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Provost: University planning Native American outreach efforts after task force recommendations

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In response to recommendations from the Native American Outreach and Inclusion Task Force, Northwestern is planning outreach efforts for Native American students through the Office of Undergraduate Admission, among other initiatives, Provost Daniel Linzer said.

The task force submitted its report to Linzer and University President Morton Schapiro in November.

It includes recommendations on how the University can improve its relationship with Native American communities.

“We’re moving ahead on pretty much all of these initiatives,” Linzer said. “The recommendations were a great list of things to look at and we’re working with the schools and the deans and faculty and admissions.”

The admissions office was “swamped” at the end of the year when they received undergraduate applications, Linzer said, but they are now beginning to plan outreach to Native American applicants for next year’s pool. He said those efforts will be implemented throughout the next six to nine months.

NU also funded a course on the oral history of Native Americans for Winter Quarter in response to the report. The course, “Telling the

Stories of Native Americans: Oral History, Interviews and Politics,” is offered this quarter and taught by Medill Prof. Loren Ghiglione.

Linzer said the University is also looking at proposals for next year’s One Book One Northwestern on the topic and is currently in discussion with the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences about faculty recruitment and training. However, Linzer said, it is “essential” a plan is held off until a new Weinberg dean is hired.

The University announced it was joining the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies in June 2014. Although NU joined the consortium before the recommendations had been released, Linzer said he consulted with the task force on the matter.

The report is in an effort to strengthen the University’s engagement with Native Americans after the University of Denver released a report in November that found John Evans, founder of DU and Northwestern, to be “deeply culpable” in the Sand Creek Massacre, an event in which American soldiers killed about 150 Native Americans. The University’s own John Evanston Study Committee released its report on John Evans’ role in the massacre in May. “Northwestern should be as open as it can be about the full story on its history,” Linzer said. “That is why everything is out there for everybody » See SAND CREEK, page 6

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CALL TO ACTION Michelle Alexander, a civil rights lawyer, speaks to a packed Pick-Staiger Concert Hall about modern racial inequalities in America. Alexander’s speech, which focused particularly on disparities in the criminal justice system, concluded Northwestern’s annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.

Alexander talks racial justice

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Drawing a standing ovation from a packed audience in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall on Monday evening, civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander called on students and the rest of the country to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy by

continuing to fight for racial justice.

Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” and a law professor at Ohio State University, delivered the keynote address that concluded NU’s 10-day celebration held in King’s honor.

Hundreds of students, faculty and NU community members attended.

In her speech, Alexander condemned the U.S. criminal justice and prison

systems’ high rates of incarceration of minorities, particularly black men, criticized some Americans’ notions of a post-racial society and compared many inequalities faced by black citizens to civil rights violations of the past century.

Alexander’s address was preceded by a speech given by SESP senior Sarah Watson, winner of the student oratorical » See ALEXANDER, page 6

Alds. send Penny Park to board

STUDENT PETITION Katie Young, a student at Lincoln Elementary School, speaks about Penny Park to Evanston City Council. Young submitted a petition signed by classmates calling for the park not to get demolished.

Evanston City Council on Monday voted unanimously to pass the decision on how to approach the Penny Park redesign project to the city’s Parks and Recreation Board.

The board will determine how to address current playground conditions, compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act safety standards, budgeting, plans for rebuilding specifications and the possible addition of restrooms and a pavilion.

Aldermen emphasized the value of community input on the project and commended those who have worked on the project for cooperating with local voices thus far.

The redesign plan has received opposition from members in the

community who hope the changes do not alter the all-wooden layout of the park, said Lauren Barski, who operates the website Preserve Penny Park, a group that advocates for the original layout.

During the meeting at the Civic Center, Barski presented a petition with 2,300 signatures calling for the preservation of the park’s design.

She was joined by Katie Young, a Lincoln Elementary School fifth grader, who submitted a petition signed by classmates.

“It’s my favorite park,” Young said.

“So many people love and cherish this park. It has so many great qualities that it shouldn’t be torn down.”

Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) spoke to the progress of the project and clarified that the city’s plans with design firm Leathers & Associates, the original park’s designer, are still in the pre-design phase.

“Somewhere, someone read final design and got spooked out,” Braithwaite told The Daily. “Unfortunately, the wrong information gets out there and people run away with their thoughts. Basically, residents are reacting to what I would call a very conceptual drawing.”

The park was originally designed more than 20 years ago as a product of community collaboration, Evanston resident George Rieger said.

Community members advocated for a park and organized the funding, donated materials and eventually supplied the labor, with over 2,800 people contributing to the construction.

Redesign plans began over concerns of the park’s aging infrastructure and its accessibility to people with disabilities.

