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Sekile Nzinga. She has has served as the director of the Women’s Center since Sept. 2017.

Sekile Nzinga receives local award Women’s Center director honored by YMCA Evanston/North Shore

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By all accounts, Sekile Nzinga is a ubiquitous presence at Northwestern.

Since she entered her role as the director of the Women’s

Center in September 2017, Nzinga has served as a faculty member in the department of Gender and Sexuality Studies and as the co-chair of the Gender-Queer, Non-Binary and Trans Task Force. On the side, she also volunteers for the Chicago Abortion Fund, a nonprofit that provides financial assistance for

people seeking abortions.

This September, Nzinga was honored by the YMCA Evanston/North Shore’s YWomen Leadership Awards for her work advancing gender equality at Northwestern.

Looking back on her two years at the Women’s Center, Nzinga recalled many memorable

moments. In her first year, the former public school social worker organized a “critical intersections” symposium to celebrate the Center’s 30th anniversary, which engaged campus leaders in communication with Chicago-based feminist activists and alumni in » See NZINGA, page 10

In 2020, Evanston Democrats are spending green to vote blue.

According to the Federal Election Commission, Evanston residents have given almost $237,000 in individual donations to presidential candidates for the 2020 election in the first three fundraising quarters of 2019. Approximately 75 percent of those donations have gone to what are widely considered to be the five top-tier candidates for the Democratic primary — former vice president Joe Biden, U.S. Sens.

Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).

The city has a distinct frontrunner for overall fundraising in Buttigieg, who has received over $84,000 from donors who list an Evanston address. His donations

total almost $50,000 more than Warren’s, who, at $35,000, has raised the second-most from residents.

However, in terms of the number of donations, Sanders leads the pack with 508, sitting comfortably over a second-place Warren, who has 394 donors, though his average amount per donation is only $47.10. Biden takes first in average donations with $253.54, despite having only 69 contributions, while Buttigieg and his 387 donors raised an average of $218.02 per donation.

Neal Weingarden, the director of communications for the Democratic Party of Evanston, said that Warren and Sanders supporters frequently utilize the DPOE’s space, but Buttigieg supporters often organize their own events.

“We’ve really only had the Warren and and Sanders people aggressively wanting to use the office,” Weingarden said. “The Buttigieg people have come by but they haven’t showed up in the same way as the Warren or the Sanders people.”

Many Democratic candidates have declared that they are » See DONORS, page 10

Willard House talks SESP dean to continue push for equity Ida B. Wells conflict David Figlio’s made strides in the area in his first two and a half years Museum aims to address, look into contentious history

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The question of how to not just “display” but “dismantle” the United States’ racist past was key to a new digital exhibit about Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells. Lori Osborne, the director of the Frances Willard House Museum, said during a discussion on Thursday.

In a crowded room in the museum, Ella Wagner, the digital curator of the exhibit, spoke about the history between Willard, who was president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and Wells, a journalist and antilynching activist, in the late 19th century. Osborne introduced the

project and its goals.

“We believe that the significant work that the (Woman’s Christian Temperance Union) did under (her) leadership and beyond to grow women as leaders is still critical to telling the full story of our nation’s history,” Osborne said.

“But we also believe the telling of her failures as a leader is important as well.”

In 1890, Willard made racist remarks about African Americans to a newspaper. Four years later, Wells republished the newspaper interview to draw attention to Willard’s statements and pressure her to speak out against lynching.

“Willard could not see that her failure to directly express support for the anti-lynching movement and her use of demeaning and incendiary words to describe African Americans was morally wrong, » See WELLS, page 10

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This is the fourth article in a series called “2020 Vision” which walks through the reflections and hopes student groups, administrators and others throughout Northwestern have on the past few years and upcoming new decade.

Classrooms and the professors lecturing inside them looked much less socioeconomically and racially diverse when David Figlio first came to Evanston to teach in 2008. Later, as he prepared to take over as dean of the School of Education and Social Policy, Figlio knew that while representation for students and faculty was improving, inclusion still needed to become a higher priority at Northwestern.

In the near two and a half years he has spent in the role, Figlio has worked to close that gap through more intentional faculty hiring and recruitment to attract a wider range of people to NU — like strengthening the SESP Leadership Institute for incoming students. He’s seen the effects of it already.

But he’s still not satisfied.

“Just because I think we’re doing a good job with this, I don’t think we can rest on our laurels,” Figlio said. “I see it as ‘Yeah we’re here, but we’re probably 40 percent of where I want to be’ as opposed to ‘Maybe we’re ahead of some others at the University and we should be happy about that.”

In an interview with The Daily, Figlio reflected on the successes of his past couple years as dean, ranging from strides in diversity and inclusion to incoming curricular changes, while emphasizing

a number of areas of growth for the school.

Sixty percent of SESP’s clinical and instructional faculty identify as white, according to NU’s 2018 Diversity and Inclusion Report, while that figure sits over 70 percent in every other undergraduate school. In the School of Communication, for example, 84.1 percent identify as white, and more than 93 percent do in the Bienen School of Music.

“We know faculty members of color and female faculty members do disproportionate labor,” Figlio said. “They’re less likely to come to an environment where they’re not going to thrive. I love the fact that now we can hire amazing faculty members of color and amazing female faculty members, because they know that they’re less likely to do disproportionate labor here in SESP.” Still, as SESP’s ranks of

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professors have begun to better reflect the rest of the country, Figlio said it’s led to a bigger disparity between junior and senior faculty, as the latter group is whiter and more male than the former.

None of the school’s tenure-line faculty in 2018, for example, » See SESP, page 10

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AROUND TOWN Council approves new restaurant on Howard St.

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Aldermen at a Monday City Council meeting approved a lease for a new Howard Street restaurant, taking over Cafe Coralie’s former space.

Aldermen voted 8-1 to authorize the lease, with only Ald. Tom Suffredin (6th) voting against the measure. Marcos Rivera, the owner of Libertad Restaurant in Skokie, and his business partner Arturo Orozco Jr. will open Estación at 633 Howard St. The Evanston Police Department vacated its outpost at the location in November 2017, and Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) told The Daily at the time that the area had come a “long, long way” since the outpost first opened in 1987.

Cafe Coralie opened in that space three months after EPD left, but closed July 7. Rainey said at the council meeting she is excited to have a “reputable, exciting, well-known and very profitable” business set up in Evanston. According to city documents, Estación will fulfil the “long desired goal” of an all-day restaurant concept on Howard Street.

“This is a very exciting prospect for us and for Howard street,” Rainey said. “It’s really saving the day. We did have a failure.”

Rivera told the city’s Economic Development

POLICE BLOTTER Woman shot on Sherman Ave. A 46-year-old woman was shot by an individual in a passing car while walking in the 700 block of Sherman Ave., Evanston police said.

Evanston police Cmndr. Ryan Glew said police received multiple reports of shots fired and were advised that a woman had been shot.

The woman told police she saw a car pull up and start shooting. When she realized she had

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Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) at a council meeting.

Committee in July that he is looking to open Estación by New Year’s Day, and plans to serve both spicy and comfort food. He added that he is excited to come to Howard Street, which is where his father opened his first restaurant years ago.

Rainey added that Rivera plans to eventually buy the 633 Howard St. building. Mayor Steve Hagerty questioned the lease agreement with the city, which said Rivera’s rent payments will be used to offset the appraised value on the building

been shot, she ran to her house, Glew said. The Evanston Fire Department transported her to the hospital to receive medical attention.

Glew said police “made contact” with a minor, who is a resident and a suspect in the shooting, though no one has been charged.

around 8:20 p.m. on Wednesday. The employee saw two individuals, a man and a woman, walking around the store and placing items into the woman’s coat. The employee attempted to stop the individuals as they left, but they fled eastbound on Hamilton Street, Glew said.

The employee told police the man was wearing an orange and the woman was wearing a black jacket. Glew said it is not known what was taken at the time.

