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CHICAGO — Coach Pat Fitzgerald seemed to be in high spirits Wednesday when he announced the signees of Northwestern football’s 2015 recruiting class. After a dramatic few days of buildup which saw two Wildcats recruits decommit from other schools, only to be replaced by other last-second commitments, there were no surprises Wednesday morning as all 20 players expected to sign National Letters of Intent for NU did just that. The Cats’ head coach was quick to rattle off statistics on the new class: nine players on offense and 11 on defense, 10 signees who played in state championship games, a team grade point average of 3.46 and two pairs of high school teammates. The pairs are offensive lineman Adam Lemke-Bell and quarterback Lloyd Yates from Oak Park River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois, and wide receiver Jelani Roberts and cornerback Alonzo Mayo from Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland. The pair of signees from Maryland is unusual for NU. Fitzgerald attributed it to the Big Ten’s recent addition of Maryland and Rutgers
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Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday authorized a company to take steps to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Evanston. A dispensary could be placed in Evanston by the end of the year, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said. Now that Illinois has approved Pharmacaan LLC’s application to begin the licensing process for dispensaries in several regions in the state, the company “fully intends” to go forward with a dispensary at an Evanston location at 1800 Maple Ave., said Teddy Scott, Pharmacaan’s CEO. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, which selects applicants for marijuana dispensaries, stopped accepting applications Sept. 22. Rauner’s office announced Monday a list of recommended applicants that can continue toward a dispensary license. The company’s application was the highest-scoring in the district containing Evanston, Scott said. More than 20 entities submitted
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NEW RECRUITS Pat Fitzgerald addresses media at Northwestern’s annual signing day press conference. The coach seemed excited to announce the 20 newest members of the Wildcats football team.
as member institutions. “We’ve always recruited New Jersey pretty hard,” he said Wednesday at a news conference in Chicago. “Now to get into Maryland and have some success … there’s no doubt expanding our conference is going to help Northwestern.” In addition to Roberts and Mayo,
the Cats pulled six players from warm-weather states: two from Georgia, two from Texas and two from California. Just five members of the class are from Illinois. With NU’s two last-minute recruit swaps, much of the press conference » See SIGNING DAY, page 6
applications for a dispensary in Evanston. In their state applications, companies needed to include letters of lease approval from the owners of the properties at which they hoped to open dispensaries. The city provided letters of lease approval to those who asked to include the location at 1800 Maple Ave. on their applications. “We basically took all comers,” Bobkiewicz told The Daily in September. Former Gov. Pat Quinn’s “Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act,” effective Evanston, we Jan. 1, 2014, restricted the believe, is one number of of those places dispensaries allowed in that is on the geographic progressive side areas. The law allows of things and only one more opendispensary in the area minded. containing Teddy Scott, Evanston Pharmacaan CEO and Niles Township. Pharmacaan still needs to go through the state’s process to officially obtain a license for a dispensary in Evanston. The state has set up a four-step process, and Pharmacaan
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Associated Student Government Senate voted Wednesday to change its constitution by adding an article about the organization’s non-discrimination policy. The addition, which will be the first article listed in the constitution, says ASG does not discriminate or permit discrimination by any member or its community. Although the change does not affect what ASG does, it tells people what ASG’s frame of mind is, said Petros Karahalios, Rainbow Alliance Senator. “Putting this in the constitution does not give ASG any structure, but the symbolism is important,” the Weinberg senior said. He first brought the amendment to Senate two weeks ago. An idea can have a huge impact, just as the movement to change Facebook profile pictures to red equal signs did on the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage discussion two years ago, he said. ASG also passed a resolution to urge the Illinois General Assembly to pass an active consent law, commonly known as “yes means yes” legislation, on college campuses. California Gov.
Jerry Brown passed a similar law in September, requiring all college students to receive active consent before engaging in sexual activity. ASG’s Community Relations Committee is going to bring up the issue when they lobby in Springfield, Illinois, later this month. The resoluion a ls o Putting this in tencourages the constitution the University to push does not for new legisgive ASG any lation regardstructure, but ing active the symbolism consent. ASG also is important. decided to allocate Petros Karahalios, money from Rainbow Alliance t he Wi l d Senator Ideas Fund to fund four student events. Of the $25,000 the fund received at the beginning of the year, they have gone through a couple thousand dollars. Senate voted to fund the Muslim-cultural Students Association’s “Nation of Islam” event, a collaborative scavenger hunt and WAVE
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More than 200 students and community members gathered Wednesday at Harris Hall to listen to One Book One Northwestern author Claude Steele speak about the issue of identity and stereotype threat. Steele is a social psychologist and author of “Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do,” the One Book One Northwestern book selection for the 20142015 school year. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and currently serves as the executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of California, Berkeley. During his keynote address, he said his mission is to talk about stereotype threat and how it affects our daily lives. Through years of research, Steele came to understand the magnitude of the damage caused by our perception of the roles we choose and our performance in them. He calls this the underperformance phenomenon, which he defines as what happens when people do worse in something they’re usually good at because they are afraid of what others believe. “One of the lessons we got from
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EXPLAINING STEREOTYPES “Whistling Vivaldi” author Claude Steele autographs books after his keynote speech. Steele, a social psychologist, spoke about stereotype threat and how it influences daily life.
