits to graduate, the school’s leadership acknowledged this month something students already knew: When it comes to academic requirements, sometimes less is more.

Not only do we applaud the School of Communication’s move, which should create greater academic flexibility and reduce stress for its students, we also recommend Northwestern’s five other undergraduate schools follow its lead.

A reduction in credit requirements will encourage in-depth study, promote mental health and generally improve the undergraduate experience at NU. Further, it will pull the university closer in line with other schools on the quarter system such as University of Chicago, Dartmouth and Stanford, where an average of three or four classes is the standard.

NU’s four-class-per-quarter norm is compacted by a pre-professional atmosphere that encourages many students to take on extracurricular roles amounting to part-time jobs. The intersection of commitments helps produce our generally high-stress environment. Though it may escape administrators whose focus is solely academic, much of our learning here happens outside the classroom.

Loosening credit requirements is one way administrators can return some agency to overwhelmed students.

It also acknowledges other realities, such as the fact that the University’s credit requirements do not affect all students equally. Some more affluent students arrive with credit from Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate exam scores.

Other students who do not have the financial means to take AP or IB exams are the most tightly squeezed by the current

graduation requirements. As long as schools continue to take credit earned prior to enrollment, reducing total required credits could help level an uneven playing field.

Above all, in our culture of stress, this change could play a small part in promoting mental health on campus. Sure, not all students would take advantage of the change, continuing to overbook themselves. But added flexibility could hardly hurt. And its simultaneous academic benefits would make our campus a better learning environment.

In the classroom, students should be engaging deeply in subjects they care about.

Outside the classroom, students should have room to explore non-academic interests and to maybe, just for once, actually do their class readings.

As President Morton Schapiro told The Daily in an interview last week, “If people took three courses, they would be a little bit

more relaxed. They could devote themselves more to extracurricular and co-curricular activities, and I think it would improve their mental health. I really do believe that.”

We do too.

And at a university where mental health and overcommitment are persistent issues, NU’s six undergraduate schools have an opportunity to be part of the solution. All should consider the potential benefit of reducing course requirements and should do so now.

This piece represents the majority opinion of the Editorial Board of The Daily Northwestern. The Editorial Board has an “Editorial Corps” responsible for selecting and producing editorials with feedback from the rest of the board. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members or Editorial Board members of The Daily Northwestern.

Stop patting yourselves on the back, ‘woke’ white people

RUBY PHILLIPS

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

In October, I sat in a packed room in Harris Hall listening to Barbara Ransby, the Allison Davis Lecture Series speaker. I was excited to see so many white students in the audience, but I felt a twinge of frustration as I wondered how many of them still sing the n-word in Kanye West’s songs, as I have witnessed at countless frat parties, or gloss over historic racism with the reductive phrases such as “we are all human” or “we’re living in a post-racial society.”

Ransby’s lecture pinpointed the platform, methods, goals, benefits and problems with the Movement for Black Lives, putting it in a larger historical context of other social movements. Unlike the civil rights movement of the 1960s, which is romanticized in history textbooks, the Movement for Black Lives is constantly changing, which is one of its greatest strengths. While some of the most overblown criticisms have come from the right, calling black lives matter a “murder movement” and a “hate group,” there is another problematic segment of commentators: selfcongratulatory, if well-meaning, white liberals.

These supposed allies, common if not abundant on our campus, often stick to hashtags instead of truly showing up for black lives.

They don’t call out friends who make offensive

comments or jokes, and rarely participate in the movement. They do not realize the value and power of the movement’s radical, intersectional call for self-love.

In the wake of the election, I have heard people express desire for a new organization for social change, a group that can start a revolution. But the Movement for Black Lives has been doing this and will continue to do so under Trump’s presidency. If white people weren’t so blinded by misconceptions of the movement on the right or slacktivism on the left, they could recognize that not only does the Movement for Black Lives affect and benefit those they love, but it also reignites a new political discourse that centers on institutional inequality and self-love. This is the movement we have all been waiting for.

This movement goes far beyond police brutality and mass incarceration. It shouldn’t be a surprise that the Movement for Black Lives stands for so much more than just black people: It fights for the rights of women and immigrants and those who are queer, trans, gender-nonconforming, Muslim, formerly and currently incarcerated, cash poor and working class, disabled and undocumented. It recognizes intersectionality between class, race, gender and sexuality.

