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SEX EDUCATION Electra Rayne juggles life as a Northwestern student, left, and a burgeoning adult entertainer. The Weinberg sophomore is involved in this year’s Sex Week during which she will speak about her experience as a woman in the sex industry.
NU sophomore balances academics, porn career By MARIANA ALFARO
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Electra Rayne doesn’t want to be called a porn star. “I don’t like using the word ‘porn star’ because I’m really new to the scene and I haven’t had a lot of recognition yet,” the Weinberg sophomore said. “It is not that the word bothers me, like when other people call me a porn star, I don’t care; it’s because I don’t feel entitled to that word.” Rayne, 19, who requested to be only identified by her stage name for privacy reasons,
aspires to be a forensic scientist someday — but the day she turned 18 she started looking for work in the adult entertainment industry. She said she had wanted to enter the industry for a long time, and last summer she began her foray into the business as a nude model for artists. Her first modeling gig, she said, happened almost by accident. “I heard about this modeling website and so I made a profile there and figured nothing would really happen and I woke up with 61 messages and emails from the site,” she said. “So I just started booking freelance jobs.” After last summer, Rayne said the demanding travel the job entailed — most of the adult film industry is based in California, and she
is from the Chicago area — made it hard for her to keep shooting material, which she had been doing up to four times a week. Rayne started as a full-time student at Northwestern this fall. Today, she balances majoring in physics and linguistics, a work-study job, and an adult film and modeling career, shooting stills in the Chicago area “once every other week.” Both of the times she has flown to California to shoot films in the last few months have been during Reading Periods, a time she said she finds very convenient. “As a freelancer I can just work around my » See RAYNE, page 6
City Council moved to send an ordinance addressing massage establishments in Evanston back to committee for a rewrite Monday night, citing concerns with language. The ordinance, introduced to council on March 28, would require massage establishments to license with the city, meet various building and operational requirements and prohibit sexual activity in the massage establishment. The ordinance received complaints from massage establishment owners and massage therapists. In response to the large amount of complaints that raised concerns about the wording of the ordinance, Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) moved to send the ordinance to be reworked. “We wanted to look again at some of the language,” Holmes said. “It was never the intent to harm anyone’s business, that is not what it is about. We’re just educating ourselves better to give you something better.” In addition to requiring massage therapists to register with the city, the original ordinance would require massage establishments to post their prices in the reception area, provide separate changing rooms for male and female employees and prohibit rooms in which massages are performed to have a locking » See MASSAGE, page 6
Admins outnumber students at third dialogue event By KELLI NGUYEN
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Administrators more than doubled students at an open community dialogue at Norris University Center on Monday night, setting off a conversation about how to improve communication between students and administrators. The third installment of the community dialogue series focused on University operations and was attended by 10 students and more than 20 University administrators. Students and administrators sat side-by-side to discuss the details behind a new socially responsible investment committee to advise University President Morton Schapiro and Chief Investment Officer Will McLean on NU’s investments. The group also talked about transparency with University Police, how NU names buildings and the renewing of Sodexo employee contracts.
Following the discussion, the group discussed how to increase student participation in events such as the dialogue. Students said announcements for the dialogue were lost in the shuffle — buried in mass listserv emails. “I hear students saying the administration isn’t reaching out, and then I go and look for it (and) it’s staring me straight in the face — it is there,” SESP senior Chris Harlow said. “I’m just frustrated over and over with hearing those sort of things and feeling like all of us aren’t listening to each other.” Student attendance was similarly low at the second community dialogue, which was held in March. Of the 50 people who attended the event at Sargent Dining Hall, most were administrators or faculty. Kelly Schaefer, assistant vice president for student engagement, said administrators are working to overcome the communication gap between them and students. “We’re in institutional, administrative spaces and students are on social media, word-of-mouth types
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of spaces,” Schaefer said. “If you’ve got ideas for how we can coexist in spaces together … we are definitely interested in the balance with that.” Medill junior Scott Brown, a former Daily staffer, said administrators can seem unapproachable at times to the average student. “When I saw the email I thought it would be (Executive) Vice President (Nim) Chinniah,” Brown said. “I walked in this room and there’s every administrator, and President (Morton) Schapiro is over there, and I think that my gut reaction in general at Northwestern to high-level administrators is intimidation.” Chinniah said administrators are eager to engage with students and events like these let students see who runs their University. “We’re all open to engage with you,” Chinniah said. “One of the ways for us to overcome that intimidation factor is to continue to be in dialogue with each other, so find us, track us down. » See DIALOGUE, page 6
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TALKING POINTS Philip Harris, Northwestern’s vice president and general counsel, talks about the naming of spaces on campus during the third community dialogue held in Norris University Center.