Two men were injured in what appeared to be a gang-related shooting Monday afternoon in central Evanston, police said.

An 18-year-old was struck in the knee and a 20-year-old suffered a

graze wound just after 2 p.m., Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said.

Both Evanston men were transported to Presence Saint Francis Hospital, 355 Ridge Ave., with non-

life threatening injuries, he said.

The shooting occurred in a residential area near the intersection of Custer Avenue and Brummel Street.

Detectives are following investigative leads, Dugan said. The total

number of people involved in the shooting was unknown as of 6:30 p.m. Monday.

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Around Town Police arrest two juveniles in cell phone robbery

Police took two juveniles into custody Friday in connection with the robbery of a cell phone.

On Jan. 10, a 28-year-old woman exited a Chicago Transit Authority station and was followed by the two girls, Chicago residents of 13 and 14 years of age, until the 800 block of Judson Avenue, police said. At around 12:05 a.m., the two teenagers took the 28-year-old’s phone, valued at about $600, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said.

Evanston police detectives cooperated with the CTA to take the two teens into custody. “(The CTA is) very helpful in getting us video from the stations and on the train, and they’re very quick with it,” Dugan said. “They’re good with sharing information.”

Both girls will appear in juvenile court as a result of the arrest, but no further information can be released due to their age. Police said a third juvenile was involved in the incident, but police have not located her.

Police increased patrols at mass transit stations because of alerts from the state department and to deter incidents like this, Dugan said.

Skokie man arrested in connection with gun possession

A convicted felon was arrested Sunday in connection with aggravated unlawful use of weapon among other offenses, police said.

The 21-year-old Skokie resident was driving with a passenger when a police officer noticed the two not wearing seat belts, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The officer attempted to stop the vehicle in the 800 block of Dodge Avenue, and then the driver turned into a parking lot, hitting a parked vehicle, police said.

The Skokie man was charged with possession of firearm and firearm ammunition without the requisite firearm owner ID card — both misdemeanors — after a search revealed a loaded .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun in the car, police said. He was also arrested in connection with aggravated unlawful use of weapon, a felony.

The handgun was reported stolen from Tennessee, Dugan said. The 21-year-old did not have a valid driver’s license or proof of insurance for the car.

The man does not yet have a set court date, police said.

Someone stole more than $600 worth of cologne in Evanston on the afternoon of Jan. 17, police said.

The incident occurred at CVS, 1711 Sherman Ave., but was not reported until Friday when the store manager checked the video footage and saw a man using a bolt cutter to cut into a locked fixture containing the cologne, Dugan said.

A detective has been assigned to the case, he added.

The Evanston Cradle to Career initiative has appointed an executive director to begin mid-February, Cradle to Career announced Monday.

Sheila Merry (SESP ’77), an Evanston resident, will be the executive director of Cradle to Career, an initiative that hopes to have all Evanston young adults leading “productive lives” by the age of 23, according to a news release. Cradle to Career has 27 organizational partners, including local organizations, schools and businesses. Merry was chosen above nearly 50 other candidates, it said.

“Critical to successful collective impact models is thoughtful planning, relationship building and creation of a common agenda, all of which requires sophisticated planning among stakeholders,” said Marcia McMahon, the regional chief professional officer of United Way North-Northwest, a partner of Cradle to Career, in the news release. “Sheila demonstrates the skills needed to continue to move Cradle to Career forward on all of these fronts.”

Merry, who will officially start Feb. 16, has worked in various organizations that focus on youth, including the nonprofit Illinois Mentoring Partnership, the Jane Addams Juvenile Court Foundation and Chapin Hall Center for Children at University of Chicago, according to the Cradle to Career news release.

“With Sheila’s leadership and the commitment of all the partners and our community, Cradle to Career will be a game-changer in Evanston as we work collectively on behalf of all our youth so they have positive life outcomes,” said District 202 Superintendent Eric Witherspoon in the news release.

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Police Blotter Car stolen in north Evanston on Friday EA car was stolen in north Evanston on Friday night, police said.

The car, a 2010 Mercedes-Benz, was parked in the 1300 block of Central Street at around 7:30 p.m., Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. When the owner of the car, a 60-year-old Evanston woman, returned at 11:45 p.m. that night, the car was missing.

She reported the incident to police the next day.

The theft was the fourth of its kind this week, with other stolen cars including a 2008 Chrysler, a 2006 Chevrolet and a 2013 Volkswagen. Dugan said the incidents appear to be separate, noting there does not seem to be a pattern with the type of car, the dates of

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“It is odd,” he said. “But there’s nothing that would say they’re related.”

