The Daily Northwestern – April 27, 2018

The Daily Northwestern Friday, April 27, 2018

DAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM 8 SPORTS/Lacrosse

3 CAMPUS/Events

Wildcats’ secondhalf rally falls short

Latinx Asian American Collective updates students on campaign for department status

Find us online @thedailynu 4 OPINION/Letter to the editor

Students urge NU to better support CARE

City looking into municipal ID plan Evanston staff are currently in early stages of research

By SYD STONE

daily senior staffer @sydstone16

Evanston is in early stages of researching the possibility of implementing a municipal identification card program, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said.

Cities around the country — including New York, Detroit and San Francisco — have already implemented municipal identification programs, used to facilitate access to public services. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s municipal ID plan for the city cleared the city council last week, but not before several aldermen expressed concerns about the program.

The topic has not yet been brought before the Evanston City Council and has just been discussed at the staff level, Bobkiewicz said.

Assistant city manager Erika Storlie said early cost estimates for a municipal ID program in Evanston could be more than $20,000, and the program would need to be approved by City Council. Bobkiewicz said the estimate considers the cost of the ID cards themselves but does not necessarily consider the cost of maintaining systems to “string” together all of the information collected.

Bobkiewicz said the city has been researching a potential ID program for about two years, but it remains a “medium-burner project at best” because there has been no pressure from the Evanston community to pursue a plan like this.

He said he does not expect an ID program to be presented to council in 2018.

Emanuel’s Chicago plan comes as a response to President Donald Trump’s promise to crack down on people living in the U.S. illegally. He sees the IDs as a way to give Chicagoans without driver’s licenses or Social Security numbers the means to pay bills, make police reports or gain access to public buildings and services.

Chicago’s plan has drawn concerns from both sides of the immigration debate — some immigrant allies worry that the IDs could help federal agents deport undocumented immigrants, while critics say the plan could pose a risk to national security.

However, Bobkiewicz said any Evanston program even slightly resembling Chicago’s municipal ID plan would not intend to serve as proof of residency or citizenship, but rather aim to provide “ease of access” to city services. He said the idea for the program started from a desire of multiple city departments to improve access to services, particularly with the Evanston Public Library.

“We’ve taken the approach » See ID, page 5

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Students march from The Rock to Norris University Center on Thursday for Take Back the Night. The event was held to raise awareness around sexual assault and provide support for survivors on campus.

NU students march for survivors Annual Take Back the Night raises awareness about sexual assault

By CATHERINE KIM

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More than 50 students marched from The Rock to Norris University Center on Thursday as they shouted “Hey hey! Ho ho!

Sexual assault has got to go” for

Take Back the Night’s annual march.

Take Back the Night is a week-long series of events held to raise awareness about sexual assault. The event, hosted by College Feminists, started off at The Rock, where Weinberg senior Asha Sawhney spoke directly to survivors.

“I do hope that here at Northwestern we can forge communities in which survivors feel supported and the community at large challenges itself to be honest and restore itself from harm,” she said. “And hopefully everyone can have a moment ... where they finally feel like they don’t have to be quiet.”

Sawhney said it is important to acknowledge that anyone can be a perpetrator. Sexual assault is not a “natural disaster” and educators should be able to identify the people behind the harm, she said.

SESP sophomore Kai Kuo, one of the event’s organizers, said » See MARCH, page 5

Ex-ambassador talks Israel, Palestine EPD addresses Daniel Shapiro discusses a ‘two-state solution,’ Trump’s influence

By AMY LI

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Former U.S. ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro said Thursday that the only outcome that can resolve the ongoing IsraeliPalestinian conflict is a “two-state solution” that will create an independent Israel and Palestine.

The event, held at McCormick Foundation Center, was hosted by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies and moderated by Brian Edwards, director of the Middle East and North African studies program. Shapiro, who was the U.S. ambassador to Israel from July 2011 to January 2017, also advised former President Barack Obama on U.S. responses to the 2010 Arab Spring uprisings.

Shapiro said both Israeli and Palestinian leaders are constrained by their own publics, who remain divided over the Palestinian cause.

It remains a challenge for both leaders to defend their people, Shapiro said.

He added that although he believes there is only one resolution, other possible outcomes include an “extended version of the status-quo,” or the one-state

social media use Police hold town hall on community engagement tools

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Daniel Shapiro and Brian Edwards speak at a Buffett Institute event on Thursday. The former U.S. ambassador to Israel discussed his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the role of social media in politics.

solution, in which Israel annexes more or all of the West Bank.

Edwards and Shapiro also talked about Israel’s overall response to the 2016 presidential election.

“Israelis are used to messy and outrageous political discourse among their own politicians,” Shapiro said, “but they tend to hold Americans to higher standards. To see our own elections conducted at

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such a low-level discourse was very unnerving.”

Shapiro said President Donald Trump is more popular in Israel than most other parts of the world.

“It’s interesting which aspects of Trump travel and which don’t.”

Edwards added. “Things like his infidelity really played into the idea of a political strongman in Israel.”

Shapiro and Edwards also discussed the growing influence of

social media in politics and diplomacy. They specifically addressed Trump’s use of Twitter as a political tool.