But beyond this, the movement represents a cry for the appreciation of black people and black excellence. The Movement for Black Lives and hashtag #blacklivesmatter encourage a reclamation of the black identity in mass media. Even the title itself refers to how

the movement was born out of love for black people.

The impact of #blacklivesmatter on political rhetoric is obvious: Expressions like “systemic racism” have entered the political rhetoric of presidential candidates during prime-time debates. Without this movement, it wouldn’t be cool to be “woke” or socially conscious. Yet it is still far too easy for liberal white people to write the hashtag after another black man is brutally murdered by the police and then continue to go about their days. Hopefully it will soon become just as cool to actually show up for black lives beyond just a hashtag or show of social solidarity.

As a person of color, watching the country fill up with red states on election night made me feel despondent. It is the feeling that shows me that this country wasn’t built for me. It was the same feeling I had when I watched Eric Garner get the life squeezed out of him. It was the same feeling I had when George Zimmerman was acquitted. It made me want to rip all of my hair out, fall on the floor and scream. Every person of color has probably felt this way at least once. But black people didn’t need to see a man die on television to know that institutionalized racism exists or see Trump get elected to realize that racism and bigotry prevail in this country.

Swallowing our anger and masking our frustration has become a routine throughout history. But the Movement for Black Lives is unapologetic. It doesn’t condemn black rage, nor does it pander to uncomfortable white

Meet the next generation of ‘nasty women’ MARISA KAPLAN

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

As Election Day, approached, there was not a doubt in my mind Clinton would become our first female president. My peers and I were confident that election day would be the day we broke the glass ceiling. However, the hopes of Americans of seeing the first female president were unexpectedly crushed as Donald Trump became our presidential-elect almost two weeks ago.

On the surface, Clinton’s loss is a major setback to progress women have made in the past century. Trump has a long history of objectifying women, and his successful election may legitimize the horrible comments he has made.

In a May 1991 Esquire magazine interview he stated, “You know, it really doesn’t matter what [journalists] write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.” Trump has stated that he would date his daughter if they weren’t related, called all women gold diggers, insulted women seeking abortions and women who breastfeed and uttered many more offenses. Trump also faces sexual assault allegations, including one alleging he assaulted a minor, and even said on camera, “Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” And yet 53

percent of white women voted for Trump on Nov. 8. Clearly, Trump’s ascendance is about more than just his offensive comments, but his victory proves that blatant sexism was excusable to many voters.

As discouraging as Trump’s victory is, it will serve to inspire progressive women to work harder to achieve equality. The feminist movement made great progress during the 20th century, from greater equality and representation in the workforce to 1973’s Roe v.

Wade decision affirming a woman’s right to choose. The grassroots organizing infrastructure of National Organization for Women, Planned Parenthood and Emily’s List have already kicked into gear to hold Presidentelect Trump accountable for his actions even in the months leading up to his inauguration.

Donations to Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union skyrocketed in the days after Trump’s victory. Social media, especially Twitter, featured calls for access to and information about IUDs, long-term birth control that will outlast Trump’s administration, which many believe could reduce access to reproductive healthcare. Women are not sitting idly by.

In Clinton’s concession speech, she urged women to persevere: “And to all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to

pursue and achieve your own dreams.” It scares me to think of telling the young girls I babysit that a man who has made comments like Trump’s can be elected president. However, I found solace and resolve within Clinton’s words. They were a call to action, to continue working to improve women’s rights.

Despite her loss in the election, Clinton continues to serve as an inspiration for girls and women around the world. After Trump called Clinton a “nasty woman” in the final presidential debate, women around the country have been self-identifying as “nasty women.”

Following the results of the election, the “nasty women” movement has gained even more power, particularly on social media. Reclaiming this derogatory and demeaning language is the first symbolic step to signal that women are ready to continue the fight for equality under Trump. This newly politically-engaged and active generation of “nasty women” has the potential to change the world. We will continue to show strength in the face of adversity, as we have in the past.

Marisa Kaplan is a Weinberg freshman. She can be contacted at marisakaplan2020@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.

people, liberal or conservative. The movement allows the very real frustration that should come with oppression –– no respectability politics allowed. It doesn’t depict only cisblack men in suits walking on a bridge and holding hands. Today’s movement is not the one of our parents’ and grandparents’ generations, even though white liberals may be more comfortable talking about sit-ins and Freedom Rides. I have heard plenty of liberal white supporters of the movement criticize how, where and when protests take place. If we are to truly support the Movement for Black Lives, many white students must let go of the idea that all protests should and do look the same.