this research is how important the immediate context is for a person with regards to how we behave and how we function,” he said. Steele said he first grappled with this issue at the University of Michigan and realized black students there with high SAT scores performed worse than their classmates with similar SAT scores. “I kind of assumed to that point
that if you’d gotten everybody similarly or equally prepared for academic work at that level, that they would perform pretty much the same,” he said. “There shouldn’t be too much of a reason for a difference, but that wasn’t happening. It was an attempt to understand why that wasn’t happening that started » See ONE BOOK, page 6
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A five-person panel discussed the scope of human trafficking Wednesday, drawing more than 150 people to Fisk 217 for a discussion of the problem at home and abroad. The panel, “Sex Trafficking in Chicago,” was organized by five campus groups. The event addressed human trafficking’s presence internationally before discussing Chicago’s struggles with the issue. Marshaun Montgomery, who works at UNICEF’s Chicago office, moderated the event. He opened the panel by describing the reach of human trafficking: a $32-billion industry that includes some 5.5 million children worldwide. Its reach extends to the United States and Chicago, Montgomery said. “Many of you may think that this happens in Thailand or South America,” he said. “The reality is that human trafficking happens in all 50 U.S. states.” Tianne Bataille, a lawyer and anti-human trafficking advocate, said Chicago is a trafficking hub largely for financial reasons. “Where there’s money, there’s economic incentive, and this is where human traffickers can fill business,” Bataille said. “This isn’t a crime of passion. It’s about what they can get away with and how much money they can make.” Bataille also said Chicago’s place as a national transportation hub — with its two airports, Union Station and interstate highways — contributes to its trafficking problem. Another factor is Chicago law enforcement’s priorities, said Virginia Kendall, a federal district judge in northern Illinois. She said with the city facing a gun violence epidemic, officers are less focused on human trafficking and more on shootings. Stacy Sloan, human trafficking coordinator at Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, said the state’s financial woes have made it difficult for her department to address trafficking fully. She said private organizations are essential to alleviating the
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AT HOME AND ABROAD Five panelists discuss human trafficking in Fisk 217 on Wednesday. The panel examined trafficking on an international scale before zooming in on Chicago’s struggles with the issue.
issue, especially in rural Illinois, where fewer groups exist relative to the greater Chicago area. Nationally, Kendall said, human trafficking advocates are fighting a legal battle. Laws that classify some child sex trafficking victims as “juvenile prostitutes,” and courtroom rules that make it difficult for prosecutors to admit expert witnesses in trafficking cases are among the largest legal hurdles. The panel was originally supposed to be two separate panels: one hosted by the Global Engagement Summit and International Gender Equality Movement and one hosted by NU Model United Nations, UNICEF NU and Fight for Freedom. SESP junior Carly Pablos, an iGEM co-president, said the decision to merge was to prevent the groups from hosting redundant events. “We did want to reduce the amount of overprogramming,” she said. “That is a very big issue at Northwestern, where people have events on very similar topics and they end up not being wellattended, even if the speakers involved are really high-profile.”
Weinberg junior Kriti Goel, a co-president of UNICEF NU, said the organizers asked the panelists to provide some “practical steps” for students to get involved. Katherine Kaufka Walts, a panelist and director of the Center for the Human Rights of Children at Loyola University Chicago, said students who want to affect change can approach human trafficking academically and close “research gaps.” “What will move policy is strong data,” she said during the panel, “so more empirical evidence to support what our survivors are saying.” Bataille encouraged students to scrutinize corporations and their use of human trafficking victims in their supply chains, telling attendees to research how the products they’re buying are made. Kendall also commended the handful of men in the room — 27 by her count — for attending the fivewoman panel, saying it’s important for both genders to be included in addressing this issue. ShaneM@u.northwestern.edu
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Student examines childhood malnutrition globally By AMANDA SVACHULA
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Seven countries, five continents and one summer. Weinberg senior Elizabeth Larsen’s travel experience was made possible when she won the 2014 Circumnavigators Travel-Study Grant. On Tuesday night, Larsen spoke in front of about 30 people about her global travels during which she researched solutions to the problem of childhood malnutrition. The 2014 Circumnavigators Travel-Study Grant funded Larsen’s trip. Each year, the $9,000 grant, sponsored by the Chicago chapter of the Circumnavigators Club, is awarded to a junior who is interested in traveling the world and researching a specific topic. “It is a 113-year-old club of people who have traveled all the way around the world,” Circumnavigator Club member Dan Peterson said. “(The award goes to an) outstanding student who has brought forth an impressive research idea.” Larsen, an economics and global health
major, observed childhood malnutrition clinics in Guatemala, Peru, Austria, Uganda, Rwanda, Nepal and Cambodia during her travels. “What really inspired the project was that I just had been working at a nonprofit clinic in Guatemala,” Larsen told The Daily. “I had been working on this clinic, and I wanted to find something to help solve childhood malnutrition.” In her speech, Larsen talked about the huge problem of childhood malnutrition, which is concentrated in the most impoverished areas of the world. Malnutrition causes stunted or underdeveloped growth in children. “This malnutrition early in a child’s life has profound consequences on their physical growth and development,” Larsen said. “These kids may tend to struggle in school because their brains don’t have the nutrients to fully develop. These kids are predisposed to higher rates of obesity because their metabolism didn’t develop fully in their infancy.” Larsen embarked on the trip alone, traveling to each of the seven countries over the summer of 2014. In each country, she visited childhood malnutrition clinics and studied what worked in solving the problem and what didn’t. In the end, she concluded three main points related
to childhood malnutrition she hopes to use in her work in the future. First, she discovered that agricultural solutions, programs that taught farmers how to effectively grow a nutritious diet, tend to be most cost effective and productive. She also concluded that younger children showed better nutritional outcomes. “Not all of these organizations focused on children under the age of two, some focused on kids under the age of five and some (focused on) school-aged kids,” Larsen said. “And while it is possible to nutritionally recuperate kids of that age, it is much easier if you get kids in infancy or, better yet, pregnant mothers pregnant with their first child.” Lastly, she discovered that programs that utilized a group dynamic were the most successful in curbing childhood malnutrition. By visiting each country back to back, it was easy for Larsen to compare and contrast the different clinics’ techniques. She hopes to utilize what she learned over the summer by connecting some of the organizations she visited. “I think one of the biggest things that I learned is that things are more the same across the world than they are different,” Larsen told The Daily. “The general problems across the
world, especially regarding nutrition, are the same. The solutions will need to be tailored, but what will work in one place will generally work in others.” While Larsen traveled, she not only observed the malnutrition clinics, but also experienced the culture of each place. In Peru she climbed Machu Picchu, and in Rwanda she visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial. Her favorite experience was when she attended the second day of the Teej festival in Nepal. “It’s a multi-day festival dedicated to Lord Shiva,” Larsen said. “I went with my host mom, and we went shopping for a red sari. I was probably the only foreigner in streams of thousands and thousands of women.” After Larsen’s speech, she had a questionand-answer session about her trip. Ultimately, Larsen found not only several answers to her questions about childhood malnutrition on her trip, but also a sense of community with the rest of the world. “I was alone, but I stayed with a global family I never expected to have,” Larsen said. “People are generally nice and kind and ready to help.”