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Dave’s Italian Kitchen closes for good to the Glatts for the program Dave Glatt created in coordination with the city’s Youth and Young Adult Program to serve at-risk Evanston families. Since Fall 2012 she said, Dave’s served one at-risk Evanston family a free meal each day. Tisdahl said There’s nothing the program had been crucial in the Youth and else like it in Young Adult Program’s Evanston. ... It outreach efforts and in was the family; creating positive family connections. She called it was the giving the key a “bitterrestaurant for sweet announcement.” “He wanted to give everyone. at-risk families hope and love, and there Judy Fiske, 1st Ward alderman was no better way than to provide one local family everyday with a free meal,” Tisdahl said. “Dave is modest and wanted no recognition for his program, but his effort is so extraordinary it should be shared with the community.” Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) also expressed both his sadness and gratitude to the workers
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Dave’s Italian Kitchen, a 44-year-old Evanston establishment, closed its doors permanently Monday night. The restaurant, located on 1635 Chicago Street, officially announced its closing on social media at 8 p.m. but could not be reached for comment. Ald. Judy Fiske (1st), expressed her surprise about the restaurant closing during City Council on Monday night and said the restaurant will be missed by all of Evanston. “There’s nothing else like it in Evanston. Nothing. It was the family; it was the restaurant for everyone,” Fiske told the Daily. “It will be a severe loss to the community.” Earlier at the Council meeting, Dave and Ellen Glatt of Dave’s Italian Kitchen received keys to the city. While neither of the recipients were able to attend, Kevin Brown, Evanston’s Youth and Young Adult Program manager, accepted the award on their behalf. Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl presented the key
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An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting space housed on the second floor of the Lake Street Church of Evanston, 607 Lake St., was broken into this weekend. An employee of North Shore Alano, the organization that holds the meetings, reported the burglary took place sometime between 8:25 p.m. on Saturday and 7:20 a.m. the next morning, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The 56-year-old male reported he had locked the office door Saturday night and discovered it forced open the next morning along with $100 in cash stolen, Dugan said. There are no signs of forced entry or damage in the church, and there are no suspects at this time,
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and owners at the restaurant. “I hope and trust Dave that this is not your last restaurant and maybe you’ll come back in some shape or form,” Braithwaite said. “I’d love to find you a home in the 2nd Ward in the event that you are interested: That’s a personal invitation.” Fiske said she had eaten at Dave’s once a week for as long as she could remember, and knew the business well. Dave Glatt was in the kitchen himself every night, she said, and had an incredibly loyal following. She said Dave’s was a restaurant enjoyed by everyone who lived in Evanston, and “defined so many people” in the city. “If you were sitting in one of the booths and read the wine bottles, the comments on the wine bottles, you know that every significant life event that has happened in Evanston at one time or another has happened at Dave’s,” Fiske said. “I just want to thank (Dave) for all of the good memories and fun times that everyone had at Dave’s Italian Kitchen, and say he will be sorely missed.” Rishika Dugyala contributed reporting. robinopsahl2018@u.northwestern.edu
An employee was threatened with a knife at a local Jewel-Osco, 1128 Chicago Ave., on Saturday night. The 30-year-old male employee reported that another man, about 50 years old, had already been told on previous occasions he was not allowed on the property, Dugan said. When the younger man attempted to stop him from entering the store, the other pulled out a pocket knife and threatened the employee. The employee called the police, but the older man rode off on his bicycle before police arrived, Dugan said. There are currently no suspects.
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On Campus Passover Seder focuses on solidarity with Muslims By FATHMA RAHMAN
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The Jewish Council on Urban Affairs hosted its annual Freedom and Justice Seder on Monday night, focusing on Islamophobia and the importance of standing alongside Muslims during a time filled with hatred in the public realm, said Judy Levey, executive director of JCUA. More than 300 people attended the event held at the Beth Emet Synagogue, 1224 Dempster St. It was part of JCUA’s Jewish-Muslim Community Building initiative, which works to promote education and understanding between the two religious communities. “As Jews, our collective history of oppression makes us particularly sensitive to people today who face discrimination and bigotry,” Levey told The Daily. “So we stand in solidarity with those people around issues in Chicago to say that we’re in this together and we care.” JCUA is a 51-year-old Jewish social justice organization founded by rabbis who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and felt there needed to be a Jewish voice fighting against racism, discrimination and anti-Semitism in the Chicago area, Levey said. To represent the four cups of wine traditionally consumed with Passover Seder, there were four speakers at the event, which focused on solidarity with the oppressed: Tahera Ahmad, associate chaplain and director of interfaith engagement; Michael Simon, executive director of Northwestern Hillel; Larycia Hawkins, former professor at Wheaton College; and Robert Bloch (Law ‘84), who served as Hawkins’ attorney in her case against Wheaton College. Each of the speakers discussed the importance of religious solidarity in terms of their personal experiences. Ahmad spoke about a racist encounter she had while working the register of a private pharmacy where she was employed at the time. Her supervisor, who was Jewish, stood up for her in the
situation and later invited Ahmad to her first ever Shabbat dinner at his home. “During Shabbat, he told me something I would never forget,” Ahmad said. “He told me that even though he grew up in Skokie, he always felt very alone and was always afraid of sharing his identity, and then he said, ‘I don’t want you to feel that way.’” Kalman Resnick, former vice president of JCUA and current co-chair of the annual fundraiser, was also present at the Seder. Resnick, who has been involved with JCUA since the mid-1980s, said the group’s programming aims to address issues that communities in Chicago are facing, and a large concern recently has been around the rise in Islamophobia.