“A leader who is willing to talk in that tough discourse — willing to humiliate public opponents, criticize the media as the perpetrator of fake news to a certain constituency, it has quite a resonance,” » See SHAPIRO, page 5

Evanston Police Department answered residents’ questions about its use of social media as an investigative tool and a medium to connect with the community at a town hall meeting Thursday.

EPD has called town halls at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center over the past two years to bring residents and police together, said Gilo Logan, who facilitated the discussions.

Logan is a professor at Northeastern Illinois University and the son of former Evanston chief of police William Logan.

At Thursday’s meeting, Logan read residents’ questions to a panel of EPD officers and detectives, and voiced concerns from community members who did not attend. About 20 residents attended the meeting and

another 20 watched the discussion via Facebook Live, a new tactic EPD plans to employ at future events.

“We as a department thrive on community engagement to help us keep Evanston safe,” said detective Michael Andre, who served on the panel.

EPD uses its Twitter account for quick updates about breaking incidents, such as accidents and road closures that cause traffic delays. The department’s Facebook advertises community events and shares pictures after the fact.

Detective Christopher Tortorello said YouTube is another useful website for police. The video sharing platform is popular among gang members because they can easily reach a large audience, he said, and sometimes rival gangs will respond with threats in the comments section of YouTube videos. “(YouTube) can give us a plethora of information,” Tortorello said. “This is one of the unexplainable things of » See TOWN HALL, page 5

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AROUND TOWN Local bookstore plans to celebrate independence

By CLARE PROCTOR

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Bookends & Beginnings owner Nina Barrett said she hopes to remind book consumers to “vote with your dollar” in support of independent bookstores on Saturday, national Independent Bookstore Day. “Every dollar you spend on a book is a vote for the type of world you want to live in,” she said.

“If you want to live in a world where everything’s online, then vote with your dollar that way, but we’re encouraging you to vote for this with your dollar.”

Barrett said celebrating the fourth annual national Independent Bookstore Day serves as a “consciousness-raising cultural phenomenon,” eliciting support for local bookstores in light of the threat posed by booksellers like Amazon and other chain bookstores. Bookends & Beginnings — 1712 Sherman Ave. — will celebrate with various events and promotions throughout the day, she said.

The day’s events will begin with a special storytime, in which attendees will receive a free copy of the book “Maisy Goes to the Local Bookstore,” Barrett said. Local author Ellen Shubart will host a trivia contest Saturday afternoon based on her book “What’s With Chicago?” The bookstore will also showcase three new pop culture anthologies from the Great Books Foundation in the early evening.

Barrett said generating and encouraging local bookstore pride — regardless of the fact that book prices tend to be higher at independent bookstores — is a primary goal in celebrating Independent

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Officers charged a Des Plaines man Wednesday with one count of attempting to disarm a police officer — a felony — and three counts of aggravated resisting police.

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Bookends & Beginnings, 1712 Sherman Ave. Owner Nina Barrett said the store will host many events Saturday to celebrate bookstore pride on Independent Bookstore Day.

Bookstore Day. “The deal that we’re making with our customers is, we want you to value things other than what price you’re paying for a book, and we want you to feel proud of it,” Barrett said. “You’re sustaining a

literary venue in your community that’s important.”

Bookends & Beginnings is a member of the Chicagoland Independent Bookstore Alliance, a “loose association” of about 25 independent bookstores in the Greater Chicago area working to co-promote

A bank manager at the Chase Bank, 635 Chicago Ave., called Evanston police to report a suspicious circumstance at about 8:10 a.m. when he noticed people sitting on a 2016 Hyundai Sonata, Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said.

Officers located and stopped the vehicle and then made contact with the driver, a 28-year-old Des Plaines man. Glew said officers observed what might have been narcotics in the car when

the man grabbed the substances, put them in his mouth and swallowed them.

Glew said officers tried to stop the man from destroying the evidence but were unsuccessful.

The man then fled in his vehicle and was not chased by Evanston Police Department, Glew said.

Later that day, officers saw that his vehicle had crashed into a building at Main Street and

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the independent bookstore scene, Barrett said.

This is the second year alliance members will celebrate Independent Bookstore Day, said Rebecca George, a founding member of the alliance and co-owner of Volumes Bookcafe in Wicker Park.

“It’s a good time to remind people just how lucky we are with the amount of bookstores they have,” George said. “Not only that, but we’re friends. We’re not competitors. We work together.”

This year, in partnership with the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association, alliance members are offering a 10 percent discount for a year to customers who make a $25 purchase at a participating independent bookstore, then visit nine or more others through a passport stamp challenge, Barrett said.

Larry Law, executive director of the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association, said one of the association’s main goals is to provide a platform to attract customers to independent bookstores in the Great Lakes region.

“A good bookstore is a representation of the community,” he said. “It hears what the community wants and it responds.”

What sets independent bookstores apart from online booksellers like Amazon, Barrett said, is the physical location these bookstores offer.

“You can come look at the books,” Barrett said.

“You can come spend a rainy Saturday afternoon here. You can sit here and start to read the book … and we can all celebrate that this is an important thing to be doing.” clareproctor2021@u.northwestern.edu

Fowler Avenue. Glew said officers then engaged in a foot pursuit of the suspect when the Des Plaines man tried to grab an officer’s gun. The man was tased and a few officers needed to receive medical treatment.