Unknown items taken from Jewel-Osco

A number of unknown items were taken from Jewel-Osco on Wednesday, police said.

Glew said a 25-year-old employee of the store, 1128 Chicago Ave., reported the theft at

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when he goes to purchase it.

Rainey said Rivera would have preferred to purchase the building now instead of renting but that the city was hesitant after refusing ownership to others. She added that his business will pay city taxes on the building, which Rainey said the previous owner had not done. Rainey said the building has always been on the tax rolls, but “it’s just that no one has paid taxes.”

The lease stipulates a $2,500 monthly rent with the option to purchase the building with six months notice within the first 36 months.

Rivera is also opening a restaurant in the former Curt’s Cafe location on Dempster Street.

According to city documents, the Dempster Street restaurant will be called Zentli and will operate as a full service restaurant “with a focus on Mexican culture.”

Rivera’s restaurant in Skokie serves small plates of Latin American cuisine with a modern approach, drawing inspiration from family recipes and traditional ingredients, according to its website. Libertad’s website says its menu “encourages and exemplifies the meaning of Libertad — freedom — to explore.”

“I just think Evanston should feel really blessed that we got two great restaurants from one purveyor,” Rainey said. “So, thank you very much to the Libertad family.” samanthahandler2021@u.northwestern.edu

Setting the record straight A story in Wednesday’s paper titled “Man struck by car at intersection of Orrington Ave. and Sherman Ave. misstated the intersection of the accident.

The collison occurred at Sherman Ave. and Foster St. The Daily regrets the errors.

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Northwestern faced backlash against a Nov. 21 Instagram post that featured the Taiwanese independence flag, leading some to decry the post for seeming to make a political statement.

The post Tuesday to the official Northwestern Instagram account pictured dozens of international students holding up flags to kick off International Education Week with a “March of Flags.” One student can be seen holding up a green flag with the words “I SUPPORT TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE” in English and Chinese, along with the official flag of Taiwan.

Many saw the photo as supporting the Taiwan independence movement, and others criticized the University for allowing political statements to be made on the official account. “what a shame that the official account of NU proudly treat such political statement as an important part of a non-political event,” user @wyxhxn wrote. “what a shame that the green flag shows up in the pic while all of the rest are national/regional flags. If this event is for student diversity, please keep politics away from it.”

In response to the criticism, Northwestern said it did not intend to make a political statement and in fact “would have preferred that no political statements be made” during the event. But it refused calls to delete the post, saying the University supported students’ right to free expression.

“We support and encourage free expression and free speech on campus and the sometimes uncomfortable debates that such speech inspires,” the response said. “Universities are a place for rigorous debate and discussion of difficult topics, and this is one of those times.

China views Taiwan, an island off the southern coast, as a province. However, Taiwan, which elects its own government, views its relationship with the mainland differently. Calls for independence have strengthened in recent years after the island’s

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Taiwan Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairwoman Tsai Ing-Wen November 27, 2010. Tsai cautions against giving China more leverage over Taiwan.

president rejected the “one country, two systems” framework and U.S. foreign policy increasingly has seen Taiwan as a balance against China’s power in the region.

This isn’t the first time Northwestern saw itself in the fray of geopolitical tensions. Earlier this year, the University said it opposed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a Palestinian-led effort to end international support for Israel because of its occupation of the West Bank and violations of international law.

The defense of the post was also emblematic of

the University’s stiff defense of free speech. Some disagreed with calls to take the post down.

“I’d like to remind my dear Chinese peers that neither are political statements intrinsically contradictory with the principles of freedom of speech, nor are they inappropriate simply because you disagree with them,” user @5ukry6vt wrote. “Sentences don’t infringe national sovereignty, since any country with a sovereignty so vulnerable should have already disappeared.”

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How not to be a believer: a lesson we should learn from TANISHA TEKRIWAL

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I don’t know how many people on campus have been roped into a conversation about “spirituality” that ended up feeling like an attempt at conversion. As an international student, the title Cru meant nothing to me, and I suspect there are many domestic students too who might not have known much about it before coming to Northwestern. Cru is a religious organization, which used to be called “Campus Crusade for Christ,” and some years ago decided to change its name to be able to have “discussions about Christ with people who might initially be turned off by a more overtly Christian name,” according to the organisation’s spokesperson who discussed the topic with ABC News.

My encounter with the organization seemed like an isolated experience that was uncommon on campus. Until I asked my friends and they asked theirs and I realized many more stories with more troubling particulars than mine than I had initially anticipated existed.

My meeting with a Cru member started out as a general conversation, which, I have since learned, is nothing out of the ordinary. Quickly, however, it swerved to religion. I was asked about my beliefs and explained that I believe only in morality and if labels are necessary, then I would identify as a Hindu verging on agnostic. The whole conversation proceeded in the friendliest of manners; the girl I met shared with me her beliefs on certain topics and I shared mine. The Cru member brought a friend along, which I didn’t think too much of until I listened to other narratives and realized that this, too, is a pattern: a harmless detail that nevertheless startles in its meticulous regularity.

At some point, one of them pulled out a small booklet, the cover reading “Know God” without specifying its Christian approach. To me, it seemed like Cru was suggesting the only way to know God was through Christianity, closing the door on other religions that also believe in one God. A diagram was presented to me: the first was of two circles — one marked Earth, and the other God — drawn apart from each other. There were arrows reaching

out from the first circle, unable to reach the other.

The premise, I was told, was that being a good person is important, yes, but no matter what we do, our sins are too insurmountable for us to reach or know God. On the next page, a similar illustration was chalked out, with one difference: the circles were now connected with a cross marked Christ.

As I have explained before, I am not particularly religious, and am not trying to reach God, but imagine if I were. Imagine how offensive it could be to a believer of any other faith that the only avenue to the Almighty is delineated decidedly Christian.

Imagine the atheists and agnostics who are implicitly told that no matter how good and righteous they are, their lack of faith will always lead them to damnation. Atrocities committed in the name of God — like the curbing of women’s rights — are often rationalized by the idea that actions are irrelevant as long as the oppressor’s faith is maintained.

Isn’t this the dangerous trope of blind faith espoused and abused as an instrument of oppression by extremist factions of all religions? And what of the oppressed and the ones who have dealt with tragedy beyond our everyday — are they to be punished for being disenchanted with a God who has never revealed Herself to them when they have done nothing wrong?

The dialogue also moved to the overlap between religions. When I claimed that all religions are fashioned around being a good human, the Cru member distanced her faith from Judaism and Islam; but doesn’t that very language of division and differentiation engender strife in the world? The conversation ended with her asking me if Christianity was a lifestyle I could see as a means to know God, and evasively I said I could see how it could be a way to know God for some people. More directly now, I was asked if I could see it as an avenue for myself, and I declined the implicit offer, saying my beliefs were, if not antithetical, a step away from those they articulated.

I must clarify now that the member I met with was polite and friendly, and I have heard the same from other tellings of the Cru narrative. The problem resides not with the execution of “sharing the gospel” but the intent. ReCruitment or conversion disguised as a social event or harmless discussion is deceitful — a simple exchange of information and beliefs need not end in one conceding to the other.

So to those who want to separate my experience

and others’ experiences on campus from the beliefs of Cru at large, consider the following things.

After learning of other incidents, and finally deciding to write this piece, I opened up the Cru website online and came across some articles. A particularly disturbing one was titled “How the Myers Briggs Personality Indicator Can Help You Share the Gospel” which outlined ways to recognize people’s personality types to better give the members “a real advantage when sharing (their) faith” because “sharing the gospel is about more than preparing an arsenal of arguments.”

Advantage — what for? Arguments — what are you trying to convince your partner of, in what was supposed to be an open and respectful discussion about each others’ beliefs? The article charts out personality types and “what they respond to,” which worries me as I contemplate the possibility of students being subjected to manipulation dressed as socializing on a cerebral and subconscious level.

