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Aldermen establish CORPS CONNECTION reparations fund $10 million from cannabis tax to go to racial equity

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Mary Kim, Salvation Army officer, returns to lead local chapter By MADDIE BURAKOFF

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As the daughter of two Salvation Army missionaries, Mary

Kim spent much of her life swearing she wouldn’t follow in her parents’ footsteps. “Growing up, everybody told me, ‘You’re going to be a Salvation Army officer, you’re going to be a pastor,’” Kim said. “I had

a little rebellious streak … I was kind of just running away from what I knew, deep down in my heart, God’s calling on my life was.” Decades later, Kim realized her path lay in ministry and

set out to become a Salvation Army “officer,” in the militarystyle titles the church uses for its leaders. Since June, Kim has served as a corps officer for the » See SALVATION, page 8

City Council passed a historic resolution Monday to establish a $10 million fund for local reparations, including revenue from the recreational cannabis retailers tax. Starting on Jan. 1, 2020, all of the city’s recreational cannabis retailers tax will be transferred to the reparations fund until the fund has reached $10 million in revenue from this source. The reparations subcommittee is currently discussing how money from the fund will be allocated and developing criteria for eligible individuals, according to city documents. The reparations fund will also accept donations from private businesses, organizations and individuals. At the meeting, many community members spoke in support of the city moving forward with the reparations fund. Kamm Howard, a midwest regional representative for the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, said the legislation will begin the “reckoning of past crimes committed and of current injuries

suffered.” “You did not get to this decision through a battle between the black community and the white community,” Howard said. “You got to this decision through reason, through understanding, through rational and well thought-out action. This is important because the number one contention for reparations in America is that it will divide the community, it will divide the nation. You have shown, with your leadership, that is not true.” Howard added that the city has shown that reparations can be gained through well-intentioned and thoughtful action. In Evanston’s case, this involves the use of recreational marijuana taxes to begin to repair the systemic impacts of racial bias. Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) said racially biased arrests for marijuana possession have adversely impacted the black community and in some cases, the damages will linger for generations. While the black population is currently at 16 percent and declining, they make up 71 percent of marijuana arrests in Evanston. “Consequences for marijuana convictions limit and exclude Evanston residents from housing, employment, and student financial aid,” Rue Simmons said. “The War » See REPARATIONS, page 8

STEM majors top 5th Ward trash station under scrutiny post-grad earnings Residents express concern about impacts of waste transfer station

Engineering, computer science top data on money By ALAN PEREZ

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For students deciding between computer science and computer engineering, the former might result in a higher salary a year after college. New comprehensive data from the U.S. Education Department show the median salary for computer science majors at Northwestern was about $8,000 more than computer engineering majors. Overall, STEM majors topped the department’s revised

College Scorecard, which allows students to compare the salaries, debt and loan monthly payments of students across the country. The median salary of students who studied computer science, math and engineering was well above $60,000 a year out from graduation. These students also averaged about $15,000 of total federal debt. The salary data is based on federal tax forms and schoolreported information on students who received federal financial aid, meaning it leaves out students not on federal aid. The debt levels collected only include information on federal loans. The Scorecard shows for the first time median salaries and » See EARNINGS, page 8

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The first night she slept in her new townhouse in Church Street Village, Cindy Levitt woke up to rumbling. Her bedroom was shaking. She thought it was an earthquake. But she soon found out that the rumbling came from trucks rolling into the waste transfer station in her backyard. Since that first night in 2008, Levitt has dealt with a variety of issues stemming from Advanced Disposal’s waste transfer station, including poor air quality and loud noises. After years of fighting against the station, Levitt and her neighbors will finally gain insight into the impacts of the

station when Evanston releases the results of a six-month long air quality study on Dec. 9. The study will include a full analysis of the results as well as recommendations for the future of the site. A waste transfer station is a facility where trucks dump trash to be stored until a larger truck comes to pick it up and bring it to a landfill. Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) said the station, which is in her ward, is likely there because the neighborhood immediately around it had lower land values. The 5th Ward has the highest concentration of black residents in Evanston, and the station is an example of redlining practices which perpetuate housing inequality, Rue Simmons said. “I’m not feeling particularly positive about the study just

based on all of the other environmental matters that will impact the areas that are being tested,” Rue Simmons said. “My hope is that with this outcome, we can get recommendations on improved initiatives and actions in our neighborhoods to improve our air quality.” The air quality study, which concluded testing in November, measured pollutants from the station and incorporated a 30-day traffic study to determine the impact of local traffic patterns from the waste transfer station. Though the neighbors surrounding the station have experienced noise disturbance, traffic, rodent issues and odor issues, the city has not studied the environmental impacts until now “We don’t know what’s in it.

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Chief Sustainability and Resiliency Officer Kumar Jensen spoke about the upcoming air quality study on the 5th Ward waste transfer station.

We don’t know how it’s affecting us,” said Dorothy Headd, who lives » See WASTE, page 8

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Activist speaks on experiences with fog harvesting By EVA HERSCOWITZ

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Thanks to her innovative fog collection project, anthropologist and human rights activist Jamila Bargach and her team have provided over 15 villages with direct water access in historically drought-ridden southwest Morocco. Bargach spoke to a crowd of 30 about the NGO she co-founded — Dar Si Hmad for Development, Education and Culture — Tuesday at the Evanston Public Library. Northwestern’s Department of Anthropology and the Center for Water Research co-sponsored the talk. Danny Postel, the assistant director of international and area studies at Northwestern, introduced Bargach and said she has “dedicated her life to serving underresourced communities.” Dar Si Hmad’s project, which launched in 2006 and finished in October 2018, is the largest functioning fog collection project in the world. The project fosters the independence of Amazigh women — many of whom are responsible for “water chores” in Ait Baamrane, a Berber region — by delivering potable water to their households.

City seeks public comment on 5-year plan for community development

The city is seeking public comment on two plans that aim to prioritize housing and economic needs for low- and moderate-income residents, according to an Evanston news release. Last week, Evanston released a 30-day comment period for its 2020-2024 Consolidated Plan and the 2020 Action Plan. The Consolidated Plan identifies needs and strategies regarding housing, community and economic

In 2006, people living in Southwest Morocco were suffering from a severe drought, said Bargach, who has co-founded a shelter for women in Casablanca and spent decades organizing residents in Morcoccan slums and informal communities. As temperatures in the region neared 113 degrees Fahrenheit and water continued to dwindle, some Moroccans migrated to cities, while others were forced to compromise their hygiene and sell their livestock. “Oftentimes, the families are forced to sell their animals, and it is viewed as a real tragedy for the families,” she said. “The relationship between the people and the animals is not only a source of livelihood — people really care about their animals. It’s a very symbiotic relationship.” As men migrated from the arid southwest to cities to earn jobs with wages, women continued to perform tasks related to water collection, Bargach said. This meant spending an average of 3.5 hours a day finding water and bringing it home. While prioritizing the well-being of their children, many women went thirsty and experienced heightened anxiety during the dry season, Bargach added. “Women would go to the well and wait three, four hours,” she said. “They leave everyone at home sleeping, especially babies and small infants. There has been a horrible sense of anxiety for the young mothers.”