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Q&A: Evanston artist explores colors of winter By MADELINE BURG
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Local artist Joyce Elias has a new take on the winter blues. Usually working with collage and construction pieces, Elias decided this year she’d turn her disdain for the Evanston winter into a meditation on color. Each day this year Elias will Instagram a picture of the Evanston sky and subsequently tweet it from the handle @ArtistsWeather, with a short description or hashtag of the sky’s color. The Daily caught up with Elias to learn more about the artist and her foray into social media. On how her life as an artist began: I’ve always been an artist, since I was a little kid. My mom’s an artist and my brother is also an artist, so it just runs in the family I guess … I didn’t consciously think about it, like ‘Oh, I’m going to be an artist.’ I’d studied it throughout school, I went to art school, art college … I ended up graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute. And then I came back to Chicago, and I went to the Art Institute of Chicago, and I got a teaching credential.” On her aesthetic and her influences: Obviously I’m very into color; I always have been. I’ve worked as a clothing designer and a jewelry designer and a set designer and all those things. I’ve always incorporated a lot of color into that. The works that I do, my own artwork, is a lot of collage pieces these days, and construction pieces, and they’re also rich with color.
neighbor, a white man who told us … the Ku Klux Klan were coming for my father and that we were in danger from what was essentially a lynch mob,” Simmons said. “That A new art exhibit celebrating Black Hisconfrontation was the catalyst for the whole tory Month will open at the Noyes Cultural reason for migrating.” Simmons, who currently works as the Arts Center, 927 Noyes St., on Saturday. director of employee relations at the Art The display, created by artist Jevoid Simmons, will run through March 6. Harvey Institute of Chicago, was around a year old Pranian, the curator for this exhibit, said he when he his family moved north to Davenhopes for a large turnout. port, Iowa, but he still has many memories “I think it’s important to give this mesof Alabama. sage to the community “We went back many and have them share it,” times when I was growPranian said. ing up. We had a lot of I want to share my family there,” Simmons Simmons’ collection is story, share my slice of life, said. “I have 15 siblings, titled “A Family’s Journey North,” and is a group of and I hope this will make and the four oldest were 16 paintings that tells born in Alabama, and others want to share their the rest in Iowa, and the story of his family’s migration from Alabama story as well. I believe they didn’t understand to Iowa in the 1950’s. Jeneveryone has a story, ... why.” nifer Lasik, the Evanston Lasik finds the story and they all deserve to be to be so important cultural arts coordinator, says this exhibition will shared. because while many be a bit different from people associate slavJevoid Simmons, ery, prejudice and racothers. artist, creator of “A Family’s ism with the Lincoln era “I think people will be Journey North” in the 1800’s, this story fascinated,” Lasik said. happened only a few “Not just from the artdecades ago. work, but also with the “It’s shocking that story. Something different with this is that we actually put the this is very recent history,” Lasik said. “It’s narrative on cork boards below the art, so only one generation back. This kind of thing it’s almost like walking through a history doesn’t affect people in one area of the hismuseum.” tory or in one lifestyle, but it connects us.” Simmons, who was about a year old when And although the story of Simmons’ famthe events of his paintings took place, has ily is not necessarily a happy one, his recepretraced much of his history to tell the story. tion will bring his family back together. The first painting shows his father’s white “I want to share my story, share my slice boss berating him. of life, and I hope this will make others want to share their story as well,” Simmons said. “I “My father got into an argument with his white boss, who yelled at him in front of believe everyone has a story, whether you’re everyone, accusing him of doing a bad job Native American, Caucasian, Hispanic or when he wasn’t,” Simmons said. “My father African American, and they all deserve to be chased the foreman out of the workshop with shared. Because when we share our stories, a pipe.” we find that we have more more similarities Later that night, his father was stopped by than differences. Our storytelling unifies other white men from his workplace, who humanity.” threatened him. From there, things only escalated. laurenbally@u.northwestern.edu “We were actually warned by a sympathetic By LAUREN BALLY
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I think more and more people are (using social media to display their art), and I’m relatively new to it. I’m very surprised, pleasantly surprised, by how many people actually pay attention to what I’ve been putting out there. So I think it’s a really great way to get work out there. I’d like to have some more shows, get into some galleries and things like that, and this could be a good way to do it. Artists are generally working in their own little worlds, so it’s a good way to get (their work) out to other people. On coming up with the names of colors to describe Evanston’s winter sky:
On the inception of the @ArtistsWeather Twitter: So I’m not a fan of winter, at all. My brother
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I started looking at color charts online. I’ve used classical oil color charts and some more contemporary acrylic charts, and I kind of mix it up. And some days I just make it up, because I just think that that’s what it looks like. It’s not a strict science, I kind of go with what I think it really feels and looks like.