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Islamophobia is a real problem, and we have a man running for president, Donald Trump, who has suggested that we close the doors to Muslims. Kalman Resnick, Former vice president of JCUA
“Unfortunately, Islamophobia is a real problem, and we have a man running for president, Donald Trump, who has suggested that we close the doors to Muslims — and that’s outrageous,” Resnick told The Daily. “We need to build strong coalitions against hatred among all communities.” Resnick also said the Seder aimed to encourage Jewish-Americans to stand up for their “Muslim neighbors” and encourage Muslims to realize there is concern within the Jewish community for them, particularly at this time. NU Hillel’s social justice and service group, ZOOZ, also helped coordinate the event, bringing 14 students to the Seder. Weinberg juniors Aitan Licht and Jessica Hoffen, ZOOZ co-presidents, said they want to recognize the history of oppression in Judaism and help others who are being
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KEEPING THE FAITH Tahera Ahmad, associate chaplain and director of interfaith engagement, speaks at the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs’ annual Freedom and Justice Seder on Monday evening. With more than 300 people present at the event, the focus of this year’s Seder was Islamophobia and standing up for Muslims within the Chicago community.
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It’s toxic to debate marginalized communities at NU RODNEY ORR
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This essay is part of The Spectrum, a weekly forum in our Opinion section for marginalized voices to share their perspectives. To submit a piece for The Spectrum or discuss story ideas, please email spectrum@dailynorthwestern.com. I am a minority in nearly every major identifier: racial, socioeconomic, religious, sexual orientation and mental health. Even the fact that I am left-handed makes me a minority and makes me a potential target for situational disadvantages. I have struggled to find my place in a world that seems to reject every facet of my life. I grew up feeling like less of a person and like I never had a voice. My first experience with my identity, specifically my race, came after I transferred from a majority black charter school in fifth grade to a majority white private school in sixth grade. I had always known I was different; I didn’t “talk black” or enjoy rap music or grow up in the city like my black friends did. My peers called me white. I started to believe them. I thought I would find sanctity in a white school, but I was wrong. My black
friends told me I was too white, while my white friends told me I wasn’t black enough. I felt stuck, lost without any clear identity to call my own. I began pursuing my passion for diversity work, social justice and mental health advocacy my sophomore year of high school. I swore I would never idly stand by and let anyone else experience the pain I had been through. Since then, I have become an advocate for mental health reform, a volunteer counselor for LGBT youth and an assistant teacher for inner-city schools. I still weep after countless black lives are lost at the hands of injustice. Coming to Northwestern, I craved a place for myself where I could be free, a craving I found appeased in Greek life. Joining a social fraternity might seem contradictory to everything I expressed a passion for earlier; I’ll be the first to admit there are many aspects of Greek life with which I strongly disagree — hell, I’d go as far as to say I hate. But being in a fraternity has also shown me the passions, struggles, joys and fears of members of the community who are often stigmatized for being Greek. I decided to ultimately run for — and become — president of my fraternity, Delta Tau Delta, because I saw men struggle as I did, and I wanted to keep to my vow to always be there when people needed me. Although I was impressed with Christina and Macs’ platform, as some know, I endorsed Joji and Archie’s campaign in the recent ASG presidential election. So far, this column has focused on my own background,
rather than my endorsement of the candidates. As I stated in my official endorsement, I found both candidates extremely competent and passionate about their causes. When I met with Joji and Archie, we discussed the lack of university resources tailored specifically toward the mental health, sexual health and well-being of Greek members. In addition, we talked about how athletes do not have access to sports-specific mental health counseling and that there was no ground-up approach to tackle sexual assault, hazing and mental health issues — instead we’re forced to rely on the school to make administrative changes. Finally, we discussed how alcohol policy affects everyone on campus, not just Greek students. So if I am happy with both of the candidates, why am I writing this letter? It is because the rhetoric surrounding this campaign is poisonous to our community. I cannot understand why minority members of the community, both Greek and non-Greek, were ridiculed for supporting Joji and Archie. I cannot understand why people continued to criticize Joji and Archie for not focusing enough on marginalized groups when both of them mentioned in the debate sponsored by The Daily that addressing the issues of marginalized voices was their first priority. Our campus has become so toxic that anyone — even a minority student — who shares any dissent with an opinion of a marginalized group is considered hateful. We should not be using a “you’re either with me or against me” mentality when discussing these
issues. I have spent my entire life feeling like my voice doesn’t matter, so the fact that I now fear ostracism from my own communities for giving my endorsement is disheartening, unfair and unjust. We as marginalized individuals should not be excluding others for disagreeing. We should call people in, not call people out. As president of my fraternity, I must represent all of my members; not only the white, straight, Christian, cisgender, wealthy and mentally healthy brothers but also the 36 percent non-white, the 76 percent nonChristian, the 41 percent NU scholarshipdependent and the 51 percent mentally unhealthy (now or at some point in time) brothers in the chapter. Anyone who thinks these voices don’t matter because they disagree with some of the issues at hand is marginalizing a key part of the NU community based on their Greek identity. I refuse to let my voice be silenced by anyone anymore, even other minority or marginalized students. I refuse to let those I love feel like they can’t share their opinions and ideas. I will not choose between my Greek identity and my minority identity. I’m a minority, I’m Greek and I’m proud of both of those. Rodney Orr is a SESP sophomore. He can be contacted at rodneyorr2018@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
Politicians actions mean more than your perceptions JOE MADDEN
DAILY COLUMNIST
When my mom, the smartest person I know, last took me out to lunch, she told me she was glad Mayor Rahm Emanuel had been humbled by some political event. Whether or not that perception was correct, I was confused as to why she thought she knew Emanuel was not humble and that he should have been humble. Her treatment of her personal perception of Emanuel as fact made me realize that one of the most troubling realities about the upcoming presidential election is people value their opinions of a political candidate