After experimenting with various fog harvesting techniques, Dar Si Hmad settled on CloudFisher, a fog collector that can withstand high-speed winds. The panels, which resemble meshed panes, trap fog and transform it into water. Bargach said she hopes to challenge the notion that water is just a commodity, highlighting spiritual, personal and social purposes as well. “We have just a functional relationship to it,” she said. “If you have a mystical relationship with water, it takes away this notion of the material. It is a source of life. In that way, securing it and respecting it and not thinking of it as a simple commodity is something that is important.” Though her NGO has a small staff, Bargach said its has earned multiple awards and achieved international recognition. She said inaccessibility to potable water isn’t limited Morocco or North Africa, highlighting other regions of the world facing similar challenges. “This is something that happens everywhere in the world,” she said. “It’s not only in southwest Morocco. It’s not only in rural Alabama. It’s not only in Chile. It happens everywhere where the access to water is limited.”

development, and the city will submit it to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Consolidated Plan is part of the process for the city to receive grants from the HUD Community Development Block Grant program as well as two other federal grant programs. The Action Plan outlines how the city will use the additional funds. The goals of the plans are to provide “decent housing and a sustainable living environment ” as well as expand economic opportunities for low-income residents. The draft emphasize neighborhood revitalization as a priority, particularly in areas that “lag behind” the rest of Evanston.

“The City of Evanston is committed to a diverse and inclusive community that engages and encourages residents and institutions to work together to make Evanston the most livable city for all its residents,” the plan says. “To this end, the City will continue to pursue strategies to address housing, economic, and social service needs of low- and moderateincome residents, the homeless and special needs populations.” The plans are available both online and at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center for public comments. The comment period will close Dec. 17.

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Jamila Bargach speaks at Evanston Public Library Tuesday on her NGO, Dar Si Hmad for Development, Education and Culture. Through a fog harvesting system, the NGO has provided potable water for over 15 villages.

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Students with diabetes lack options By NEYA THANIKACHALAM

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Students with Type 1 Diabetes said they often lack the healthy meal options they need on campus, adding to the difficulties of dealing with a chronic illness. Weinberg sophomore Melanie Wolter said her illness has an impact on every decision she makes in her life. “It affects what I eat, when I eat, if I’m going to exercise, if (my blood pressure is) low and I can’t get to class on time, if (my pressure is) high and I can’t think straight enough to study,” Wolter said. Students with diabetes need to monitor their meals to make sure they don’t have too much or too little sugar in their bodies. Oftentimes, this requires calculating the amount of carbohydrates or sugars in the food they eat and dosing insulin accordingly. Wolter said this was difficult while she was on the University’s meal plan because she wasn’t able to find many low-carb foods in dining halls — an essential component to maintaining her blood sugar levels. Currently, Wolter lives and eats her meals in the Alpha Chi Omega sorority house. She said it’s much easier to eat healthily now because there are always low-carb options available to her. However, Georgene Sardis, Compass Group’s marketing director, said the University has dining hall options that cater to students with diabetes. Students can view nutrition information online or on the campus dining app, she added. If students have any further trouble, they can talk to the campus dietician Lisa Carlson. “Every day and every meal period we offer an abundant amount of healthy food options for anyone — whether the student has diabetes or not — to enjoy,” Sardis said. “We do have to offer the more indulgent items. We offer that choice as part of the inclusive dining experience for everyone to enjoy.” Despite this, Wolter said she mainly ate yogurt

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Weinberg sophomore Hugo Compton studies at Norris University Center. Compton has Type 1 Diabetes, which he said can significantly affect his academic performance.

and granola while on the meal plan because other protein options, like chicken, weren’t cooked. Meat was often served with sauce that contained an unknown amount of sugar, she added, making it hard for her to calculate her insulin doses. Weinberg sophomore Hugo Compton was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at three years old. Therefore, he said he’s had a lot of time to learn how to count carbs and adjust his insulin dose, but understands how the lack of sufficient labels in the dining halls might be more difficult to navigate for a newer diabetic. “I don’t think (the dining halls) really showed the carbs, or if they did (it) was just for one serving,” Compton said. “It was just a little off because (labels list) mostly calories and stuff, which isn’t helpful for me.” Compton said he wants to start a club for diabetics at NU so students with diabetes would know they weren’t alone in their experiences and would have support while at the University.

If his blood sugar is not at the right level, Compton said he feels delirious or sleepy and has difficulty focusing. Both Wolter and Compton are registered with AccessibleNU because their blood sugar levels can affect their academic performance — so much so that Compton said he “can’t function” when his blood sugar is off. However, Compton added that even though he’s had diabetes for 17 years, there are still times when he can’t control his sugar levels. Earlier in the quarter, he was hospitalized after he couldn’t bring his blood sugar up. Wolter agreed that constantly fluctuating blood sugar was one of the most frustrating aspects of having diabetes. “There’s certain days where I just know I’m doing everything right,” Wolter said. “And my blood sugar’s still high, and that makes me feel bad… I’ll have to deal with that challenge theoretically for the rest of my life.” neyathanikachalam2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Challenges, memories and goodbyes at The Daily PALLAS GUTIERREZ

OPINION EDITOR

In June, I wrote my first goodbye letter while I was assistant opinion editor. I wrote about the tension between theatre and journalism and how that might contribute to my decision of not coming back. Clearly I was wrong. This September I reintroduced myself as opinion co-editor. As my personal goal I said, “I look forward to spending this quarter improving the diversity of voices represented in the Opinion section.” However, there was nothing that could have prepared me for this quarter. I received more hate mail than I ever have this quarter, and it was exhausting. I woke up one morning to 50 unread emails, all from angry readers and alumni. I got emails from people old enough to be my grandparents calling me incompetent. This was not what I expected when I agreed to be an editor this quarter. There was a week when

the only thing on my mind was The Daily, and it was driving me to tears. I barely had mental space for my classes, let alone my other extracurriculars. That wasn’t what I wanted when I agreed to come back. Despite all that, I’m glad I returned to the Opinion desk this quarter. I learned a lot about myself and journalism. I learned about the role of empathy in journalism, the work of putting together a daily newspaper and the toll it takes on the editors and reporters who do it. I worked on finding and nurturing diverse content and communicating with coworkers. I learned more about the intricacies of each desk. I found that I didn’t care as much about hard-hitting news, as I did about telling the stories that once were ignored. Most of all, I learned how much I respect the editors and reporters who find new stories that we aren’t telling, go into the world to interview people and then force us to pay attention. I have grown closer to my fellow editors and assistant editors, most of whom are people I never would have met outside of The Daily. A few members of the editorial staff here are some of the best friends I’ve made at Northwestern. I sit with them

at lunch, high five them when we pass on Sheridan Road and have long conversations with them about anything from the Yankees chances at the World Series to the interweaving of neoliberalism and feminism. My best memories of The Daily are about the people: sitting in the EIC office and drawing on the whiteboard, checking in with the multimedia and design teams in their separate office while searching for a blue raspberry lollipop, crouching over a laptop to order Chipotle before the coupon expired on a night that we would be in the newsroom until past midnight. Even if I don’t go into journalism (which I probably won’t) or don’t take on high-level positions at The Daily, those memories are among my favorites of my first year and a quarter at Northwestern. As my role at The Daily changes, I hope my relationships with those people will not. I’m leaving opinion, for real this time. I had not planned on being here this quarter, and at the beginning of this quarter I certainly didn’t plan on sticking around any longer. I’m exhausted. People will remind me that I signed up for this job. I signed up to edit the Opinion section in order to elevate systematically silenced voices. But I never expected or agreed to receive 25 emails

condemning our paper in one morning. I’m tired. Even if I had planned on doing this job again, I would not have the energy. I think I’ll stay at The Daily though. I’ll find something to do. Maybe I’ll be a sports reporter, or arts and entertainment. Maybe I’ll take a quarter off and come back in the spring. I love it here, I really do. I think student journalism is incredibly important, and the Opinion desk’s power to uplift voices is much larger than people give it credit for. I hope that dedicated people continue to run this desk and write for it. I wish the next opinion editor (or editors) a great quarter. I wish The Daily staff at large a great quarter. I hope that student journalists both here and at other schools keep doing great work that enriches their campus and expresses their point of view. Pallas Gutierrez is a Communication sophomore. They can be contacted at pallas2022@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.