Black people are resilient and prosperous even after having been cast aside, appropriated, ghettoized and demeaned. I am grateful for the Movement for Black Lives because it gives black people something to believe in. I love being black; it is the best thing to be in the whole world. I will still love being black under a Trump presidency. I don’t know whether I could have said that unapologetically and in unison with millions of other voices before #blacklivesmatter.

Ruby Phillips is a Weinberg freshman. She can be contacted at rubyphillips2020@u.northwestern.edu.

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Ronen said the Democrats will fight on the behalf of marginalized people.

“Standing by minorities is not a political thing. It is standing up for values that make this country great,” Ronen said. “We cannot allow a demagogue to rule and get away with playing on the fears of individuals.”

Schakowsky said the leadership of the Democratic Party will be instrumental in protecting the rights of all Americans. However, the representative in the House who will lead the Democrats in this effort remains uncertain. Schakowsky told the audience she endorses Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to continue to lead the House minority.

Schakowsky addressed concerns that the Democrats needed a new young face millennials could back. She said while Rep.Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) is a great spokesperson for the party, his youth should not be valued over Pelosi’s firm stance and experience with progressive values.

“There is room for young people to take leadership positions,” Schakowsky said.” As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about legacy and thinking about encouraging young women and men to run for office, we can not toss out really effective leadership like Nancy.”

As Schakowsky works in Washington, Biss assured the audience action can still be done on a local level. He said the potential Illinois Clean Jobs bill could show the Trump administration what progressive leadership looks like.

Wilmette resident Mark Kraemer compared Trump’s win to George W. Bush’s victory over Al Gore in 2000. Kraemer was concerned over Bush’s stance on the environment, but said he found hope in the fact that California was extremely effective in passing clean energy bills during the Bush presidency.

He said he hopes Illinois can still enact the Clean Jobs Bill without subsidizing coal and can continue to make progress on the state level.

“Things can change,” Kraemer said. “It may seem really bad now, but things can change for the better. We have a chance now even with a new president to still make progress.” samkrevlin2019@u.northwestern.edu

Wildcats claim Senior Night victory No. 24 Ohio State

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In a season wrought with struggles, Northwestern found a storybook ending to its seniors’ careers at Welsh-Ryan.

The Wildcats (9-21, 2-16 Big Ten) conquered Maryland (11-19, 3-15) on Saturday in straight sets, 26-24, 25-22, 25-21. The win came a day after NU fell at home in four sets to No. 24 Ohio State (18-12, 8-10), 25-23, 23-25, 21-25, 21-25.

Coach Shane Davis said Saturday’s win was the perfect way for the team to close out this season’s home games.

“It was important to come out and put Welsh-Ryan to bed with a ‘W,’” Davis said. “This was a culmination of everything (the seniors) have done with their careers here.”

Th e Cats started Senior Night off strong with aggressive serving and a relentless attack.

They cruised to an 18-11 lead, but the Terrapins fought back into the set, eventually tying the score at 22-22. NU persevered through its opponent’s rally, though, and earned the first-set win with an ace by junior outside hitter Symone Abbott.

Abbott finished with 16 kills in the match.

Senior outside hitter Sofia Lavin added 13 kills

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Tisdahl accepted a stack of poster copies of the statement signed by community members, planning to hang them in and around her office and the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center.

Tisdahl also urged the crowd to encourage people they know in other cities to petition for their cities to become sanctuary cities.

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while hitting .310 in her last home game.

Lavin said the feelings from the dominant Senior Night win were hard to put into words.

“It’s indescribable,” Lavin said. “It’s the best way to go out, and we couldn’t have asked for a better night in our last game here at Welsh-Ryan.”

The second and third sets were much more back-and-forth than the fi rst. Th ough both teams fiercely competed, the Cats once again overwhelmed Maryland with their serving and dynamic, balanced attack.

NU had three players tally a .300 or higher hitting percentage in the match. Senior middle blocker Maddie Slater notched four kills, and senior outside hitter Kayla Morin had seven of her own.

“We need every city in the United States of America to be a sanctuary city,” Tisdahl said. “So Evanston, get out there and make it happen.”