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WINTER BLUES Artist Joyce Elias posted this photo on Feb. 3 describing the weather’s color as “pale green gray.”
lives in Los Angeles, he’s a painter out there, and so for years I’d call him in the winter and be like ‘Ugh, guess what color it is today.’ And it was always some color of gray, so we just kind of goofed around with that, thinking ‘How else could we describe this gray?’ And then this year I said I really just need to get out during the winter, and I’m just gonna start taking pictures of the day. So that’s how it started, and then I just put a few (photos) up on Facebook, and then I went on Twitter, and now I’m on Instagram and I’m getting a lot of interest, it’s really been a lot of fun. It’s inspiring me to do my other artwork. … I’m gonna keep doing them all year… and each month I’m gonna do at least one art piece based on the colors.
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Stepping into one of the historic Broadway in Chicago theaters is like stepping into the past. The ghosts of stars like Mae West and Humphrey Bogart haunt the expansive and ornate interiors and the era of silent films and screen sirens seems to have never come to an end. The theaters, which include Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre, the Oriental Theatre and the Bank of America Theatre, offer audience members and history buffs an look at relics of the past. For Richard Anton, an usher at Broadway in Chicago and a tour guide of the organization’s historic theater tours, reliving the illustrious beauty and history of theater is exactly what the tours are all about. “You get to appreciate the beauty of theater and learn a little bit about the show history and architectural history,” Anton said. “I hope people see what they usually don’t and think, ‘Oh yeah, I never noticed this.’” Because tours groups usually range from five to 20 people, Anton said, visitors have an opportunity to absorb the details of the theaters without the obstructing crowds typically present before a big show. For example, at the Bank of America Theatre, which first opened in 1906 as the Majestic Theatre, visitors have ample time to marvel at the ornate golden adornments framed on the ceilings and the vaulted ceiling from which dazzling chandeliers hang. The Cadillac Palace Theatre opened in 1926 as the New Palace Theatre and was designed after the luxurious palaces of Fontainebleau and Versailles. It was first established as an upscale vaudeville theater, although its focus has changed through the years. The theater has hosted runs of hit musicals such as “Les Miserables” and “Mary Poppins,” and was home to the 1999 premiere of Elton John and Tim Rice’s musical “Aida.” Architecture enthusiast Aaron Giese, 19, said theaters are his favorite examples of architectural achievement.
“Theaters are very interesting to me because they’re so ornate and large,” said Giese, who attended the historic theater tour on Jan. 31, along with his brother Josh. “It’s like a piece of art,” Josh Giese, 22, said. “A really large piece of art.” He also said he admired the craftsmanship involved with the construction of the theater. “I was looking at (the dome in the Palace Theatre), I’m like, ‘How on Earth do you get the scaffolding to get in there to paint that?’… It just all amazes me.” Besides those interested in architecture, people whose passions lie in musical theater can gain insight into the production and behind-the-scenes aspects of the Broadway in Chicago shows. The tour of the Cadillac Palace Theatre on Saturday, for example, included stops such as a performer’s currently unused dressing room and the exclusive suite theatergoers usually have to pay extra to use. Visitors were also treated to numerous stories Anton has collected from more than 10 years of working at Broadway in Chicago. “I have a catalog of stories where I can go, ‘What am I going to pull out today?’” Anton said. For instance, Anton said the actress who played Mary Poppins had to make a mad dash from the catwalk near the ceiling of the theater to the elevator for a costume change, and then sprint down a walkway in order to take a bow for the end of the show, all in the span of three minutes. From architectural history to sneak peaks of the behind-the-scenes action of Broadway, visitors who choose the historic theater tour of the Broadway in Chicago theaters will discover some aspect of the tour that caters to their respective interests. The Giese brothers, for instance, had nothing but positive words about the tour. “The guys are really knowledgeable about the theater, and they’re passionate about it too,” Josh Giese said. He also said even though he doesn’t follow musicals, because of the tour, “I’d probably splurge on a Broadway show sometime.” weizheyang2018@u.northwestern.edu
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“There is also a difference in terms of emphasis,” Murphy said. “In New York, there is more of an emphasis on the history of the John Reed Clubs in New York City. Here in Chicago and Evanston, we placed more of an emphasis on the history of artists in Chicago.” This emphasis was reflected in some of the content that sets the current version of The Left Front apart from its time at Block. “At the Grey Art Gallery, we have added some photographs, a poster and some film footage from Tamiment Library, which is one of the foremost libraries of labor archives in the country,” Gumpert said. “It is one of the special collections at NYU.” Corrin said the library at NYU contains the archives of the American Communist Party. “It seemed especially relevant and important to have it there,” Corrin said. “We are excited that we are working on three different exhibitions with the Grey. This is the first of three.”