This quarter, we tried to make sure everyone felt heard PRIYANSHI KATARE

OPINION EDITOR

In my opening letter this quarter, I promised that I would work towards making sure that every voice was heard. To my readers and writers, I hope that I have lived up to that promise. Being an editor for the Opinion desk seemed daunting. As a campus reporter I adapted myself to the nuances of basic reporting. The only bases that needed to be covered when I was writing stories were sources and information about the event or issue that was being reported on. Being an Opinion editor demanded more of me. The one thing that most people don’t realize is that it’s difficult to write an article when you yourself are the source of your stories. It requires vulnerability and the willingness to be open to criticism without letting it question your experiences and your own reality. To all my writers that were brave enough to do this, thank you so much. When I began this quarter I had only one goal in mind — to provide a safe space for everyone to be able to voice their concerns and critiques. This University at times it makes it difficult to do so and I considered it to be my

job to make it as easy as possible for different students to share their experiences. It’s very easy to get lost in the collective narrative at Northwestern, and often this means personal experiences are overlooked. Personally, I believe that these unique experiences teach us more than the generalized trends ever could and this quarter, the opinion desk aimed to be a mouthpiece for these experiences. At the beginning of this quarter, both Pallas and I agreed that we wanted to cover humancentric issues and wanted to highlight the problems that affect students on campus. It’s not easy to talk about such issues, and we’re grateful for every columnist who took on this task. Our columnists taught me an immense amount this quarter, but perhaps one of the greatest lessons I have learned from them is to always speak my truth. The aim was to make The Daily a place of exchange and to ensure that every time someone came in with a piece they’d written, it made us more aware of the different intersections that existed in our society — even if we weren’t necessarily stakeholders in those interactions. The vision was that every time someone picked up the paper, they would learn more about their surroundings than they knew before. However, being an editor requires internal regulation as well. I think the one thing that concerned me the most was my personal bias

and whether or not that would allow me to be a facilitator for a wide variety of opinions. I wanted to do this section of the newspaper justice and I think in some ways I also felt like some changes had to be made. However, I wanted to make sure that the changes weren’t self-motivated and were guided by the interests that affected my community. At the beginning of this process, I wanted to make sure that the opinion column was as diverse as it could possibly be. Diversity for me meant more than just having representations from different schools. I wanted to be able to provide people a space for voicing their political, legal and cultural views irrespective of where they were coming from. Every time I stepped into the newsroom I reminded myself of one thing — I was here for the Northwestern community. The last few weeks were difficult and this reminder was the only thing that helped me keep going. I had never imagined that I would wake up to several emails questioning the caliber of an edit board I had come to admire and respect. As difficult as reading those emails and reflecting on them was, they helped me build a sense of perseverance in the face of adversity. The events made me question my motivation behind doing what I did. I think for a couple of days I questioned my place in The Daily and more so, in the Northwestern community. However, every time I was plagued by

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“The reason why we're focusing on Medicare is because expanding state programs like medicaid is easier to tear down politically under states rights... We saw that happen with parts of the ACA. Medicare is harder to roll back once a republican is in office.”

Commenter: Skye McCoy

this thought I flipped through a copy of the newspaper and it showcased an amazing community of people that was ready to stick with each other through it all. The Daily has given me a place that feels like it belongs to me and I never thought that I could find it and for that I will always be grateful. I still have a lot more to learn and I am sure that my remaining time at The Daily will teach me alot. With every editorial cycle, newspaper sections keep getting better and I hope that whoever takes the role of being the Opinion editor after Pallas and I keeps adapting this section to meet the needs of the community this paper caters to. The news doesn’t stagnate and we must make changes along the way. Changes don’t come without difficulties and sometimes they don’t fit the norm. Nonetheless, the news must evolve and be an ever expanding domain of experiences and concerns that give a realistic idea of how society functions. With that, I bid this quarter and the opinion section goodbye. Priyanshi Katare is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at priyanshikatare2022@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.

What commenters are saying From Opening Remarks: We shouldn’t settle for Medicare for All November 22, 2019

Wouldn't a national single-payer system combined with the abolition of the private health insurance industry work a whole lot better than one state trying to do it on their own? As for the medical billing industry, perhaps that's another industry that our society would be better off without. Couldn't there be new well-paying government healthcare jobs for these people? Better yet, new programs spurred by a federal jobs guarantee?

Commenter: Hale McSharry

It’s disingenuous to compare Shumlin’s plan to what would be implemented in a federal level. His plan was NOT a true single payer system to begin with (actually more akin to a system with a public option). He wouldn’t have been able to isolate Vermont from the rest of the country, as the plan couldn’t preempt Medicare or large businesses with their own plans. Not to mention that Vermont is a state with like 600k people with a not big enough tax base to afford something like this. It wasn’t a model built for cost control, which is a major advantage of a single payer system at a federal level.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Flyhomes scales up with $141 million in financing By STEPHEN COUNCIL

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On August 15, Flyhomes announced $141 million in new financing, a huge infusion of cash for the fouryear-old real estate startup. At some companies, that might warrant a break or a few days of celebration. Not so at Flyhomes. “We are always running and we want to do something even bigger,” said Yikun Zhao, Flyhomes’ vice president of growth. “Because our pace is really fast, it’s more like, in the morning they announce that. And everyone is like super excited and happy, and then you just go back and jump in the work.” Founded in 2015 by then-Kellogg School of Management students Tushar Garg and Stephen Lane, Flyhomes aims to streamline home buying into a cohesive, easy process. The funding round featured $21 million in Series B equity and $120 million in debt financing — a windfall that will enable expansion into new cities and boost product development. Garg (Kellogg ’16) and Lane (Kellogg, Pritzker ’16) met at Kellogg in 2015 and took a New Venture Development class together. They were both entrepreneurship-minded and interested in creating a real estate brokerage that would bring transparency to the industry. But as they sold their first house and thought about their own home purchases, they found what Garg called “a broken process” — a concerning situation for the biggest purchase in many people’s lives. “As we went through this process we’re like, ‘Yeah, the home buying experience itself is not quite where it needs to be.’” said Garg, now CEO. “So then the journey became in terms of how do you improve the home buying process and make it much better for the customers? And honestly, that’s been the pursuit that we’ve been on.” That pursuit quickly led to Zak Allen (McCormick ’16), who Lane found through Allen’s development portfolio. After starting out with Flyhomes part-time as a student, Allen chose to stick around in 2016, refusing an offer with Pandora and staying in Evanston. Allen and Lane, now the executive chairman, worked long hours in The Garage that spring, building up the site from scratch mainly by themselves while the first customers started to buy in. The build continued that summer at 1871, a startup incubator in downtown Chicago.

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Flyhomes CEO Tushar Garg and VP of Operations Jonathan Paul. The four-year-old real estate startup has helped over 1,000 clients close on over $1 billion in homes.