The man is in police custody and his court date has not yet been set. ­— Syd Stone

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FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2018

ON CAMPUS Students discuss departmentalization

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Members of the Latinx Asian American Collective said meetings with Weinberg administrators have been largely unproductive, generating skepticism among the group about whether the college will turn the Latina and Latino Studies and Asian American Studies Programs into departments.

The collective held a teach-in on Thursday, presenting updates on their efforts to more than 40 students gathered in Parkes Hall. Members said meetings with Weinberg Dean Adrian Randolph and Mary Finn, Weinberg’s associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs, have not developed into concrete steps toward departmentalization.

“The simple summary of our meetings so far is that the administration got our message about our programs’ struggle with stability in terms of funding, faculty and courses,” Weinberg sophomore June Choe said. “But they refuse to give us a straightforward answer as to whether departmentalization is a possibility.”

The effort for this change began last fall, when concerned students started brainstorming and meeting with faculty members to identify deficiencies in the programs, Choe said. The group began a social media campaign during Winter Break and released a finalized proposal petition in January. The movement gained widespread support among students, receiving more than 1,000 petition signatures and statements of support from more than 30 student groups, he said.

Students and faculty have said the programs lack adequate funding to hire faculty and conduct research. Additionally, the inability to hire tenure-track faculty limits the availability of courses and forces professors — and even the programs’ directors — to split time with other departments, they said.

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Members of the Latinx Asian American Collective update students Thursday on efforts to turn the Latina and Latino Studies and Asian American Studies Programs into departments. The members said meetings with administrators have not developed into steps toward departmentalization.

programs,” but stopped short of indicating any move toward departmentalization.

“They play a significant role within our intellectual community,” he said. “The difference between a program or department is primarily a difference in administrative structure and scale; it does not in any way reflect the importance the University or the College attaches to a particular academic discipline or course of study.”

Several barriers remain before the programs have any chance of being recognized as departments, members of the collective told The Daily.

Weinberg junior Jessica Wang said Randolph has suggested he doesn’t believe faculty members are “on the same page,” and asked students to demonstrate faculty support.

But she said the faculty actually have shown support, noting a February letter to the editor

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Administrators have also asked students to demonstrate the need for additional resources and faculty, Wang said, despite repeated requests by both directors for more funding. As a concession, administrators suggested they would allow the programs’ faculty to obtain tenure status, Choe said.

Though that change would give the programs one of the major advantages of department status, Weinberg sophomore Seri Lee said the recognition of department status is still needed.

“With that comes a lot of symbolic power and a lot of legitimacy, which has been historically denied to us since the establishment of ethnic studies as a discipline,” Lee said.

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Friday, April 27, 2018

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Student leaders urge NU to increase support for CARE, survivors

Northwestern recognizes Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) in many positive ways. From the annual Take Back the Night march to educational dialogues, our community takes seriously its responsibility to support survivors — at least, in theory.

The University has allocated resources for just three full-time staffers to run the Center for Awareness, Response and Education (though one of those positions remains vacant), which supports a campus of more than 22,000 individuals. CARE has become a hub for sexual assault-related action

at Northwestern. But its staff cannot — and should not — continue to address these issues alone.

While 179 Title IX violations were reported to the Office of Equity in the 2015-16 academic year, at least 16 percent of students indicated experiencing a sexual assault during their time at Northwestern — which would amount to more than 3,500 people. Not all of these survivors may feel the need to share their experience, but they deserve our support on whatever path they choose — be it holistic, general support from CARE or justice through Title IX. For a University that claims to support survivors, the immense amount of resources placed in a failing system — the Office of Equity is currently three times the size of CARE — is inefficient and unacceptable.

In addition to directly supporting survivors, CARE has a litany of other responsibilities that stem from its principles of social justice,

survivor-centeredness and sex positivity. It oversees three student groups (Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault, Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators, SPEAK for Change), organizes new student education, facilitates Support Starts Here and Step Up training, and coordinates the quarterly Campus Coalition on Sexual Violence.

Through its programming, CARE has made more than 8,300 training contacts so far this academic year — far surpassing 7,700 in all of last year.

As vice president for student affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin said when CARE became its own office, these programs, student groups and trainings have helped make Northwestern “a healthy, safe place” and create a “culture of consent.” But for CARE to continue this uphill battle, it needs help.

We demand that administrators allocate additional resources to CARE as it continues to support the NU community. To begin with, the

University should hire a full-time Prevention Educator to spearhead CARE’s massive campus outreach. In addition, permanent funding should be made available for the graduate students who support CARE’s mission; they are hard-working, talented and critical to daily operations.

CARE has relied on temporary grants and funding sources for too long. It’s time for Northwestern to put its money where its mouth is and to use the massive resources at its disposal to support survivors.

As we reflect on SAAM this year, let’s remember those who have dedicated their lives to supporting survivors. These people have a hard road ahead; they deserve our support, too.

— Serene Singh (Director, SHAPE) David Fishman (Director, MARS) Emagin Tanaschuk (Chairperson, SPEAK For Change)

Realizing that drinking is not for me — and owning it CASSIDY JACKSON

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

Throughout high school, I didn’t drink. It was a small part of my ploy to be as counter-culture as possible. In middle school, for example, when I caught the whiff that Uggs were becoming chic, I never wore mine out in public again. As high school went by, drinking started to catch on and began popping up at more and more social hangouts. So, being the anti-culture fanatic I was, I refrained from drinking for no reason other than separating myself from the majority.