Another article is titled “How To Talk With Agnostics and Atheists” where people are categorized as Christian and non-Christian — isn’t the lumping of believers of a different faith with atheists and agnostics dangerous? How do you tell someone that their beliefs, just because they are different, are equal, in your eyes, to not believing without feeling at least a little bit of shame? This article quotes a converter who says that “evangelism isn’t about giving people information, it is about helping people understand.” Understand that one God is real and another isn’t? Don’t even get me started on the troubling ethics of feeling the need to “enlighten” atheists and agnostics.

So my question remains why missionaries trained to trap one in subtle turns of language and behavior are allowed to conduct activities that in exercising their religious rights simultaneously encroach on others’ rights on a secular campus like Northwestern. I question how we can allow “Crusaders” to flourish in a space where we know what the historical and brutal connotations of that term are. The word jihad roughly translates to “the Crusade for a principle or belief,” not the ugly definition it has devolved to in contemporary context. Yet, the idea of having a group on campus named Jihadists seems insane.

Can one imagine the outrage if today the Muslim, Hindu or other groups on campus contacted students saying they want to discuss “spirituality”

and started — however respectfully — preaching their personal views to them? There would be headlines and cries of a “pagan invasion.”

I understand that many regard evangelism and conversion an intrinsic part of their faith, not only in Christianity, but also other religions. For once these people must pick humanity and basic respect for others over their own ulterior motives. That is not to say that religious organizations must abandon their views — I can think of several, such as the University Christian Ministry and Northwestern OM, a Hindu group on campus, that keep to themselves without upsetting anyone. They must, however, stop attempting to promote something as personal as religion. If that is the Crux of the character and purpose of their organization, they should take their activities off-campus.

Conversion itself must be an act of personal interest and free will — it must be sought and not offered. Educating others about one’s faith and helping others need not take that tone. Many put religiosity and morality in the same bracket — but if one wants to do good, one can do so as a human and need not relate it to their identity as a Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Sikh etc. Kindness existed in society long before humankind started looking for God — definitely long before Christ — and will exist long after.

My last word on this is that I know some will read this as an anti-Christianity rant. It is not. I stand for secularism and people’s beliefs being respected. I do not stand for a Northwestern where some communities are allowed to get away with things others are persecuted for. My criticism of a dimension of religious activity on the Northwestern campus will no doubt be misconstrued as an attack on religious freedom.

I only contend that the presence and participation of Cru on campus is itself manifesting as an infringement of other, less visible, groups’ religious freedoms, including those who decide upon the agnostic or atheist paths.

Tanisha Tekriwal is a Weinberg first-year. She can be contacted at tanishatekriwal2023@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

None of us should choose to settlle for Medicare for All IAN ODLAND

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Every week a member of Political Union’s executive board will share their thoughts on an issue of their choice in this column. The pieces do not represent the opinions or stances of the wider Political Union, but rather offer an individual’s ideas to spark a conversation.

I want you to imagine for a second that we live in a state where the executive and the legislature are in favor of a single payer healthcare system that will cover all of its citizens. Let’s call it Green Mountain Care.

I’d like to welcome you to Vermont in 2014.

Democratic Gov. Pete Shumlin has just announced legislation that would put Vermont on the path to a single-payer system. Initial cost estimates stated that single-payer could reduce state health care spending by 8-12 percent. However, two years later,

the government savings were predicted to be just 1.6 percent. And that doesn’t even approach the costs of such a system. Governor Shumlin’s own estimates projected a doubling of the state’s budget and a necessary payroll tax of 11.5 percent on businesses and tax increases equal to 9.5 percent of an individual’s income.

Today, Green Mountain Care does not exist.

And a Democrat is no longer in office. In a state that elected Bernie Sanders with 70 percent of the vote, Phil Scott, a Republican, got re-elected as governor in 2018 with 55 percent of the vote.

This is the roadmap of Medicare for All. Currently, there are two major presidential candidates who support Medicare for All as defined by this resolution. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has proposed a single payer system that would cost $52 trillion over 10 years with $20 trillion in new federal spending. That is 25 percent of the US annual GDP. In 2018, we spent 18 percent of U.S. GDP on healthcare.

High government spending on medicine takes investment away from important sectors of American wellbeing, impacting health outcomes — like education, housing and nutrition. Medicare for All

focuses on making sure that American lives are covered by healthcare, not on making Americans’ lives better. Estimated Medicare expenditures for patients in the last two months of their life is $55 billion. That is more than the United States spends on the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of Education.

As an alternative, I offer up a healthcare market altered to utilize the machinery of capitalism — competition, financial incentives and alterations to the tax code — in ways that reduce costs, improve outcomes and make Americans’ lives better, not just covered.

Medicare for All fails to address the many real failures of today’s healthcare market.

1. The fee for service model, which incentivizes more procedures and medications, not better treatment.

2. Investment in healthcare infrastructure in rural communities that lack the population base to sustain hospitals.

3. A lack of transparency in a system, which requires one to itemize their healthcare bill just to see what they are paying for.

4. Poor nutrition science and tax incentives, which lead to Americans making poor health

decisions.

5. A focus in healthcare on keeping people alive as opposed to giving people a high quality of life.

6. The limited amount of residency positions funded by the United States government.

7. Currently, 22,000 doctors do not accept Medicare, partially because they offer reimbursements that are 20 percent lower than private insurance.

Finally, the implementation of Medicare for All would result in two million Americans who work in the medical billing industry losing their jobs. Implementing Medicare for All could jolt an economy that relied on healthcare hiring to recover from the recession.

Simply put, Medicare for All is settling for the government to provide healthcare, and we deserve better.

Ian Odland is a McCormick Senior. He can be contacted at IanOdland2020@u.northwestern.edu.

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Friday, November 22, 2019

Gophers mirroring NU’s run from a season ago

By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

daily senior staffer @2021_charlie

Minnesota’s expectation shattering season had an innocent start with nail-biting early wins against South Dakota State, Fresno State and Georgia Southern. The Golden Gophers were expected to be one of the worst teams in the Big Ten West in 2019, and they played like it in September.

Two months later, No. 10 Minnesota (9-1, 6-1 Big Ten)is rolling into Ryan Field as the top team in the Big Ten West to play Northwestern (2-8, 0-7). After going 3-6 in conference contests last season and playing almost as poorly as the Wildcats have this year, the Golden Gophers are completing one of the biggest turnarounds in the country.

“I’ve been telling people all year, confidence and swagger and momentum is a real thing in this game,” senior center Jared Thomas said about Minnesota. “You see a team last year that played really hard but got down toward the end of the year when they saw that a bowl bid was out of their reach… When a team is confident and when things are clicking on all cylinders, you see what they’ve been able to do this year.”

Last year, NU was the team that defied preseason expectations and made a surprising run to the Big Ten Championship Game.

This season, Minnesota is on track to do the same thing. After losing to Maryland and Illinois in an underwhelming 2018 season, the Golden Gophers have turned their fortune by establishing one of the best offenses in the Big Ten. Led by quarterback Tanner Morgan, Minnesota has scored 30 or more points in six of its seven conference games. With an effective four-man committee at running back and two all-Big Ten caliber receivers in Tyler Johnson and Rashod Bateman, the Golden Gophers won their first six conference games by an average of 23 points.

Minnesota tripped up last week at Iowa, losing its first game of the season in a four-point defeat. The Golden Gophers had a chance at a game-winning drive with less than two minutes remaining, but Morgan was sacked on the first two plays of that drive. Showing signs of a concussion, Morgan was taken out of the game, and backup Cole Kramer couldn’t lead Minnesota to a win.

Morgan has been in concussion protocol this week, and his status is uncertain for Saturday’s game against the Wildcats. But this game has little big-picture significance for the Golden Gophers –– regardless of the result Saturday, they’ll likely have to win until their meeting with Wisconsin next week to qualify for the Big Ten Championship Game.