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On Campus Journalist discusses modern Israel with students

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Israeli writer and journalist Ari Shavit spoke on contemporary Israel on Monday at an event hosted by Northwestern Hillel.

The event was part of Shavit’s tour across U.S. universities discussing his recent book, “My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel,� said Michael Simon, executive director of NU Hillel. Shavit, a columnist for Haaretz, Israel’s leading and oldest newspaper, and a New York Times best-selling author, discussed Israeli history and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Ryan Auditorium. More than 300 faculty and students attended the event.

Shavit emphasized what he viewed as the successes and errors of the Israeli state. While lauding the creation of the Israeli state, he stressed his opposition to Israeli settlements in Gaza and the West Bank. “(He) doesn’t pull punches when it comes to presenting mistakes Israel has made and challenges that it faces,� Simon told The Daily.

Shavit began his talk by expressing his desire to “have a conversation,� and discussed the history of Israel and 19th century Zionism through the perspective of his own ancestors.

He emphasized the need for evaluating the context for the many tragedies marring the

ASG to offer commnity engagement grants for Evanston projects

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history on both sides of the conflict. “There was no evil side or righteous victims,� he said.

Shavit praised the accomplishments of Israel of the 1950s, highlighting its ability to integrate immigrants and refugees. “What you see is a people that have come from (conflict) and are threatened by that, but have chosen life,� Shavit said. “Israel is such an inspiring celebration of life.�

Shavit discussed unique circumstances Israel faces, highlighting the flaw in viewing Israeli democracy in parallel to that of the U.S. While critical of Israeli settlements in Palestine, he said it is wrong to judge them without context. “Israel does not only have a unique occupation that other democracies don’t have,� Shavit said. “Israel is also under intimidation. You have many problems here in America. But no one doubts if America will be here in 20 years time.�

Following his talk, Shavit answered questions from the audience, ranging from his views on Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and the peace talks of the past year to the relationship between American Jews and Israel. He finished his talk by mentioning his admiration for the Americans he encountered during his tour. “You don’t have to be Jewish to care,� he said. “It’s up to us. It’s up to all of us. The most two years ago, but for the first time this year it is more focused on serving the Evanston community rather than the Chicago area as a whole, said Kevin Harris, ASG community relations vice president.

ASG has a set amount of funding it can either give to one group or donate to multiple groups, depending on the type of applications they receive. ASG awarded $500 in 2013, but Harris said ASG members have not decided on this year’s amount yet.

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WRITER, SPEAKER Israeli writer Ari Shavit discusses modern Israel at an event hosted by NU Hillel. Shavit is a journalist for Israeli newspaper Haaretz and an author.

people in this great struggle are you young people and this is why I was so inspired by listening to all of you.�

The event follows a recent campaign, NU Divest, that calls for the University to divest from six corporations involved in the occupation of Palestinian land, and an event, Palestine 101, hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine that aimed to provide students a history of the area.

Weinberg junior Ariella Hoffman-Peterson, a Hillel member who organized the event, said Shavit’s visit has been anticipated since the last academic year. “This is a very interesting time for us to hear his narrative and his push for something better for both people, so I’m actually quite happy we have this overlap,� she told The Daily.

“There’s tons of stuff to do in Evanston, lots of service and community engagement, and we really want to focus on supporting those ideas in Evanston,� the Weinberg junior said.

The grant will be given earlier in the quarter than in previous years so students have more time to work on their projects. “Hopefully they’ll have a time to present at the end of the year,� Harris said. “Last year that wasn’t possible because of the later timeline.�

Harris also said he hopes more groups will

apply for the grant. Last year, more than a dozen groups applied, he said.

This year it is easier for groups to apply because they are using Wildcat Connection.

In the past, students have used the grant to start a cooking class in Evanston and obtain school supplies for students in Evanston who can’t afford them, he said.

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On women’s rights under Saudi Arabia’s Abdullah ABIGAIL STRATTON

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ASHA SAWHNEY

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The king of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, died Friday at 90 after a reign of almost 10 years. He leaves behind a country where women do not have the right to drive and yet they outnumber men at universities. Some portray Abdullah of Saudi Arabia as a strategic advocate of women’s rights and a reformist of sorts in what is considered an extremely conservative country with “one of the most tightly controlled governments on the planet.� Others, however, criticize the slow pace of the movement and his lack of opposition against conservative factions. Was Abdullah truly a champion of women’s right and, if so, where does his death leave the movement?

Abigail Stratton: Saudi Arabia is by no means a model for women’s rights. The World Economic Forum 2013 Global Gender Gap Report ranked the country 127th out of 136 countries included for gender parity. This report measures gender-based gaps in access to resources and opportunities in individual countries. Regardless of age, religion or status, all women are required to have a male guardian and are prohibited from driving and voting in national elections.