over his or her actual actions in office. The office of the American presidency is one of the most complex and taxing positions conceivable. The visible aging of presidents alone shows how much is demanded of them on a day-to-day level and how the sheer number of nuanced situations they must deal with on a daily basis changes them physically. And when we consider a person for his personality (emphasis on his), rather than his political experience, we are leading our country down the wrong path. For the same reason that all jobs require some post-secondary education, we should not elect a candidate whose plan is to start learning on the job. We expect experience in our accountants, our babysitters and our barbers. We need it in our president. When it comes to politics, we should vote based not on how we perceive a candidate
to be but on what we know about him or her. When we put ourselves in positions of such importance that we feel comfortable commenting on what we “think” about a president, we lose sight of how complex and demanding that office is. We become judges in a beauty pageant rather than participators in democracy. And we allow discrimination to color our thoughts in treating female candidates in particular as pageant contestants rather than stateswomen. Hillary Clinton is one of the most accomplished American presidential candidates in history, and we have heard more about her pantsuits from news media than we have of just about anybody else. If we don’t rely on our initial reactions to a candidate, but instead vote on a combination of political experience and agreement with our own political views, we will elect
Avoid rationalizing unhealthy lifestyles JACOB ALTSTADT
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Today, slender, six-pack-laden models are almost as ubiquitous as the advertisements they occupy, making it virtually impossible to escape the bombardment of absurdly immaculate forms of the human body. Given the perfection of these images, it is easy to feel inadequate and frustrated when comparing oneself to these ever-present peak specimens. The commonality of this frustration has led to a popular social media movement against body shaming, or in other words: to end the humiliation placed on people, often women, who do not conform to society’s picturesque vision of “beauty.” And although I applaud this movement and the idea of being comfortable in your own skin, it is important to remember that body acceptance should not be the same as rationalizing unhealthy habits. Having personally struggled with weight gain in the past, I have experienced first-hand the difficulty of maintaining self-esteem while not necessarily having a socially defined perfect physique. I also acknowledge that women are affected more than men by societal standards of beauty and fitness. Still, while advocating for the acceptance and praise of all body types is an obvious benefit to those who feel insecure,
I often find that people accept all lifestyles and habits, whether healthy or unhealthy. I understand the body acceptance movement is about arguing that a person’s character is not derivative of their physical appearance, but there is a point where unhealthy habits are mistakenly endorsed, possibly doing more harm than good. Don’t get me wrong — it’s true that physique is not wholly representative of one’s overall health and there should be absolutely no reason why one should ever be shamed for their body. However, although there are certainly medical conditions that lead to weight gain or loss, if a person is in an avoidable unhealthy state, an alternative to the binary choices of praising or shaming should be considered: positive encouragement to make healthier choices. I am not advocating every male have a body-builder physique and every female have a 36-24-36 figure. But I am advocating the avoidance of appeasing obesity and detrimental styles of living. In 2014, the World Health Organization reported that 1.9 billion adults — 39 percent of the world’s adult population — were considered to be overweight. Furthermore, a 2010 study concluded that since the early 1960s, the prevalence of obesity has more than doubled among adults in the United States. A more recent study predicted that by the year 2025, one in five people will be obese. These statistics demonstrate that a significant percentage of the population, which has grown markedly in the past half-century and will
continue to grow, is considered overweight or obese. However, obesity’s effects on the human body go beyond the cosmetic: Obesity is linked to a multitude of problems including coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, stroke, type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis and cancer. It is one thing to not fit the picturesque vision of the human form embodied by the models mentioned prior, but it is another to live in a condition where you are not only unhealthy, but also greatly increasing your chances of severe medical complications. I would argue that in order to really promote a positive body image like many people suggest, an emphasis on a healthy lifestyle should come first and foremost. I can attest to the difficulty of staying in shape and maintaining a healthy weight, especially given the high intensity and time commitment of a rigorous Northwestern education. However, the combination of consistent extrinsic encouragement and intrinsic personal efforts to eat healthier and exercise can make salubrious habits become routine. One can feel comfortable in one’s body while still striving to manage weight, and a positive body image should also reflect a positive lifestyle. Jacob Altstadt is a McCormick junior. He can be reached at jacobaltstadt2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
someone actually capable of holding her own as president. Oftentimes, opinions and judgments on Clinton’s personality and her intelligence are rooted in sexism. I care much less about Clinton’s failure to fit the impossibly contradictory expectations of her personality made by sexists than I do about her foreign policy experience. We should not let that perception of her as somehow deserving of more scrutiny than a male presidential candidate — both in political experience and wardrobe — decide whether or not she should be president of the United States in 2016. Joseph Madden is a Weinberg freshman. He can be contacted at josephmadden2019@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
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City Council approves demolition of 13 buildings By RISHIKA DUGYALA
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City Council approved a plan Monday to transfer funds to a nonprofit organization that will then demolish 13 abandoned buildings in the west and south sides of Evanston, before redeveloping them as affordable housing. Under the Blight Reduction Program, the Illinois Housing Development Authority awarded the city $455,000 for the acquisition, demolition and greening of certain properties, allotting $35,000 per property, according to a council memorandum. After the nonprofit organization Community Partners for Affordable Housing completes the demolition, there will be a three-year retention period so IHDA can record a forgivable loan on each of the estates, which provides them with funds that do not need to be completely repaid if they meet the conditions of the program, before the redevelopment begins, according to the memorandum. Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) said although CPAH will be the main organization working to redevelop the properties — located specifically in Evanston’s 2nd, 5th and 8th wards — other community partners have the opportunity to get involved.