This past summer, the summer before my freshman year here, I had a quarter-life crisis — largely credited to the “Hamilton” soundtrack. In preparation for One Book One Northwestern’s free Hamilton performance, I was listening to the soundtrack on repeat, and I was haunted by one lyric in particular. The line in “Aaron Burr, Sir” when Hamilton asks, “If you stand for nothing, Burr, what’ll you fall for?”

That lyric made me completely question my counter-culture mentality, as I realized being anti-establishment doesn’t necessarily equate to standing up for anything. I wasn’t drinking, but there wasn’t any particular reason behind it. I was protesting drinking culture, but I had no explanation for why. Without a clear set of morals and values, I would blow where the wind took me in college.

So, that summer, I made the decisive choice

to question everything I do. Was I doing something or believing in something blindly? Or was I doing it because it added to my happiness, empowered me or was something I genuinely cared about? One of the main questions I had for myself was, “Why are you choosing to not drink?”

I told myself that at the end of the day, avoiding drinking just to oppose the norm isn’t a moral choice. At the same time though, some part of me knew that drinking wasn’t for me.

So, I sat down with a pen and notebook and wracked my brain for reasons to explain why I felt that way. To my surprise, I wrote down a long list that day. Two of my main reasons were: not wanting to risk becoming addicted to alcohol (because addiction runs in my distant family) and worrying about how alcohol would affect my already complicated anxiety. I wrote that list thinking it would be all the empowerment I needed to live an alcohol-free life, but I was completely wrong.

In college, there have been numerous instances in which I’ve felt tested — often not even by my peers. The majority of my struggles concerning sobriety have come from me.

There’s a shame I’ve felt and have not been fully able to shake. When you don’t drink, you immediately become the outsider at parties, especially at smaller gatherings where it’s so painstakingly obvious who’s drinking and who’s not.

A trend I’ve noticed among many nondrinkers is that we rarely tell other people that we don’t drink unless they’re close to us or unless it’s absolutely — and I mean absolutely

— necessary. For a while, I convinced myself that I was keeping it to myself because it wasn’t everyone’s business, which is true. But I realized — at least before this column is published — that I could count on one hand the number of people at Northwestern who know I don’t drink.

The true reason I don’t tell people is because I’m scared. Scared of saying it wrong or them misconstruing my decision not to drink as judgmental, uppity or prudish. At the end of the day, people I tell don’t get to read my long list of sensible reasons: whether they have biases about people who don’t drink will determine how they see me.

One night in particular made me confront my shame right in the face. It was an extremely small party, which meant the entirety of the night was spent playing drinking games. Someone raised the question of playing “Kings,” which I’d heard of but had never played. A girl started to explain the game: you have a deck of cards, and each card stands for something. If you draw an ace, you start a drinking circle, and everyone has to drink until you stop (it’s called a waterfall).

I don’t know the mechanics of drinking. How long can the average person guzzle alcohol?

Does it depend on the type of alcohol? I had no idea, but I knew I could fly under the radar as long as I didn’t get an ace. But of course, with my luck, I got it on my first draw. In that moment, I could have just admitted it: I don’t drink, and this red solo cup is filled with Sprite.

Yet, I couldn’t; I didn’t want to be judged or questioned. So, I put the solo cup to my lips and drank.

I drank for way too long, because as soon as I lifted the cup from my lips, I was bombarded with questions and comments like, “Oh my gosh Cassidy! You’re strong!” “Wow — how did you do that with liquor?” “Cassidy, you go hard!”

They kept coming, and I said nothing — I awkwardly laughed it off.

I’ve grappled with this inexplicable shame ever since I got to college. I even struggled with it when writing this, searching for an angle to take that wouldn’t paint me as preachy or judgy.

When I think back on that party, I just want to press rewind and say it. I want to own it and speak my truth instead of laughing the questions off. The more I think about that night, the more angry I get at myself, because this is ultimately my choice. No one told me I can’t drink. I have clear, etched out reasons why I stay sober. So, when I have the opportunity to talk about it, why do I shy away?

Recently, I’ve been pushing myself to feel empowered when it comes to drinking, because my decision not to has been the right choice for me — not some other person. I’m trying not to worry about how other people will view my choices, because at the end of the day, we’re all free to make our own. And I’m choosing something other than alcohol.

Cassidy Jackson is a Medill freshman. She can be contacted at cassidyjackson2021@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.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2018

TOWN HALL

MARCH

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not only people telling on themselves, but people instigating this violence.”

There are around 10 gangs and approximately 400 documented gang members in the city, Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said in February.

While EPD keeps a gang database, they do not constantly monitor social media, said detective Thomas Giese. Typically, detectives wait for a tip from a community member before searching for a specific account. But even when police find suspicious behavior online, Giese said they need more evidence before they can take action.

“There needs to be a legal process that’s followed,” Giese said. “One of the problems with social media is there’s so many different social media outlets, and not everybody uses the same app.”

But some residents said after the meeting they still do not trust police.

Vivian Killebrew, who attended the meeting, moved to Evanston 15 years ago and said police frequently stopped her son for “driving while being black” after he graduated from high school.