Diane Pezanoski, a member of the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation, told The Daily she came to the rally to show her support for religious freedom.

“Everyone must work locally to make sure there is no Islamophobia, that there is no sexism, racism, misogyny,” she said. “Everyone needs to take care of their own corner of the earth, to band together with their neighbors because once you get to know people, you see how love can cross boundaries and faiths.”

The team’s strong defensive presence also helped it seal the sweep. The Cats had 55 digs in comparison to the Terrapins’ 43. Freshman libero Sarah Johnson earned 13 digs for NU, and senior setter Caleigh Ryan had five.

Ryan said the Cats’ strong serving allowed them to execute the rest of their game plan.

“We were really aggressive from the service line,” Ryan said. “We were able to get them out of system and then get good quality block touches.”

NU recognized six players on its senior night: Lavin, Ryan, Slater, Morin, outside hitter Rafae Strobos and sophomore libero Katie Kniep, who is retiring from volleyball due to injury.

Although the team ended its home campaign on a high note, it will travel to face No. 15 Penn State and Rutgers this upcoming weekend. The Scarlet Knights, winless in the Big Ten, might not be a daunting opponent for the Cats. But the Nittany Lions, one of volleyball’s perennial powers, decimated NU on Sept. 25.

The task against Penn State is one the Cats believe they can take on. Ryan said the team is as confident as ever heading into the last week of its season.

“We know we’re a good team, whether our record reflects that,” Ryan said. “We just want to go out and prove it to everybody else.” aidanmarkey2019@u.northwestern.edu Tahera Ahmad, Northwestern’s associate chaplain and director of interfaith engagement, said during the rally that hate crimes have increased since the election, but she has received support from friends. One friend promised to add her own name to Trump’s proposed “Muslim registry,” even though she is Jewish, Ahmad said.

She said Americans should stand with Muslims who are against intolerance.

“We want this country to be a safe country.

We want this country to be a country for all people,” she said. kristinakarisch2020@u.northwestern.edu

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early draft of the musical failed to mention the mass killing of thousands of Native Americans, said Gudino, a member of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe. The Medill senior and his peers at NU’s Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance decided they could not let such a historical omission go.

Gudino said they told the show’s writers that telling the story of a white, Irish family on the trail without referencing the forced migration and mass killing of Native Americans was “distasteful.” In fall of 2015, NAISA asked Waa-Mu to rethink their approach to recounting the history of the Oregon Trail.

“It helps to have someone who is Native, someone who is really engaged in Native culture and history and identity from the get-go,” Gudino said. “Like, on staff, have someone who says, ‘Guys, that’s not the correct way to do that.’”

It was Kori Alston, a Communication junior and roommate of a Waa-Mu head writer, who alerted NAISA about the show’s theme after finding out that the script failed to mention this critical aspect of the history.

“When I heard that they were setting it on the Oregon Trail, my first question was, ‘Oh, how many Native American actors are you planning on putting up there?’ And the answer was obviously none,” said Alston, who identifies as multiracial: black, white and Native American.

Appalled by the idea of a show that “glorified” the Oregon Trail without acknowledging the violence that happened during the westward expansion, Alston said he posted on WaaMu’s Facebook profile, saying he “couldn’t wait” to see the ways in which the show addressed this mass killing. That was his first interaction with the group.

Though Waa-Mu leaders responded to him with an invite to join the writing team, he said

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2016 no. To him, the transgression was already made.

Members of NAISA then wrote a letter to Bell and the co-chairs, asking the program to include a comment by NAISA on the importance of remembering the impact the Oregon Trail had on Native Americans.

The comment didn’t make it in. The program did include a note from a One Book One Northwestern faculty chair about the historical mass killing behind the trail. That year’s One Book selection was “The Inconvenient Indian,” which discusses Native American history in the U.S. In response to a question about the program, Bell said Waa-Mu realized its obligation to address the mass killing even though it wasn’t the “principal thrust of our story.”

Additionally, Waa-Mu added a character who would occasionally appear to talk about the issue during the show. However, some students who raised the concern did not believe that these two measures were enough.

Hannah Merens, a contributing writer to Waa-Mu, said the inclusion of the character, an anthropology student specializing in indigenous studies, was a much-needed intervention in the show because he reminded the audience of the historical nuances that went unmentioned in the rest of the production.