“It was pretty crazy, honestly,” Allen said. “I was pretty much researching it as I went and doing basically heads down for ten to twelve hours a day just coding up this web application.” Flyhomes went on to launch an engineering team in Seattle, and has since seen massive growth. The company functions in Seattle, the Bay Area, Portland and Boston, with around 150 employees. According to this summer’s news release, Flyhomes has “helped over 1,000 clients close on over $1 billion in homes bought and sold.” The company is centered around three “superpowers” for its customers, tools that aid various facets of home buying. The Guaranteed Offer backs a buyer’s offer on a home with a Flyhomes promise — the company will buy the house even if the customer can’t. Flyhomes’ Cash Offer program similarly increases the confidence of the seller, making the buyer more

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competitive. The company closes on the house in cash and then sells to the buyer at the same price, allowing customers to take out mortgages but still bid with the weight of a cash offer. Trade Up is the third Flyhomes initiative, and one that Garg is focused on scaling with the recent funding. Forty percent of Flyhomes customers are current homeowners, and Trade Up allows them to buy a new home before they move out of their old one. Flyhomes helps customers make a cash offer on the new home and then sells the exited house after the move. The company promises to buy the house themselves if it lasts 90 days on the market. Flyhomes makes money just like a traditional brokerage, with commissions for buying and selling. However, in its effort to fully streamline the home buying and ownership experience, Flyhomes is also opening up mortgage, closing and home improvement and repair subsidiaries. Zhao (School of Law ’16) calls

this a “vertical” model, and wants to expand it to all Flyhomes’ markets. Garg declined to speculate on a future valuation, but the new Boston and Portland markets are proof of scaling and expansion, and he said Flyhomes is hoping to build up momentum. The CEO credits the early success to Northwestern’s support ecosystem of faculty and classmates, as well as to the lessons he learned at Kellogg about improving customers’ lives. He said the rapid growth and the funding is humbling: “You find yourself pinching yourself to say, ‘Yup, this is real.” “On one side it feels amazing and the other side you’re like, ‘Wow, there’s a lot more to go build,’” Garg said. “I’m keen to see what we will be doing in two to three years from now.” stephencouncil2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Hull shows flashes in redshirt season By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

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After being the most consistent weapon in Northwestern’s offense over the last two weeks, Evan Hull’s season is probably over. He’s not expected to play Saturday against Illinois, but not because he’s injured or because there are better options on the roster. If Northwestern wants to maintain Hull’s redshirt status and keep him eligible to play during the 2023 season, he can’t appear in more than four games this season. That was always the plan for him this season as he wasn’t even expected to play much at all. But then the four running backs ahead of him on the depth chart faced injuries and ball-security issues, so Hull leapfrogged all the way up to the first string for the Wildcats’ games against Massachusetts and Minnesota. In two games as a starter, all he did was rush for 271 yards. The Cats (2-9, 0-8 Big Ten) will be without him for their rivalry game against the Fighting Illini (6-5, 4-4), so NU will be missing the most productive running back the team has had all season. While he wants to play for the Land of Lincoln Trophy, Hull said he’s alright with being redshirted instead. “I love it,” Hull said. “It’s a great opportunity to get a great feel for the game and still not have to burn a whole season. I’m all for it.” As he became such a major part of NU’s offense

in his true freshman season, Hull is one of the biggest underdog stories in the Big Ten. Twelve months ago, as a senior in high school, his only offers were from MAC and FCS schools. He took official visits to Ball State and South Dakota State, but he waited out for a better offer. Hull really hoped it would come from coach Pat Fitzgerald and the Cats. He built a strong relationship with running backs coach Lou Ayeni when he was still on the coaching staff at Iowa State, and when Ayeni took a job at NU in January 2018, he told the coaches about the running back from Maple Grove, Minnesota. Hull finally received on offer from the Cats in January 2019, after weeks of constant conversation with the coaches. His recruitment picked up around the start of the new year, and once NU came forward with an offer on Jan. 28, Hull accepted it right away. After Hull came to Evanston over the summer, it didn’t take long for Fitzgerald to realize he’d found someone who works as hard as anyone on the roster. “I’m in (the weight room) getting my skinnyfat workout in, and there’s Evan doing an extra hip workout on his own and doing different flexor work,” Fitzgerald said. “He’s a guy who’s a little bit older than his freshman year of eligibility. I’ve just been really impressed with his work ethic, and he’s got a really bring future for us.” Hull entered the rotation at running back for the Cats’ game against Nebraska on Oct 5. Sophomore running back Isaiah Bowser and junior running back Jesse Brown were out with injuries, and on the Wednesday before the game, Ayeni told Hull to

prepare like he was going to play. He was ready, but he only got 10 yards on seven carries. He went over a month before seeing the field again. In Hull’s return against Purdue on November 9, he only touched the ball once. But freshman running back Drake Anderson had an issue with fumbles and only ran for 51 yards on 16 carries against the Boilermakers. Ayeni re-opened the competition at first-string running back, and Hull took advantage of the opportunity. “I was coming at it with an intensity and being confident in everything I do,” Hull said. “I needed that energy that I bring seen by my teammates, see me bringing that juice.” Hull brought the juice in his first week as a starter, rushing for 220 yards and four touchdowns against the Minutemen. He hadn’t even told his parents that he would be starting, so they were surprised to see Hull run the ball as often and as effectively as he did. Hull followed up on that game by rushing 14 times against Minnesota and blocking efficiently for sophomore quarterback Andrew Marty. Hull was taken off the depth chart following the game against the Golden Gophers, putting Anderson back at first string. Even though Hull’s season is most likely over, Fitzgerald said he laid a strong foundation for the rest of his career, which will now last an extra season. “These experiences that he’s had hopefully will not only be a big boost of confidence for him,” Fitzgerald said. “But (he’ll) also look at it from a standpoint of what I’m doing, the extra work, is working.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Evan Hull breaks through UMass tacklers on November 16. The redshirt freshman running back will likely see no more play this season.

Fans continue to support NU in ugly year By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

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Even for the most loyal Northwestern fans, 2019 has been a challenging year. Gary Tucker, who has rooted for the Wildcats since the early 1970s and became a season ticket holder in 1998, had never left a game in Evanston early — until this season. “There’s only one game that I left with a couple minutes left, and that was the Ohio State game,” Tucker said. “It was just a miserable night that night. But generally, I don’t leave until the game is over.” Tucker, however, is much more the exception than the rule. Attendance at Ryan Field dropped by an average of 6,137 fans per game from a season ago. And the numbers tell only a small part of the story. NU’s game against the Buckeyes on October 18 was considered a sellout, but because the Cats entered the matchup 1-4, many fans who had tickets did not show up. The announced crowd for the UMass game on November 16 was nearly 30,000, but the actual attendance was maybe half that many. The Cats’ winless record in Big Ten play has not deterred everyone. Javan Quiroz, an Evanston native, said he will always root for NU and treats the Cats like a hometown professional team. “I understand the stands clearing out and people leave, but I’ll stay until there’s nothing left to give,” Quiroz said. “When we do get up there in the conference and we do win those games, I don’t want to see the same people coming here and chanting like they’ve been here the entire time.” The student turnout has also been notably lower than last season, when NU won the Big Ten West title, but some students have not only come to every game — they’ve stayed until the very end, even though the Cats have lost four home games by 16 points or more. Weinberg sophomore Mary Grace Ramsay said the football games bring the school together, no matter

the quality of the team. “I just like the school spirit,” Ramsay said. “At the end of a tough week, it’s fun to be able to look forward to a game and a chance to hang out with friends and cheer, even if you know the outcome is probably not going to be great.” Five of NU’s seven home games have started at 11 a.m., which Ramsay said could deter students from coming out. She also said the fact that the quarterback position has been in constant flux has made her less emotionally attached to the team. Tucker was adamant he will be in the stands regardless of the Cats’ record, and even if his normal seat mates are not. He said he normally sits near a