Logan, the moderator, said EPD will conclude the town hall series this fall with a meeting focused on rights, responsibility and reasonability of police where residents like Killebrew can express their skepticism.

“This is a partnership with the community and police department,” he said. “It takes both hands to clap, both feet to run, to make this a better community for all.”

they decided to take part in the march after learning about alleged sexual assault reports at Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

“Because things have died down after SAE, people aren’t as aware and don’t think of it as much of a problem now, but this is still really real for a lot of people on this campus,” Kuo said.

Kuo said they want the event to show survivors that they are not alone, because preventing sexual assault is an issue that many people are passionate about on campus.

Students on campus can help other survivors by providing a safe space and offering support, Kuo said.

Kuo added that it is important to take the pressure off their shoulders to take action and just support them.

Kuo said party culture on campus needs to be addressed to make NU a safer place. There also needs to be more risk management at fraternity social events, Kuo said.

Dean of students Todd Adams said he participated in the event as a member of the community. Although sexual assault is an important issue that needs to be addressed, he said it is not talked about enough.

In an effort to make the school safer, Adams said the University will make education around sexual assault and relationship violence –– which was previously provided to only incoming freshmen –– an annual training for all undergraduate, graduate and professional school students. The University will also continue to support the Center for Awareness, Response and Education and other events like Take Back the Night, he said.

“We have a real opportunity in this point and time to leverage the social movement of #MeToo and the heightened conversations and bring them to our campus, where they’ve been, but bolster them even more,” he said.

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Shapiro said. “To others, it is somewhere between entertaining and disturbing.”

Although platforms like Facebook used to have the power to mobilize thousands of people for mass protests, Shapiro said, authoritarian governments have learned how to use social media to their own advantages.

“Any technology can be used for good or for ill,” Shapiro said. “It can be used to empower people or repress people.”

Shapiro also said he finds the “emerging alignment among right-wing national movements” disturbing, referring in particular to the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally. There is an emerging danger of the normalization and allowance of anti-Semitic speech for political gain, he said.

Bruce Carruthers, director of the Buffett Institute, told The Daily the program brought Shapiro to NU in an effort to enrich learning by creating opportunities for people to meet with experts on critical regions of the world. “(Shapiro) is someone who is able to engage different groups in a positive way,” Carruthers said, “not just to be an insider and speak jargon to the other experts, but someone who is willing to answer questions for young people who are younger, but have lots of energy and passion.” amyli2021@u.northwestern.edu

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From page 1 from a different perspective,” he said. “It’s been, ‘How can we best allow residents to access our programs in a way where you could just swipe a card versus having to register and sign in for something?’”

He also said concerns around data collection and privacy are at the forefront of the research on this topic. Data collected from the cards could also be used to tailor city services to best serve the community, Bobkiewicz said.

“Communities all over America are grappling with how to collect data, what’s too much data, where do privacy considerations fit in,” he said.

Bobkiewicz added that concerns about collecting data have slowed down the research process because there “are no easy answers to the big data questions.”

He said a “progressive” community like Evanston is likely to be very concerned about the collection of data, so city staff want to be sure that an ID plan is fully researched before it is introduced to the public.

City staff will keep a careful watch on Chicago’s plan to get inspiration and learn from its mistakes.

As staff continues to do “base-level” research for a potential plan, Bobkiewicz does not expect to formally discuss an ID program with the council until at least 2019.

“We’ve made no conclusions,” he said. “We’ve just been gathering data and trying to get our head around the issues themselves and how they might apply here.

At some point I’m sure it’ll be ripe for more of a public dialogue.” sydneystone2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern Mock Trial team finishes 9th in US

By JONAH DYLAN

daily senior staffer @thejonahdylan

After failing to reach the National Championships in 2017, Northwestern University Mock Trial made its comeback this year with a top-10 finish at last weekend’s tournament.

NUMT qualified both its A team and B team to the 48-team National Championships, a major milestone for the program, and the A team finished ninth overall in the competition.

In addition, NUMT had three members named All-American attorneys: SESP senior Joy Holden, Weinberg junior Nick Anderson and Medill freshman Michael Zhou. Holden, the A team captain, said this is the first time in “a while” that multiple NU members have been given the honor, which she said is given to about 25 students. Anderson said he wasn’t expecting to earn the award.

“Hearing my name be called was just a shock,” he said. “I had absolutely no idea that was going to happen. I went up and it was exciting, and at the same time very humbling and incredibly validating. Validating of the work over the past year and of the growth that I’ve experienced.”

NU started off the tournament, held in the Twin Cities, with a loss to Emory University.

But the team rebounded throughout the rest of the tournament to earn a top-10 finish. Miami University eventually won the competition.

Holden said before a critical round at the end of the tournament, she gave her team a pep talk to inspire them for the rest of the competition.

“I remember telling my team, ‘Hey, this is a stupid activity, I think it’s really dumb. The reason that I do this isn’t for the accolades or the ranks or the awards, it’s for you guys,’” Holden said. “And I think that was a sentiment that was shared by many members of our team, and I think that’s what allowed us to band together in the last round.”

The B team earned one of three ballots against the University of Virginia’s A team, the defending national champions, B team cocaptain Yash Dhuri said.

