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In Focus

Northwestern Greek life reflects on its ongoing effort for diversity, inclusion

By ALICE YIN

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When Fei Wang went through recruitment two years ago, she was not sure she would be accepted as a lesbian, first-generation Chinese immigrant. Today, the Weinberg junior serves as the first-ever campus inclusion and community chair for her sorority.

“Having the position itself opens up room for conversation,” said Wang, a member of Kappa Delta.

“It’s an overall push for change and to change the status quo of a very inherently exclusive community.”

Wang’s position is part of a

movement within Northwestern Panhellenic Association that established diversity and inclusion roles in each chapter. These roles were introduced Fall Quarter of last year, with all 12 PHA chapters filling the positions by the middle of Spring Quarter 2015, said Medill senior KK Doyle, PHA president.

The push to improve diversity and inclusion arose last fall when the “Jail N’ Bail” philanthropy event hosted by Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and Zeta Beta Tau fraternity was canceled after student backlash. Some students thought the event’s simulation of a jail with students as prisoners made light of systemic criminal justice issues affecting minorities.

After then-PHA president Frances Fu released initial plans for diversity

and inclusion chairs, Doyle took the helm of the new diversity initiatives as the next president.

Now, PHA’s executive board is installing a new position, too. Named the vice president of outreach and engagement, this student will act as a liaison between PHA and the chapters’ diversity and inclusion chairs, Doyle said. The PHA executive board will choose the first person for the new role on Thursday, along with the rest of its successors, who will officially take over at the end of January.

Last winter, the Interfraternity Council created a similar position.

Unlike PHA, there is no mandated diversity chair for each IFC chapter, although the executive board has » See GREEK, page 8

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ASG supports Mizzou students

By SHANE MCKEON

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Associated Student Government Senate unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday saying the student body stands in solidarity with students fighting for racial justice at the University of Missouri.

The passage came hours after a day on Mizzou’s campus in which racially-motivated threats swirled on social media, prompting some professors to cancel classes. University police also arrested a man at another Missouri university for making what they called “a terrorist threat” over Yik Yak. SESP sophomore Gwendolyn Gissendanner and Weinberg sophomore Nehaarika Mulukutla authored the resolution.

“It’s also important that we take a stand on this so Northwestern can reflect on its own racial problems and the ways students of colors still are marginalized on this campus,” said Gissendanner, who is For Members Only’s senator. “As

Northwestern students, we have to look at ourselves and work toward racial justice on this campus.”

Former Mizzou President Timothy Wolfe, who announced his resignation Nov. 9, faced protests from student activists and staff who said he mishandled incidents of racism on campus. Mounting pressure over the past few weeks included the school’s black football players refusing to practice or play until Wolfe resigned.

Mulukutla, a Panhellenic Association senator, noted that threats against Mizzou’s students of color have cropped up on social media.

“Anyone receiving an education should feel safe on their campus,” she said.

Senators skipped the typical debate period before passing the resolution unanimously.

Early in the meeting, Senate continued efforts toward ASG’s “It’s On Us” campaign. Weinberg senior Erik Baker led a “brainstorming session” with senators on how students should move to address sexual assault on campus. Baker is the senator for SHAPE, MARS, College

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Feminists and Title IX at NU. Baker referenced survey data that the University collected this spring. The survey found 96 percent of respondents who experienced a sexual assault told a peer.

Because so many students turn to their friends after an assault, Baker said it is important for students to know how to support peers who have been affected.

“How do we make sure that these interactions are as healthy as possible?” he said.

The survey also found that 48 percent of respondents “did not agree that they knew where to get help if they or a friend were sexually assaulted.”

Wendy Roldan, vice president for student life, said CARE maintains a flow chart of how sexual misconduct cases are handled.

“That resource is out there, but students aren’t getting to it,” the McCormick junior said.

In addition, the data showed 53 percent of male undergraduates believe “rape and sexual assault can » See SENATE, page 10

Men’s Basketball

Law out for the season with shoulder injury

By TYLER PAGER

daily senior staffer @tylerpager

Sophomore forward Vic Law will undergo shoulder surgery for a torn labrum and miss the entire 2015-2016 season, Northwestern announced Wednesday.

Coach Chris Collins said he found out about Law’s injury about a month ago. He said Law tried to play through the pain, but after last week’s exhibition game, the coaching staff and Law decided it would be best for him to get surgery.

“I hate it for him because he had a great summer, he had a really good fall, and I thought he was poised to have a breakout year,” Collins said.

“He was our best rebounder. That’s something we have to make up for, it’s gotta be a collective effort.”

Collins said he expects Law to make a full recovery in 4-6 months.

Law, who was the 66th ranked player in ESPN’s class of 2014 rankings, was projected to start this year and play a major role for the team.

He appeared in all 32 games last year, making 19 starts as a freshman, and he averaged 7.0 points and 4.8 rebounds per game.

Law said the injury got progressively worse to the point where he could no longer play.

“It was a really sharp, intense pain. I felt like my shoulder was moving around a lot as I played. As a basketball player, when you know you’re limited, it’s kind of hard,” he said. “Ultimately it was my decision because nobody knows my body like I know my body.”

Sophomore guard/forward Scottie Lindsey, who was a part of Collins’ first recruiting class at NU along with Law, guard Bryant Macintosh and forward Gavin Skelly, said Law will » See LAW, page 10

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Gov. Rauner expands child care eligibility

By JULIA JACOBS

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After making cuts to state-funded child care eligibility at the beginning of July, Gov. Bruce Rauner expanded the scope of the program Monday, allowing child care centers in Evanston to provide services to families they originally had to turn away.

The governor took unilateral action July 1 to cut eligibility for the Child Care Assistance Program from 185 percent above the poverty line to 50 percent below poverty. Amid negotiations over the state budget, Rauner’s office announced on Monday that eligibility would rise to 162 percent of the federal poverty level.

“I’m going to be very happy informing my day care providers and my staff that we’re going to be able to offer care to more families,” said Lindsay Percival, Child Care Center of Evanston’s executive director.

After Rauner narrowed the eligibility on July 1, Percival said parents who sought child care for newborn babies in the organization’s home day care program were hardest hit. In total, Percival’s staff had to turn away about 25 families from their services.

Making the decision to expand eligibility independent from legislators, Rauner continues to argue against a piece of legislation the Illinois House of Representatives considered Tuesday that would have restored CCAP eligibility back to 185 percent of the poverty level. The bill failed to pass out of the House by a single vote.

Higher child care co-pays built into July’s emergency rule will remain intact for now, but the Rauner administration said other restrictions will be lifted “pending further review and legislative consultation.”

Rauner’s office said in a news release that the Senate bill would have carried with it “unintended consequences and costs.” Enactment of the Senate bill

would have offered families and child care providers a sense of stability that Rauner’s unilateral decision did not, said Andrea Densham, executive director of Childcare Network of Evanston. Although Rauner’s amended rule will allow CNE to enroll families that were not previously eligible, there is no assurance that the changes will be permanent, Densham said.

“What we need is for this to be the end of child care assistance being a political football, and I am not confident that this is the end of that,” she said. “The administration can choose to change this again, and that is a very unstable place to be.”

Although Rauner’s announcement was something child care providers across Illinois could celebrate, the victory was bittersweet considering eligibility requirements are still beneath what they were before this summer, said Samir Tanna, an official with Illinois Action for Children, a child care public policy and advocacy organization. The governor likely chose the new eligibility figure because it is near 50 percent of the state’s median income, Tanna said.

At a town hall meeting in Evanston on Monday, state Rep. Robyn Gabel said she hopes Rauner’s compromise on state-funded child care indicates a coming resolution to the larger budget impasse.