father and daughter, but they were not at Saturday’s loss to Minnesota. Despite this being potentially NU’s worst season in 30 years, Tucker said he has not lost faith. He keeps coming because he prefers the atmosphere of college football to the NFL, and is confident the Cats will be better in 2020. “Especially the last home game of the season, Senior Day, I feel bad for them that it’s not a bigger crowd,” Tucker said. “After next week’s game, I’ll give a ticket rep a call and ask when the renewal time is because I’m in for next year.” benjaminrosenberg2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Last year as Pat Fitzgerald, Clayton Thorson and the rest of the Northwestern players lifted the Land of Lincoln Trophy on the grass of Ryan Field, the Wildcats were living their best life. The Big Ten West Division champions had finished the regular season with a victory over a poor Illinois team, marking another recent triumph over their in-state rivals. When the two teams battle yet again Saturday in Champaign with the trophy on the line, the atmosphere will be vastly different. For the Fighting Illini (6-5, 4-4 Big Ten), a win would be another memorable moment during a bounce-back season, while an NU (2-9, 0-8 Big Ten) victory would be one of the only saving graces from a forgettable campaign. “Fun week in college football,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “It’s not only about you, it’s about your fan base.” Illinois is in the midst of its best season since the end of the Ron Zook era in 2011. Expected to finish last in the Big Ten West, the Fighting Illini are in the middle of the pack with four conference wins — the same number they had won in the previous three seasons combined. Illinois’ season-defining win came last month when James McCourt nailed a game-winning field goal as time expired to defeat then-undefeated Wisconsin in one of the biggest upsets of the 2019 season. The victory has been a turning point for the Fighting Illini. Not only did it quell calls for coach Lovie Smith to be fired, but also sparked a four-game winning streak that propelled Illinois to bowl eligibility. Quarterbacked by Michigan-transfer Brandon Peters, the Fighting Illini succeeded under pressure during their four-game winning streak. The offense averaged just over 30 points per game during the stretch and produced two game-winning drives. On defense, senior linebacker Dele Harding has been sensational in his first season as a starter.The Elkton, Maryland native is second in the country in total tackles with 132, which includes 12 tackles for loss. “I know this rivalry’s built on great respect and we’re fired up to compete against the Illini,” Fitzgerald said. “They’re having a great year” Last season, NU rested many of its starters in the second half of the game in order to keep its banged up players healthy for the Big Ten Championship Game the following week. While Saturday will be this year’s team’s final contest, Fitzgerald will still be managing a lot of injuries. In addition to a bevy of players ruled out for the year over the previous few weeks, sophomore quarterback Hunter Johnson was ruled out for this week’s game and Aidan Smith’s status is up in the air. If Smith is also out, sophomore Andrew Marty would earn the first start of his career. “It doesn’t matter what your record is when you play a rival,” Lovie Smith said. “Any team coached by Pat Fizgerald, you know how they’re going to play – 60 minutes, clean football all the way.” An NU victory would give the Cats a five-game winning streak against its southern rivals, which would be the longest winning streak for NU against Illinois in program history. The Cats have won four straight against Illinois four other times — 1929-32, 193841, 1947-50 and 2003-06. In two of those seasons when NU went for its fifth consecutive victory over Illinois, it lost 3-0. Junior wide receiver Riley Lees, a Libertyville, Illinois native, said he knows a lot of players on the Fighting Illini and that makes the game more fun. He added that playing for a trophy adds an extra dimension to the game. “It’s rivalry week,” Lees said, “so anything goes.”

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Salvation Army Evanston Corps, where she’s looking to find new ways to connect the organization with its community. Kim said she thinks of herself as somewhere between a first and second generation American. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she moved to Los Angeles as a child when her parents were sent to establish a corps there — likely the first Korean Salvation Army in the U.S. After that, Kim said she spent much of her life bouncing between LA, Korea, Chicago — where her parents eventually moved — and Evanston, where she worked as a District 65 teacher for several years. Though she enjoyed teaching, Kim said she felt like it wasn’t her true calling. In 2010, she decided to switch career paths and train to become a Salvation Army officer. She worked several different posts in the Midwest before moving into her current role. “I was ecstatic just to be able to come back to

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on Drugs and mass incarceration have devastated the black community and although policy is being corrected, the impact will remain. It is appropriate that sales tax revenue from recreational marijuana be invested in the community in which it unfairly policed and damaged.” Several city officials said the efforts toward reparations will set a model for the rest of the country. Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said Rue Simmons shocked city officials nationwide at the National League of Cities conference last week when informing them of what Evanston was getting ready to do. She said she did

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From page 1 near the waste transfer station. “We’re hoping we find out. But we don’t know what we’re breathing.” But the impacts of the station weren’t always so prevalent. It first started as a small, local, family-owned business. Under that ownership, people in the community mostly brought old furniture or larger objects from their homes to the facility. Advanced Disposal, an international waste disposal company, currently owns the station, and Veolia, another international company, previously owned it and faced a lot of criticism from the community. State laws prohibit waste disposal facilities 1,000 feet from residential neighborhoods, but dozens of homes, Mason Park and Evanston Township High School property are all within this radius. Because the station was grandfathered in, it’s exempt from these regulations. Still, Headd said that this wouldn’t happen in other communities. “It was not something that should have been put in a residential neighborhood,” Headd said. “If this was

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2019 Evanston after 15 years,” Kim said. “It’s a place that I know and enjoy. So it’s been a godsend for me to be back here.” As a commanding officer, Kim said her main responsibility is to serve as the lead pastor for the congregation. Beyond that, she also oversees projects that reach out into the community, centered in Evanston and stretching down to Rogers Park. Through service, the corps looks to fulfill the guiding Salvation Army principle of “heart to God, hand to man,” Kim said. In Evanston, she said homelessness, senior services and youth programming are the main areas of need that she hopes to help address. The Salvation Army has faced criticism about LGBTQ issues from some who cite past instances of discrimination, and Chick-fil-A recently announced it would stop donating to the organization. However, The Salvation Army disputes this characterization; National Commander David Hudson recently wrote that The Salvation Army is open to all, including members of the LGBTQ community. Geoffry Leedom, the corps’ youth development

coordinator, said Kim is a major multitasker and is passionate about finding new ways to get the Salvation Army involved throughout Evanston. “She is definitely on fire to go storm and down every single avenue of opportunity for the Salvation Army Evanston,” Leedom said. “Being back, I think she just wants to really dive all the way in right away. It’s funny to see her trying to do 20 things at once.” With the holidays quickly approaching, Kim said the Evanston corps is keeping especially busy with outreach programs like Thanksgiving food boxes, Angel Tree gift donations and the Christmas kettle fundraising campaign. Earlier this year, the Evanston corps was also looking to move into a different location in the 6th Ward, but residents pushed back on the proposal, expressing concerns that the Salvation Army would be a business operating out of a residential area. Kim said for now, the organization will continue to serve Evanston from its current location at 1403 Sherman Ave. Beyond her commitment to the corps as a whole, Kim “cares for her people” on a personal level, said

not hear any other city say they were doing something comparable to Evanston’s reparations fund. “(There was) a lot of talk about diversity, a lot of talk about equity,” Rainey said, “but nobody was talking about reparations except for us. We are really on the right track.” Aldermen previously approved reparations recommendations made by the Equity and Empowerment Commission to address wealth and opportunity gaps at a Sept. 9 City Council meeting. From property tax relief for longtime residential property owners to down payment and rental assistance, the Commission recommended various housing assistance programs for black residents. Going forward, the city will decide who will receive

the benefits of local reparations. The reparations could take on the form of housing assistance and relief initiatives for black residents, various economic development programs and education initiatives. “It is time we lead our city past ceremony and apology and into the overdue commitment to a reparative policy,” Rue Simmons said. “With this fund, we can implement programming to directly invest into black Evanston. Our measurements of success can include increased black household income, increase in revenue for black-owned businesses, and improved infrastructure for historically black and redlined neighborhoods.”