The South Asian Student Alliance and Unity Charity Fashion Show have said “I do” to collaborating for the first time as part of a segment in Saturday’s SASA show “My Big Fat Desi Wedding.” Adding to the traditionally dance-centric SASA show, this performance will include a fashion show featuring traditional South Asian clothing such as saris. The theme is a spoof on the movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.” The event was the brainchild of Unity public relations chairs Communication sophomore Nikita Kulkarni and Bienen junior Kate Camarata. “We were trying to find different publicity events than what we have done in the past,” Kulkarni said. “We wanted to do something that was mutually beneficial to both groups and bring exposure to our causes, as well as the Indian community, to people who wouldn’t have exposure to the community otherwise. ” Parag Dharmavarapu, SASA co-president, jumped at the chance to collaborate with another group. This first-time collaboration adds a new element to the SASA show and creates an opportunity for multicultural learning on campus, as Unity models strut down the runway in traditional South Asian attire. “Collaboration and co-sponsorship is important to bring communities and organizations together,” Dharmavarapu said. “I think that SASA’s mission is to highlight and bring to focus salvation of culture in a variety of aspects, and one integral part of South Asian culture is the type of clothing people wear.” Unity model Wren Hagge got involved with the fashion show to try out modeling, but being involved in the SASA show became an unexpected perk. “I’ve never worked with SASA before, so I’m really excited,” the Communication freshman said. “I hope to get a deeper understanding of what SASA does and get more comfortable with modeling before the big show in April.” The emcees of the show want to attract more people to the event, while making it something people of any generation can enjoy. “It was a good way to make it more appealing to family audiences because it would be appealing to both parents and younger people attending the show,” Dharmavarapu said. The show, which usually features mostly dance, added this new element to spice up its usual repertoire for those less interested in dance. Unity got a multicultural revamp with this matchup as well. “I see a lot of emphasis on dance, so this is just adding another dimension to SASA that it’s lacking,” Dharmavarapu said. “This is something that hasn’t been done before to add onto the show. What it does for Unity is adds a diversity and expands their reach.”
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The cast and creative team of Porchlight Music Theatre’s production of “Sondheim on Sondheim” bleeds purple, with four recent Northwestern graduates involved in the production. “Sondheim on Sondheim” starts previews at Stage 773 on Feb. 6 and opens on Feb. 10. The production is directed by Nick Bowling, a six-time I’m Jeff Award winner excited for and well-known ChiChicago to get cago director. The ensemble-style a different look show depicts the life at Sondheim. of famed composer Stephen Sondheim Dylan Pickus, through music and assistant director video clips of the of “Sondheim on composer himself. Sondheim” Assistant Director Dylan Pickus graduated from the School of Communication in June and was involved with WAVE Productions and Griffin’s Tale while at NU. He previously served as Bowling’s assistant director in “Cabaret” at NU last winter. Costume designer Sally Dolembo also worked on
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CATS IN THE CAST The cast of “Sondheim on Sondheim” features four former Wildcats. The show makes its Chicago premiere February 6.
“Cabaret” after receiving her MFA in Stage Design from NU in 2012. In his first year out of college, Pickus is excited to work on a show that has not been performed much in Chicago. Porchlight’s production is the show’s Chicago premiere. “I’m excited for Chicago to get a different look at Sondheim,” Pickus said. “There’s a lot of published revues, but I really think this one is different. It’s an examination, not a celebration. Let’s learn more about the man himself not just his work. We’ve really been able to look into who he is.” In the creative process, the artistic team looked into Sondheim’s life and experiences to influence the show. “Nick (Bowling) made parallels with characters and the people in Sondheim’s life,” Dolembo said. Cast member Yando Lopez (Communication ’13) sang with Thunk a cappella at NU and is now filling the high tenor voice part in “Sondheim on Sondheim.” “I want to say that I play young Sondheim a lot, but no one really has a character,” he said.
“The role of Sondheim keeps getting passed around to every single cast member. Really that is the star of the show. It’s very nice that the star is none of us, that it is Stephen Sondheim. It makes for clear storytelling.” Lopez has worked with fellow alumni in almost all his jobs since graduation and has seen the continuation of NU’s tight-knit theater community in the Chicago. “You’ll find Cats everywhere,” he said. “It makes it much easier to reach out and ask for help and ask for an audition, even.” Dolembo first met Pickus while supervising undergraduate students in the paint shop at NU. She also worked with cast member Amelia Hefferon (Communication ’13) in the campus production of “The Little Prince.” Dolembo now teaches at NU and Columbia College Chicago. “It’s nice to have those relationships around for sure,” Dolembo said. “ Because we share that mutual experience, there’s always a bit of connection there.” racheldavison2018@u.northwestern.edu
Block Museum exhibit travels to NYU By PETER KOTECKI
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An exhibit that premiered at the Block Museum of Art has traveled to a New York University gallery as part of a partnership between the two schools’ art museums. Block’s 2014 exhibit, “The Left Front: Radical Art in the ‘Red Decade,’ 1929-1940,” is currently on display in NYU’s Grey Art Gallery. The exhibit was at Block from January to June last year, Block Museum director Lisa Corrin said. The exhibition draws from Block’s collection of artwork created by members of the John Reed Club in the 1930s, Corrin said. Club members were artists, writers, intellectuals and cultural leaders who were concerned about both racial and economic inequality in the United States, she added. “They believed that art could enact social change,” she said.
Members of the John Reed Clubs worked primarily in the medium of printmaking, because it was a democratic medium that allowed for easy distribution to the masses, Corrin said. John Murphy, a graduate fellow at Block, was developing an exhibit when he realized that although the literary work of the John Reed Clubs was well known, little work had been done about the visual artists involved, Corrin said. Block received a grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art to prepare The Left Front. Murphy and his colleague, Jill Bugajski, joined the curatorial team for the exhibition that is now at the Grey. “They provided additional funds to allow it to travel,” Grey Art Gallery director Lynn Gumpert said about the Terra Foundation’s grant. “The fact that the Terra Foundation made this generous grant really helped make sure (The Left Front) came to New York.” Murphy said the Grey had to leave out a few works because the gallery’s space is smaller than Block’s.