However, during his time in power, Abdullah began implementing change to extend women’s rights, albeit incrementally. Although their actions are still incredibly restricted by American standards, women are now permitted to vote in the 2015 local elections, thanks to a 2011 royal decree that gave women the right to vote and run in future municipal elections. This move,

spearheaded by Abdullah, is championed as one of the most important advances of Saudi women’s rights in decades. “I believe strongly in the rights of women,� Abdullah once said. “My mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.�

Women in Saudi Arabia are still, in many ways, considered second class citizens. Abdullah is being criticized as the so-called “reformist King� who moved too slowly. By Western standards, he probably did, but he set the basis for future reform and extension of women’s rights. We must remind ourselves to examine these reforms in the context of Saudi Arabia’s culture. Saudi Arabia, being the conservative country that it is, has a long and slow road to reform that will likely draw opposition from the extremely conservative population. Frank Gardner of the BBC remarked, “In Saudi terms, King Abdullah was a reformer, making princes pay their phone bills and giving women their first ever seats in the high-level consultative council.�

Saudi Arabia continues to receive criticism for its lack of women’s rights, but it continues advancements towards modernization. Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, described King Abdullah as a “strong advocate for women.� She claimed that his support “was very gradual, appropriately so probably for the country.�

King Abdullah helped ease restrictions on women entering education and the workforce, which brought thousands of Saudi women into the workforce. Higher education is currently dominated by women, with females constituting 60 percent of the total student population.

To answer the two questions posed, I think Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was a champion of women’s rights within the cultural context of Saudi Arabia. In many ways, he is the first ruler to take decisive and measurable action to advance the position of women. According to Tufts University professor Ibrahim Warde, he had “ambitious goals� while still being conscious of the incredible power of tradition in Saudi Arabia. Advancements in education and the professional world are key to

moving toward modernization and giving women a semblance of power. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz laid the base to further advance the rights of women as they move forward, and he did so within Saudi Arabia’s traditional and conservative culture.

Asha Sawhney: Before taking a stance on the progress toward women’s rights under Abdullah’s reign, it is important to note that no step in this area is too small and no person who enacts change should go unrecognized. It is clear that the late Abdullah of Saudi Arabia did create some positive change for the women in his kingdom. However, was this change enough to continue after his death, or will the movement be quashed by conservative factions?

Many of Abdullah’s reforms aimed at women impacted their economic freedom. He allowed for women to work as cashiers and shop owners, and allowed them to fill job quotas for domestic companies. From 2009 to 2014, more than 400,000 women were added to the Saudi Arabian workforce. The king also funded the first nonsegregated university in the country and allowed women to study abroad on scholarships with a male chaperone. It is likely this economic change will stick beyond Abdullah’s reign. If the government wants to continue its unprecedented economic growth, then impeding women from joining the workforce when they hold over half of the college degrees in a country is impossible to justify.

The problem with the women’s rights policies enacted by the king is their top-down strategies.

Women may be more educated and empowered in the workforce, but they still can’t drive or be in public without a male chaperone. Until these fundamental rights are given, the conservative faction will still have control over the female population.

The outlook on these rights is grim considering Abdullah of Saudi Arabia’s successor, Prince Salman, leans more to the political right and cautions against “fast-paced reforms� in areas like women’s

rights.

It is possible that the late king truly did hold women’s rights close to his heart, but it is also possible that he saw these rights as an acceptable by-product of economic development and growth.

For transformational change to occur within the nation, women need to have advocates in the government who alleviate daily barriers to their success and are willing to openly speak about their desire to do so. With King Abdullah’s death, I am unsure when such an advocate will come about.

This is not an insult toward him; within the confines of a government based on Wahhabi Shariah law, any monarch has a lot to lose by explicitly being a women’s rights activist.

Contrary to popular belief in the West, some of the most successful efforts for gender equality in the Middle East have been by women and for women. The movement for the right to drive is coming from within the female population; last year 60 women drove and uploaded videos in defiance of the kingdom. On another front, women are slowly gaining power in the government — last year they gained the right to serve on the government’s top advisory council. Women in countries such as Saudi Arabia have an incredible resilience and ability to create change despite some of the greatest political restrictions and dangers for doing so. The best bet for women to move forward is to continuing to create a culture of collaborative activism. They should devote their energy into lifting each other up as national advocates for the movement, rather than depending on a male royal figure who has to remain on the fence due to his loyalties first to the conservative government and then second to women.

Abby Stratton is a Weinberg freshman. She can be reached at abigailstratton2018@u.northwestern.edu.

Asha Sawhney is a Weinberg freshman. She can be reached at ashasawhney2018@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern. com.