in North Evanston or South Evanston, it would not have been placed an area like that, but because this is a predominantly black area, we know without a doubt that that is the reason why it got here.” Headd said companies often come into minority communities and promote the potential business opportunities, but they hide the negative effects. In a community of blue collar workers, It can be particularly hard to protest injustices like the waste transfer station when working full-time jobs or raising children, Headd said. Janet Alexander Davis, a lifetime resident of the 5th Ward, said she thinks this has a lasting impact on how her neighbors see themselves and the place they live in. “People don’t really know they have rights,” Alexander said. “They (don’t know) they have a right to a community that’s not full of noise or not full of smells. Why in the world was it placed in an African American community?” Despite these challenges, Evanston Neighbors United formed in the early 2010s to protest the facility and its negative impacts. In 2011, the group organized a protest in front of the waste transfer station, forcing

operations to close. The movement grew, fighting for regulations and joining its efforts with the city to issue fees on the station. This led to a series of court battles, including one where Veolia sued Evanston in 2011 for issuing a fee of two dollars per ton of waste. Evanston settled the suit and retained $1.26 million of the fees the city collected. Some of these funds went into the air quality study, according to Chief Sustainability and Resiliency Officer Kumar Jensen. Though the station still stands today, the city passed some regulations to reduce its impact on the neighborhood. The station now uses a masking agent to mitigate the odor, and the facility’s trucks are no longer allowed to loiter on the street. Headd said she hopes the study pushes their efforts further. “I really would like to just see them gone. If it was not there, we could have a better neighborhood than we have,” Headd said. “We could build that area up, and it will be more desirable for people coming from outside.”

debt for students of a particular field of study across schools. The Education Department hopes students can use the data to more accurately compare education programs, instead of relying on reputation-based rankings, according to a news release. The agency hopes the data will help students better decide on their higher education options by being able to compare similar academic programs across schools. But calls for greater transparency regarding outcomes did not stop with the new Scorecard. The Obama administration launched the Scorecard along with a gainful employment rule to punish programs that graduated students with unmanageable levels of debt and poor employment outcomes, a regulation aimed mainly at for-profit institutions. DeVos repealed that rule earlier this year, opting to rely instead on greater information to delegate the responsibility to students. The revision expands the data to include more traditional schools like Northwestern, where computer science majors topped the median earnings list at $88,500. Following was computer engineering at $80,600, industrial engineering at $76,400 and chemical engineering at $75,700. Biomedical engineers acquired the most federal debt — $17,166 — followed by music majors at $16,787 and mechanical engineers at $16,500. Some NU majors are categorized differently than what they’re known for. For example, the Scorecard has students from the Community Organization and Advocacy program making a median $58,000 a year out from graduation, though no major with the name exists at Northwestern.

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Ellen Kim, coordinator for the Evanston corps’ Christmas kettle fundraising campaign. She’s known Mary Kim for almost 20 years after first being a student in her Sunday school class, and said the elder Kim has long acted as a mentor and supporter — from connecting her with people who could help in her career to just grabbing hotpot and chatting about life. “Whether it’s spiritual related things, or professional or academic related things, she’s always a help to me,” Ellen Kim said. “She’s such an extrovert. She knows so many people, and she’s always trying to utilize those connections to help people.” Within the Salvation Army’s system, Kim said she knows her appointment in Evanston won’t last forever. Still, she said she’s enjoying her time in the community and being close to her family again (her parents and brothers all live near her in Illinois). “I know in my heart and my spirit, this is God’s calling for me and God’s best for me,” Kim said. “I’m just really content and fulfilled where I am.” madelineburakoff2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Across Campuses Duke University may ban vaping

NEW YORK — At Duke University, at the epicenter of North Carolina’s tobacco country, a tense showdown over college vaping and its health risks is roiling the campus. The standoff began with an Oct. 7 letter to the student-run newspaper, The Chronicle, from Loretta Que, a pulmonologist at Duke University Medical Center. The letter, cosigned by seven other faculty members, urged the university to ban vaping in the wake of a wave of life-threatening lung injuries among young people. Que and her colleagues have themselves treated half a dozen such cases of serious vaping-related lung disease at the medical center, including two college students. “We’re very concerned about all the vaping incidents in the news, and we didn’t like that we had not actually taken a stand as a university against vaping,” Que said. Four days later, Jed Rose, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences who directs the Duke Center for Smoking Cessation, fired off a counter letter to the paper. He and co-signers he identified as “concerned tobacco addiction treatment and policy experts” called a proposed campus-wide vaping ban “unwise.” Rose argues that switching to puffing on an

89th annual Waa-Mu Show, “State of the Art,” announced to campus

Next spring’s Waa-Mu Show will be titled “State of the Art,” the co-chairs of the 89th annual Waa-Mu Show announced in a Nov. 25 release. The show, a tale about street artists and city elites clashing over free expression and community history, will run May 1 to May 10 at Cahn Auditorium. Tickets will go on sale on the Wirtz Center website on Dec. 1 at midnight. Beginning Jan. 2, tickets will be available by phone or in-person at the Barber Theater Lobby. Co-chair Leo Jared Scheck said he is passionate about the show because it focuses on “extremely important” issues that have “risen to a fever pitch” as the election approaches — gentrification, class inequity and climate change.

e-cigarette is a proven way to quit the cigarette habit. In his view, vaping can save lives. “The enemy is death and disease not people, not companies,” he said. “Whatever works to get people to quit smoking, I am in favor.” The issue of vaping is so divisive on campus that Rose’s colleague, James Davis, the center’s medical director, recently presented the undergraduate student government with a proposal from some of the university’s administrators to ban e-cigarettes. “We have five patients in our hospital with this syndrome now,” he told students. “This is probably going to continue happening.” Duke has been grappling with its complicated relationship with nicotine and tobacco for decades. Its history is intertwined with tobacco farms and the birth of the cigarette industry. The school is named after an old tobacco farming family that dates back to the 19th century. The Duke family later introduced cigarette manufacturing to Durham, the future hometown of the university, and eventually formed the American Tobacco Co., a monopoly that controlled 90% of the U.S. cigarette market in the late 1800s. That dynasty held tight control over the industry, so much so that the Supreme Court ruled to break up the company in 1911. The Duke family has contributed massively Written, composed, choreographed and produced by more than 100 Northwestern students, the show is set in a not-so-distant future metropolis where a covert group of artists vandalize world-renowned pieces of street art. After the mayor’s misfit child crosses paths with the vandals, the city’s elite are caught between their dream to increase the city’s national reputation and the truth of the artists’ acts of resistance. Co-chair Jon Toussaint, a communication senior, said the story is one that “comes from the students in this community, for this community,” Matthew Threadgill, one of the writing coordinators, said the story offers a voice to a group of people who are often silenced. “We have some exciting ideas for the music and the aesthetics of the show and I cannot wait for Northwestern and local audiences to see it, be surprised by it and hopefully, feel enlightened,” Threadgill said in the release. — James Pollard