“Everything we want and everything we wrote down is right in front of us,” Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck said. “Nothing’s changed. How many times after Week [12], when we’re 9-1 at the University of Minnesota, is everything right in front of us, and we control our own destiny? How many times does that happen?”

After NU earned its second win of the season last week against UMass, coach Pat Fitzgerald said the Cats still have areas they need to improve to compete with a team like the Golden Gophers. Junior quarterback Aidan Smith threw for 76 yards and added two interceptions last week, and NU lost the turnover battle.

Fitzgerald said he isn’t using Minnesota’s high ranking as a source of motivation or discussing his team as a potential “spoiler.”

Instead, he said he just wants to see the Cats show improvement in the same areas that have been plaguing them all season.

“I’m happy for Minnesota, they’re having a great year,” Fitzgerald said. “But we’ve got to get prepared this week and get guys to play better. We got to take care of the ball, and we’ve got to play the way the blueprint is for us to win. If we do that, we’ll give ourselves the chance to compete against a great team.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Tanner Morgan attempts a pass in a 2018 game between Northwestern and Minnesota. The Gophers have had a very successful 2019 season.

STANDINGS EAST Ohio State

(10-0, 7-0)

Penn State

(9-1, 6-1)

Michigan

(8-2, 5-2)

Indiana

(7-3, 4-3)

Michigan State

(4-6, 2-5)

Maryland Rutgers

(3-7, 1-6) (2-8, 0-7)

WEST Minnesota

(9-1, 6-1)

Wisconsin

(8-2, 5-2)

Iowa

(7-3, 4-3)

Illinois

(6-4, 4-3)

Purdue

(4-6, 3-4)

Nebraska

(4-6, 2-5)

Northwestern

(2-8, 0-7)

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11 QB Aidan Smith 6 RB Drake Anderson 81 WR R. Chiaokhiao-Bowman 4 WR Berkeley Holman 19 WR Riley Lees 80 SB Trey Pugh 70 LT Rashawn Slater 66 LG Nik Urban 65 C Jared Thomas 52 RG Sam Gerak 76 RT Ethan Wiederkehr

46 DE Winston DeLattiboudere 90 DT Sam Renner 18 NT Micah Dew-Treadway 45 DE Carter Coughlin 41 LB Thomas Barner 21 LB Kamal Martin 16 DB Coney Durr 25 DB Benjamin St-Juste 6 DB Chris Williamson 11 DB Antoine Winfield Jr. 23 DB Jordan Howden

97 DE Joe Gaziano 95 DT Alex Miller 90 DT Jake Saunders 49 DE Adetomiwa Adebawore 51 WILL Blake Gallagher 42 MIKE Paddy Fisher 28 WILL Chris Bergin 3 CB Trae Williams 13 S JR Pace 7 S Travis Whillock 18 CB Cam Ruiz

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The Northwestern offensive line prepares for a play. New coach Kurt Anderson has brought a new mentality to the unit this season.

How NU’s O-Line became the ‘NWO’

By JONAH DYLAN

daily senior staffer @thejonahdylan

Growing up, Kurt Anderson — by his own admission — was pretty lazy.

On Saturday mornings, he’d watch whatever was on, not wanting to get up and turn the dial on the TV. So every week after cartoons, he’d find himself watching the World Wrestling Federation. After a while, he was hooked.

Fast forward to earlier this year, when Anderson accepted a position as Northwestern’s offensive line coach. He wanted to bring his love of WWE to his new job, so he started calling the Wildcats’ offensive line the “NWO,” in this case meaning “Northwestern Wildcats Offensive Line” but clearly harkening back to the legendary wrestling stable nWo made up of Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash.

And Anderson found someone else who shared his passion for WWE — running backs coach Lou Ayeni.

“We both grew up on it,” Ayeni said. “For me, you grow up with it, you fall in love with

it, you kind of start to be like ‘Oh, it’s fake,’ and then you fall back in love with it because it’s kind of funny. It’s kind of my escape, a little bit. I love it.”

Anderson and Ayeni room together on road trips and commonly watch SmackDown on Friday nights. As far as they know, though, there aren’t any current NU players that are as into it as they are.

Anderson, though, suspects that coach Pat Fitzgerald is a WWE fan.

“I kind of get the sense that coach Fitz — because he’s got the three boys — that he’s spent some time watching some WWF and WWE in that household,” he said. “I get the feeling that he probably knows a lot more than he’s leading on.”

The NWO nickname isn’t just a gimmick.

Anderson really wants NU’s linemen to treat it as a mentality, to try to attack every game the same way Hogan, Hall and Nash attacked the world of wrestling so many years ago.

Junior guard Nik Urban watched WWE growing up, but he hasn’t been super invested in it for a while (his favorite wrestler was The Undertaker). Still, he thinks the offensive line has really changed its mentality under Anderson,

specifically by following the NWO moniker.

“There’s a lot of symbolism, a lot of the things they talked about,” Anderson said. “Not apologizing for who they are, what they believed in and running roughshod over everything. And really bringing a juice and a mentality to everybody that was in that industry at that time and everybody else had to step up their game. And that’s kind of what we’ve tried to do as an offensive line.”

Anderson has recently started following WWE more and more as his kids have gotten into it. His favorite of all time is Hall, but he said he likes Braun Strowman because “he reminds me of what an offensive lineman should be.” For what it’s worth, he isn’t a fan of boxing superstar Tyson Fury’s recent foray into the WWE, which included a win over Strowman.

Anderson loves talking about this stuff, even if the offensive linemen aren’t always as into it as he is. So are there any players who watch it as much as he does?

“Not that I know of,” Urban said. “We all just laugh at him.” jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Jared Thomas’ impact goes past O-Line

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

daily senior staffer @bxrosenberg

Jared Thomas has certainly paid his dues with Northwestern.

He redshirted in his 2015 true freshman season.

He appeared in every game a year later, but mainly as a backup offensive lineman and on special teams. Now, Thomas is not only in his second year as the Wildcats’ starting center, but also his first as a captain.

“There were times that I didn’t think I would be a starter here,” Thomas said. “Naturally, as a college athlete, you go through struggles, you go through questioning your abilities. To be going out on Ryan Field for the last time this weekend is a little bittersweet.”

Thomas did not discover football right away — he began playing basketball at age 4, but only took up football when he started high school. The sport is in his blood, however — his uncle, Chris Beaty, played for Indiana in the early 2000s.

Coming to the game late did not prevent Thomas from being a highly sought-after recruit. He chose NU over three other Big Ten programs, as well as three ACC offers.

After waiting three years to become a full-time starter, the Indianapolis native got the chance to return to his hometown early last December, when the Cats made their first appearance in the Big Ten Championship Game.

“Going back home to the Big Ten Championship last year was an unreal experience for me,” Thomas said. “I had a couple opportunities to play in (Lucas Oil Stadium) in high school for the state championship games, but being back home and the amount of people that came out to support was truly special to see. The way the crowd was rocking in the second half, that was something I’ll remember for the rest of my life.”

NU (2-8, 0-7 Big Ten) has not come close to returning to Indianapolis this season, but the tough year has provided Thomas with the opportunity to continue to grow as a leader. Within his position group, he was forced to take on that role, as junior tackle Rashawn Slater was the only other returning starter on the Cats’ offensive line this year.

Thomas also helped the rest of his unit transition through a coaching change. Adam Cushing had been NU’s offensive line coach for 10 years, but he left this past offseason to become the head coach at Eastern Illinois. Kurt Anderson, previously a quality control analyst, was promoted to take his place.

“He’s one of the best leaders I’ve been around, and I’ve coached some really good centers,” Anderson said.

“I feel for him that our season hasn’t gone the way we’ve all wanted it to go because his leadership ability is not an indication of what our record is. The way that he leads, he deserves an undefeated season.”

A journalism major, Thomas interned at Big Ten Network earlier this year, and coach Pat Fitzgerald joked with the media at this week’s press conference that he was “coming for your jobs.” He was an academic all-Big Ten selection each of the last three years while protecting a pair of program linchpins in running back Justin Jackson and quarterback Clayton Thorson.