But Merens, who wrote the character in, said getting a script approved that honestly confronted the issue of mass killing on stage was a challenge. Ultimately, during the editing process, head writers and co-chairs replaced the character’s dialogue on the history of the violence with other cultural notes instead, such as indigenous medicinal practices.

“If you’re not one of the head writers or someone who has been writing Waa-Mu for a couple of years, you do not really get a voice,” the Weinberg fifth-year senior said.

Bell said he wishes he and the Waa-Mu leaders had done more research to understand the different perspectives a story set on the Oregon Trail could have before they settled on that topic.

However, when complaints were brought to his attention, he said the show was already too far into production. He said he was reluctant to start the show over in mid-November, when the complaints were brought to him.

“By then there’s so much that goes in before you pick up the pencil, so much is planning the plot and talking about the story,” he said.

“I would hate to be the person who pulls the trigger on a cancelling of a Waa-Mu Show, even for these really good reasons.”

Creating a cast

After deciding he wasn’t going to “sit by” on issues of inclusivity in the show this year, Alston set out to make sure the 86th Waa-Mu production tried harder.

Alston said his biggest issue is with the

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Adhana Reid (center) and a theater prof. Melissa Foster (right) speak during a panel on diversity and inclusion in the Waa-Mu show at Harris Hall last month. The panelists said theater productions on campus should cast actors of color in non-stereotypical roles and represent the American population more accurately.

show’s casting procedures. Alston told Bell and the co-chairs they should begin making the show more inclusive by having a more diverse “Waa-2” group, a Waa-Mu subsection that comprises first-year students who promote the show in the NU community, especially among freshmen.

“It felt like only a certain amount of people knew about it,” said Communication junior Chamaya Moody, an outreach director for Waa-Mu. “It felt like it wasn’t intended to

reach a large audience, like it was targeted to a specific group, and that’s why it was damaging for marginalized communities on campus, especially people of color.”

Moody said the group, which has been

around for years, was mostly white last year.

To change this, the four co-chairs — Communication seniors Eric Peters, Charlotte Morris, Justin Tepper and Jessie Jennison — decided to do two rounds of auditions for this year’s group instead of one.

“Since we are trying so hard to make WaaMu more inclusive and representative of the voices that we have on campus, Waa-2 is the place to start that,” Morris said.

But casting is only one piece of the problem, Alston said. Efforts from students to make Waa-Mu more inclusive can be difficult when all final decisions are made by one person: Bell.

For Alston, the show’s checks and balances system is “kind of messed up.”

At the end of the day, Bell said he has the final say on the show since he is the director.

Alston believes the show should have a casting director, someone like theater Prof. Melissa Foster, the show’s vocal coach and a friend of Bell’s. In an interview with The Daily, Foster said she has already taken the unofficial role of diversity mentor for the show.

“She knows the voices of the students better than anyone else,” Alston said. “(She has) passion and commitment toward proper representation. She has the experience.”

NU’s major theater productions under the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts are cast by general auditions, giving students a chance to audition for multiple shows at the same time.

Hiring a casting director, however, could get pricey.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2016 “The University doesn’t use a casting director — the director casts,” Bell said. “I use a casting director whenever I cast in New York. It is a very expensive proposition.”

For his part in helping increase the show’s diversity, Bell said he’s encouraging more people to audition during generals, thereby increasing representation.

Waa-Mu co-chairs don’t have a say in the casting of their show. For Alston, this gives Bell too much power within NU’s musical theater community.

During the panel on inclusivity in the show, students took issue with comments made

by Bell during the production process, from sexist remarks to impressions of people with disabilities.

“I fully don’t intend to be insensitive, but I’m sure that in an unguarded moment, who knows what I might have said,” Bell said. “I fully hate the thought that I’ve caused discomfort to other people.”

Bell, 67, said although there is a generational divide between him and Northwestern students, he tries to be sensitive to how language affects people.

Merens said Bell sometimes makes jokes when he doesn’t understand things but learns when someone intervenes.

“He’s made a comment about pronouns, but once the co-chairs spoke on my behalf, he didn’t anymore,” said Merens — who uses they, them, their pronouns.

However, Alston said a lot of this behavior is excused because of the control Bell has over

NU’s musical theater program. In the larger theater community, Alston said, Bell can serve as the “gateway” to many shows and programs.