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is only at the beginning of it, Scott said. Next, the company must comply with state regulations. After that, the company could finally obtain a license, Scott said. “We’re confident that we will end up getting there, but we’re not there yet,” he said. City Council will also work on developing medical marijuana regulations, such as creating an ordinance that addresses a tax on the sale of medical marijuana, Bobkiewicz told The Daily on Tuesday. Aldermen could see this ordinance in front of the council sometime in the next 30 to 60 days, he said. The 1800 Maple Ave. location differs from other sites in Illinois because the site is owned by the city. Pharmacaan will have to lease the property from Evanston to use it as
a dispensary. “We’re in a unique position that we think no other community in America has ever been in,” Bobkiewicz said. “Not only will we regulate this, but we will also be the landlord.” Pharmacaan staffers are at the beginning of the process of negotiating a lease with the city, Scott said. Neither Scott nor Bobkiewicz said they think there will be any problems with the lease negotiations. The company could decide to move to a different location from the Maple Avenue property, but Pharmacaan has no intention of doing so, Scott said. Evanston is a good location for Pharmacaan’s plan because the culture fits with the dispensary, said Scott, who called Evanston “progressive” and “open-minded.” “There’s a long history of negative connotations with cannabis that we’ve all grown up
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Productions’ “Anti-Play” unanimously. Senators debated whether to give funding to a MEChA de Northwestern speaker, Hatem Bazian, whom senators said has been accused of being anti-Semitic by the website CAMERA on Campus. Representatives from NUDivest, which calls for the University to “divest from corporations that are profiting off of the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands,” according to its website, spoke at Senate about the situation in Israel-Palestine. Weinberg junior Noah Whinston said NU may be investing in companies that are complicit with human rights violations in Palestine. However, he said they don’t know for sure because the University is not transparent with its investments. “Other schools have advisory committees with students, alumni and faculty,” he said. “NU doesn’t have that. It’s very difficult for us as students to have any say on what the University is doing with the money.” Representatives from the Feinberg School of Medicine also came to Senate to announce a research project they will be doing for the next four years with next year’s freshmen. The project looks at cardiovascular health and how certain behaviors impact health during one’s college career, said Feinberg postdoctoral fellow Angela Pfammatter. The project’s leaders will recruit 500 incoming freshman and look at their dieting habits, smoking, physical activity and weight, she said. “We’re trying to intervene in the college age population because it’s usually ignored in the research,” Pfammatter said.
focused on the process of recruiting. The Cats aren’t usually known for losing their recruits late in the process or coaxing signees away from other schools. “We felt strongly with a couple of the young men we had the opportunity to add,” Fitzgerald said. The coach joked about the role technology plays in modern recruiting. “We only had a couple kids fax their letters in today,” he said. “I assume by next year it’ll be all email or Snapchat.” Fitzgerald said most high school players’ use of social media gives coaches access to information they didn’t have only a decade ago. He stressed the inexactness of the whole recruiting system, saying one of his main goals throughout the process is to “eliminate every unknown.” He was much less forthcoming on the question of which players will redshirt or receive playing time next year. “I don’t decide on who redshirts,” Fitzgerald said. “The young men decide on who redshirts. If they’re not ready to play, they’re going to redshirt. I’m not going to waste their year in the kicking game.” Given NU’s strong crop of wide receiver recruits this year, Fitzgerald also addressed the issue of next year’s starting quarterback. Redshirt freshman Matt Alviti split time with junior Zack Oliver at the end of last season, and true freshman Clayton Thorson will enter the fray during spring practices. “It’s going to be wide open,” Fitzgerald said. “We have three guys who are going to compete … until somebody, or multiple guys, separate themselves. … I know all three guys want the job.”
this research.” As he worked to find out why this happened, he stumbled upon another similar scenario: Women in advanced math courses underperformed in comparison to their male peers even if they were just as talented. Stereotype threat, he said, is something that affects everyone, and he said he finds that very unsettling. “It’s like having a snake in the house and you don’t know if this is a big snake or a little snake or a poisonous snake,” he said. “But all of the sudden, you are lit up in vigilance about what could be there and you just can’t flop down on your couch and watch football with a snake possibly in the house. It unsettles everything.” Steele said these anxieties are normal but one must move past them to succeed. Trust, he said, won’t solve the whole problem regarding negative stereotypes, but it is necessary to succeed.
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“You have to have trust before you can open your heart and engage in something,” he said. Steele said he believes NU deals with issues of diversity and inclusion in a good way. “This (University) is really working on these things,” he told The Daily. “It continues to pay attention to these issues and develops its own voice and style of dealing with these things. I do look to Northwestern as an awakened place.” Theatre Prof. Harvey Young, faculty chair for this year’s One Book program, said the committee tried to find a book that spoke about an important issue and had a good readability. “’Whistling Vivaldi’ is a powerful book that helps us see the effects of how we engage with others in the world,” he said during the event. Young told The Daily the book has been well received on campus and emphasized the importance of Steele’s lesson that how we engage with each other profoundly impacts each person in the NU community. marianaalfaro2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Someone attempted to steal two shovels from an Evanston homeowner Tuesday morning, police said. A 67-year-old woman saw a man take two shovels from her front yard in the 1800 block of Leland Avenue near Evanston Township High School, police said. The woman then yelled at the man, and he dropped the shovels and fled, Dugan said. — Julian Gerez
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Flynn Nagel – Lemont High School / Lemont, Illinois WR / 6’0” 190 pounds
Nagel was the most dramatic story surrounding the Wildcats’ signing day. Originally committed to Duke, he switched after fellow receiver Grant Perry de-committed from Northwestern and went to Michigan. “Coach Fitz called Monday,” Nagel said. “He gave me an offer. … When I woke up in the morning (the next day) it felt right.” It probably helped that Nagel has two older brothers, Brett and Aaron, who played superback for the Cats. Nagel says the idea of eventually playing there had always been in his mind. He also emphasized family as a reason for his late recruiting switch. “Northwestern was a better fit for me and my family,” Nagel said, “mostly because of the distance.” The local product is considered one of the best prospects in the state and should bolster a thin receiving corps. “As a receiver, I’m not that fast. My asset is getting open,” Nagel said. “I think the example there is Julian Edelman. … He might not be the fastest but he knows how to play football.”