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to the university, including almost $1.4 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars from family scion James B. Duke in the 1920s, according to the university’s endowment. A statue of James B. Duke, cigar betwixt his fingers, placidly looks down on groups of students, studying or relaxing on the neatly cropped lawn. But if tobacco and tobacco money is woven into the fabric of Duke, vaping presents a whole new set of problems. When Lindsey Rupp, a co-author of this article, graduated in 2012, vaping was virtually unheard of. By the time co-author Riley Griffin graduated in 2018, it was ubiquitous with students taking drags from their devices at every turn in the library, walking to class, or between quaffs of beer at parties. In 2018, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration reported that more than 3.6 million U.S. youth, including 1 in 5 high school students, had vaped within a month. As an emerging generation of vapers leave home for campus life, universities like Duke are inheriting questions of how to manage and regulate what U.S. health officials have called a growing epidemic. At last count nearly 2,290 vapers have sustained injuries this year and 47 people have died as of Nov. 20, according to the CDC. An

agency report states that the lungs of injured patients, which look as though they’ve been exposed to chemicals in an industrial accident, are ridden with vitamin E acete, a gummy chemical syrup often added to vaping liquids. At Duke University Medical Center, doctors have already identified about half a dozen such cases among young adults. “We didn’t want Duke to be responsible for a generation of young nicotine addicts.” Rose, who has received research funding from companies that make vaping-devices, doesn’t minimize the tragedy of vaping-related injuries and deaths. He just doesn’t believe vaping technology per se is the culprit. The problem, rather, lies with unregulated players who peddle dangerous substances, especially those containing THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. He has received more than two dozen grants from the National Institutes of Health to study cigarette addiction and treatment. That research has helped pave the way for the nicotine patch and other cigarette alternatives. Rose has also served as an adviser to Marlboro maker Altria Group, Inc., as well as Philip Morris International Inc. and e-cigarette maker Juul Labs. -Lindsey Rupp and Riley Griffin, Bloomberg News

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The Waa-Mu Show in 2017. Cast members peform to an audience in the annual production.

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Urban farm provides produce for local businesses By CASSIDY WANG

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The Talking Farm, located on Howard Street, sits on a two-and-a-half acre plot of land and features rows of planted produce. After being granted Skokie’s first zoning designation for urban agriculture in 2014, the farm strives to feed and sustain its local community by growing produce and creating educational programs. Farm Manager Matt Ryan helped advance the infrastructure and development work involved with receiving City Council’s approval. He joined the farm to engage with the sustainability and social justice components associated with urban agriculture projects. For him, such efforts includes combating health-related issues, such as diabetes and obesity, lack of access to fresh food, food deserts and workers’ rights. “It’s big enough to make you feel like you’re addressing five different things in society all at once,” Ryan said. Increasingly, urban agriculture projects are popping up in cities across the country. They range from small community gardens to commercial urban gardens. Their objectives vary: some seek to provide educational opportunities to youth, while some are more profit-oriented in selling produce to local restaurants and farmers markets. The Chicago Urban Agriculture Mapping Project has mapped 853 sites in the city. Northwestern junior Caroline Webster interned with the farm through the University’s Chicago Field Studies program last quarter. “People are so surprised when I tell them I work on a farm in Skokie, which is fifteen minutes away from Northwestern,” Webster said. “They have no idea that all of this is here.” She said urban farming allows people in cities to see what agriculture “really looks like,” where their food is coming from and why it’s important to eat healthy vegetables, sourced locally and organically. Webster was drawn to the farm by the possibility of interacting with the community, exposing residents to what it means to be

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The Talking Farm in Skokie. The urban farm, which is located on Howard Street, is a source of produce for local businesses such as Backlot Coffee.

eating locally and how it can be implemented. She said local farming is important because large, commercial farms producing on large scales limits biodiversity and crop rotations, thereby not allowing for a greater diversity of foods in people’s diets. However, Webster said, urban agriculture is not currently as accessible to lower-income people, who may need such fresh produce the most. “It’s so important to their health and it’s so important to their livelihoods to be able to

have access and to be able to see this is possible,” Webster said. “When they are able to participate in the growing process, it’s especially powerful.” Learning how to eat healthy starts at a young age, Webster said. She added that kids are the future of urban farming, and urban agriculture educational programs are taking this issue and communicating its importance to young people. Webster added that kids are the most vulnerable to the effects of dietary restrictions,

and not having access to healthy foods or not knowing where your food comes from, can be harmful. “You have to be able to provide the food, but you also have to be able to tell the kids ‘this is why it’s important,’” Webster said. “Because if they don’t know why it’s important and they don’t know where they can get it, then it’s pointless.” Backlot Coffee sources produce from the Talking Farm. John Kim, the founder, said the coffee shop gets its root vegetables from the farm, such as carrots and radishes, as well as spring greens coming in at the height of the summer for salads and hummus plates. When farms can exist in urban areas and educate people, Kim said everyone benefits. “Whenever you can get things that are both seasonal and local, everyone wins,” Kim said. “As a consumer, they win by getting things that have been in the ground two or three days earlier. Just generally, the local economy does better when we can support educational farms like the Talking Farm… Whenever we can, we like to purchase and buy the things that are available to us within a drive.” Through sourcing from the farm, Kim said he has been able to understand the challenges of obtaining produce. For example, when the weather gets very cold, Backlot is not able to get the produce they were scheduled to receive. “You’re just more rooted to the process,” Kim said. “You get to see how weather affects things… That’s part of the realities of life. When you see the challenges a farm has, you’re that much more thankful for what you can get.” Although Kim said sourcing food locally is expensive, with a 20 to 30 percent increase in cost for Backlot, he wants to support the Talking Farm’s mission of being an educational and teaching farm. “We do because it’s part of the vision of what we want to be, where we’re a community coffee house and we know that there are things we can get within the community. It’s a core value of ours to be able to do it, but if it’s not it’s not going to be worthwhile,” Kim said. cassidywang2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Latinx Student Alliance annual hosts festival Latinx friends and families came out to Norris for a night of food, music, dance and celebration at Latinx Student Alliance Alianza’s annual Festival LatiNU on Saturday. Before the performances began, festivalgoers had the chance to mingle over horchata and fried plantains. Then, after members of Northwestern’s Latinx Student Alliance Alianza introduced themselves and welcomed everyone, the night kicked off with a performance by Mariachi NU. The group

played traditional Latinx songs that brought members of the audience to their feet as they sang along. One of Northwestern’s new dance groups, Dale Duro Latin Dance Company, performed, followed by mariachi icon, Luis Alfredo and the vibrant Ballet Folklórico Mexicano de Northwestern: Ritmo de Mis Ancestros. Here are some of the Daily’s images from the night. — Evan Robinson-Johnson

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Finding Her Niche: Hope Carpinello’s journey to NU for the student newspaper. She wondered if she wanted to be the next Samantha Ponder or Maria Taylor. But nothing seemed to click. Things changed in the summer after her sophomore year. Carpinello had an internship at The Palm Beach Post, a newspaper in south Florida, and the person who worked beside her was the FSU beat writer. He asked if she knew about sports information, and when she didn’t, he introduced her to the director of the department at Florida State. And suddenly, things clicked. From then on, Carpinello worked as a sports information intern at the university, assisting with the basketball and football operations. “I thought, ‘I’m good at this,’” Carpinello said. “I just (got) to sit and watch sports and interact with people, and that was something I think I’ve always been good at — just building relationships with people.”