Until NSA spying ends, opposition to it should not LUCAS MATNEY

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It seems that after blindly scrolling through so many terms and agreements, waiving our rights with so many checkboxes and subsequently posting every bit of our personal lives online, we’ve grown completely indifferent to the issue of our online privacy. As always-on Internet connectivity spikes and seamless data collection becomes a foregone conclusion, it seems there is not only nowhere to hide, but no desire to. New technologies have enriched and made our young lives so much easier that infringements on our privacy coming from corporations and government agencies seem like sideshows.

This weekend, Pew Research published a report detailing American support for government agencies. The report confirmed some obvious assumptions: Tea Party members hate the IRS, Democrats love the EPA and most everybody is a fan of NASA. Where the facts got interesting is when the reporting turned to college students’ impressions of the National Security Agency.

The report suggested young people in the 18-29 age group were more likely than any other to support the NSA, with 61 percent of respondents expressing approval for the agency.

Less than 20 months since Edward Snowden’s disclosure of secret documents relating to government surveillance created uproar among young and old Americans alike, it seems the controversy

has inexplicably died down.

During last year’s State of the Union address, President Barack Obama dedicated a chunk of his speech to discussing far-reaching reforms to the NSA that would protect Americans’ privacy without sacrificing the country’s safety. This year, after failing to pass reforms limiting the NSA’s reach, Obama allocated barely more than one sentence in his address to the topic, simply referencing an upcoming report that would be published on the agency. Reactions on Twitter were minimal to this snub and draw attention to the larger point: We don’t even care about the ethical ramifications of the government carrying out massive domestic surveillance programs.

The NSA is desperately in need of major reforms to protect citizens’ privacy. My generation’s concept of having “nothing to hide� is something I find deeply troubling and in stark opposition to the freedoms I believe make this country so great. The NSA definitely provides valuable intelligence to keep our nation protected on foreign fronts, but we should be far more critical and involved in determining what types of data they should have access to domestically.

If the NSA’s invasive spying can’t outrage us college students, who have arguably the widest breadths of knowledge on today’s technologies, then who will rise to challenge these issues? More importantly, will we even listen to them?

Lucas Matney is a Medill junior. He can be reached at lucasmatney2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern. com.

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Watson, who also received a standing ovation, spoke of her reactions to the recent grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri, not to indict the white police officer who fatally shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.

“I felt as if the wind had been knocked out of me,” Watson said.

She discussed her experiences with racism on campus and called on the audience to work toward advancing civil rights during this “critical point in time.”

“What we do now, what we tolerate now, will dictate the future,” Watson said.

Alexander’s speech addressed similar topics that Watson mentioned, including racial inequalities in American education, housing and particularly criminal justice.

The lawyer opened her address by stating her “mixed feelings” about the state of racial progress in America and continued by citing numerous statistics relating to race and the criminal justice system.

“Many of the young people who are acting out on our streets today are the children of the men who were taken prisoner in the early days of the drug war, robbed of their futures, robbed of hope and entire communities, neighborhoods, destroyed,” she said.

However, Alexander ended her speech with “good news.” She said protests in response to the events in Ferguson carry on King’s legacy and bring the country closer to his vision of equality.

“People are waking up,” she said. “I think the time comes when truth stares you in the face, daring you to look away and say nothing.”

Alexander called on the crowd to continue King’s work of achieving racial equality through fundamental societal change, although she said many have reduced “his words to mere platitudes.”

“We must never, ever forget that he died a revolutionary,” she said to applause from the crowd.

Lesley-Ann Brown-Henderson, executive director of Campus Inclusion and Community, called the speech a “call to action.”

“It’s overwhelming, I think it was so powerful,” she said after the event. “We can’t keep ignoring what’s happening … I thought it was right on time.”

Brown-Henderson is a member of the NU committee that planned the University’s celebration of King. She praised the committee’s work in this year’s events and said she hopes to see the program expand more in the future.

“The committee is starting to meet earlier,” she said.

“That gives more room to plan more, to get speakers earlier and then to think, what other events can we build around the keynote.”

Gospel group Northwestern Community Ensemble performed both before and after the speeches on Monday night.

to read. … It’s evidence of Northwestern taking it very seriously.”

The task force was formed in January 2014, Linzer said. Vice President for Student Affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin and University trustee Phil Harris co-chaired the group. The task force was disbanded after it submitted the recommendations.

Weinberg senior and task force member Heather Menefee said some of the recommendations the group discussed were left out of the final draft.

“Some of our recommendations were not as fleshed out,” she said. “There were a lot of very heated conversations, many things we never came to consensus on at all and many things left out of the final document. It was a still a valuable process, although it should’ve happened over a longer period of time.”