The Weinberg sophomore added that the B team was made up of almost all freshmen.

Dhuri said he was very excited to see the way his team came together throughout the season.

“Other teams had better individual performers than us,” he said. “But as a team we really came together, really worked well … and as a result I felt like as a team we did really well because judges saw how we presented ourselves as a team.”

Dhuri said he started the season as the captain of NUMT’s C team, but after the B team failed to advance at an earlier tournament, his team became the B team. He said the success his team had will show future members who aren’t on the A team that if they work hard, they can go to nationals.

Holden said she was proud of her experience with mock trial throughout her time at NU, and

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Associated Student Government vice president for student activities Alecia Richards has resigned, she told The Daily on Thursday.

The Medill senior told ASG members on Wednesday night that she had chosen to resign.

Richards told The Daily she doesn’t feel like she can continue to help students from within ASG. “I just kind of feel like at this point, that my views’ angles are not really aligned with the organization anymore,” she said. “I’m still interested in helping campus in advocacy, but there are other ways to do that with other organizations and campaigns, so I’m going to be pursuing that as an alternative.”

Richards’ term was scheduled to end in a few weeks, when the next student activities vice president will be chosen at the Student Organization Symposium.

year to prove ourselves,” she said. “And with our top-10 finish last weekend, we did prove ourselves.” jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu Chief of staff Lars Benson, who is working on the transition for all vice presidents, said it’s always “a bummer” when a student resigns.

“But obviously the amount of work that people put in for this organization and on exec board is insane and it is thankless, so I definitely would never fault anybody for taking a step away to take care of themselves and focus on more important things,” the Weinberg senior said.

Richards said she’d worked closely with former vice president for accessibility and inclusion Austin Gardner. She said after Gardner and the members of the A&I committee resigned at last week’s Senate, she felt like the people she’d shared views with were all gone.

“Those people that I’ve gotten to work with are no longer in the organization,” Richards said. “So at this point I feel like it’s in my best interest, and maybe even in the best interest for the organization, for me to kind of turn my efforts and time elsewhere.”

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NU heads to Baltimore for Big Ten Championships

By JONAH DYLAN

daily senior staffer @thejonahdylan

Northwestern is looking for revenge.

Last season, the Wildcats came into Big Ten Championships hoping to upset Illinois. But a rough first round ended those plans prematurely, and NU had to settle for second.

This time, the Cats will need a strong first round to stay in contention with the No. 13 Fighting Illini, the only ranked team in the Big Ten, as the postseason begins this weekend at Big Ten Championships.

The tournament will feature 54 holes over three days.

Coach David Inglis said he was encouraged by his team’s performance in 2017.

“We just put ourselves behind the 8-ball the first day, we got too many strokes behind Illinois and they walked away with it,” he said. “For us, it was encouraging to have the low score the last two days, and probably tomorrow it’ll be important to see if we can get off to a good start.”

NU is coming off an impressive performance at the Boilermaker Invitational. Though the final round of the tournament was canceled due to weather, the Cats tied for the win alongside No. 25 Kent State.

Junior Ryan Lumsden led the way for the Cats, tying for fifth place, while sophomore Everton Hawkins finished tied for seventh and senior Dylan Wu tied for 12th.

Senior Sam Triplett said the Baltimore Country Club course will allow NU plenty of birdie opportunities throughout the tournament.

“Everybody loves the course and just the tournament in general, so we’re all looking forward to getting going tomorrow and seeing how well we can compete this week,” he said.

NU’s toughest competitor will likely be Illinois, which is led by reigning Big Ten player of the year Dylan Meyer. The weather could also be a factor, with rain forecasted Friday, but Inglis said it won’t affect the Cats’ mindset.

“There’s no change to the fact that lowest score wins,” he said. “Whether that score is under par or over par, it really doesn’t matter. You’re just trying to do the best you can in the moment on every hole and add them up at the end.”

NU has won three tournaments this season, including the Boilermaker this spring and two wins in the fall. The Cats will feature a starting lineup of

Wu, Triplett, Lumsden, Hawkins and junior Pete Griffith.

This will be NU’s final tournament of the season before NCAA regionals — which will begin May 14 — and the final conference tournament for Wu and Triplett.

Wu said NU is going into the tournament expecting to win.

“We haven’t won a Big Ten championship in a while, so I think our goal is to really go out tomorrow and from the first hole, have the self-belief that we can play well and win a Big Ten championship,” he said.

Peter Warren contributed reporting. jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu

City to seek resident input ahead of 2019 budget deficit

By KRISTINA KARISCH

daily senior staffer @kristinakarisch

As Evanston anticipates another multi-million dollar budget deficit in the next calendar year, city staff plans to gather resident input on programs and services ahead of drafting the fiscal year 2019 budget later this year.

Speaking at an Equity and Empowerment Commission meeting Thursday, assistant city manager Erika Storlie said the city will encourage residents to fill out a survey about certain programs and services and provide feedback about their needs. The list — which contains roughly 150 separate programs — was compiled in the past six weeks.

Storlie said the staff examined all the services Evanston provides and — after running them through a “matrix” to determine their cost, use and effectiveness — determined which programs rank in the bottom third. She said many of these services must “either be rightsized or phased out” in the upcoming budget cycle “because we don’t have the funding to

adequately provide them anymore.”