One potential partner includes Evanston Township High School’s Geometry in Construction program, in which students build affordable homes and work with nonprofits to sell them to low-income families, Holmes said. “We’re looking for people who make under $50,000 a year to be able to become homeowners as well, so that’s why I’m pushing the high school program,” Holmes said. Nora Holden-Corbett, the city’s grants and compliance specialist, said the program requires demolition work to be completed by December 31, 2017. The ETHS program does not currently work within the necessary time frame, producing only one new home a year. Holden-Corbett also said the application submitted in 2015 stated that 13 properties would be demolished. Since then, one has already been torn down using funds from the Community Development Block Grant program. Now more properties can be substituted into the Blight Reduction Program’s grant, and the team will be working quickly to demolish as many buildings as possible before the deadline, Holden-Corbett said. She added that the team is by no means committed to partnering with ETHS or using that program’s homes for every property. “We could also look into the options of using home funds or affordable housing funds,”
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NOT A DRILL An Evanston Township High School student was charged with arson after starting a fire in a locker at the school Monday. No students or staff were harmed, ETHS officials said.
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NEW HOMES Ald. Delores Homes (5th) listens at a City Council meeting. Holmes proposed the idea of the city working with ETHS students to create more affordable housing units.
Holden-Corbett said. “In addition, while most of these cases would be for single-family affordable housing, we may be just keeping (the properties) as lots and not rebuilding.” The council also approved an authorization for the city manager to increase the full year
2016 budget for the Affordable Housing Fund by $455,000 in accordance with the city’s now approved participation in the Blight Reduction Program.
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time,” officials said in the release. The Evanston Fire Department extinguished the fire before it spread to more than two lockers, EPD said in the release. No one was injured, although students nearby the fire at the time were relocated to a different part of the school. Smoke from the fire forced the Evanston fire department to ventilate areas on the second and third floor around the lockers. ETHS said students and staff were kept up to date of the situation via the high school’s P.A. system, while families were informed via telephone voice messages. Detectives from the Evanston Police’s Juvenile Bureau charged the student with one count of felony aggravated arson and transported him to the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center, EPD said in the release.
A 16-year-old male student was charged with arson Monday after starting a locker fire at Evanston Township High School that afternoon. A school video revealed the boy, a Skokie resident, lighting a paper object on fire before putting it in a third-floor hallway locker, the Evanston Police Department said in a news release. Police and fire units were dispatched around 12:15 p.m., during the school’s sixth period. Students remained with their teachers until they were given the all-clear by the fire department at 1:25 p.m., ETHS said in a news release. “No students or staff were in danger at any
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From page 1 schedule,” Rayne said. In Evanston, Rayne stays active through cam modeling, performing on the Internet through live streaming. This kind of performance, she said, can be especially flexible because she can do it from her own dorm room. “If I just find I’m a little more freer than I expected this evening, then I put on a little bit of extra makeup and my Squirtle crop top and I open up my laptop,” she said. “It works out that the best hours for camming are after 11 p.m. here, so if it’s weekends, it’s great.” Rayne also stays busy on campus as a member of the NU Kink Education Society, for which she serves as co-president and an organizer of this year’s Sex Week, which started Monday. Three of the panels during the week feature sex workers and members of Insex, a pornographic website Rayne has worked with before. She will participate in some of the panels, including one that focuses on the role of women in sex work. Rayne said this issue is very important to her and is one of the reasons why she hopes to succeed in the sex industry. “Sex shouldn’t have a stigma and nudity shouldn’t have a stigma,” she said. “I don’t like
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door. Additionally, it would prohibit massage therapists to make contact with the genital area. More than 30 massage business owners and massage therapists showed up to Monday’s city council meeting, but left after Holmes said she would move to hold the ordinance. A few business owners and massage therapists spoke at the Administration and Public Works committee before council and said incorrect definitions and use of outdated terms, among other provisions, would limit the scope of customers’ bodies they could work with. Sarah McLaughlin, a masseuse who works at the Heartwood Center, 1818 Dempster St., said she frequently works with the buttocks area and that it was the common source of problems such as lower back pain and digestive issues. “It’s a common practice and a common area for licensed massage therapists to work that area, so there really should be no problem with that whatsoever,” she told The Daily. “Right now what they’re doing is they’re confusing massage therapy with prostitution.” McLaughlin said she still supported the implementation of a similar ordinance in order to limit prostitution and human trafficking. “Please believe me when I say that no one wants to stop illicit activity more than the massage therapy community,” she said at the meeting. “That being said this ordinance is incredibly unhelpful.” A few aldermen expressed concern with the