Jordan Thompson – La Salle High School / Cincinnati, Ohio DT / 6’3” 255 pounds
Thompson joins Fox as one of Northwestern’s top defensive recruits. He follows a line of undersized ends on the team that includes sophomore Ifeadi Odenigbo and freshman Xavier Washington. With those examples to follow, Thompson isn’t fazed by the Big Ten’s mammoth offensive lines. “Best part of my game is my punch,” he said. “I used to play basketball so I can move pretty well.” That much is clear watching his highlights. Thompson played defensive tackle in high school, and that versatility will be an asset throughout his career. He has great quickness and burst off the line, and also brings a mean
streak to the Wildcats. “People think it’s just a bunch of nerds,” Thompson said, “but we can play football too.”
Cameron Green – Stevenson High School / Lincolnshire, Illinois WR / 6’3” 205 pounds
Green may not seem like the fastest player on the field, but the receiver returned punts for his high school team and displays deceptive speed once he hits his top gear. He uses his big frame well, shielding the ball from defenders, catching passes away from his body and high-pointing throws that appear well out of reach.
Simba Short – De La Salle High School / Concord, California OLB / 6’2” 210 pounds
Short has what is probably the best name in the recruiting class. Nothing in particular sticks out about his game on tape, but Short, listed as an outside linebacker, played a linebacker/safety flex position in high school similar to the one Northwestern used in its defense last season. Short is similarly sized to senior Jimmy Hall and junior Drew Smith, who rotated in that role last year, and projects well into that position in the future.
Tommy Vitale – Wheaton Warrenville South High School / Wheaton, Illinois OLB / 6’2” 220 pounds
Vitale joins his older brother, junior superback Dan Vitale, at Northwestern to form the third sibling pair on the roster. He possesses great quickness and awareness at the outside linebacker position and is also a sure tackler in the open field. In addition to the sibling rivalry, Tommy also played against freshman running back Justin Jackson in high school, meaning there will be no shortage of familiar faces when the local recruit arrives at training camp.
Steven Reese – Buford High School / Buford, Georgia DB / 6’2” 190 pounds
Locked in a battle with fellow recruit Tommy Vitale for the longest hair in Northwestern’s recruiting class, Reese is a rangy defensive back with the versatility to play either safety position. He has impressive speed and can chase down a player who appears to be breaking away, but also shows good awareness in traffic and has the skill set to come down as a blitzer.
Joe Gaziano – Xaverian Brothers High School / Westwood, Massachusetts DE / 6’3” 230 pounds
Gaziano is cast in the same undersized defensive end mold as current Wildcats sophomore Ifeadi Odenigbo and freshman Xavier Washington. But despite his size, Gaziano still has great strength at the point of attack, can play the run well and should find a spot in Northwestern’s defensive rotation. It’s also worth noting his Twitter handle, @meanJoeBiden, is the best in NU’s recruiting class.
Trent Goens – Chino Hills High School / Chino Hills, California DE / 6’3” 245 pounds
Goens looks undersized for a defensive end, and that’s because he’s a pure speed rusher. He’ll be vastly outweighed by the mammoth offensive lines of the Big Ten but can pick up some lessons from sophomore defensive end Ifeadi Odenigbo, listed at 240 pounds himself.
Lloyd Yates – Oak Park and River Forest High School / Oak Park, Illinois QB / 6’2” 190 pounds
The high school teammate of fellow recruit Adam Lemke-Bell, Yates is the only signal caller in Northwestern’s class. He’s listed as a dual-threat quarterback by recruiting outlets and will remind
NU fans of Kain Colter. At 6-foot-2, Yates seems undersized for the position. But he is excellent as a runner and at his best when on the move, while still competent enough as a passer to keep defenses honest with his arm.
Adam Lemke-Bell – Oak Park and River Forest High School / Oak Park, Illinois OT / 6’5” 270 pounds
Lemke-Bell has good size for the position and the ability to add more weight onto his 6-foot-5 frame. He finishes his blocks, shows good awareness when blocking at the second level and seems equally adept at both run and pass blocking. With some time to grow, the local product has the potential to develop into a bookend on Northwestern’s line.
Jared Thomas – Cathedral High School / Indianapolis, Indiana OL / 6’4” 260 pounds
Thomas was recruited primarily as a guard but originally played left tackle in high school. The move may have been prompted by his strong run-blocking abilities: Thomas has great awareness in space and consistently finishes his blocks to the end of the play. Regardless, versatility at multiple positions along the offensive line never hurts.