Typically, budgeting discussions start in late summer, and the final budget is voted on at the end of the calendar year — which is also the end of the city’s fiscal year. This year, however, Storlie said preliminary budget talks began in February, “pretty much after the ink was dry on the previous budget.”

She said the early start was deliberate and meant to ensure residents all across Evanston get a say in what programs are important to them. The city wants to “put an equity lens on the budget,” she said, and work actively to combat the estimated $3 million to $5 million deficit.

Equity and empowerment coordinator Patricia Efiom told The Daily that the city had asked for similar resident input on its budget back in 2012, but not in recent years. Following last year’s deficit, she said, this year, they wanted to ensure that they “engage the community and do it in an equitable way.”

Former 5th Ward alderman Delores Holmes, who is a member of the commission, said residents first talked about priority-based budgeting at a ward meeting on April 20, where they

were asked to rank a small list of city programs on a scale from one to four based on how well they helped achieve City Council goals.

Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) said at last week’s meeting that City Council has “some tough decisions to make … We have over a hundred areas that we need to address.”

“Everyone has a different values system and different priorities, so I don’t think there’s going to be any easy way to do it, but we all have to start the process and work toward a solution that is best for all of our city,” she said.

On Thursday, Efiom and other commission members stressed the importance of reaching out to residents who will be most affected by potential cuts to services. She said demographic data will be collected from all residents who fill out the survey — whether online or in various locations across the city — and allow staff to tailor the final decisions to residents’ needs.

Storlie said once the city collects data from residents, they will present it to City Council, who will use it in budget discussions toward the end of the year.

Holmes said looking at the budget process through an equity lens “is not an easy task.”

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Equity and empowerment coordinator Patricia Efiom attends a Thursday meeting to discuss budget plans.

“It’s going to be interesting to watch the process and how people take into consideration other people and their needs,” she said. kristinakarisch2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Wildcats’ second-half rally falls short in another loss to Terps

By BEN POPE

daily senior staffer @benpope111

Northwestern, throughout recent years a punching bag for the Maryland powerhouse, was finally playing like a team that could compete with — and potentially beat — the three-time reigning Big Ten champions.

The No. 7 Wildcats had worked through the nerves that put them in a disastrous 6-1 hole early in College Park.

They had overcome a 14-7 halftime deficit and another goal conceded mere seconds into the second half to regain their footing. They had ripped off 4 consecutive goals to pull within 15-11 and had all the momentum on their side with plenty of time remaining.

Yet when the final horn sounded, NU (13-4, 5-1 Big Ten) had still lost, 20-16, and it was the No. 3 Terrapins (16-1, 6-0) celebrating yet another regular season conference title Thursday night.

Where did it go wrong?

A controversial call against junior attacker Selena Lasota with 22 minutes left certainly seemed to somewhat deflate the Cats’ rally. Lasota, seeking her third goal of the game but playing on a yellow card, turned toward the goal with a grade-“A” scoring chance, but was instead promptly ejected after a referee ruled she

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made contact with a Maryland defender’s head with her stick.

“It didn’t seem like she hit her in the head, it seemed like the girl just ducked and the ref went with the acting piece, but it could go either way,” a frustrated coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said afterward.

“Selena took a chance, and at least she put herself out there.”

The coach traced the crux of NU’s woes, however, to their slow start, saying she felt the team spent “the whole entire game” fighting that deficit. Maryland took the first 10 shots of the game and scored the first 4 goals.

The Cats adjusted by switching to a new draw control taker — from senior and longtime stalwart Shelby Fredericks to freshman Brennan Dwyer — and a new goalkeeper. When redshirt freshman goalkeeper Julie Krupnick allowed 15 goals on 20 shots on goal, Amonte Hiller turned to her 2017 starter, now-junior Mallory Weisse, shortly after the break.

Weisse validated her coach’s decision by making 12 saves on 17 shots, including a number of point-blank net stops that jumpstarted NU’s brief comeback. She

credited the defense, which was exploited in the first half by a Terrapins team clearly seeking to spread out coverage and attack defenders one-on-one, for stiffening as the game went on and making her job easier.

Senior midfielder Sheila Nesselbush and sophomore midfielders Megan Kinna and Lindsey McKone tied for the Cats’ scoring lead with 3 goals each, yet the end result was another addition to a losing streak against the Terrapins that dates back to 2012. The hosts’ 20 goals were also the most the Cats have allowed since 2013.

But Nesselbush said that during the course of Thursday’s game, the team developed the belief that they can “outperform” the Terrapins, and they may soon have the chance to back up that realization — without the burden of a sluggish start. The two teams could easily meet again in the finals of the upcoming four-team Big Ten Tournament, when the Cats won’t have to deal with a hostile crowd or the Maryland stadium’s field hockey-style turf.

“Every person on our team is more athletic and better, in our opinion, than their matchup, so we just started playing with that confidence and backing each other up a little more … and obviously things were a little more successful,” Nesselbush said. “Heading into next weekend, that’s something we need to remember.”

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Iowa pitching a challenge for NU Cats, Nittany Lions

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

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Northwestern will carry an eightgame winning streak into its final home series of the season this weekend, when the Wildcats host Iowa for three games.