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2016 when people say, ‘Oh, look at what she has to do,’ because it makes it sound like if sex work is some kind of bad thing when it’s just a job.” Cristina Polenica, who graduated from School of Education and Social Policy after Winter Quarter and is currently co-chair of Sex Week, said people, especially women, who work for the sex industry are often objectified. Events like Sex Week, she said, are meant to help dissuade students from this mindset. “These are real people too,” Polenica said. “They have to live, and this is the type of work that they’re doing to support themselves and it should be just as legitimate as any other kind of work.” Rayne said she doesn’t perform in adult content with the goal of becoming famous. Mainly, she wants to achieve enough success in the industry to be able to bring attention to issues like equality and female motivation in the sex industry. “I would like to get to the point where a newspaper can be like ‘Porn star Electra Rayne opens up with issues about women’s health’ or something and people would listen to that,” she said. When Rayne first started shooting films, she said she didn’t tell her mother about it not because she was afraid her mom would disapprove, but because she didn’t know how to bring issues brought forth by massage therapists in the community. Those at the meeting to speak about the ordinance were encouraged to write down their email to receive information about future actions with the ordinance. Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) said a general lack of knowledge was responsible for the ordinance’s issues
up her new job in conversation. However, when Rayne’s mother — who also requested anonymity for privacy reasons — found out, she was very supportive of her daughter’s choice. Rayne’s mother said it is empowering for her daughter and daughter’s co-workers to be able to perform in this industry regardless of social stigma. “Just because people chose to enjoy doing this for film or enjoy doing burlesque doesn’t necessarily mean that people can walk up to them on the street and touch them,” Rayne’s mother said. “There’s a big misconception, just because I do this on film doesn’t mean (it is real life).” Rayne — who says she is completely financially independent and receives financial aid from the University to cover tuition costs — said her job as a sex worker helps her pay for other expenses such as textbooks, food and outings. However, that doesn’t mean she does the job for the money. “All the costs associated with college are too expensive and I know that there are some people that feel like sex work is their only option,” she said. “(But) I don’t feel like sex work is my only option, I just really like it and I think it’s a good thing to be doing.” Instead, she said she believes performing in “fetish porn,” niche sexual entertainment, offers and that they would try to correct the issues before the ordinance is reintroduced at the meeting on May 23. “You kind of caught us with our pants down more than anything else,” he said. norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu
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BACK TO COMMITTEE Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) speaks at a City Council meeting. Council voted to send a massage licensing ordinance back to committee for a rewrite Monday night.
her a way to give back to a world that helped her understand her sexuality when she was younger, while making some extra cash on the way. Rayne and her mother said they appreciate how “sex-positive” the overall NU population is. Both women said they were afraid Rayne would suffer the same stigmatization that affected Duke University student Belle Knox in 2014, when she was outed as a porn star by one of her classmates in an incident that became national news. Knox was harassed and ultimately had to take time off from school. “I don’t want people to look at (Rayne) in a different way because she chooses to express one portion of her life like that,” Rayne’s mother said. “It is unfortunate that people will do that.” However, Rayne said she has not encountered such a situation at NU, saying her friends have been really supportive of her work. At the end of the day, Rayne said, she is just a person who happens to perform in porn as a job. “I guess I just want people to know that sex workers are normal people and do normal things and have normal lives,” she said. “I’m just a normal person, other people who do sex work are normal people, we have normal lives and normal sex lives.” alfaro@u.northwestern.edu
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We are hopeful that this is not the end of a conversation, but it’s the beginning of a conversation and a dialogue where we continue to talk about the issues that are important to you.” Monday’s dialogue also addressed recent divestment efforts related to the University’s endowment. Schapiro said he believes investments should reflect institutional values and emphasized the importance of finding passionate people to make a strong case for divestment. Although there are no guarantees with the new committee, it offers a chance for community members to influence the Board of Trustees’ decision on the issue, he said. “If the committee makes a compelling case and they really like you and they get all their fact together, I think there’s a chance,” Schapiro said. “That’s not a guarantee but there’s a chance. There’s no chance if it’s just signs and protesting, they’re not going to be intimidated, in fact my fear is if you try to intimidate them it’s going to have a backfiring effect.” In addition, Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs, explained the University’s stance on Sodexo’s contract-renewals. She said although the University supports Sodexo employees, the University is not involved in the negotiations because they are between Sodexo and the unions. kellinguyen2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Wildcats struggle to eighth-place finish in Arizona By JOSEPH WILKINSON
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Northwestern’s quest to improve heading into the Big Ten Championships hit a major roadblock, as the No. 7 Wildcats tied for eighth in the PING/ASU Invitational this weekend. NU was led by sophomore Hannah Kim, who shot four-over par through three rounds, but finished 16 strokes behind the leader, UCLA’s Bronte Law, who shot a 12-under 204 to win by three strokes and propel the Bruins to victory. The Cats finished the tournament at 30-over as a team, 42 strokes behind the champions. “My shots weren’t as consistent,” Kim said. “I wouldn’t pinpoint one part of my game to be necessarily bad, but if I were going to work on something it would be my shots.” The Cats shot an opening round 301 on Friday, the third-worst round of the 14 teams in the tournament on that day. Only one Northwestern player, freshman Janet Mao, finished under-par on the first day. However, she competed as an individual and therefore did not contribute to the team’s overall score. “We just didn’t play great,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “We really didn’t make any birdies and just struggled a little bit. We made some mistakes and we just weren’t able to recover