Menefee said the task force has been in little contact since the recommendations were released. She said the creation of the an Indigenous Research Center, listed in the report, was one of the “top priorities.”

“For me, the most important is doing a cluster hire of faculty to lead the Indigenous Research Center,” she said. “It would be a good department and a good number of faculty and supportive staff, and it would be responsible to recruit Native students.”

Linzer said students need to be aware that some plans will take more time to carry out.

“What I hear from some students is a sense that they have a different timetable in mind,” he said, “but you have to understand how things work in academia. I don’t go out and look for faculty to appoint. Schools have to put together hiring plans and all of that is a process that takes months to do.”

Telles-Irvin said Linzer asked her and Harris to co-chair the task force. She said one of the themes of the group’s recommendations is increasing participation, involvement and enrollment of Native American students on campus, as well as support once they arrive.

“Once students get here, what kind of support do they need, what could provide those resources for students of Native American background?” Telles-Irvin said.

She said the task force also recommended ways to establish a better relationship with the Native American community, which includes creating a council of elders from different Native American nations that would convene with Linzer and University President Morton Schapiro on an annual basis.

Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) motioned to send the issue to the Parks and Recreation Board to have it review the entire process of the Penny Park redesign, including how to establish or work with a steering committee made up of community members.

“Depending on where things go with the Parks and Rec Board, it will be interesting to see what Leathers comes back with,” Braithwaite told The Daily. “We’ve reached out to the community and keep hearing, ‘We want to make sure the park is unique, we want to preserve as much of the park as possible,’ and then the variety of thoughts kind of splinter from there.”

The council also discussed potentially regulating ride-hailing services such as Uber, Sidecar and Lyft.

Aldermen unanimously decided to revisit the issue depending on whether statewide regulations are implemented.

said.

The win in the four-team tournament qualifies Oklahoma for the ITA National Indoor Championships in February. The event was one of 15 similar events being held across the country to determine qualifiers for the championship event.

To make the finals, NU defeated the Razorbacks 4-2 on Saturday. The Cats put themselves in an early hole after losing in doubles, but were able to surge in singles, taking four of five matches to advance to Sunday’s final. Shropshire, Kirchheimer, Baev and Horoz all put points on the board for NU in singles against Arkansas to win the match.

That performance, combined with a match against Oklahoma that was more hard-fought than the final margin indicates, has the team looking up after the loss.

“There’s definite progress there,” Staggs said.

“I feel like as a team we are going in the right direction.”

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National News House border bill yanked as GOP remains divided WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders Monday pulled a controversial border security bill from a pending vote, citing severe weather conditions in the Northeast and a short congressional work week _ but opponents said it was yanked because of sagging Republican support.

The bill, authored by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul, R-Texas, was scheduled for a Wednesday vote.

Republican leaders withdrew the bill and canceled all votes Monday as lawmakers faced difficulties getting to Washington because of the Northeastern snowstorm. The Senate met and conducted votes.

Pushing back Monday’s House votes, leadership officials said, further shortened an already truncated House work week. Lawmakers are scheduled to recess Wednesday so House Democrats can attend a retreat in Philadelphia the rest of the week.

The measure requires the Department of Homeland Security to gain “operational control” of the border within five years to prevent illegal crossings into the United States.

It also calls for the deployment of new technology along the border, new fencing, and requires the Homeland Security Department to launch a biometric exit system at all entry points within five years.

“Chairman McCaul remains laser focused on getting this bill to the floor and passed,” Walter Zaykowski, a McCaul spokesman, said in an email. “He will continue to work with members and stakeholders to do so. Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other plans this week.”

But Republicans, Democrats and outside groups that oppose the bill say dwindling support within Republican ranks, and not snowflakes, was the main reason it was pulled.

Several Republicans have complained that McCaul’s bill distracted from a bill the House passed earlier this month to fund the Department of Homeland Security through September.

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Huelskamp added: “This allows the focus to remain where it belongs — on Senate consideration of the DHS bill. We must check the president’s overreach on immigration before passing new laws for him to ignore.”

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That feeling of guilt that you don’t really want to have, we harnessed that and turned it into energy.

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NU overcomes 32-point hole, flies past Hawkeyes

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Spotting a ranked team a significant lead generally isn’t a formula for success, but apparently Northwestern can have it all.

The Wildcats defeated No. 21 Iowa 152-142 on the road Saturday, despite a 32-point hole brought on by forfeit in the diving events — all three of the team’s divers were injured or ill and could not compete.

“I’m real proud of the girls and how they responded,” coach Jimmy Tierney said. “It’s hard to make up that kind of gap, but the coaches prepared them and they thought they could do it. It was thrilling.”