John Moten IV – John Burroughs School / St. Louis, Missouri RB / 6’0” 190 pounds
Moten isn’t the quickest or the fastest running back, but he has prototypical size for the position and shows great vision and breakaway speed in the open field. He’s joining a crowded Northwestern backfield, so don’t expect him to make an instant impact like freshman Justin Jackson did this season, but he has the potential to be an impactful player down the road. Moten had competing offers from local rivals Illinois and Purdue, which reflects well on the Cats’ recruiting ability. — Bobby Pillote
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Fox brings mean streak to middle linebacker By BOBBY PILLOTE
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Plenty sticks out about Nathan Fox when watching his high school highlights. The 6-foot-3-inch, 222pound inside linebacker has produced no shortage of big hits over his nascent career, but nothing is more impressive than his pair of onside kick recoveries. “My job on onside kicks is usually to go hit the guy trying to get it,” Fox said. “I guess that was the plan, but sometimes I get hungry for the ball and just go and try to get it.” Fox is the prototype of what a middle linebacker should be. He’s the kind of player who loves special teams as much as any part of the game, wanted to be a football player since he was in the third grade and grew up watching former Baltimore Raven Ray Lewis, one of the best to ever play the position. The fact that Fox modeled his game on Lewis comes as no surprise after watching him play. Fox’s highlight reel is packed with play after play of him knifing into the backfield
unblocked for an easy takedown of the ball carrier. Fox believes his instincts are the best part of his game. “Sometimes I feel like I don’t even think during the play and I end up in the right spot,” Fox said. “My aggressiveness, just going and attacking balls, is probably what makes me most successful.” It follows that Fox says coach Pat Fitzgerald, a former linebacker himself, was a big reason Fox decided to play for Northwestern. Fitzgerald, however, downplayed his own ability to draw linebackers to his program. “I can speak the language to them,” Fitzgerald said. “They don’t even know that I played, most of them … but yeah I enjoy that position.” Fox also says linebackers coach Randy Bates — who has had at least one linebacker under his tutelage named to the media’s All-Big Ten Team Honorable Mentions each of the past three years — was a key factor. Fox also admits he simply feels at home on campus and in Chicago. A product of Clear Lake High School in Houston, Texas, Fox will be a long
way from the warmth he insists he isn’t a fan of. “I hate the heat,” Fox said. “Even at our 7 p.m. football games I’m hot and sweaty and cramping. I’m ready to go somewhere that’s not quite as hot.” Beyond a nose for the football and a love of the climate, Fox is bringing a chip on his shoulder to Evanston. He said he was a four-year varsity player but only had the experience of a winning season once, and that missed opportunity motivates him to work his hardest. The recruit also sees a leadership role in his future. “I lead by example,” Fox said. “I’m hungry to win, I’m going to work hard, study film … I hope I can help push our team in the right direction and really change the program around.” It’s easy to see NU and Fox are great fits for each other. The linebacker is ranked as a top-30 recruit at his position by ESPN, Rivals and Scout, and projects well to continue the proud tradition the Wildcats have of producing excellent linebackers. Like many of his predecessors, Fox also brings a genuine love of the game to the position.
“I’ve always wanted to be a football player,” Fox said. “My first practice, I’m an 8-year-old kid, out of shape, kind of fat, but I still had
a great time. … Ever since then it’s been football for me.” bpillote@u.northwestern.edu
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WEATHER WARRIOR Nathan Fox looks to lead by example in his time at Northwestern. The three-star inside linebacker from Houston said he is eager to escape the Texas heat for the frigid Evanston climate.
Speedy Roberts looks to make outsized impact By BOBBY PILLOTE
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There’s only one word to describe Jelani Roberts on the football field: fast. The wide receiver has speed in spades, and at a scant 5-foot-8 and 160 pounds, Roberts needs every extra step he can get. His official 40-yard dash time is 4.39 seconds, one of the best in this year’s recruiting class according to ESPN, but Roberts says he’s been timed as low as 4.35 seconds. “My speed,” Roberts said when asked what his greatest asset was. “That allows me to make big plays.” A player Roberts’ size couldn’t
survive on a football field without possessing exceptional athleticism, and that’s exactly what pops out when looking at his measurables or watching his highlights. In addition to his wheels, Roberts has a 41.8inch vertical leap, best among wide receiver recruits in this year’s class according to ESPN. And his highlights play like a defense’s gag reel. There’s clip after clip of Roberts simply out-running every other player on the field, and even more of him using his small frame and agility to make defenders whiff on tackles. The comparisons to former Wildcats running back Venric Mark are obvious, and in fact that’s one of the reasons Roberts chose Northwestern. “Seeing someone close to my size
succeed there had a big impact,” he said. Roberts, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, is joined in this year’s recruiting class by cornerback Alonzo Mayo, a fellow Gilman School product. Despite the two playing opposing positions, Roberts says there isn’t too much of a rivalry between them. “Alonzo and I have known each other since we were pretty young, since elementary school,” Roberts said. “It’s really cool to have someone coming in who you know.” A familiar face will be a welcome sight for Roberts because all players have to make adjustments when they transition to college and into playing the college game, and it comes as no surprise Roberts is most worried about going up against bigger
defenders. But he should have some experience from playing his secondfavorite sport, basketball. Clearly Roberts has never let his size hold him back. “I was a pretty good player for a while,” he said, jokingly, regarding basketball. “I’m not so great now.” At his size, Roberts won’t turn heads walking down Sheridan Road like some of the taller members of the football team, but that’s probably good for someone who, for the most part, seems like he wants to fit in. Roberts said what he’s most excited about for college is getting to campus and meeting new people. When he isn’t preoccupied with football, he likes to play video games or hang out with friends. And his favorite football memory isn’t one
big play or one important win; it’s the camaraderie of his senior year locker room. “Going into senior year, going into training camp, we were in the locker room one day,” Roberts said. “Everybody was in there just listening to music and having a ton of fun, and you could really see the team gelling.” Reserved off the field, Roberts projects to make plenty of noise on it. Despite his size, he’s likely to stay at receiver in order to avoid NU’s crowded backfield. But regardless of whether he’s catching passes, running jet sweeps or returning kicks, he’ll almost certainly make an impact with his speed. bpillote@u.northwestern.edu