“Finally the governor is hearing that we need to resolve this budget issue and move forward,” Gabel said.

However, Percival said the relief she felt from Rauner’s Monday morning announcement was tempered by stories told at the town hall meeting later that night of how members of the community have had their social services revoked during the state budget impasse.

“It didn’t feel like we should be hooting and hollering that we’re so happy we got our money,” she said.

Marissa Page contributed reporting. juliajacobs2018@u.northwestern.edu

2 Evanston males arrested after shots fired near ETHS

Two Evanston residents were arrested Wednesday evening in connection with gunshots heard near Evanston Township High School.

Police heard gunshots at about 4:15 p.m. near Lake Street and Darrow Avenue and then saw two people run into a home in the 1800 block of Lake Street, which is one block from ETHS. Witnesses told police the two males had been shooting at another group of people north of the residence on Darrow Avenue.

The two males, one adult and one juvenile, were arrested after exiting the home at about 5:40 p.m., police said. Police are unaware of any victims of the shooting but recovered a loaded handgun from inside the Lake Street residence.

— Julia Jacobs

Setting the record straight An article in Monday’s paper titled “Talking Town-Gown” misrepresented Evanston’ property tax rate relative to the rest of Cook County. Evanston does not have the highest property tax rate in Cook County.

An article in Tuesday’s paper, titled “NU in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since ‘98” misstated the time of the next game. Northwestern will play at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

An article in Wednesday’s paper titled “Wildcats hoping for a miracle vs Gophers,” misstated the postseason tournament Northwestern is trying to reach. The Wildcats are playing to make the NCAA tournament.

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On Campus Author Leslie Pietrzyk explores grief, loss at reading

By KRISH LINGALA

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Author Leslie Pietrzyk (Weinberg ’83) discussed how the death of her first husband influenced her award-winning book on grief and loss during a talk Wednesday.

Pietrzyk’s book, “This Angel on My Chest,” received the Drue Heinz literature prize earlier this year. The work is a collection of short stories linked by the theme of a young woman losing her husband at an early age.

Pietrzyk read a story from “This Angel on My Chest” to a group of Northwestern students and said the book was a way to explore the universal theme of loss through a personal story.

“That’s what I was looking for — the resonance of this experience, of losing someone, which is universal,” Pietrzyk said during the event.

The event was the last in a three-part series called “Return Engagement” held by the English department. At each event, prominent NU creative writing alumni returned to discuss their careers with writing students and read from their work. Weinberg senior

Brendan Morales-Doyle attended all three readings with his writing class and said each one helped reassure him about his future career.

“It gives you some hope,” Morales-Doyle said.

“They’re real people that are out there doing it (writing), and it shows you can go from just doing school work to actually going out into the real world and being an artist.”

Pietrzyk also went through her early development as a writer and said she was excited to return.

“I learned what it means to be a writer through my teachers, who had incredibly high standards,” Pietrzyk told The Daily. “I learned how much more I had to learn about writing.”

After writing several works about grief and loss, including her 2004 novel, “A Year and a Day,” Pietrzyk said she is relieved to be moving on. Her next novel, which is set at NU, is currently being sent to publishers.

Despite how difficult it was to write the stories, Pietrzyk said that writing is the best way for her to deal with challenges and that in the end, it paid off.

“Because this book was so personal and I had gone into such a dark, emotional place to write it, it felt so good to get this book published,” she said. “For people who don’t write, I don’t even know how they

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AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR Author Leslie Pietrzyk (Weinberg ’83) speaks during the third and final part of the English department’s Return Engagement series. Pietrzyk discussed how losing her late husband, also an NU alumnus, influenced her award-winning book.

get through the day.”

English Prof. Brian Bouldrey helped organize the reading series after Pietrzyk and other writers approached his department about returning to campus.

“It’s worth doing, because I think students really want to see that there are people out there, doing their thing,” Bouldrey said. shivkrishlingala2018@u.northwestern.edu

Education experts debate benefits of charter schools

By GRANT PENDER

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Two education experts debated the benefits of charter schools in University Hall on Wednesday, with one saying the schools provide students a chance to get a better education, and the other saying public money should be under the supervision of public school districts.

Pam Witmer, policy manager at the Illinois Network of Charter Schools, and Dan Montgomery, president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers, faced off at the event hosted by Educate Discuss Unite, a student group focused on education policy.

The debate, attended by more than 50 students and educators, examined the merits and effectiveness of charter schools in improving the quality of education for students. Communication junior Matthew Fulle, EDU’s external programming coordinator, moderated the debate.

Witmer, who spoke in favor of charter schools, emphasized the idea of “school choice,” saying that charter schools give parents another option if they are unsatisfied with the public schools in their area.

“I just want to make sure that we’re focusing on kids and making sure that they have the best option for them,” Witmer said.

Witmer, characterizing charter schools as openenrollment public schools, said they are held to a

higher standard of accountability than traditional public schools.

Montgomery disagreed and said the charter movement has become “perverted” from its original intentions. He said charter schools are failing to create innovation and have been used “to undo public schools in America.”

“This discussion of choice and charters in this country is a presumption that our schools are failing,” Montgomery said. “I would challenge this.”

Montgomery also said that charter schools’ open enrollment policies are not as inclusive as presented, saying that some have higher expulsion rates than traditional public schools, thereby excluding students.

Fulle, the moderator of the debate, praised the

setting of the event.

“The debate format opens it up to cut past a lot of political arguments,” Fulle said.

He said EDU is more likely to do debates again in the future because of the substantive conversations they bring.

Audience members also had the opportunity to ask questions. SESP junior Melissa Bustamante said she appreciated the event.

“It was great to have a space where we can talk about the education system,” she said. “I feel like we don’t really do that and I feel like there are a lot of people who love education on this campus.” grantpender2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Symphonic Wind Ensemble, 7:30 p.m.

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US must combat minority housing discrimination EDMUND BANNISTER DAILY COLUMNIST

For most of the 20th century and continuing on to the present day, minority citizens have been systematically denied equal access to housing by banks, landlords and insurance agencies whose policies have blocked qualified black and Hispanic homebuyers from securing mortgages and moving to better neighborhoods. Moreover, almost 50 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which required the federal government to make a concerted effort to combat segregation in American cities, communities in most urban centers remain starkly divided along racial lines.

The radical nature of the division between different ethnicities in American cities is not incidental or natural. Segregation is the product of decades of housing discrimination from both the private sector and the government. For many years, home-insurers and banks engaged in redlining, a practice where residents of minority communities are intentionally

barred from receiving home loans. Redlining is disastrous, especially for middle-class blacks and Hispanics, who were and are denied the social and financial benefits of homeownership because of their race. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, redlining has re-emerged as a covert practice among banks. The New York Times released an article last week detailing the lending practices of several banks, including one that gave out 1,886 mortgages of which only 25 were to blacks. In addition, studies by the Department of Housing and Urban Development indicate that real estate agencies consistently show fewer and lower quality homes to black homebuyers in comparison to similarly qualified whites.

Discriminatory lending practices have a chilling effect on social mobility, as they prevent qualified buyers from moving to higher-income neighborhoods, which usually have better schools, lower crime rates and higher quality public services. In fact, these banking schemes help explain why so many upper-middle class blacks live in communities where the median income is half of their own.

This type of segregation means that black children have significantly worse prospects for education and social advancement than their white counterparts, regardless of their parent’s income level.

Unfortunately, banks and insurance companies are not the only groups complicit in the de-facto segregation of American cities. The U.S. government has also contributed to the problem by neglecting to build affordable housing in a way that promotes integration rather than isolation.