His leadership has made an impact on all his teammates, not just those on the offensive line. Junior linebacker Paddy Fisher, a second-year captain, said he and Thomas have picked each others’ brains on football and life in general.

“Maybe the first couple years, he looks back with the pain of regret,” Fitzgerald said. “(But) he’s been really consistent, his leadership has been outstanding, the work he’s done with coach Anderson being the glue in the room has been great. In a year that has not been what we want to have, he’s been a definite bright spot.” benjaminroseberg2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Jared Thomas prepares to snap the ball. The senior center has stepped into a leadership role on the offensive line this season.

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Friday, November 22, 2019

Gaziano cements legacy as all-time Wildcat great

By ANDREW GOLDEN

daily senior staffer @andrewcgolden

It was third down at Michigan State’s sevenyard line.

Down by three points and looking for a shift of momentum, Northwestern’s defense had a prime opportunity to earn a stop and hand the ball back to its offense. Spartans quarterback Brian Lewerke took the snap — but he didn’t have much time.

One. Lewerke dropped back into the endzone.

Two. Lewerke stepped up into the pocket and scanned the field.

Thr- Down went Lewerke. Before he could even attempt to throw, Joe Gaziano knocked him flat on his back for a safety.

The Wildcats carried the momentum from the play and went on to win 54-40, with the thenfreshman providing a spark for his team. But the sack was more than just a spark, it was the first sack of what has been an illustrious collegiate career.

“You look at the whole body of work — leadership, toughness, big plays, battling through injuries, a great teammate,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said.

“Really proud of the career he’s had, led us to a championship a year ago, (I’m) just really thankful for him.”

Three years after his first sack, Gaziano now sits at 27.5, just one away from breaking Casey Dailey’s school record of 28 with two games remaining in a Cats uniform.

Unfortunately, not every great career has a storybook ending. For the first time in his five years, despite all that Gaziano and his teammates have accomplished during his five years with the Cats, he won’t be playing in a bowl game in his senior season.

Despite an underwhelming final season, it’s hard to overlook just how great Gaziano’s collegiate career has been. *** Gaziano still remembers the first time he suited up for his dad’s third grade football team as a second grader.

The first time he learned how to put the pads in his pants.

The first time he put on the helmet.

“It’s a cool sport to watch and something I kinda wanted to get into,” Gaziano said. “To be able to put the helmet on, it’s just a surreal moment because you kinda see these icons on TV, running around, playing the sport… you want to be like those guys.”

Growing up in Scituate, Massachusetts, football was a major part of the Gaziano family. Less than an hour away from Gillette Stadium, Gaziano said “watching Patriots football on Sunday was a religion” for people in his hometown. By Monday, the talk of the town was about the previous day’s game, whether a win or a loss.

As if being in a football town in New England wasn’t reason enough, Gaziano’s dad, Frank, played at Lafayette. His dad encouraged him to watch

football and his love for the game grew to the point that he wanted to emulate his idols on TV. And there were plenty of players for Gaziano to look up to: Tom Brady, the late Junior Seau, Richard Seymour, Rob Ninkovich, Teddy Bruschi, Rodney Harrison, among others.

By the time he got to high school, Gaziano’s dedication to the sport had ramped up. When he went to a summer football camp, Gaziano saw it as an opportunity to meet new friends.

But that was until his competitive juices started to kick in.

Gaziano went to Xaverian Brothers High School, a private school that played the highest level of high school football, instead of his local hometown school that played in a lower division.

If he wanted to play, Gaziano had to self-reflect on how good he was and how good he wanted to be.

“I was like ‘Okay, these are the biggest and baddest in the state, how do I stack up? How can I compete?” Gaziano said. “Early in my career, (I was) just kinda thinking like ‘How can I get on the field?

How can I become a starter my sophomore year?”

His production on the field answered his questions pretty quickly. He excelled as a sophomore and started receiving scholarship offers as a junior, committing to Northwestern in the spring over offers from Boston College, Rutgers and Syracuse.

By his senior season, he won the 2014 Massachusetts Gatorade Player of the Year and helped his team to an undefeated state championship run.

So what made him choose the Cats? *** When deciding where to attend college, Gaziano imagined his future. In fact, he predicted it.

During his junior year, he took an unofficial visit to Evanston to tour the campus. It wasn’t the location that swayed his decision, it wasn’t Coach Fitzgerald — although that was a part of it. Instead, it was the people, specifically the other recruits on the visit with him.

“On that visit, I thought, ‘Wow, these are the guys I want to be around for five years in the locker room,’” Gaziano said. “I could see myself in 40 years going to meet up on a golf course and being friends for a long time.”

He verbally committed a month later and Gaziano signed his letter of intent on Feb. 4, 2015 to play football for NU. As for those recruits he met on his spring visit?

They turned out to be J.B. Butler, Blake Hance and Blake Oxley, Gaziano’s eventual freshman year roommates.

Despite being a highly-touted recruit, Gaziano only played one game as a freshman before redshirting. He used the year to get stronger and learn as much as he could in order to help the team.

“Even though I wasn’t playing on Saturday, Tuesday practice and Wednesday practice, that was like my gameday,” Gaziano said. “So I was going out and I was going as hard as I could to try to give the scout team, our offense (and) Clayton (Thorson) a great look.

It also helped that he was playing behind three

Daily file photo by Alison Albelda

Joe Gaziano lifts the Hat trophy after Northwestern’s 2018 win over Illinois. The senior has been one of NU’s most productive players during his career in Evanston.

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Joe Gaziano jumps to deflect a pass. The senior is within a half sack of the all-time Northwestern record.

defensive linemen who eventually found their way to the NFL. Ahead of Gaziano on the depth chart were Dean Lowry, Ifeadi Odenigbo and Deonte Gibson, who all worked their way into the NFL. Gaziano described learning from two different styles of leadership. On one hand, Lowry and Odenigbo led by example, often speaking very little, but saying a lot through their work ethic. Gibson, on the other hand, was a vocal leader, willing to tell a young Gaziano when his technique was wrong or his hands were in the incorrect position.

“I thought I knew a lot about football. I didn’t know anything about football,” Gaziano said. “(Gibson) was kinda like, ‘Okay, you don’t know a lot. That’s okay. There’s time to learn.’ He was encouraging in the way I was able to grow as a player in my first year… it was good to have that kind of balance.” *** But sometimes, no matter how much practice you have, no matter how much advice you take in from teammates and no matter how much film you watch, you just get lucky.

One of Gaziano’s favorite collegiate plays came last year during the Holiday Bowl. Rain poured down through the game, leading to sloppy field conditions. In the third quarter, Utah was driving deep into the Cats territory with a chance to put the game further out of reach.

“They don’t show it on the highlight film, but this is kinda how I remember the play is: I got off and I slipped and fell right on my face,” Gaziano said. “Luckily, I got up and made a nice move around the edge and was able to knock the ball out.”

Gaziano strip sacked Utah’s Jason Shelley, shifting the momentum of the game — safety Jared McGee picked it up and ran it all the way back for a touchdown as the Cats went on to score their second of four touchdowns in the quarter.

But to have as much success as Gaziano has had, it’s about more than just luck — the senior defensive end has been as consistent as they come throughout his NU career. After 4.5 sacks as a freshman, he doubled his sack total as a sophomore and has 14 more in his last two seasons.

Gaziano has been a model of consistency for a defensive line with loads of depth. The senior defensive lineman has tried to be a mentor for the younger guys, specifically sophomore Trevor Kent, junior Samdup Miller and junior Earnest Brown IV. Like Lowry and Odenigbo, Gaziano said he tends to lead by example and not with his words.

But his impact can be felt by everyone on the defensive line.