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Ever since high school, Northwestern assistant director of athletic communications Hope Carpinello knew she wanted to work in sports — just not in what capacity. She’d spent her childhood and

teenage years watching her little brother, Casey, play basketball and her older sister, Katy, cheer. Carpinello herself played volleyball throughout high school, but when college rolled around, she wanted to try something else. During her first two years at Florida State, Carpinello tested out a variety of sports-related roles, like radio broadcasting and sports writing

*** Christa Salerno, an assistant sports information director who oversees the internship program at FSU, said she appreciated Carpinello’s “good personality” as well as her hard-working and dependable demeanor. At the Orange Bowl in 2016, just days after Christmas, Carpinello and the Florida State staff were there to show tournament representatives around the stadium. When a Florida State sports information director didn’t know where to go, she was able to step in and direct them. “It made our experience at the Orange Bowl a lot less stressed,” Salerno said. After graduating, Carpinello took on a bigger role with the Orange Bowl, serving as their communications assistant. For 10 months, she did everything from creating game programs to working with public relations to coordinating press

releases. Once that internship ended, the Florida native searched for jobs in her home state or in the Chicago area, a place she’d become familiar with since her boyfriend studied at Wheaton College. The Big Ten’s Bob Hammel Communications Internship, a yearlong position in Illinois, caught her eye. But despite making it to the interview process, Carpinello didn’t get the job.

Carpinello said the people she works with — both the student-athletes and her colleagues in the communications department — make it worthwhile. Amit Mallik, (Medill ‘19) another assistant director of athletic communications, said the feeling is mutual. “She brings high energy every day to the office,” Mallik said. “It’s always fun being around her. It makes coming to this job...enjoyable.”

*** However, she didn’t have to wait much longer for her next opportunity — and it was from a familiar face. The day after that interview, Big Ten assistant commissioner/ communications Jason Yellin, who interviewed her, called Carpinello and said he wanted to be a resource for her since she’d impressed him in their conversation. A few days after that, the position at NU opened up. “I came here, I met all the people here, and what we do in this department is so different than your stereotypical SID work.” Carpinello said. “The communications department is so innovative — we’re always looking to do the next great thing…. And that’s why, as soon as I got here, I was like, ‘I want this job, I want to work here.’” Carpinello officially stepped into her role at NU in October 2018 and has loved it ever since. Her day-to-day is never the same. Some days she doesn’t sit at her desk until 2 p.m., others she’s there constantly and others she’s not there at all. A day could consist of taking headshots for the cross country team, supporting men’s basketball during their practice, updating the website and coordinating interviews between the press, coaches and athletes. “Sometimes you don’t get as much sleep as you’d like,” Carpinello said. “But that’s what coffee’s for.” Despite her busy schedule,

*** But beyond her personality, Mallik said Carpinello has brought an important perspective to the communications department. “(She) gave us a fresh outlook,” Mallik said. “You think about stuff in the sports world very differently when it’s all men and it’s a very white, male-dominated community. She’s held us accountable and helped us be responsible about how we treat everyone.” Carpinello said that being a female in a male-dominated industry has been challenging at times. As a result, she’d be especially hard on herself if she made a mistake, especially while in college. And more recently, a fan asked her if she only had the job at NU because she’s a woman. “It’s shocking,” Carpinello said. “But here, I don’t feel like there’s not a lot of women. It’s really cool. I don’t feel out of place. I don’t feel like I don’t belong here — and I know there are women who can’t say that.” Carpinello doesn’t know what’s the next step in her career, but she’s very happy at NU. She’s also glad to be surrounded by sports every day. “Sports is a universal language,” she said. “People from all different backgrounds play it. People from all different backgrounds love it. It brings people together, and that’s something I love.” sophiascanlan2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern had a refreshing weekend with two wins on the road against Ohio State and Maryland. The Cats had an easy straight-set win against the Buckeyes on Friday night in Columbus, Ohio. Then Sunday, they earned another victory the hard way with a five-set victory against the Terrapins in College Park, Maryland. In the first game, freshman outside hitter Temi Thomas-Ailara led the Cats with 12 kills while junior outside hitter Nia Robinson and junior middle hitter Alana Walker added 11 and six kills respectively. NU (13-17, 4-14 Big Ten) was able to control the game and was consistent, while Ohio State (14-15, 7-10) committed 29 errors. Led once again by Thomas-Ailara, Robinson and Walker on Sunday, the Cats beat Maryland at the Xfinity Center Pavilion for the first time since 2015. “I was very proud of the way they responded,” coach Shane Davis said. “As a passing group and a defensive group moving to the rest of that match.” Robinson had a team-high 19 kills, while Walker followed with 17 and Thomas-Ailara had 15. The Cats stumbled in the first set against Maryland (13-17, 5-13). That was partially because of defensive issues

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highlighted by the Terrapins’ four aces in the first set. But NU fought off those struggles after the first set. By the end of the fourth set, the match was tied 2-2. Thomas-Ailara, Robinson and Walker had all reached double-digit kills by that point. The Cats started the fifth set with a 5-0 lead and were able to carry their consistent play throughout the set. Because NU kept the ball in play, the team won the set and the match. Davis said the team is going to try to continue to play at this level in the upcoming games. He mentioned their goal of getting better as the season progresses and the team gets more players back from injury. “We should keep staying healthy, get better and continue with our confidence as our play continues,” Davis said. eceagalar2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern has never won an early season tournament under coach Chris Collins, and the way this Wildcats had started the season, this didn’t look like the team to break that spell. But then Monday against Bradley, sophomore forward Pete Nance pinned a shot against the glass and flexed in the game’s opening minutes. Sophomore forward Miller Kopp started heating up from three. Graduate guard Pat Spencer had a career high in points by halftime. Everything that could go right happened for NU, a team Collins admitted has been extremely inconsistent to start the season. This was what the Cats can look like at their best, and now they’re headed to the finals of the Fort Myers Tip-Off. In the semifinals, NU (3-2) won 78-51 against Bradley (4-2), a No. 15 seed in last year’s NCAA Tournament. The Braves have a reputation as one of the most physical teams in the NCAA, but the Cats outplayed them in almost every category Monday night. “It’s really fun for me to see them have a night like tonight and see them be what they’ve been working towards,” Collins said. “We’ve had some tough nights and tough losses early in the season, and a lot of people have counted us out… Certainly tonight was a step forward from this group.” Bradley took a six-point lead at the start of the game, but it all flipped for NU

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after Nance’s two-handed block against the backboard. The Cats went on a 16-2 run early to take control of the game, and by halftime they had almost twice as many points as the Braves. Bradley didn’t make a shot in the last 10 minutes of the half, while NU made 9 of 16 down heading into the break. The lead never dipped below 17 points after the intermission, and now the Cats are looking their best heading into Wednesday’s game against Pittsburgh. Spencer finished with 23 points, including two fearless deep 3-point shots at the start of the second half. The starting point guard piloted the offense as well as he has all season, finishing with eight assists and several made contested floaters. It was the best game of Spencer’s career. Heading into the contest, he’d made only 30 percent of his shots and had one of the worst three-point shooting percentages in the country. But Spencer made nine of twelve shots and three from beyond the arc, showing what he looks like when he’s hitting on all cylinders. “He attacks when he needs to and when he sees an open lane he’s going to take it” Kopp said. “We had a practice last week where he made deep threes like he did tonight, so it’s not a surprise to any of us.” Just three days ago, the Braves beat Radford 70-61, and the Highlanders beat

the Cats earlier this season at Welsh-Ryan Arena. Heading into the game, Bradley was among the best teams in the country at securing offensive rebounds and forcing turnovers, but NU had the advantage in both of those areas Monday. In a complete turnaround from the inconsistent start to the season, the Cats had their biggest margin of victory since beating Chicago State last December. NU will play for a championship Wednesday, and Collins said that would be a major accomplishment for a team with as little experience as his. “We’ve had our ups and downs, as everybody has seen, and we’re really a work in progress,” Collins said. “But I thought tonight we really put a lot of things together, which was exciting to see as a coach.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Pat Spencer handles the rock. The graduate guard scored a career high in points Monday.