with birdies.” Saturday, however, was a completely different story for NU, as the team carded a 282, tied for the best round of the day with host Arizona State, who finished second overall. Kim, freshman Stephanie Lau, and sophomore Sarah Cho all finished under par on the day, with Lau carding a six-under 66 to vault into the top 10. “Going into Saturday I just really wanted to hit more greens,” Lau said. “I was putting really well, so I was definitely trying to be more aggressive, too. I think I just had it all Friday but wasn’t putting it together, and Saturday I was able to get the ball on the green and make more putts.” It all fell apart for the Cats on Sunday though as difficult scoring conditions led to a team score of 311, the third-worst round of any team for the entire tournament and the second worst round of any team on Sunday. Lau, Cho, and senior Suchaya Tangkamolprasert all shot in the 80s, while Kim and junior Kacie Komoto shot 3-over 75s to lead the team. The Cats weren’t alone in their struggles however, as multiple teams shot in the 300s on Sunday, as course conditions were significantly worse than during the previous two days. “The conditions were very bad,” Fletcher said. “It rained, high winds. Obviously there were still some good scores by some other teams, but we were bad.” NU will have next weekend off before heading
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weekend was the change in the doubles lineup. After playing a lineup almost all season with the team of Larner and Barnett at No. 2 doubles, Pollard decided on a lineup of Barnett and junior Brooke Rischbieth at No. 2 doubles with Larner and Rooney at No. 3 doubles. Barnett and Rischbieth went 1-1 over the weekend while Larner and Rooney went 2-0. “Our personalities go well together, so I think we feel comfortable with each other,” Rooney said. “We played well together, so it was fun.”
Clayton Thorson for the team lead, missed the entirety of spring team practices in surgery recovery. He said he’s been unable to practice his footwork and conditioning but has been working in the weight room and should be able to return to non-contact drills in two weeks. “I just want to get back more than ever now,” Long said. “You savor it because it’s taken away from you.” Even with all of the commotion going on lower on the depth chart, NU’s starter duties remain fully espoused to Jackson, who topped 1,400 rushing yards last year,
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GREEN LIGHT Hannah Kim tees off. The sophomore finished highest amongst the Wildcats this weekend with a four-over par.
to the Big Ten Championships on April 22 in Newburgh, Indiana. NU is the only Big Ten team ranked in the top 25, with the next highestranked team being No. 33 Purdue. “We’ll do quite a bit of short game and quite a bit of ball striking,” Fletcher said. “We’ll try to
play three or four times between now and next week. We’ll look to rest and recover a little bit, but we’ll also look forward to getting our games at the very best going into Big Tens.”
marking only the fifth time in school history that total was eclipsed. He took on a much smaller workload during spring camp in order to recuperate from the brutally taxing season but said his body recovers quickly and he feels the best that he has in a while. He’s still been working with the other backs, monitoring their development, and said he’s hopeful their growth will allow the carries to be more balanced next season. “I’m really excited about our running back group,” Jackson said. “We’re going to be an essential part of our offense and one of the best in the Big Ten.”
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THE BALL SHARER? After 300+ carries in ‘15, NU looking to rest Jackson more By BEN POPE
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After just two seasons, junior running back Justin Jackson already ranks seventh in Northwestern history in rushing attempts. His 312 carries in 2015 ranked third in the nation behind only Heisman Trophy winner Derrick Henry (Alabama) and runner-up Christian McCaffrey (Stanford). Over the Wildcats’ final four regular-season games, Jackson toted the ball 124 times, more than the team’s second and third-leading rushers — Warren Long and Solomon Vault — combined for over the entire season. As the upcoming 2016 season creeps closer, NU is seeking to keep up the heated spring camp competition. A pair of incoming recruits will boost the depth at running back, helping give Jackson more rest next autumn. “We’d love to,” running backs coach Matt MacPherson said about balancing the workload. “The other guys have to step up. Part of our conversations that we had was, ‘If you guys want to be more involved in the offense, you have to prove that you’re ready.’ For the most part, they did that this spring.” With Vault transferring to wide receiver and Long recovering from end-of-season surgery, a cast of
lesser-known names dueled for touches during spring practices. Sophomore Auston Anderson, who rushed 13 times for 56 yards last season, made a strong case for a much larger role moving forward with his spring performance, MacPherson said. The undersized speedster described himself as the “lightning to the thunder” of Jackson and Long and could inherit Vault’s role as the quick, shifty complement to NU’s traditional power-rushing style. “From my performance this spring, it’s going to a bigger role,” Anderson said. “If we run it like last year, we’re all going to be tired. They’re going to find a way to put us all on the field.” Anderson’s competition with 2015 redshirt John Moten IV for changeof-pace back duties is a key to growing the positional depth, coach Pat Fitzgerald said. The additions of incoming freshmen Jeremy Larkin and Jesse Brown to the unit later in the offseason will also add to the number of faces fighting for playing time, although Larkin and Brown currently seem destined to redshirt. MacPherson said the unit primarily focused on improving in two critical areas during spring practices — ball security and pass blocking — while trying to sort out next year’s positional hierarchy. “They can’t take a day off, they can’t take a practice off, when they