Bell said NU auditions are representative of standard casting procedure. Student actors, he said, learn how to navigate the real world of acting this way.

“Casting is a lot about the personal taste of the director,” he said. “That’s actually what the director does: apply their personal taste or aesthetic to the story.”

her experience in “Gold,” Foster said she was excited to see the organization finally making strides toward inclusivity, though she said she was aware that the change won’t happen overnight.

In an interview with The Daily, Foster said this year’s production could lay the groundwork for a more diverse Waa-Mu Show in future years.

“A lot needs to be done,” she said. “Talk-

In the writers’ room

There is no official diversity chair within the Waa-Mu organization. Morris, a co-chair, said the group did not want to make a single person responsible for issues of inclusivity.

With Foster’s mentorship, she said, the group of Waa-Mu leaders is actively trying to make a change in the organization. Though he remains hopeful, Tepper, one of the co-chairs, said trying to take major steps toward inclusivity while creating an entire show can be taxing.

“It all comes back to that challenge that is now in our minds … We also have to write a show,” Tepper said. “However successful we are, who knows. All I think that we can say is we are really trying.”

With the help of Foster, Merens and Alston, the co-chairs have already implemented measures to keep conversation about inclusion in Waa-Mu present through all stages of the show’s production.

This quarter, the co-chairs, Foster and a group of students began meeting every few weeks with Bell to discuss the show’s progress. Merens said within days of the panel conversation earlier this quarter, Waa-Mu leaders put up a Multicultural Student Affairs workshop to discuss diversity in the show. They said the student outreach committee is also scheduling trainings and lectures on inclusion for students in the Waa-Mu writing class every other week next quarter.

“What the co-chairs this year have shown me is that it is a lot more possible than we think it is to push an organization, to push an institution,” Merens said.

Moody said the show’s executive board is planning on establishing an anonymous feedback system after every writers’ meeting and rehearsal.

“My biggest regret would be having someone harboring something and not being comfortable speaking out about it,” Moody said.

At the same panel where Reid spoke about

ing about diversity and inclusion in theater in general, everyone is trying, and a lot needs to happen.”

Foster said this year’s theme gave her hope for what could be the most inclusive Waa-Mu production in the show’s 87-year history.

The future of Waa-Mu

Though the writing hasn’t fully started yet, this year’s Waa-Mu leaders already have a vision for the 86th Waa-Mu Show, “Beyond Belief: A Superhero Story,” which opens on April 28.

“It’s a made-up story, so it doesn’t have to be historically accurate like past years,” Foster said.

“That really opens up the field for inclusion and diversity and also dimensional and fleshed out characters that can sort of organically come to be by people discussing experiences.”

Jennison said the show will center around a fantasy world of superheroes. Though nothing is confirmed, no one, she said, is in the mindset that the characters must be of a certain identity.

Although Alston said he is glad to hear this year’s story won’t have limiting historical precedents since it’s set in a universe controlled by

magical realism, the show runs the risk of moving the opposite direction — toward a postracial world where identity is not addressed.

In order to avoid that, he said, the show’s writers must incorporate voices with a diverse set of experiences they want to see represented on stage. The co-chairs, executive board members and writers should not shy away from addressing race, Alston said.

“Asking actors to deny their experience is irresponsible,” he said.

One change will be to the show’s song “To The Memories,” which has traditionally been sung at Waa-Mu performances since 1951.

When Merens first heard the number, they felt uncomfortable. The original version of the song included a section in which only men serenade women. Merens, a member of Waa-Mu’s creative team and student outreach committee, thought Waa-Mu should make the song less heteronormative.

After bringing up the complaint to the cochairs of “Gold” and then to the co-chairs of “Another Way West,” Merens said this year’s co-chairs decided to tweak the song. Waa-Mu changed the word “girls” to “friends” in one of the lines, which everyone now sings together.

To Jennison, this quick turnaround showed that students should not be afraid to speak up in order to make change.

“Having those conversations brings things to light. Things that we didn’t even know were microaggressions to people,” she said. “The coolest thing about these discussions is that they have been very honest. People have been very upfront about feelings that have been hurt.”

Bell said he hopes by giving students more spaces to express concerns this year, Waa-Mu will have more leaders of marginalized identities and tell their stories more “legitimately.”