“Definitely one of our leaders. Definitely a guy that will help you with any questions you have,” freshman defensive end Adetomiwa Adebawore said. “A guy that’s very knowledgeable, understands the game pretty well. He’s just always helping, not only on the field but in the classroom. If we have any questions, he’s always there.” *** Of the accomplishments this senior class has

been a part of, this season has certainly not the one that any on this Cats’ roster, let alone the seniors, expected to have.

Still, Gaziano’s five years have been full of great moments he will be able to recall 30 years from now: the overtime win at home against Iowa in 2017, Nate Hall’s interception in triple-overtime against Michigan State and, of course, the trip to the Big Ten Championship.

NU had been to four straight bowls and had won three straight until this year. So, needless to say, this season has been a disappointment by any standard. However, Gaziano doesn’t believe this season exemplifies a drop off for this program and it certainly doesn’t define his career.

“It was an anomaly,” Gaziano said about this season. “You can’t look at that and say that was what defined your career. You have to look at the whole and say, we put in a ton of work and the body of work is impressive.”

Gaziano has helped establish a standard that makes a 2-8 season like this year an oddity. The last losing season NU had was when he was a senior in high school and the Cats went 5-7.

Instead of looking at this one season, Gaziano believes that recruits who were in a similar position as him should look at the program’s long term success and recognize that, sometimes, hiccups happen.

While he won’t be with the program next year, Gaziano knows he’s leaving a program headed in the right direction.

“You can’t shy away from the fact that we’ve had success in the past and this program is on the rise,” Gaziano said. “You can’t look at one small subset of games or one season and look at that in the long run and deter you from the fact that Northwestern does it the right way.” *** On Saturday, Gaziano will run onto Ryan Field for one final time in an NU uniform, and the sack record literally within reach. Last week, he had a couple of chances to break the record against UMass — the first team to give him an offer — but just missed.

Although etching his name in the history books is a plausible possibility, Gaziano won’t have his mind on it. Instead, he will have his mind set on beating No. 10 Minnesota. Football has never been about himself. For Gaziano, it’s been about making timely plays to help his team win.

So no, Gaziano won’t get the storybook ending he probably envisioned. He won’t play in a bowl game. He won’t have a chance to play in another Big Ten Championship Game. But he will continue to battle until he can’t anymore — and that’s what has made him a NU football legend.

“We have two really important games, I’m going to try to do as much as I can to win these games,” Gaziano said. “And if it happens to be that, you know, I help the team out by getting a sack, then definitely gonna celebrate that a little extra than all the others.” andrewgolden2021@u.northwestern.edu

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VOLLEYBALL

NU prepares for penultimate weekend of season

By BEN LUALDI

the daily northwestern

Northwestern volleyball kicks off its penultimate weekend of Big Ten play on Friday with a road trip to Columbus to take on Ohio State.

The Cats (11-17, 2-14 Big Ten) split a pair of matches at home last weekend — NU handled Rutgers in straight sets on Friday, but No. 8 Penn State returned the favor on Sunday, dominating the Cats in a 3-0 win.

Northwestern played the Nittany Lions close in the second set, but unforced errors cost the team in the final few points. The Cats will look to rebound and finish close sets this weekend, which Coach Shane Davis said has been a problem all season.

“For some reason, our players decided to get a little tentative rather than being aggressive,” Davis said. “That’s what we have to be

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better at.”

The status of outside hitter Temi ThomasAilara is still unknown. The freshman averages 4.07 kills per set, the second most in the Big Ten. However, she has only played in two of the team’s last six matches due to an injury she suffered at Rutgers on Oct. 27.

Davis said Thomas-Ailara was “not as ready as (he) thought,” when she came back to play against Nebraska Nov. 6 and Michigan State Nov. 9, and added that the team “wanted to give her more time” to fully recover.

Another question for Northwestern is the starting libero. Junior Lexi Pitsas was locked in the role for most of the season, but against

Penn State, Davis swapped in senior Sarah Johnson midway through the match.

“We thought Sarah was doing a really good job from a servicing standpoint,” Davis said.

“With the libero sport, you’re out there all six rotations. We wanted Sarah out there more.”

Whether Johnson or Pitsas starts at libero, the Cats will have their hands full with the Buckeyes.

Ohio State (14-14, 7-9) heads into the match off of a Nov. 16 win against lowly Indiana. While the Buckeyes are not even .500 in conference play, they are in eighth place in the Big Ten, only behind nationally ranked teams.

Ohio State proved they can play with anyone

on Nov. 8, when they defeated No. 5 Wisconsin 3-1, handing the Badgers their only loss in Big Ten play this season.

For the Buckeyes, freshman Kylie Murr averages the most digs per set in the conference at 4.8. Meanwhile, her teammate, freshman Gabby Gonzales, has averaged 3.63 kills per set, good for fifth in the conference.

After Friday, NU will travel to Maryland to play the Terrapins (13-15, 5-11), who are currently ninth in the conference. If the Cats win either of these two games, they will pull ahead of Indiana and Rutgers in the win column and fully leave the Big Ten cellar.

For that to happen, Davis said the team has to show more composure under pressure.

“They’ve shown that they can do it in tight situations,” Davis said. “You just have to review and get back into it.” benjaminlualdi2023@u.northwestern.edu

Residents, students oppose Daylight Saving Time change

By DELANEY NELSON

the daily northwestern

In the Evanston winter, every hour of sun counts. But in an effort to standardize time, an Illinois Senate bill would make Daylight Saving Time permanent, shortening the already dark days.

The bill amends the Time Standardization Act to keep Daylight Saving Time permanently. This would mean clocks would “spring forward” in March 2020, but would not “fall back” in November. In 2021, Illinois would not have either time change, making Daylight Savings permanent.

Evanston representative State Sen. Laura Fine (D-Glenview) voted for the change, and state Sen. Heather Steans (D-Evanston) did not vote. The bill is currently in review in the Illinois House of Representatives, but it can’t go into effect until the federal government

implements changes with Daylight Saving Time.

Daylight Saving, the time change in March, moves the clocks forward an hour, meaning the sun rises and sets later in the summer. If Illinois decides to stop switching back the clocks in the fall, the sun will set earlier in the day.

Weinberg sophomore Sarah Eisenman said she’s against the potential change. When the sun sets earlier, Eisenman said it impacts her eating —she feels like she should be hungry because it’s dark out. She also doesn’t want her sleep impacted by the time changes.

“Honestly, it’s already so hard to be in the winter here when it’s really dark and cold all the time,” Eisenman said. “So I think there’s probably going to be backlash from the community who are like ‘Stop, we need this.’”

Evanston resident Carolyn Grieve agreed.

She said she likes the longer days and the “later, lighter” time in the summer.

The bill came from a group of students at

Carlinville High School who created a project for civics class, group member Travis Osborn said. Osborn focused on the health issues sparked by the time change.

Feinberg Prof. Sabra Margaret Abbott, who studies circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders, said the time changes in both spring and fall impact the body’s internal clock. In ideal conditions, bodies can adjust to the time change in about a day, but, in the real world, Abbott said people see lingering effects of daylight savings for up to a week.

The spring time change is harder than the fall because people have to get up earlier, Abbott said. The spring change also means that people generally lose an hour of sleep because their body’s internal clocks won’t let them sleep in later.

“Almost everybody ends up sleep deprived in the spring,” Abbott said.

Abbott added that sleep deprivation can lead to a decrease in productivity at work, an

increase in heart attacks and an increase in car accidents.

To combat some of these issues, Abbott has patients with circadian disorders begin adapting to the time change up to a month in advance. She argues it’s good that the government is considering getting rid of the time changes.

State sen. Andy Manar (D-Bunker Hill), the primary sponsor of the bill, said in a statement that he supports the proposal because of the decline in productivity caused by time changes and the health and safety concerns. He added that the Carlinville students deserved recognition in Springfield.