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know that there’s another really good p l ay e r t h at’s looking for reps as well,” MacPherson said. “That’s how you build a program … that continues to grow because you’re constantly fostering competition.” Meanwhile, Long, whose five rushing touchdowns in 2015 tied with Jackson and sophomore quarterback » See RUNNING BACKS, page 7
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Wildcats remain unbeaten in conference By ROBBIE MARKUS
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Northwestern has a long history of dominance in the Big Ten, putting a great deal of pressure on the team every year to perform at a high level. This year, the team is living up to expectations. The Wildcats (9-8, 7-0) continued that history of Big Ten success at Combe Tennis Center this weekend, where they dominated Purdue (9-11, 2-5) and Indiana (13-8, 3-4) in a pair of weekend matches. The Cats were overwhelming, only losing one point combined in the two matches. Despite the team’s 2-8 record in non-conference play, the team remains spotless in Big Ten play, keeping them in a deadlocked tie for first place in the Big Ten with Ohio State and Michigan. The Buckeyes and Wolverines also notched a pair of Big Ten wins this weekend, building the tension for NU’s match in Columbus, Ohio next Sunday against Ohio State. Coach Claire Pollard said the early non-conference woes are now having a positive effect on the team’s play in close sets. “The benefits of having played such a tough schedule have paid off in that kind of situation now,” Pollard said. “It hurt us for a while, but now we’re pulling out some of those close sets that maybe before we weren’t.” The team started Friday against Purdue. Coming off the momentum of a shutout last Sunday against Iowa, the Cats recorded their second straight shutout. Friday started off tense, as No. 3 doubles team junior Jillian Rooney and sophomore Erin Larner fought
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Despite the dominant 7-0 score, several singles matches were very tense as three matches went to a third set. Senior Alicia Barnett, sophomore Alex Chatt and Rooney all hung on to pull out their matches in the third set, giving the Cats the decisive 7-0 victory. Similarly, NU barely squeezed out the doubles point Sunday against Indiana, with sophomore Maddie Lipp and Chatt fighting back from a 5-2 deficit to decide the doubles point for the Cats. After fighting back to force a tiebreaker at 6-6, Chatt and Lipp buckled down, winning 7-6 (7-3). “We got off to a really slow start,
but our opponents played really smartly,” Lipp said. “Once we figured them out we were able to execute back to how we usually do.” Although NU didn’t record a shutout against the Hoosiers, its singles matches were more commanding Sunday, as only one singles match went to three sets, and the Cats won the first set in every singles win. The match was decided quickly, as Lipp, Larner and Rooney all won in straight sets to seal the match for NU. But the big takeaway from the » See WOMEN’S TENNIS, page 7
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CLINCH ME, I’M DREAMING Brooke Rischbieth returns the ball. The junior clinched Sunday’s match against Indiana for the Wildcats at No. 5 singles.
Student-athletes, as the term conveniently reminds us, are still students. We cheer for them on Saturdays (and Sundays, and most other days of the week), but we also see them in our classes, bump into them in our favorite Evanston restaurants and play it cool when we pass them on Sheridan Road. And, as it happened last week, we see them endorse candidates for Associated Student Government president and executive vice president. Sophomore quarterback Clayton Thorson and junior linebacker Anthony Walker, two of the highest-profile stars on the football team, along with former wide receiver Mike McHugh, sophomore offensive lineman Tommy Doles and sophomore linebacker Nate Hall, made public endorsements for the campaign ticket of Weinberg junior Joji Syed and Weinberg sophomore Archit Baskaran. But were these athletes speaking publicly to advance some fringe issue only applicable to football players? Far from it. “My roommate (Doles) is really involved in ASG,” Thorson said. “He was like, ‘Hey, would you like to do this?’ So I looked into them, and I was like, yeah, of course. They sound like what we want.” Walker wasn’t much different. “I know Joji, and I’ve had class with both of them,” he said. “They asked me to endorse, and I thought, ‘Why not?’ It’s a great cause, and I know they have student-athletes’ best interests in mind.” Thorson and Walker’s endorsements are unusual — none of the people who endorsed in last year’s election, according to the websites of the tickets, did so as a student-athlete — but their reasons for doing so are excruciatingly average and no different from the reasons of anybody else on this campus who chooses to take a public position on an election. Thorson and Walker took a stance on something that affected them more as students than as athletes, and their student-athlete peers should follow suit. For all their time in practice and on the field, student-athletes still participate in activities like Dillo Day and numerous other events funded by the ASG activity fee. And some student-athletes undoubtedly hold opinions on recent causes taken up by ASG, such as one of several divestment movements or the appointment of Karl Eikenberry as the executive director the Buffett Institute for Global Studies. The business of ASG is very much their business, but that’s beside the point. Beyond merely expressing their own opinions, student-athletes can also have an outsized impact on campus-wide issues, especially at a school like Northwestern where they form roughly 6 percent of the student body. Take football players at the University of Missouri, who hastened the resignation of university system president Tim Wolfe in the fall by threatening to boycott an upcoming game. Such a scenario is unlikely at NU (University President Morton Schapiro addressed football players at the team’s final spring practice to resounding chants of “Morty! Morty!”) but student-athletes have another, more subtle influence: They remind us to look past our differences. Students who voted for the winning ticket of SESP junior Christina Cilento and McCormick junior Macs Vinson » See PILLOTE, page 7