Although the Fair Housing Act of 1968 encouraged a concerted effort to integrate communities, more often than not, public housing projects were built in isolated areas, far away from high income, white neighborhoods.

According to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, these poorly planned housing developments were key in compounding the problems of poverty and racial inequality in Chicago. Studies from Harvard University indicate that when low-income families are provided affordable housing in wealthier communities, they enjoy significantly better financial and social outcomes than counterparts in communities without mixed incomes.

The Obama administration has taken firm steps in recent months to combat de facto segregation by ordering federal, state and local agencies to make greater efforts to provide housing opportunities for minority residents. However, reversing the effects of decades of discrimination is a task that is beyond

any single president.

Our next-door neighbor, the City of Chicago, is considered to be among the most racially segregated municipalities in America. White, black and Hispanic neighborhoods are isolated from one another by geography, income and opportunity to a degree that is thoroughly unacceptable in a 21st century city. Five decades after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, Chicago and the United States have yet to address the dramatic social and economic divisions between racial groups. If we as a community are truly serious about improving race relations in America, our approach must be holistic. Law enforcement reform must be complemented by a sustained effort to create greater educational, social and economic opportunities for minorities. It is only by tackling the root of inequality that we can hope to create a more equitable and just society for all.

Edmund Bannister is a Weinberg freshman. He can be contacted at edmundbannister2019@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.

Canada Goose criticism and subtle forms of sexism ALEXI STOCKER

DAILY COLUMNIST

Winter is coming. Come January, the snowstrewn walks of Northwestern will be graced with a familiar presence: the Canada Goose. I am not talking about the Canadian geese that make a mess of the Lakefill, but the Canada Goose coats worn by many fellow NU students.

Canada Goose has become a trope in NU culture. The Canadian-made coats, which range in price from $645 to upwards of $1,000, function as a symbol of wealth and privilege. Perusing Yik Yak on a typical Winter Quarter day yields numerous mentions of Canada Goose, mostly derisive and in conjunction with hateful messages about sororities, women in general and privileged students at NU. I am not here to say that income inequality is not a problem in the United States, and that its effects are not felt here at NU. I strongly believe that growing income inequality is a major problem in the United States, and that the wealth gap, which is now at a record high, is a serious threat to our continued economic stability. Income inequality negatively

affects educational achievement, from children’s pre-K years on up.

Anti-Canada Goose rhetoric on NU’s campus roils with a strong undercurrent of misogyny. Whatever its origins and how well-intentioned it may have been, rhetoric on campus surrounding the expensive coats is little more than another piece of a strong undercurrent of sexism on campus. In my experience, it is exceptionally rare to find people on campus who are overtly and openly sexist. However, listen closely to the discourse regarding sororities, internships, student organizations and, of course, Canada Goose, and you quickly find a great deal of sexism coming from students who would harshly rebuke any such accusation.

Consider, for a moment, the most obviously sexist component of anti-Canada Goose rhetoric.

While there are men who wear Canada Goose, as the brand does produce coats and parkas for men, the assumed wearer in any discussion of the brand is a woman, generally affiliated with a sorority. Highend men’s clothing rarely receives much scrutiny.

I have seen many fellow male students wearing expensive winter clothing, but I have never heard or seen anybody judge them for it. Even if anti-Canada Goose rhetoric is meant to call attention to income inequality and privilege at NU, it ultimately plays into societal gender tropes by judging women based

on how they dress.

Discussions of Canada Goose are also heavily laden with misogynistic assumptions about women’s personal finances. References to wearers’ parental money, especially their fathers’ money, are frequent.

The assumption, in most of these cases, is that the money used to purchase a Canada Goose coat was not earned by its wearer. Ascribing familial wealth and privilege to all students wearing expensive articles of clothing is unfair to those who saved earned income to purchase their clothing. Although many wearers of Canada Goose likely did not purchase the coat with earned income, the same assumptions are rarely explicitly stated about men’s clothing. I honestly doubt that the majority of men on this campus purchase $800 suits and $400 shoes with their own money, but male privilege grants them the freedom to dress as they please free from judgment. Such double standards reflect misogynistic assumptions about young women’s personal finances.

Lastly, judging fellow NU students for owning expensive, high-quality clothing is remarkably hypocritical when coming from many of the same students who lambast politicians, pundits and students who judge less-privileged members of society for their individual choices. Defending the right of the poor to purchase processed food, alcohol and cigarettes free from the judgmental oversight of the rest

SeaWorld’s policy on orcas is not enough PIA BASU

DAILY COLUMNIST

Since the success of the 2013 film “Blackfish,” SeaWorld has seen a significant drop in theme park attendance and profits as the American public appears to have become increasingly disapproving of keeping orcas in captivity to make them perform.

In response to the growing public opinion, SeaWorld announced on Monday it would be phasing out its orca shows at its San Diego location so as to accommodate its customers’ changing preferences for watching whales behave as they would in nature as opposed to performing tricks. CEO Joel Manby told his company’s investors that whale shows, which formerly included Shamu performing stunts with his trainers for an audience, will now “offer a different kind of orca experience focusing on the animal’s natural setting and behaviors, starting in 2017.” SeaWorld also aims to emphasize conservation efforts and focus more on educating park guests about whale and sea creature behaviors. This park policy change is likely also an attempt on SeaWorld’s part to mitigate their public relations nightmare. However, the change will only take place at the San Diego location, while the Orlando and San Antonio parks will continue the same orca shows.

As we learn more about the problems that arise from SeaWorld’s captive orcas, it becomes clear that these announced changes fall short of the most honorable outcome: ending all orca captivity at SeaWorld.

“Blackfish” addresses the issues that arise when

orcas are held in captivity, forced away from their families and into artificial social groups contained in relatively tiny tanks where they must perform every day. The movie also offered a behind-thescenes look into the way in which SeaWorld’s management allegedly mishandles the deaths of their trainers. The film specifically looks at one male whale captured from Iceland named Tilikum, who along with two other orcas, killed a trainer. The film features testimonials from former SeaWorld trainers who claim to have been given misinformation

by SeaWorld management about the true dangers that working with orcas poses.

The movie also describes how orcas are accustomed to swimming hundreds of miles a day within their family units; they are highly socialized creatures who can experience human emotions such as grief and actually have more complex brains than humans. In the film, a former orca hunter likens taking baby orcas away from their mothers in the wild to kidnapping a human child.

Experts agree that whales are capable of having a sense of self, language, collaborative skills and a strong sense of family and community. Whales in captivity are constantly in distress and have been known to maul each other and develop serious tooth and digestive problems.

Practices such as food deprivation when orcas make mistakes as enticement to perform tricks are not uncommon. It makes sense that whales kept in captivity display different behavioral traits than they otherwise would in the wild. The severe discrepancies between their lives in the wild and their lives in SeaWorld’s captivity almost certainly account for their aggressive or psychotic behavior.

Park executives notably declined interviews for the film.

The fact of the matter remains that even if the focus of the orca show shifts to natural behavior, whales are still being kept in captivity, meaning they will still pose a danger to their handlers and experience similar physical and psychological problems. Changing the nature of the orca shows doesn’t change the fact that they are not living as they would in the wild, which is the real issue.

It’s hard to imagine a SeaWorld without orca shows at all, especially given the awe that the orca shows and other sea animal exhibits inspire for young children and their families. I’ve seen the movie “Blackfish” and feel appalled by the corporate cover-ups by SeaWorld management as well as fascinated by how socially intelligent these whales are. To me, keeping and breeding these emotionally complex and dynamic creatures and locking them away in relatively tiny tanks is inhumane. But, admittedly, my fascination with and deep appreciation for, whales and dolphins only began after my parents took me to see Shamu shows at SeaWorld in Orlando. It’s even harder to think about a world without SeaWorld, but marine mammals, especially whales, are meant to be wild. This recent policy change in San Diego is no cause for real celebration.