An automatic 32-point deficit for NU (7-4, 2-2 Big Ten) was never going to be an advantage against a team like the Hawkeyes (4-3, 3-3), but the Cats’ urgency was up from the start, and the results showed it.

NU fell behind in the opening 200-yard medley relay by nearly half a second, but a strong anchor lap from freshman Mary Warren netted first place for the Cats’ top relay team, and

11 of the event’s 17 points, by six onehundredths of a second.

“Everybody on the team knows that the first relay is really important,” Warren said. “We have been practicing on it, all of our exchanges, all of the things that go into it, and we just went out there and did it.”

NU proceeded to capture first in two of the next three events, and suddenly the Cats had made up 18 of those 32 points. The Hawkeyes fought back by 9 points with a strong showing in the 100 breaststroke, but NU barreled down and charged forward.

In the next two events, the Cats won 27 of 38 points, and suddenly, NU had overcome 25 of the 32-point hole.

None of this was surprising to Tierney, who was marking the proceedings out on a sheet and said the score was exactly what he had expected at that moment.

The key was to make sure the team took a majority of points in the events they were strongest, and to limit the damage in Iowa’s best races. The Cats executed that plan to perfection early on, with a number of resounding victories in favorable events, and a narrow 10-9 loss in the 1000-yard freestyle, one of Iowa’s strongest events.

A feisty spirit also paid early dividends.

“I think they felt they were a better swimming team,” Tierney said. “The attitude from the get go was ‘Let’s try to take charge of this meet, and start winning events, and many as we can.’ We knew where their strengths were.”

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Cats fall short in ITA Kick-Off finals

By MAX SCHUMAN

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In baseball, momentum is only as good as the next day’s starting pitcher. In tennis, momentum is even harder to grasp.

No. 28 Northwestern (2-2) discovered that the hard way at the ITA Kick-Off Weekend tournament in Norman, Oklahoma, as strong play in a 4-2 victory over No. 58 Arkansas on Saturday gave way to a 4-1 defeat against the hosting No. 2 Oklahoma (3-0) on Sunday.

The Cats got out to a fast start against the Sooners in doubles. Senior Alex Pasareanu and junior Mihir Kumar dropped their doubles set, 6-3, to open proceedings, but the pairings of sophomores Sam Shropshire and Alp Horoz and junior Fedor Baev and sophomore Strong Kirchheimer won their sets by identical 6-3 margins to give NU the 1-0 lead.

“We came out super aggressive in doubles and that carried over to singles,” coach Arvid If I had done Swan said. my job I think “We need to come out like we probably that in doubles would’ve gotten in every match we play.” the win, but With the that’s tennis. upset-minded Cats winning Strong their first Kirchheimer, sophomore tennis doubles point of a match player this season, they seemed poised for a statement victory over the nation’s second-ranked team heading into singles. But the Sooners closed the door on NU with four straight singles victories to clinch the matches.

Freshman Logan Staggs was the first to lose his singles match, falling to 14thranked singles player Axel Alvarez 6-2, 6-2. He lost both of his singles matches

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this weekend in the No. 2 spot after falling to Arkansas’ Jovan Parlic on Saturday, 6-2, 6-4.

“What I need to work on is playing every point with a little more intensity,” Staggs said. “I could’ve made my match a little closer, and if I had won, who knows?”

Horoz, who scored the clinching singles point of the team’s upset victory over Vanderbilt, started his match with a first set triumph but couldn’t hold on to his advantage, losing to Jose Salazar 2-6, 6-2, 6-0. Shropshire was able to take his match to three sets before ultimately conceding to No. 20 Andrew Harris, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4.

Kirchheimer, who had yet to lose a singles contest on the season, battled in his match but was disappointed to ultimately fall 5-7, 5-7 to No. 33 Dane Webb to seal the overall victory for Oklahoma.

“I played some decent tennis and had chances, just wasn’t able to capitalize,” he said. “If I had done my job I think we probably would’ve gotten the win, but that’s tennis.”

The final 4-1 margin of the match betrayed a solid effort by the team in Swan’s eyes.

“We came up a bit short, but if you looked at the match, four of the six (singles) matches were in the third set, and that’s the No. 2 team in the country,” he » See MEN’S TENNIS, page 6

Tierney pointed to the work of the freshmen as especially important in the meet’s success. Warren’s final leg in the opening event was a tone setter, and her victory in the 50-yard freestyle wasn’t too shabby either. Anna Keane and Aja Malone contributed key depth points in early races. Older swimmers played a role too, as sophomores Ellen Stello, Lacey Locke and Annika Winsnes each won an event.

But the Cats still needed to carry their first half momentum through the entirety of the meet.