“What’s most important is that this group is setting an example for how young people can step up and engage their elected officials to enact changes they want to see in government,” Manar said in a statement. delaneynelson2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Another notable memory, Nzinga said, was when she spoke earlier this year at Lavender Graduation, a commencement ceremony for students in the LGBTQ community. At the time, she had just come out as queer a year earlier.

“I was not sure if I should be on the microphone, I just came out,” Nzinga said. “I was feeling a bit anxious and a little bit shy but I found my voice… there are still new ways for me to think and interact and engage with the world that I hadn’t ever done before.”

WELLS

From page 1 potentially harmful, and even life-threatening,” Osborne said. “Ida B. Wells would not let Willard remain in a lofty position of power and influence while acting and speaking in such a way.”

To emphasize this history, the museum launched the exhibit “Truth Telling: Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells” in a new website in March. The project began more than two years ago, when Wagner and a group of other Loyola University Chicago graduate students partnered with the museum to research the topic and create a prototype. Wagner was then hired to further curate the history.

Now, the website features a timeline, essential context and interpretative essays.Wagner said a major part of the resource was incorporating primary documents in an engaging way.

“Some of the (primary documents) are quite long and fairly dense, but we did decide to feature them really heavily because so much of this played out in through the written word, through interviews and speeches that were reported on, and letters to the editor,” Wagner said. “A lot of it was through that

SESP

From page 1 identified as Hispanic or Latinx. For Figlio, that’s just evidence of the need to ensure he and his staff provide intentional support to younger professors on the path to the brass ring.

For students, SESP lowered its degree requirements from 45 to 42 credits in the 2017-18 academic year, becoming the second undergraduate school after the School of Communication to do so. At the time, the change to offer greater academic flexibility was prompted in part because SESP’s proportion of first-generation and Pell Grant-eligible students was higher than any of the University’s other undergraduate schools.

Now, Figlio said the focus has turned to improving the courses themselves. He said that typically, twothirds of classes fall somewhere between “good” to “excellent.” The goal, then, is bringing that last third up to the same level, Figlio said.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 As Nzinga gave her speech, she said she wanted to let her students know that there were new aspects of themselves that were always unfolding. This view reflects on her work with the University’s task force, an 80-person committee that compiled recommendations to create a safe campus for transgender, nonbinary and gender non-conforming individuals in the last year.

Even before she came to NU, Nzinga put her efforts into supporting girls and women of color. After receiving a degree in social work from Morgan State University in Baltimore, she worked as an intern at Girl Scouts Behind Bars a Girl Scouts program for girls whose mothers and grandmothers are incarcerated. medium.”

Wagner showed the audience these features and how to use the website to explore more. The event ended with audience members asking Wagner questions about the project. Evanston resident Joaquin Stephenson asked about her personal experience with collecting this history.

“I’m a white woman,” Wagner said. “I can’t say that wasn’t part of my interest in this project: to sort of get a better understanding of how white women who think of themselves as liberals and reformers have managed to nonetheless perpetuate racism.”

Vickie Burke, chair of the Museum Council, also said that examining this history involved grappling with hard issues. She added that everyone involved felt a personal impact while working on the project.

Stephenson said he appreciated the work put into the project.

“It’s incredible research that has been put into action, for the community to be able to access and to tell the story of Willard and Ida B. Wells,” he said.

“It’s exploring history in a way that’s also accessible online for users of the 20th century.” mollylubbers2023@u.northwestern.edu “I think 100 percent of our classes will be good or excellent if everybody’s teaching classes they want to teach and everybody’s taking classes they want to take,” Figlio said. “That doesn’t sound like rocket science. But it’s actually really hard.”

What makes it so challenging? A number of required courses hadn’t been reevaluated for years, and while professors might have specific interests, Figlio said SESP lacked the structures to connect faculty passions with student interests.

He and other professors and administrators in SESP spent the last two years redesigning SESP’s curriculum to emphasize global engagement, advanced research methods and experiential learning. It’ll be rolled out over the next few years, Figlio said, in hopes of better engaging both students and faculty.

Following student concern, SESP also announced a new pilot program to provide a stipend for students who are part of a federal work study program during their practicum, which is an off-campus, quarter-long internship mandatory for all students in the school.

She received a master’s degree and becoming a director of the women and gender studies program at Nazareth College in Pittsford, New York. By the time she came to Northwestern, Nzinga had served on the board of directors at Chicago Abortion Fund.

Megan Jeyifo, the organization’s executive director, said Nzinga’s leadership at the fund steered its purpose more toward reproductive justice and access for all people.

“She is brilliant and very generous with her brilliance,” Jeyifo said. “She really affirms people’s humanity through the educating that she does.”

And not just that, Jeyifo noted. Nzinga is funny, fashion-forward and a great mother. When working

toward increased abortion access, it is vital to lift up mothers within the movement, Jeyifo said, and Nzinga works on behalf of all people’s reproductive rights.

Nzinga continues to do such work at Northwestern.

A self-described collaborator and “thought-partner,” she convened a working group of people that advocates for more lactation rooms in the University.

“I try to be a benefit,” Nzinga said. “But I also try to be a champion of the women and gender issues on the campus and the writer, just show up around these issues … I try to blur the lines between the University life and the public life.”

DONORS

Sanders, have sworn off these private fundraisers.

Instead, they depend more on individual donors and grassroots movements to raise their money.

Meg Welch, an organizer for Sanders who was selected as a pledged delegate for his campaign in Illinois’ 9th Congressional District, said that she felt his refusal of big donors was why Sanders had the highest number of contributions in Evanston.

“The focus is on ordinary people — ordinary working people with families feel included in his campaign,” Welch said. “They feel spoken to, they feel like he’s speaking to them. And their participation is welcome.”

However, no matter the candidate, Weingarden said that he is encouraged by the levels of participation he sees in Evanston, and he hopes the support will continue into the general election.

“Whoever wants to be active at this point in the race, whoever their candidate of choice is, we want to help be a platform for them to put their efforts into this election,” Weingarden said. “We want to make sure that we can retain that through 2020, and if their candidate ends up dropping out, we don’t want to see people who give up on the Democratic party.”

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rejecting donations from outside groups such as corporate PACs, Super PACs and members of the fossil fuel industry. However, some candidates have turned to alternative ways of attracting big donors, such as private fundraising events. These events are invitation-only and are reserved for influential figures willing to pay a high price for direct interaction with their candidate.

One such candidate is Buttigieg, who held a private fundraiser on Nov. 6 in Winnetka. Mayor Steve Hagerty, who is one of 58 mayors from around the country to sign a joint endorsement of the candidate in September, said that “a couple hundred” people attended the closed-door event to hear Buttigieg speak.

“I’ve been to a couple fundraisers, and there are a lot of people that want to go,” Hagerty said. “They’re sold out venues, when they’re being hosted in people’s homes. The people that I’m seeing at the fundraisers are people who are strong Democrats, but they’re moderate Democrats.”

Conversely, some candidates, such as Warren and In their presentation to Figlio and other University administrators last spring, undergraduates who designed the program said “students were essentially paying NU to have an internship.”

Those financial challenges — most often felt by students who are part of a federal work study program — were something Figlio said he learned of as he spent more time in the role.

“Nobody intended for that to happen,” Figlio said.

“Frankly, it probably dates back to a time in which we were educating (a) more advantaged population at Northwestern.”

Still, some students have questioned why the pilot program was needed in the first place. Why, they ask, are students essentially paying full tuition to complete an internship?

Figlio said he while he understands the cons to that structure, one of the biggest motivations is to allow students to obtain credit while on their practicum.

Since it’s required, Figlio said it’d defeat the purpose of decreasing SESP’s degree requirement to 42 if

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jacobfulton2023@u.northwestern.edu students weren’t receiving credit, since students would in effect have another quarter’s worth of classes to take.

“On the one hand, it looks a little funny,” Figlio said. “On the other hand, I think it’s highly justifiable and from an equity point of view, I think it’s better to be having it as part of a credit-bearing, tuition-paying (program) than not.”