For years now, SeaWorld has profited from the misery these animals endure. Now that we recognize the extremely negative effects this practice has on their physical and mental wellbeing, it is time to end orca captivity altogether.

Pia Basu is a Medill sophomore. She can be reached at piabasu2018@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.

of society does not give anybody the right to then judge their fellow students for purchasing expensive items of clothing. NU students from privileged backgrounds wearing Canada Goose coats does not hurt anybody. What NU students spend money on should be none of their peers’ concern. More specifically, what women spend money on should be none of their peers’ concern, no matter what kind of statement about income inequality or privilege their peers may think they are making.

This winter, I encourage all NU students to step back and take a moment to reflect on their biases and assumptions. When a group of young women in a Political Science class walk in together, all wearing Canada Goose coats, resist the urge to post a snarky remark on Yik Yak. There are many rude and inconsiderate actions that warrant criticism of privilege, but wearing an expensive coat is not one of them. Judgment and harassment are never acceptable, no matter how wealthy or privileged the intended targets are assumed to be.

Alexi Stocker is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at alexistocker2016@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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Life in Red

Slavic Prof. Irwin Weil ties love for Russian culture with longtime passion for performance

By DAVID FISHMAN

the daily northwestern @davidpkfishman

Heart pounding, blood rushing, he stands center stage in the Novosibirsk Theatre, Russia’s largest opera house. Velvet seats and gold-embossed sculptures line the hall. A statue of Vladimir Lenin stands outside. Taking a deep breath, he begins to sing.

Born in Cincinnati, Prof. Irwin Weil has been singing for most of his life. It is the thread that connects his main interests, from childhood experiences with Major League Baseball to teaching about Soviet Russia. In May, he published a book of memoirs titled “From the Cincinnati Reds to the Moscow Reds,” which presents snapshots of his life.

Among the book’s stories are details from his nearly 50 years of teaching Slavic languages at Northwestern. During that timespan, he has taught thousands of students.

“Weil lit the fire in my passion for all things Russian,” said Ian Kelly (Weinberg ’79), who serves as the U.S. ambassador to Georgia. “Everyone who’s had Irv remembers the twinkle in his eye, the bowtie and his declamatory style of lecturing.”

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Shakespeare and the Cincinnati Reds

From the start, Weil had an affinity for the stage. As a young boy, he learned to sing a cappella in the local synagogue choir, he said. In high school he played Prospero in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”

He was elected boy-mayor of Cincinnati — a role he dutifully filled for a day.

“He was the opposite of shy when it came to performing,” said Howard Schuman, a childhood friend. “And he had a voice that went with it.”

Although Weil believed himself destined for the opera, he said he spent much of his time following America’s greatest pastime: baseball. But Weil, whose father owned the Cincinnati Reds, wasn’t just catching fly balls on the Little League field, he was brushing elbows with legends.

He attended game after game, meeting icons like Branch Rickey, who broke the color barrier in the MLB. For Weil, it wasn’t the sport that captivated him so much as the experiences that came with it.

“Every game I had a running bet with my aunts,” he said. “If Ernie Lombardi got a hit, they would get me a chocolate ice cream soda. He usually got a hit.”

From Dostoevsky to the KGB

By the time Weil was 18, he had already studied works from the Bible to Shakespeare, and considered himself a scholar of prose. But neither God nor the famous English poet could compare to Russian literature.

“I was a freshman at the University of Chicago and they had us read a book by Dostoevsky,” he said. “It knocked me for an absolute loop.”

It was through literature that Weil became infatuated with Russian culture, eventually receiving a master’s degree from the University of Chicago in Slavic studies.

After college, Weil worked at the U.S. Library of Congress helping a demographer form a census of USSR casualties in World War II. He had long dreamt of visiting the Soviet Union and finally got the chance in 1960.

“I got off the plane and what really

surprised me was the enormously warm hospitality,” he said. “Especially when they knew I was American. To my amazement, they couldn’t do enough for me.”

While there, Weil immersed himself in the country’s opera scene, attending concerts and discussing Russian music in the native tongue.

Once, at an opera performance in former Leningrad, Weil was confronted by a Russian who asked if he was a Jew. The two started talking, and he requested Weil come meet his father.

When Weil arrived at the house, the man handed him a dusty book detailing the names of family members killed by the Nazis. Weil was speechless. The three men sat sipping warm tea with varenya, a jelly Russians use to sweeten their drinks.

“Kol yisrael chaverim,” Weil said. “All Jews are brothers.”

Matters of life and death

Today, Weil teaches a class on Russian culture with Bienen Prof. Natalia Lyashenko, melding literature and music. At the end of the quarter, his students sing opera for an open audience in the Alice Millar Chapel.

Weil, who will be 88 next year, said he has only one regret: not joining the professional opera.

“Boy if I could be Chaliapin or Hvorostovsky, wow,” he said, referencing well known Russian opera singers. “I’d be on top of the world.”

On the Jewish High Holy Days, Weil co-leads Fiedler Hillel services with a younger cantor. He handles the contemporary, she the modern. It is a duty he would rather die than give up, he said.

But death doesn’t cross Weil’s mind very often, he said.

“Of all things that men fear, the strangest thing to me is death,” Weil said, quoting Shakespeare. “Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.” davidpkfishman@u.northwestern.edu

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Dance show includes real elements of construction

By AMANDA SVACHULA

daily senior staffer @AmandaSvachula

“Under Construction,” The New Movement Project’s upcoming fall dance concert, incorporates elements of construction in the choreography, which reflects the setting the dancers have been working in at the Wirtz Center.

“The dance department is literally under construction, and we have construction workers walking in and out of our rehearsals,” said producer and Communication sophomore Caroline Spikner. “But a lot of the pieces themselves are about different disabilities and change, and the idea that our identities are constantly under construction.”

Running this weekend, the show will feature nine choreographers in a series of eight different dances. Production began at the end of September.

This year’s creative process has been more collaborative than in the past, as it has included a series of workshops and rehearsals in front of an adviser, said Communication senior Paige Lester, one of the choreographers.

“It’s a much stronger and cohesive show because of these things,” Lester said.

The dances each stand alone, but in the production process an underlying theme became apparent, Spikner said.

“I’m interested to see how the audiences react to the individual pieces and if they see the line

coming through them,” Spikner said. “They definitely take on a more artistic and really unique meanings that go into their dances, as opposed to showing how good people are or what they can do.”

Lester’s piece, which features three dancers, differs from conventional choreography because of its movement, Lester said.

“I really took a different route and my piece is much different than what people usually think of when they think of dance,” Lester said. “It uses raw and pedestrian movement to convey a story and emotion.”

Her choreography fits into the theme “Under Construction” through the relationship among the dancers in the piece, who act as siblings.

“There’s an emotional disconnect between the dancers,” she said. “They have to learn to work together with those differences. It’s about self discovery and finding that you, yourself, are under construction and their relationship is also under construction.”

Communication senior Savannah Couch’s dance relates to the theme through the construction of the physical body.

As part of a research grant, she spent last year studying different organizations that offered performance training to those with disabilities. She has used this experience to think about how different movements work better for different types of bodies, she said.

“I tried to learn how to choreograph energy instead of just different shapes,” she said.

The show runs from Thursday, Nov. 12, to

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REFLECTION Communication senior Annalissa Hartsell rehearses for “Under Construction,” the fall dance concert. Presented by the New Movement Project, the show opens Thursday at the Wirtz Center Ballroom.