“We want to … (make) sure that people of color enter this process when they’re freshmen and sophomores so by the time they’re seniors they can take a bigger ownership role of all of it,” he said.

Bell apologized for both Reid’s experience in “Gold” and the shortcomings in the plot of “Another Way West,” saying it is his responsibility as the faculty member in charge of the conversation to be aware of what could make students uncomfortable.

“It’s not like other people are responsible,” he said. “Ultimately the buck stops with me.” alfaro@u.northwestern.edu

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MINNEAPOLIS — Any Northwestern bowl-eligibility celebration will have to wait at least one more week.

Sloppy offensive play doomed the Wildcats (5-6, 4-4 Big Ten) against Minnesota (8-3, 5-3) on Saturday as Northwestern fell 29-12, missing a chance to earn the sixth win that would have guaranteed the team a spot in postseason play.

For the first time in more than two months, the Wildcats were held scoreless in the first half.

Minnesota took a six-point lead with a touchdown on its opening drive and never relinquished the lead. “(We) didn’t give ourselves a whole lot of opportunity today offensively,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said.

NU threatened at various points in the second half but fell short time and time again.

After the Cats’ first touchdown cut the deficit to 15-6 late in the third quarter, junior linebacker Anthony Walker pilfered the ball from Minnesota returner Jalen Myrick on the ensuing kickoff, setting NU

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Instead of capitalizing on the break, the Cats came up short on a fourth-and-one moments later.

Another defensive stop gave NU the ball at midfield a few minutes later, but again the Cats stalled, punting it away after gaining just seven yards.

After the game, Fitzgerald said offensive line difficulties played a major role in the rocky offensive performance.

“We’ve typically gone where our offensive line has taken us,” Fitzgerald said. “We have six defeats — and I’m not trying to put it squarely on their shoulders — but we’ve been pretty inconsistent up there.

And today was one of our more inconsistent games of the year.”

NU ran the ball for just 63 yards on 33 carries, with those numbers reflecting the line’s struggles to protect quarterback Clayton Thorson. The sophomore was sacked seven times and fumbled twice.

Thorson did manage to rack up 276 passing yards and a late touchdown pass to sophomore wide receiver Flynn Nagel that cut the deficit to 10, though it was quickly rendered meaningless when the Cats failed on a two-point conversion that would have made it a one-possession game.

The sacks and a long day for the team’s wide receivers, who dropped numerous passes and had difficulties getting open, combined to produce an anemic passing

game. Nagel said the receivers need to work on being quicker with their routes.

“Just being efficient with our breaks,” Nagel said. “It happened. It’s part of football, so we’ve just got to learn from it.”

The departure of senior Austin Carr with a third-quarter injury made things more difficult for the Cats in the second half. NU’s leading receiver was injured in a helmet-to-helmet collision with Minnesota defender Duke McGhee, who was ejected for targeting. Fitzgerald said Carr “seemed to be doing well” after the game.

It took NU too long to find its rhythm against Minnesota on a cold, windy evening, as it trailed 12-0 at halftime and 15-0 late into the third quarter.Though the Cats have shown an ability to bounce back from slow starts on the road before, they were unable to climb out of the hole they dug this time.

“We’ve got to be able to pivot and keep playing,” senior defensive end C.J. Robbins said.

The loss gives the team’s season finale against Illinois even greater meaning, as it will determine whether NU finishes the season bowl-eligible.

“One-game playoff next week. You win, and you’re in,” Walker said. “This loss is going to hurt; it’s supposed to hurt…but we’ve got to flush it, leave it here.” timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu

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MINNEAPOLIS — When junior linebacker Anthony Walker stripped Minnesota kick returner Jalen Myrick to give Northwestern, then trailing 15-6, the ball at the Golden Gophers’ 21-yard line late in the third quarter, it seemed like the tide was turning.

But four plays later, nothing had changed. The Wildcats (5-6, 4-4 Big Ten) misfired on a fourth-and-one to end the drive — neither the first nor the last time NU came up emptyhanded after driving into Minnesota (8-3, 5-3) territory in Saturday’s 29-12 loss.

Despite putting big numbers on the scoreboard multiple times this season, NU hasn’t been particularly efficient with its scoring chances on the whole. The Cats ranked 84th in the country entering the week in points scored per trip inside the opponents’ 40-yard line.