Still, Figlio said he hopes to encourage more employers to pay students while on the practicum — since many sites are often unpaid.

Either way, in his next few years as dean, he plans to keep in mind one of the core messages Harvard University Prof. and author Anthony Jack, whom the school invited to speak last month: “Access ain’t inclusion.”

“Access is the necessary condition, but it’s not sufficient,” Figlio said. “You have to create the conditions under which the people you recruit to Northwestern — both faculty and students — are going to be extraordinary.” troyclosson2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Veronica Burton hit the hesitation move so hard that by the time she picked up her quick in-and-out dribble, the sophomore guard’s defender was on the ground five feet away.The crowd erupted, the entire bench stood up and even Burton had to take a second to consider what she’d just done.

After Burton made eye contact with the defender she’d just vanquished, Burton dished it off to Lindsey Pulliam, and the junior guard hit a two-dribble pull-up to give Northwestern an even bigger first-half lead.

“She made up her mind (to pass) even before that girl fell,” senior guard Byrdy Galernik said. “You’re going to see a lot more of that this year.”

This duo has been effective since Burton arrived on campus, key parts of a much improved offense this year. The Wildcats had a season-high scoring total in a 69-48 win over Valparaiso (1-3), giving NU (4-0) another boost to its increasingly promising NCAA Tournament resume.

The Cats had just as strong a start to the season last year, winning their first five games in 2018. That team faded in Big Ten play. This year, NU has kept showing how much better the team has gotten by following Sunday’s win over Duke with a commanding victory over the Crusaders.

Vaparaiso kept it close in the first quarter by hitting four threes in the first ten minutes, but then the Cats went on

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a 15-3 run that lasted the entire second quarter. Senior forward Abi Scheid hit two 3-pointers to open that second quarter run, and the Cats’ full-court 2-3 press forced eight turnovers on 17-second quarter possessions from Valparaiso.

“We really started focusing on stopping their 3-point shooting,” Scheid said.

“We were really focusing on getting a hand up in their face because everyone on their team could shoot.”

After one of the best defensive quarters in years, NU took a 17-point lead into halftime, and Scheid kept that momentum going with a strong second-half performance. She finished with 21 points, leading the team to another impressive offensive showing.

The Cats never trailed by fewer than 17 points after the break, and coach Joe McKeown emptied the bench in the fourth quarter. Despite playing without starting guard Jordan Hamilton and having off-shooting nights from Pulliam and Burton, McKeown said the team is playing like a Sweet 16-caliber team.

“Last year, there were times we were a great team,” McKeown said. “These guys now are starting to step up.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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With less than two minutes left in the first quarter, Valparaiso guard Shay Frederick nailed a 3-pointer, giving the Crusaders momentum as they cut Northwestern’s lead to three points.

As the Wildcats moved up the court on the ensuing possession, Valparaiso played tight defense. However, they didn’t see senior forward Abi Scheid.

Scheid, taking advantage of a Crusader defense focused on the ball, broke free from her defender and got wide open in the center of the paint.

Senior center Abbie Wolf then sent her a sharp pass, and Scheid laid the ball into the hoop.

The senior’s early basket was only a small part of her huge night for NU, as she scored a team-high 21 points in the Cats’ (4-0) 69-48 win over Valparaiso (1-3).

“I’m really proud of (Scheid),” coach Joe McKeown said. “She wants the ball…in tough spots. It was big for her tonight to stretch them out the way she did.”

One of the team’s three captains, Scheid shot the lights out. On a night where NU overall made only eight of its 21 3-pointers, Scheid thrived from behind the arc, scoring a career-high five on seven attempts.

In a game when many of her teammates struggled to nail their shots, Scheid was one of the team’s most efficient scorers, making eight of her 11 overall attempts.

“My overall goal is to win,” Scheid said. “Whatever I can do to help the team — if that’s shoot, then I’ll shoot.”

Scheid, who also grabbed five rebounds and notched a steal in the win, is a strong force defensively.

However, because Valparaiso heavily covered junior guard Lindsey Pulliam — who shot one for 12 on the

By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

If Miller Kopp or Pete Nance made a mistake last season, coach Chris Collins could easily take the freshmen forwards out of the game, and he’d replace them with one of the four upperclassmen at their position.

Collins doesn’t have that luxury anymore. The seventh-year coach relies on his starters as much as he has at any point in his tenure, playing them over 70 percent of the time this season.

After Northwestern took an early eightpoint lead against Radford on Tuesday, he tried to buy Kopp, Nance and graduate guard Pat Spencer a few minutes of rest.

So Collins put in three bench players and said that decision led the Wildcats to lose their momentum in a 67-56 loss.

“We were in a pretty good spot, and then we went to our bench a little bit,” Collins said after the game. “When we came back to the main guys, we were out of rhythm, out of sorts.”

Heading into the Cats’ (1-2) game Friday at Welsh-Ryan Arena against Norfolk State (3-2), Collins will again rely on his starters to dig the team out of its disappointing start to the season.

Since almost every player on NU’s roster hadn’t played much before this season, Collins stressed the team would rely on contributions from all 10 scholarship players on the roster. Just three games into the season, he’s already moving in another direction.

The scoring drought in the first half against the Highlanders was another instance where the bench players made a negative impact, and the role players who were expected to provide a spark haven’t delivered so far all season.

That’s the case for senior forward A.J. Turner. Even though he’s the team’s leading returning scorer, he hasn’t started a game all season and scored three points in 13 minutes against Radford. Even when

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he did play extended minutes down the stretch against Providence, Turner took only four shots the entire game.

That’s the case for sophomore guard Ryan Greer, who had the inside track to be the starting point guard but has played three minutes over the last two games. He didn’t play at all against Providence and hasn’t taken a shot all season.

And that’s the case for freshmen Boo Buie, Robbie Beran and Jared Jones, who are all averaging fewer than 14 minutes per game. The three rookies have made just 30 percent of their field goal attempts, but Collins said these three aren’t the only players who have shown their inexperience so far.

Especially in losses to Merrimack and Radford, Collins said almost the entire roster has struggled adjusting to their roles on the team.

“Outside of Gaines and Turner, you’re talking about a lot of guys who this is just brand new for,” Collins said. “You’re talking about a lot of guys that are really new to the college game. These are great learning experiences, even though sometimes there are really tough growing pains.”

Just three weeks ago in NU’s preseason exhibition game against Quincy, Collins utilized hockey-style subs to get all ten players ample time on the floor. But after having a difficult first half against the Highlanders, Collins barely turned to his bench unit following halftime.

Starting Friday against Norfolk State, the Cats have three more games to figure out its rotation before Big Ten play begins.

“College basketball season is really long, and sometimes it’s hard to realize that there’s a lot to work on and a lot of room to grow,” Kopp said. “With this team, we definitely have a lot of time to improve and grow and learn.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Center Abi Scheid drives to the hoop. The senior captain led Northwestern with 21 points in their 69-48 win over Valparaiso.

night — and other guards, Scheid was able to showcase her offensive skills, especially at the 3-point line.

The senior used NU’s great spacing of the ball to her advantage. On a play with eight minutes left in the fourth quarter, Scheid got wide open on the baseline, leading sophomore guard Sydney Wood to send her a long pass from the other side of the court. Scheid then drained the ensuing three ball.

“It’s tough to guard a team with a bunch of firepower,” Scheid said.

McKeown said the captain’s leadership shone through in her stellar performance Thursday.

Additionally, he said Scheid’s

tenacity stood out, calling her one of the Cats’ most consistent players because she persistently works to improve her game.

“This is what she does,” McKeown said. “As a coach, you really want consistency out of your seniors. And… (Abi’s) been in big games, played in big spots. You want to see that all year from her. She helps us.”

Despite NU going 24-64 from the field, Scheid said she was glad her performance helped lift the Cats to their fourth straight victory.

“It’s always fun to be on,” Scheid said. “(You) see your work pay off.” drewschott2023@u.northwestern.edu