Saturday, Nov. 14, in the Wirtz Center Ballroom.

“Honestly, there are really brilliant choreographers that worked on this,” Couch said. “There are many moving pieces with such a human element

to them that there’s something for everyone to connect to.” amandasvachula2018@u.northwestern.edu

McCormick show highlights science, social impact

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ARTISTIC ENGINEERING Laura Taylor, Tom McElroy and Michael McDonald perform “A Life of Galileo.” The Engineering Transdisciplinary Outreach Project in the Arts is putting the play on as its yearly production.

By EMILY CHIN

daily senior staffer @emchin24

A stage director based in Berlin is bringing a taste of Germany to Northwestern through his production of Bertolt Brecht’s “A Life of Galileo,” opening this weekend.

The Engineering Transdisciplinary Outreach Project in the Arts, housed in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, puts on a play each year that highlights science and technology. “A Life of Galileo” will be their largest production to date.

McCormick Prof. Matthew Grayson, who

does theater as a hobby, began ETOPiA eight years ago as an outreach tool to improve scientific education in the community. It has grown from the amateur to the professional level to, as ETOPiA now brings in professional actors.

“The science and research community needs to do whatever it can to reach out to the public so they understand what science is about,” he said. “This is a great way to do this by telling stories which have an emotional side to them because that’s what the public connects with.”

“A Life of Galileo” is about astronomer Galileo Galilei, who in the early 1600s proved Nicolaus Copernicus’ theory that the earth revolved around the sun, and came into conflict with the church and the state because of his radical

discoveries.

Although the play is important and widelyproduced in Germany, it is not performed often in the United States, said director Brian Bell.

He chose the play because it depicts the social implications of scientific action.

“It’s about advanced understanding,” Bell said. “It’s not really teaching people about science. Advanced understanding is interesting because that means posing questions, telling stories, getting people excited about science and technology and how they’re changing our lives.”

Most of the plays that ETOPiA chooses involve scientists and the social impact of their actions, rather than just hard facts, Grayson said. He hopes that doing so will create more compelling stories so that people are more likely to think through the ideas brought out in the play.

There will be talkbacks after the performances in which audience members can discuss the social implications of some of the topics brought out in the play.

Grayson hopes people will leave the show with a greater understanding of the importance of science.

“There are people who are suspicious of science, there are people who don’t trust scientific advice, there are people who don’t know the difference between a scientific opinion and a political agenda,” he said.

The play is particularly timely because Galileo’s struggles with the church and state can be paralleled with climate change denial, Bell said.

He also emphasized the “visceral connection” between the location and content of the play, as it is being put on in an academic and scientific setting, the Technological Institute’s Ryan Family Auditorium, rather than a

traditional theater space.

“It’s interesting because this is a place where science happens,” he said. “There’s a direct professional connection. We’re talking about these scientific issues in a place where that happens everyday.”

However, the location and budget present some challenges for the performers.

Due to a low budget, there are only three We’re talking actors performing a about these production that typiscientific issues cally casts more than 30 actors. Bell has also in a place where condensed a typically three-hour play to that happens one-and-a-half hours. everyday.

However, he welcomes the challenges.

Brian Bell, “It’s a completely director different way of working,” Bell said. “The production value is very small, which can be successful because there is no barrier between the audience and the actors.”

Tom McElroy, who plays Galileo, also noted that Brecht attempted to break the barrier between the audience and the performers.

In the play, the actors come out of character, which allows the audience to better interact with the play, he said.

McElroy is excited to see this interaction and hear what the audience thinks about the show.

“I expect them to laugh a lot,” he said. “I expect them to ponder and begin to think.

There are some pretty solid deep emotions that go on in ‘A Life of Galileo.’”

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Former Bienen professor returns to perform piano recital

By JENNIFER HEPP

the daily northwestern @jenniferhepp97

It’s homecoming for four-time Grammy nominee Ursula Oppens.

The former Bienen professor will return to Northwestern on Saturday for a piano recital that will kick off the Skyline Piano Artist Series at the Bienen School of Music.

Oppens, who was a Bienen piano professor from 1994 to 2008, will return to campus for the first time since being on faculty.

“I’m really, really looking forward to it,” Oppens said. “Of course I’m excited to see the new building, and I’m looking forward to seeing a couple of my old colleagues as well.”

Oppens will be playing three pieces that she commissioned for the recital. The piece “Four Hands” was written for Oppens and her partner, Jerome Lowenthal, a piano professor at the Juilliard School, to play at the same piano. Oppens and Lowenthal will perform the piece together

on Saturday.

“It is always startling when you sit down and play “Four Hands” to see how different it is from when you’re playing by yourself,” Lowenthal said. “You’re sitting differently and you’re watching the music differently; everything is different.”

Oppens performed the North American premiere, “Night Fantasies,” another piece on the program, more than 30 years ago in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.

Oppens recently re-recorded the third piece on the program, “The People United Will Never Be Defeated,” as well as “Four Hands” for Cedille Records, a Chicago-based label.

Oppens said she’s proud that “Night Fantasies” and “The People United Will Never Be Defeated” have really entered the modern repertoire for pianists, she said.

Bienen Prof. James Giles, who was a colleague of Oppens for many years, invited her to perform.

Giles said he is looking forward to seeing Oppens and hearing her perform on Saturday.

“Ursula will be the first pianist to play on this series ever,” Giles said. “I thought that was very appropriate given her world-class stature and given her long association with Northwestern.”

Giles said Oppens is “particularly versatile” and is known as an advocate for composers as well as somebody who’s really committed to expanding the repertoire by premiering new pieces.

“Ursula is a preeminent new music pianist of our time,” he said. “To hear pieces performed by the pianist who commissioned them and premiered them some 30 to 40 years ago is a great experience for listeners.”

The recital will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday in the new Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall.

“I’m most excited to hear these works which are incredibly difficult to play,” Giles said. “Intellectually, emotionally and technically, they are summits of the repertoire for any pianist to play.

I’m excited to hear the music played by someone who knows it better than anybody.” jenniferhepp2020@u.northwestern.edu

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HOMECOMING Former Bienen Prof. Ursula Oppens will perform at Northwestern on Saturday. This will be her first time on campus since she was a member of the faculty.

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Q&A: ‘Spamalot’ director talks gender changes

By RACHEL YANG

daily senior staffer @_RachelYang

Arts Alliance’s upcoming musical has a twist: Most of the characters are played by an actor of the opposite gender. The production of “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” based on the classic comedy film, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” follows the story of King Arthur, played by Bienen junior Megan Orticelli, as she gathers her round table of knights on a quest to find the Holy Grail. The Daily sat down with the musical’s director, Communication senior Chris Anselmo, to discuss the inspiration behind the gender-bending of the characters, the issues the production tackles and what he hopes audiences take away from the show.

The Daily: What inspired you to have the characters played by someone of a different gender?

Chris Anselmo: By switching the genders of our main two characters, Arthur and Lady of the Lake, we have a story now of Arthur, who is a female, and she has become king and no one in the land wants her to become king. So since they see her as a woman, a woman is not fit to be king, they will make fun of her, they disrespect her. They belittle her. So the story, in a way, becomes the story of her trying to prove to England that she is worthy of this kingship.

When it comes to the Lady of the Lake, what we see in the original production of “Spamalot,” is this woman who takes on the role of the diva, and we laugh at her because she’s rude to everyone, she tries to take up space, she wants all the focus on her and we see those qualities

… Having Lady of the Lake as a man in drag … and by having him take on those qualities willingly, we have something that the entire community can laugh with him and can laugh with all our actors, so that’s something that was really important to me, and I think it works really well in the show, especially because a huge staple of Monty Python humor is drag, whether it’s men in drag or women in drag.