NU (30-13, 11-5 Big Ten) is playing its best softball of the year right now, having won 21 of its last 26 games. The Cats’ offense is the biggest reason for the team’s surge. NU scored just 4 runs in its victory over Loyola on Wednesday, but had scored at least 8 in each of its previous seven games.

“We made a commitment as a team in September to grow our power game,” coach Kate Drohan said. “When you can hit (the off-speed) pitch out of the park, and when you can do a really good job on a 0-2 count, that’s what’s really opening up our game.”

The Hawkeyes (19-26, 5-11), however, might be the perfect team to slow down the Cats. Despite Iowa’s mediocre record, the Hawkeyes’ ERA ranks third in the Big Ten at 2.18. Allison Doocy leads Iowa’s pitching staff with a 1.74 mark, and Lauren Shaw, despite her 3-11 record, has an ERA of just 2.80.

Where the Hawkeyes have struggled is at the plate. Iowa has lost nine straight and averaged barely 2 runs per game during that stretch. The Hawkeyes are batting just .229 as a team and have only one player hitting above .300.

Thus, this series could serve as an opportunity for NU to get its inconsistent pitching staff back on track.

Freshman Kenna Wilkey has been a workhorse lately, having pitched in 10 consecutive games prior to Wednesday.

She has been solid during that stretch, giving sophomore Morgan Newport and senior Nicole Bond time to put in work and overcome their struggles.

“Kenna’s been doing a tremendous job holding it down for that group,” senior catcher Sammy Nettling said. “Newport and Nicole know that they need to do what they need to do to get themselves ready for the next opportunity.

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Tournament and into NCAA postseason, they know that we’re going to need all three of them.”

Newport took a big step in the right direction with her performance Wednesday. She went the distance, allowing just three hits and one unearned run, while striking out seven.

NU has won its last four series against Iowa, including taking two of three in Iowa City last year. Even so, Drohan said she expects a tough, back-and-forth series. The Hawkeyes beat a ranked Arizona State team in nonconference action

and handed No. 15 Michigan its only Big Ten loss of the season.

On Sunday, the Cats will honor their seven seniors as they play their final regular-season game at Sharon J. Drysdale Field. Four starting position players are seniors, including center fielder Sabrina Rabin, who has been named to an all-Big Ten team each of her first three seasons and was the 2015 Big Ten Freshman of the Year.

“I adore this class,” Drohan said. “They are really unique in the work they’ve done together and how well they’ve complemented each other. They’re terrific ballplayers and even better people. I just told them, the best way to honor the program and to enjoy the moment is to win.” benjaminrosenberg2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Sammy Nettling prepares for her at-bat. The senior catcher will play her final home series this weekend against Iowa.

duel to avoid last place

By RYAN WANGMAN

daily senior staffer @ryanwangman

Before Northwestern plays fellow Big Ten bottom feeder Penn State this weekend in its best opportunity all season to capture its first conference series win, the team faces a simpler but no less arduous challenge: getting to State College, Pennsylvania.

The roughly 600-mile journey is the longest distance the Wildcats will travel by land this season, edging out a trip of about 550 miles to Kansas earlier in the year. Two destinations that were farther away — College Park, Maryland, and Austin, Texas — each earned the team the luxury of a plane flight.

Junior shortstop Jack Dunn, who took part in the approximately 10-hour voyage to Penn State last year, said the long bus ride will serve as good study time for a lot of players on the team who have midterms coming up. He added that it also gives downtime for players to get “much-needed sleep” and prepare for the weekend.

“There’s positives to it,” Dunn said. “We’re stuck here so we might as well make something good out of it.”

Upon arriving, the Cats (10-24, 1-14 Big Ten) will sharpen their claws for a feline fight with the Nittany Lions (9-25, 1-14) to avoid the dishonorable distinction of last place in the conference. Luckily, NU has the good fortune of facing the conference’s worst lineup in terms of batting average and on-base percentage, as well as its worst pitching staff by ERA. The Cats will look to mirror last season’s performance at Lubrano Park, where they took on a similarly floundering Penn State team and captured two of three games in the

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series. Dunn had a solid performance in the sequence, gathering two hits and walking four times, scoring 5 runs.

For sophomore reliever Josh Levy, that weekend was particularly fun because the Saturday game of the series aligned with Penn State’s spring football game, so there were fans everywhere. Levy said the big park and good crowd made it a cool atmosphere to be in, and that the team expects to win three games this weekend, like they have all season.

“Coach always says you need to be ready for a big crowd like that,” Levy said. “All it takes is a little more mental preparation for it, but I think we’re all really excited for that weekend opportunity to play.”

Levy has struggled in relief on the season to the tune of a 5.40 ERA, but has come into his own as of late, blanking the competition in his last four outings while only allowing two hits. Levy held Illinois-Chicago’s bats in check Tuesday to combine with six other NU pitchers for a mid-week shutout against the team’s crosstown rival.

Coach Spencer Allen said he hoped the team could use the momentum from their midweek win to come together on the road and execute in clutch situations — like they failed to do in a tight series loss to Maryland.

“You kind of have two teams that are fighting it a little bit,” Allen said.

“Hopefully we can come out and continue to build on some of these (wins) and ultimately win a series.”

Peter Warren contributed reporting. ryanw@u.northwestern.edu