But Saturday’s performance was a low point for NU. The Cats ended six drives inside the Golden Gophers’ 40-yard line, plus a seventh that stalled on Minnesota’s 43, with only 12 points to show from all the opportunities.

“We beat ourselves,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “We had seams; we had plays that were there, and we had one-man breakdowns.”

NU found its biggest problems when the field got shorter, with an ineffective run game and poor pass

protection killing once-promising drives before they reached the end zone. The Cats turned the ball over on downs three times in their seven drives that crossed midfield, including the aforementioned fourth-down miss when momentum seemed to be swinging NU’s way in the third quarter.

The season-long struggles of kicker Jack Mitchell added another degree of difficulty for the Cats. The senior missed a 43-yard field goal in the first quarter and never saw the field for another kick, limiting NU’s options in the red zone and forcing Fitzgerald to be aggressive, perhaps to a fault, on fourth downs.

“Points were at a premium,” Fitzgerald said. “But when you don’t execute, (it’s) kind of a moot point.”

As a whole, NU’s off ense had a day to forget Saturday, surrendering seven sacks and losing two fumbles to converting on just 2-of15 third down plays. But by coming away with nothing too often on the chances they did create, the Cats doomed themselves to a defeat in Minneapolis.

After the game, Fitzgerald blamed coaching for the miscues in Minnesota’s half of the field, but senior receiver Andrew Scanlan disagreed.

“Coach (Fitzgerald) is going to come in here and say they have to coach (the players) better, but at the end of the day, we’re the ones on the field,” Scanlan said. “We’re the ones that have to execute, and we just didn’t get it done.” maxschuman2018@u.northwestern. edu

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All good things must come to an end.

After tournament wins against SIU-Edwardsville on Friday and Kent State last week, Northwestern (16-3-4, 7-1-3 Big Ten) came up short against No. 3-seed Duke (15-4-3) in the third round of the NCAA Tournament. A goal by Blue Devils’ freshman Ella Stevens in the 33rd minute was the difference in the 1-0 defeat that marks the end of the Wildcats’ season.

Duke spent much of the game on the front foot, peppering junior goalkeeper Lauren Clem with 22 shots and keeping NU back on its heels for most of the game. But the Cats’ back line still put in another stalwart performance, limiting the Blue Devils’ chances outside of the goal and allowing just six shots on frame.

Junior defender Nikia Smith specifically held her own against Duke’s leading goal scorer, Toni Payne, holding the dangerous forward to just one shot on goal.

“As a team, we defended very well,” Smith said. “We knew they were going to be a tough opponent, and they had good offensive players.

If they were going to beat us, they were not going to beat us easy.”

Even with the defense’s strong performance, a costly bobble by Clem off an awkward cross led to Stevens’ goal in the 33rd minute.

That score proved too much for the Cats to overcome. Throughout the season, coach Michael Moynihan stressed the importance of NU’s transition from defense to attack to the team’s success, and the Cats struggled to turn possession into chances en route to notching just two shots on the day.

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Although NU was able to put together enough successful attacks to piece together a 1-0 win in Friday’s game against the Cougars, the Cats failed to get any momentum going forward in Sunday’s contest.

Late in the game, Moynihan moved sophomore midfielder Marisa Viggiano up top in the hopes of getting an equalizer, but the move was too little too late for NU. “(Duke) made it really difficult for us to string some passes together in the final third,” Viggiano said.

Sunday’s match marks the end of the Cats’ historic season, but even with the loss, NU’s 2016 team will go down alongside its 1998 squad as one of the greatest in school history.

In amassing an NCAA-leading 17 shutouts on the season and placing six players on all-conference teams, the Cats were a force to be reckoned with.

Only three years ago, NU registered a 3-14-2 season and finished last in the Big Ten. But with the commitment of the team’s older players and Moynihan’s direction, NU rose to unparalleled heights as a Big Ten regular season champion this year. That massive climb left the team positive in the face of the end of its season.

“This game was about our seniors and the chemistry that this group has,” Moynihan said. “When these seniors started their careers, they were last in the Big Ten. To end their careers as Big Ten champions and Sweet 16 participants is really something special.” benjaminlewis2020@u.northwestern. edu

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Marisa Viggiano controls the ball. The sophomore midfielder and the Wildcats lost to Duke in the NCAA Tournament, ending their season.