The Daily: Are there any other big changes you’re making, besides the gender?

Anselmo: So something that’s really great about the original production is that they incorporated so many Broadway jokes … So there are a lot of jokes that are in the script and in the score that may not be as relevant for our community, so what we did is, the cast and I and the rehearsal team and the production team, we examined the script and we analyzed what it was about those jokes that, with the function of those jokes were, what devices were being used and we found analogues for them, something that was more relevant to our community. So we called upon a lot of other student theater groups, we called upon large events like Dillo, like DM, A&O, so we’re really making sure that the jokes in the show are relevant to our community, not just Broadway.

The Daily: Why do you think students should come to the show? What can they take away?

Anselmo: Something that’s so unique about Northwestern is that we actively try to make a difference and we are actively (conscientious) about how we can work to improve our community. And something I think is so important is that, yes we can work to make that change, but I think it’s hard to make that change if we

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NEW TAKE, OLD STORY Cast members rehearse for “Spamalot,” which opens Friday in McCormick Auditorium. The genders of some roles are changed in the production.

ourselves are not a tight-knit community … everyone who comes into that room … those people who have shared that experience, whoever you’re sitting next to, I think you’ll be that much closer to them. That you’ll be that much more comfortable with them to be able to tackle those larger issues.

The Daily: Do you hope it makes people question their ideas about gender norms?

Anselmo: One-hundred percent. I think that’s going to be a huge thing especially with

having a female Arthur and a man in drag playing Lady of the Lake. I really hope people leave this production thinking about women in power (and) why it’s so uncommon to see women in power. That’s something that I’ve been really thinking about and something our rehearsal team has been talking a lot about and how to handle on stage, and I think we’re doing a really fantastic job of that. weizheyang2018@u.northwestern.edu

New variety talk show aims to diversify comedy scene

By KIMBERLY GO

the daily northwestern @KimberlyGo2018

Communication sophomore Chelsea Jacobson noticed a lack of talk show style comedy at Northwestern and decided to do something about it.

Created by Jacobson, “The Blackout” will be a live variety talk show that will be taped and put online once a month. Producer Devon Kerr, also a Communication sophomore, said it will be structured like a “typical American talk show” and include monologues, interviews, games and sketches.

The name of the show reflects the edgier tone

Source: Chelsea Jacobson

LIVE SHOT Communication sophomore Chelsea Jacobson created “The Blackout,” a live variety talk show that will be aired online. The show will premiere after Winter Break.

the show hopes to adopt for its audience: college students.

Jacobson said she was inspired to create “Blackout” after attending a Q&A with the producer of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” over the summer and seeing how much fun a variety show could be. In October, she applied to a media arts grant given out by the Department of Radio, Television and Film and recently found out she had received the grant.

“I realized that the variety show format is really conducive to the college campus and I wanted to bring that here,” said Jacobson, who is also the host of the show.

Before the show premieres, there will be a “pregame” to the “Blackout” in December during reading week, Jacobson said. The creators will use the footage as promotional material to spread word on campus. After Winter Break, they will officially launch the show.

Despite the fact that people always cite Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers as examples of successful NU alumni who have become talk show hosts, the school itself does not have a comedy platform like a talk show, Kerr said. He said this platform is missing in the comedy scene at NU. “It’s kind of crazy that we just don’t have that (kind of) show here, so we’re looking to start it,” Kerr said.

Joshua Razo, head writer of “Blackout,” said there is a big comedy presence at Northwestern for students involved in the scene, but very little

diversity in what is available.

“Hopefully (the show) perpetuates the performance and comedy culture,” the SESP junior said.

Razo said he wants to make the show specific to Northwestern, adding that the writing team will focus on a “very heavy topical tone” that is also “all-encompassing and fun.”

If they can build a live audience, Kerr said they hope to interview subjects like University President Morton Schapiro and football coach Pat Fitzgerald, as well to bring Boomshaka and Fusion Dance Company to perform.

Jacobson said she has been conscious about how best to adapt “Blackout” to the Internet, because it will not be shown on television as late night shows traditionally have been. Citing Kimmel, Kerr said they are looking to upload short five-minute clips covering highlights of the show in addition to the full length program online.

Despite receiving feedback from the RTVF department to scale back the project and take it in a direction that more aligns with film, Jacobson said they’re very excited for the show and have received a lot of support from people on campus.

“The hope for (the show) between all of us is that this can last beyond our years as students,” Razo said. “Hopefully people would want to host us, people would want to do something similar to that, just because it is a fun performance opportunity.” kimberlygo2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Examining identity

According to OFSL’s website, NU’s first fraternity chapter, Phi Delta Theta, was founded in 1859, although it disbanded briefly due to the Civil War. NU’s first black student, Daniel Hale Williams, graduated decades later in 1883.

“Most (Greek organizations) were founded when black people were not considered human,” said Medill junior Karina Myrtil, who is half-black, half-white and a member of Latina-interest sorority Lambda Theta Alpha.

“Historically they exclude people who are not like them and that will always follow them around. … More than 100 years have passed and there hasn’t been any change.”

In 1961, the University passed a non-discrimination policy prohibiting NU fraternities from refusing to select members because of race, religion or ethnic origin. However, Myrtil said even today, changes in a Greek organization’s constitution will not make a difference.

“It doesn’t matter what’s on paper,” she said.

“It’s who are the people in the organization on campus, who are the bodies.”

Wang said despite her reservations during recruitment two years ago, her sorority has become a place where she feels comfortable with her identity. She said she wants her new position to allow other people’s voices to be heard, too.

“I lived a lot of my life … being concerned with how people weren’t going to accept me if they found out who I really was,” she said. “Being able to take a girl to formal and show affection — I think that’s so important personally. It’s a validation of my identity and my existence.”

The topic of identity is also on PHA’s radar.

PHA formal recruitment involves many conversations between sorority members and potential new members, and Doyle said next quarter she hopes to foster an atmosphere that allows more personal discussion throughout the process.

Doyle said she is also reworking the Panhellenic Values Assessment, a workshop potential new members participate in the day before formal recruitment that involves filling out personal values and goals. This year during recruitment, she said potential new members

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“For people who are Racial breakdown marginalized within Greek Sienna Parker said when life, it’s hard to stay in it,” she went through PHA recruitment Parker said. “It’s definitely a long-term last winter, her braids made her “look a lot process and I think awareness is a first step.” more African-American.” As a half-Filipina, Cynthia Rose, director of the Office of Frahalf-black woman entering what she called a ternity and Sorority Life, declined to comment traditionally white space, she was conscious on Wednesday. of the racial representation in each sorority.

“My most salient identity is my race,” the A history divided SESP sophomore said. “Going into a house I’m Some students say traditional fraternities thinking, are there people who look like me? and sororities cannot escape the effects of their … If I spend this much time with them I want past exclusion of minorities. someone who can relate to me racially and “There’s so many historical roots here that ethnically.” are never going away,” said a Weinberg senior The racial makeup of PHA and IFC was who who deactivated from a PHA sorority last 71 percent white after Winter Quarter 2014 year. “Greek organizations are founded on old recruitment, according to a Student Affairs money and continued and propagated by rich assessment obtained by The Daily. A year later, white people. … It’s not a Northwestern probthat demographic has shifted to 68 percent. lem. It’s a national problem.”

The Winter 2015 Student Affairs assessment The senior, an Asian woman who asked also shows that the percentage of Hispanic and not to be named to avoid targeting her former international students in IFC and PHA chap- chapter, said as NU attempts to diversify its ters grew by 1 percent each. The percentage of chapters, nationally, sororities and fraternities Asian/Pacific Islander students, who make up will remain tied to their histories.