NU didn’t let up, sticking to the blueprint that had allowed it to come back so quickly in the first place. The team actually held a 139-138 lead going into the final event of the meet: the 400-yard freestyle relay.

“I was a bit nervous before the final event,” said Winsnes, the anchor for the Cats in the final event. “But I had confidence that we were going to win the relay.”

Once again, the Cats fell behind in the relay, and were down 0.53 seconds heading into the last leg. And once again, the anchor flourished, with Winsnes obliterating her Iowa competition by nearly three seconds on the way to a first place finish that was the difference in the meet.

Warren felt that the showing was the Cats’ best this season, although she iterated that the team can improve a lot.

Still, Big Ten Championships are less than a month away, and the measure of belief from this performance

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COMEBACK CATS The Wildcats dominated in the pool on Saturday, defeating No. 21 Iowa 152-142 despite a 32-point hole due to forfeiture of the diving events. Northwestern came back in the final leg of both relay races.

can’t be underestimated.

“We take a lot of confidence from this for sure because Iowa is a ranked team that we were able to beat, especially that we did so without the divers,”

Wisnes said. “Now we’re going up to Big Tens in a few weeks with an extra amount of belief.” kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu

NU builds to strong Sunday

By KEVIN CASEY

daily senior staffer @KevinCasey19

In the end, No. 9 Northwestern (26-4) produced the exact same 7-4 combined record at the Philadelphia and NYU invitationals over the weekend as produced last year.

But although coach Laurie Schiller saw 2014’s effort as a disappointment, this set of performances gave him more optimism. The key was seeing a major change from the first day to the second.

“I don’t think we fenced as well as we could have (early on),” Schiller said. “On Sunday (the second day), though, we were re-energized and we fenced well all day and we not only beat the teams we expected to beat, but we defeated Ohio State for the first time in several years.”

Although Saturday’s batch of contests at the Philadelphia Invitational netted the Wildcats a 3-2 record, quite similar to Sunday’s 4-2 mark at the NYU Invitational, there was a reason for Schiller’s Sunday preference.

In Philadelphia, the Cats took on just two top-10 squads, with both foes outside the top five. The next day in Jersey City, New Jersey, NU fought three top-10 teams, all three of which were in the top five.

Two of those were Notre Dame and Columbia — the top two teams in the nation.

The Cats actually started out strong Saturday with a resounding 19-8 win over a Cornell squad that was receiving votes in the polls. Then NU quickly got mired down.

“We started off well against Cornell, but somehow we got out of sync a little bit and we just couldn’t stop it,” Schiller said. “And we started getting in our own heads about things.”

It started with a 14-13 loss to No. 10 Temple and continued with the same thin margin of defeat against

Penn. Late 19-8 wins against Sacred Heart and Johns Hopkins did not salvage the day for the Cats.

NU suffered on day one most because of the epee squad.

NU lost two matches in epee for the day, but one defeat was enough to leave a big mark. The Cats’ big disappointment in epee came against Penn, where the team produced just 1 of 9 points in a crucial match NU lost by a single point.

Junior epee Juliana Barrett knew her section let the entire team down on Saturday, and felt a desire to avenge the performance.

“I think for the next day, that feeling of guilt that you don’t really want to have, we harnessed that and turned that into energy for the next day to prove to our team and to ourselves that we could do a lot better,” Barrett said.

Epee suffered no similar lapses on Sunday, and the team seemed to fire on all cylinders. NU lost two of its first three contests in New Jersey — the win in between being a 21-6 triumph over Yale – but Schiller was proud in the aftermath of competitive 16-11 and 17-10 defeats to No. 2 Columbia and No. 1 Notre

Dame.

The biggest match was the Cats’ contest against No. 5 Ohio State, a team that had eluded defeat at NU’s hands for years. And the Cats were prepared.

“Against Ohio State we came out really strong, and that was a great moment,” sophomore sabre Cindy Oh said.

The battle was hotly contested, with the Cats and Buckeyes battling to a 13-13 tie before NU junior epee Kaitlyn Wallace put together a “clean” bout in the final contest to give the Cats the victory.

The Cats followed with 19-8 and 27-0 wins against Wayne State and NYU. Yet, it is clear which single contest gives NU the most confidence going forward.

“The win against Ohio State showed us that we have the ability to beat them, and it’s promising for Big Tens because they are our biggest rival in conference,” Barrett said. “It’s motivating for us that we know we have the potential to beat them.” kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu

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PROGRESS It wasn’t a banner weekend for Northwestern, but a strong finish Sunday at the NYU Invitational had the team feeling good. The Wildcats beat No. 5 Ohio State that day, along with three other teams.