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PHA will meet with recruitment counselors “Currently that’s what the case is and I don’t next month to train them on how to approach want it to be.” identity in conversations, Doyle said.

However, PHA ultimately cannot control the “If you want to change the culture of your national dues set by each individual sorority — community and the conversations being had in an obstacle some of NU’s chapters are addressyour community, that’s great,” she said. “But then ing. Last Spring Quarter, Wang worked with we also need to change the way we’re recruiting two other members of her sorority to launch a new members in the community because that’s a scholarship fundraiser for financial aid for dues, big part of how community is defined.” raising $2,330.

In prioritizing identity, Parker said she wants Hong said she has more fundraising inito dispel the idea that recruitment conversations tiatives in the works before her term ends in should not include the “Five B’s”: boys, booze, January.

Barack, the Bible and bills. Women on both sides of recruitment were traditionally discouraged Searching elsewhere from discussing potentially controversial issues, Although the anonymous Weinberg senior like sex, religion, politics, alcohol and money. said she does not regret the friends she made “A lot of those have to do with people’s iden- through Greek life, ultimately she felt uncomtities,” she said. “‘Bills’ is your socioeconomic fortable in her chapter. She said during her status. Instead of shoving it under the rug and three years of affiliation, some members of her sorority confused students of color and mocked ignoring it, we should respond to it.”

Nelson said IFC chapters are pursuing diver- ethnic-sounding names. sity and inclusion initiatives through commu“You’re my sister but you’re literally laughnity service events with ing at a name that could be student groups outside my mom’s or my sister’s,” of Greek life. Tradishe said. “Compared tionally, IFC frato other sororities, ternities team up we were more with PHA sororidiverse — but we ties for such still weren’t.”

“It doesn’t matter events.

The Weinwhat’s on paper. It’s berg senior said “One of the raps in Greek Greek life isn’t who are the people in the life is it’s very the cause of organization on campus.” exclusive,” he such problems, said. “Our goal but it attracts is to make the people who Karina Myrtil, atmosphere of aren’t open to Lambda Theta Alpha IFC more incluconversations member sive in general.” about race and Socioecoinequality. The nomic diversity daily lunches in also remains an her sorority house ongoing effort for took a toll on her, she both councils. Nelsaid, and were one of son said IFC launched a the reasons she deactivated fundraiser selling apparel at the end of last year.

“I didn’t feel like I had it in throughout this quarter that has generated about $500 in scholarme to literally bring up hotbed issues ships for its members. Last Winter Quarter, PHA that are very personal to me and explain myself allocated about $6,000 more in scholarships fol- and defend myself,” she said. “To be a person of lowing 2015 recruitment, PHA vice president of color and prove that racism exists is one of the administration Kathy Hong said. most debasing, exhausting experiences.”

Myrtil, who knew arriving at NU as a “I don’t think (finances) should be a reason

freshman that she wanted to be in a sorority, a month. said multicultural Greek organizations were ulti“Community service has become a much mately founded because there wasn’t a space for bigger part of the fraternity experience,” Linder women of color in traditional sororities, she said. “We’re not just IFC and PHA working said. together. We want to expand into the other two “We have that baseline of what we all councils and the greater Northwestern know what it feels like to community.” not have white skin,” For the pioneer she said. “That humdiversity and inclubles a person.” sion chairs this Myrtil said past year, NU she did not Greek life is want to become not the same “I’m glad the campus a PHA sororas it was when got a wake-up call. ity’s “token Kapp a an d There’s definitely a minority,” a ZBT planned phrase used their “Jail N’ noticeable difference.” to describe a Bail” event.

Sarah Faruqui, minority perKappa’s diverson added to Sarah Faruqui, a group for the sity and incluKappa Kappa Gamma appearance of sion chair for diversity and inclusion diversity. this quarter, said chair “I’m not a thin, both her own white blonde girl,” chapter and the Myrtil said. “I didn’t larger Greek comsee many other people munity have grown that didn’t fit that catfrom discussions after egory so I felt like I was the incident. going to be the token black “I’m glad the campus got a girl, the token black sister.” wake-up call,” said the Weinberg sophomore, who is an international stuPassing the torch dent. “There’s definitely a noticeable difference In about two months, Doyle, Nelson and Hong for sure. I think campus-wide, everyone is defiwill be reaching the end of their terms. Many of nitely more cautious about what they’re doing.” the initial diversity and inclusion chairs from last Nelson said his vision of diversity and incluyear will also be replaced in the coming months. sion translates into an IFC community that is “I came into this and I understood (diversity welcoming regardless of racial and financial and inclusion) was something I wanted to focus background. That goal is a work in progress, he on,” Doyle said. “I’ll have a very culminating said, but it has moved forward since last year’s moment when the new board is elected and see- Jail N’ Bail incident. ing people in those positions.”

“It’s sad that something so dramatic has to Next quarter, the new vice president of out- happen to open people’s eyes,” he said. “We’re reach and engagement will take on much of the much more aware. … We’re always thinking work Doyle did this past year in diversity and about new ways and how to make our commuinclusion, she said. nity more inclusive.”

Doyle said there is room for improvement, but Andy Linder, a Medill senior who served in IFC’s counterpart role of vice president of com- she is proud of the community surrounding her. munity engagement for the past two quarters, “That’s Northwestern, right?” she said. “We’re was tasked with building a relationship between never comfortable. It’s one of the reasons I love IFC and other communities within NU and the campus, the student body. We’re not complaEvanston. This month, IFC is partnering with cent, comfortable people and so there’s always so Relay for Life in a “No Shave November” fun- much room to do more.” draiser, which involves participants donating money and pledging to not shave their face for aliceyin2017@u.northwestern.edu

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Baker said students should combat the narrative of “accidental rape.”

“This has been studied really extensively, and that phenomenon just does not occur,” he said.

Later, Weinberg senior Mackenzie Schneider, vice president for A-status finances, presented her committee’s recommendations for fall funding. Her committee proposes funding for all A-status organizations, groups that typically receive thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars in ASG funding.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2015 $110,550 for Mayfest. The proposal cited “great planning” as a reason for increased funding, which the senator balked at. In May, Mayfest cancelled Dillo Day after severe winds threatened students’ safety.

Schneider said the cancellation was beyond Mayfest’s control, and that in those cases, funding is not affected.

“You can’t control the rain,” she said. “If it doesn’t happen because the exec board fails to put it on, that’s something you could control.

But NUPD saying it’s not safe is not something Mayfest can control.”

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“It’s really sad because I want to play with him. That was the goal for us all to play together for four years straight,” he said. He’s gonna get through it, he’s gonna be better for next year and we’ll be a better team when he comes back.”

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Freshman Ben Vandixhorn’s semifinal loss to the eventual Big Ten Indoor Championships’ singles winner Monday marked the second time he was defeated by an eventual tournament victor.

It was also just the second time he played in an NCAA tournament, period.

Vandixhorn and freshman teammates Michael Lorenzini and Jason Seidman traveled to Iowa this past weekend to represent Northwestern against Big Ten opponents. Despite their lack of Division I exposure, the three performed admirably with Vandixhorn, the tournament’s sixth seed, leading the charge.

He followed his first-round bye with a dominant victory over

Wisconsin junior Elliott Sprecher, dropping just one game. His next victory came in three sets against Matt Galush of Penn State.

Though it wasn’t nearly as clean as his prior win, it showed the freshman’s resilience.

“My coach helped me in that match,” Vandixhorn said. “I got nervous in the second set. I started rushing and getting anxious, so I just slowed down, focused on my service games and was able to hold serve every time and then got one break in the set.”

His final win over Michigan’s Kevin Wong also demonstrated his ability to rebound. Vandixhorn won the first set after falling behind 4-1 and then closed with a 6-0 second set win.

He then lost to eventual champion Davis Crocker of Michigan in the semifinals, ending the Cats’ run. “(The) last match was a little

disappointing, to be honest,” he said. “I kinda wish I could replay that match almost, but the kid came out firing and I just wasn’t ready for that.”

Still, Vandixhorn’s outing was impressive, given that it was, in fact, only his second time representing NU in a tournament.

Regardless of his rising star’s inexperience, Coach Arvid Swan expected nothing less than success.

“He’s had two good tournaments but we had high expectations for him coming in,” Swan said.

Lorenzini also enjoyed a solid run. Seeded 15th, he defeated opponents from Minnesota and Iowa in straight sets.

He ultimately lost to No. 2 Ben Lieb, but impressed both himself and his coach in the process.

“Mike has done a really good job developing his game,” Swan said.

“He had a good opportunity to make

at least the quarterfinals, lost a close match, but had an opportunity to win there, so (I’m) very pleased with his performance overall.”

He also enjoyed a solid victory alongside Vandixhorn in the second round of the doubles tournament — the two, seeded fourth together, earned a first-round bye — before being upset by an unseeded duo from Nebraska.

“We were playing really well,” Lorenzini said. “We had a tough loss against Nebraska, but I thought we played really well.”

Seidman, who only played singles, saw his run cut short after just two matches.

Delivering payback against one of the Nebraska players who knocked his teammates out of the doubles competition, Seidman opened with a 6-4, 7-6 (2) before losing in straight sets in the next round. Swan was pleased with his

play as well.

“His first round was a good win against a lineup player in Nebraska, so that was good to see as well,” the coach said.

Alongside the scattered victories, the freshman walked away with added experience before the season begins.

In tandem with their play at the ITA Midwest Regionals, which Vandixhorn also headlined after losing in the Round of 32, the freshmen have a solid foundation of tournament experience to build upon as the season nears.

“I had two pretty solid tournaments so far, Vandixhorn said. “We have two months of practice now so I hope (to) just keep improving in practice and kind of use all of this, this whole fall season, to help my winter and spring.” garrettjochnau2019@u.northwestern.edu

Konrad Zieba faces major challenges at National Indoor Championships

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Though Northwestern junior Konrad Zieba may not even headline his own program’s singles rotation, he’ll be the lone representative at the ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships, beginning Thursday.

The event is held at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, New York, which annually houses the US Open.

Unlike many in the 32-player field in which he finds himself after earning an exclusive bid, Zieba enters the tournament without a national rank. As such, he’ll face an uphill battle when he takes the floor, first on Thursday against No. 107 Max Hinnisdaels of Auburn.

However, Zieba faced great odds simply to qualify for the tournament, which he did with a run to the quarterfinals in early October’s ITA All-American Championships.

Not only did the NU junior have to defeat several ranked players to reach the round of 16, but he first

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had to qualify for the main draw after being placed in the qualifying bracket initially.

With plenty of experience as an underdog, Zieba — who acknowledged that the upcoming tournament

is among the year’s toughest — is unfazed by the challenge ahead.

“I feel like I can compete with anyone regardless of the ranking,” he said. “It doesn’t really have an effect.”

Barring changes to the bracket, Zieba would have to face the tournament’s top seed, Thai-Son Kwiatkowski of Virginia, in the second round if both escape the first. Not only is Kwiatkowski ranked eighth nationally, but he is also the player who knocked Zieba out in the quarterfinals of the All-Americans.

Nonetheless, coach Arvid Swan has confidence that his player is up to the task.

“Konrad’s been outstanding. …

He’s one of the best players in college tennis,” Swan said. “It’s a really strong field, but he has high expectations and so do we. So (I’m) just looking forward to seeing him compete against some of the better players in college tennis.”

The singles tournament features the top players from across the nation, all of whom — aside from a select few wild cards — had to earn their selection by winning their respective regional tournament,

winning the National Small College Super Bowl, or reaching the quarterfinals of the All-Americans.

One could also qualify by winning the latter tournament’s consolation championship.

Other NU singles stars came close to earning a bid, but ultimately fell short.

Junior Sam Shropshire, ranked 34th in the country, fell in the consolation championship of the All-Americans. Junior Strong Kirchheimer, ranked 120th, was dispatched from the Midwest Regional Championships in the semifinals.

Zieba, who played behind Shropshire and Kirchheimer last season, will become the first NU player to represent the Cats at the National Indoor Championships in a long while, when he hits the court at 2:30 p.m. Thursday.

“I want to do as best as possible,” Zieba said. “You know, I think this is a great step for our program. We haven’t had anyone in this tournament for 10, 20 years now, so I think it’s a great opportunity.” garrettjochnau2019@u.northwestern.edu

Wildcats hopes for a win uprooted by the Golden Gophers

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Once again, home court provided no advantage for Northwestern.

No. 4 Minnesota (22-3, 14-1 Big Ten) came to Evanston and conquered the Wildcats (13-13, 5-10), 3-1, on Wednesday night.

Even with an impressive third set win, NU was not able to do what was necessary to capture the upset victory. But even in a losing effort, there were positives for the home team.

Junior outside hitter Kayla Morin was an all-around leader on Wednesday night, bringing in an ace, two assists, 13 digs and 16 kills. Morin said NU needs to play with more aggression if it wants to knock off the nation’s best teams, like Minnesota.

“Just being aggressive, swinging at it,” Morin said. “We have to turn that aggression into smart aggression. That aggressiveness is what won us that third set.”

What tripped the team up Wednesday was a myriad of defensive errors, which was also a problem last week against No. 16 Illinois. Junior

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outside hitter Maddie Slater said the number of defensive errors the team made slowed it down against a squad as defensive as the Golden Gophers.

Slater said the team needs to adjust quicker, defend better and play cleaner volleyball as a whole.

“We didn’t adjust as fast as they were to us,” Slater said. “In the coming matches, we need to focus on getting other teams out of system, so we can focus on defending better.”

The one time the Cats were able to truly handle the Golden Gophers’ adjustments was during the third set.

With their backs against the wall, they were able to go tit-for-tat with Minnesota and win the game.

Associate coach Kirstine Jensen said she was pleased with the with the team’s level of play all night, but especially in the third set.

“Offensively, (our middles) were just ridiculous,” Jensen said. “Kayla

really stepped it up today, and that was huge for us to be in the match.”

The team held its own at times, slowing down the Golden Gophers at the beginning of the first set, taking the third set and keeping it close throughout the fourth set. But as the case has been most of the seaWe son, NU have to turn was unable to do what that aggression it needed into smart to come away with aggression. That a victory. aggressiveness is With just f ive what won us that games third set remainKayla Morin, ing in the year, the junior outside hitter team has only won a third of its matches in conference play and is .500 overall, which is not where it wants to be with so few games left before the NCAA Tournament.

However, Jensen said the team is showing marked improvement.

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IT’S A SET UP Taylor Tashima sets up a teammate for a spike. The sophomore setter had 53 assists against Minnesota, the most she’s had in a conference game all season, and her third highest total on the year.

Oct. 10 over now-No. 1 Penn State (24-2, 13-2), are evidence the team can do what is needed to defeat elite teams. With No. 17 Purdue (19-7, 10-5) up next on the schedule, the Cats have the perfect opportunity to show the win against the Nittany

Lions was not a fluke.

“I think we’re ready; we’re right on the cusp of it,” Jensen said. “We’re ready to push and do it. I’m just excited.” sophiemann2018@u.northwestern.edu