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Administrators apologize First Black House listening sessions held after controversy

By MARIANA ALFARO

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SLUG An NU student lies on the ground near The Rock while dressed as a wounded Palestinian boy. The demonstration was hosted by NU SJP on Wednesday and imitated a viral video of a violent scene in Israel.

Students reenact violence NU’s SJP holds demonstration at The Rock

By ALICE YIN

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Sounds of students crying “Die, son of a bitch, die!” filled the plaza

by The Rock on Wednesday during

a demonstration held in honor of the International Day of Action for Palestine.

Northwestern Students for Justice in Palestine members spent the afternoon reenacting a viral video of a wounded Palestinian teenager lying on the ground amid Israeli

bystanders. The demonstration was put on for the International Day of Action, which serves as an annual day of solidarity for Palestinians on college campuses.

“I’ve seen firsthand the effects of » See DEMONSTRATION, page 9

Faculty apologized Wednesday for not involving students and alumni in the decision to change spaces in the Black House and the Multicultural Center during forums on the future of both buildings.

Hosted by Multicultural Student Affairs and Campus Inclusion and Community, the listening sessions with Northwestern students and alumni were created in response to negative reactions members of the community had to the plans to move CIC offices from Scott Hall to the Black House and the Multicultural Center. The first two sessions were held Wednesday at Parkes Hall and the next two will be held in November.

“To start off, I want to apologize that the attempt to communicate the proposed views for the space in the Black House were not successful at engaging the community nor effectively delivered,” said Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for Student Affairs. “Rather than achieving transparency, we accomplished something very different from what

was anticipated.”

About 50 people attended the evening listening session and about 40 attended the one at noon, Kelly Schaefer, assistant vice president for student engagement, told The Daily. She also said more than 70 people watched the first session online. Jamie Washington, who presents annually at the diversity and inclusion Essential NU during Wildcat Welcome, facilitated the sessions and will continue to do so for the next two.

Telles-Irvin introduced the Black House Facilities Review Board, composed of faculty, students and alumni and chaired by Medill Prof. Charles Whitaker, a member of Students Publishing Co., The Daily’s parent company.

The review board will sit in on all of the sessions. It aims to listen to concerns and will forward recommendations to Telles-Irvin at the end of the listening sessions’ process, hopefully by the end of Winter Quarter 2016, Telles-Irvin said.

Wednesday’s second session began with introductions by Telles-Irvin and Lesley-Ann Brown-Henderson, CIC’s executive director. » See BLACK HOUSE, page 8

Khan Academy founder talks on company’s creation

By DAN WALDMAN

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The mind behind the popular website Khan Academy visited Northwestern on Wednesday to share his journey of creating the educational company.

Salman Khan, the website’s founder, spoke at Fisk Hall and said the online non-profit he developed can provide free, universal teaching and change the education system.

“When you have mass public education, how do you do that (masterybased learning) economically?” Khan told The Daily. “Khan Academy has

shown that we are at this point now that technology can actually solve some of these problems.”

Khan said he got the idea to create Khan Academy after tutoring his 12-year-old cousin in math. He started to film lessons and put them on YouTube for the rest of his family to enjoy, and began uploading content on Khan Academy’s YouTube page in 2006.

Expecting to reach 20 million users by the end of this month, Khan said his next step is tying in SAT preparation.

Khan Academy has partnered with College Board and Hyatt Hotels Corporation, hoping to create an initiative to prepare Chicago school students for college through technology, he said.

The Contemporary Thoughts Speaker Series invited Khan as the first speaker of the school year. CTSS co-chair and Weinberg sophomore Ben Zimmermann said the organization invited Khan to speak at the University about the changing educational platform.

“I think he’s been a very impactful person in the field of education, especially with our generation,” Zimmermann said. “Personally, I used a lot of his videos to get through math and sciences. I think he really embodies a new wave of educational technology, and he sort of brought that to become a global movement.”

Khan said the next goal for Khan

Academy is to expand to all major course subjects as well as create lifestyle lessons. He wants to make Khan Academy global and translate its lessons into more languages.

After his speech, Khan participated in a Q&A session with NU students.

Students shared their personal experiences with Khan Academy and thanked Khan for helping them get through high school.

McCormick sophomore Rohil Bhargava said Khan’s lessons were the sole reason he passed physics in high school. When he found out that Khan was speaking at the University, he said he had to go.

“I used them for my first physics

class, and the way he taught really resonated with the way I learn,” Bhargava said. “I kept using it through high school and he’s the reason I passed all of my hard sciences.”

At the end of the talk, Khan said education is a universal right and everyone should have cheap, easy access to it.

“It’s starting to feel like the pieces are in place,” Khan said. “We can take this thing called education which has always been scarce and expensive and make it a little bit more like shelter or drinking water and just a fundamental human right.” danielwaldman2019@u.northwestern.edu

One Book author discusses future for Native Americans

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

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One Book One Northwestern author Thomas King discussed his love of storytelling, his use of humor in writing and his views on the future for Native American people on Wednesday in Fisk Hall.

King, a Canadian author and activist, wrote “The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America,” the One Book selection for the 2015-16 academic

year. The book examines the troubling relationship between white and native people throughout American and Canadian history.

The book was selected following a recommendation by the Native American Outreach and Inclusion Task Force last November that this year’s book cover genocide or colonialism.

King said growing up with the stigma of being raised by a single mother drew him to storytelling.

“Because (I) held a kind of marginalized place in the community

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which I didn’t care much for, I tried to create stories that made me seem better than I really was,” he said to a crowd of more than 200 people.

While hitchhiking in Lake Tahoe, California, King said he convinced the people who picked him up he was a Greek race car driver just because of “the sheer exuberance of storytelling.”

King said he learned how humor can help people discuss difficult issues as a counselor for native students at the University of Utah in the 1960s and 70s.

“If you were young and shouting, if you were in their face, they weren’t listening,” he said. “At some point I realized I had to get past that. Humor let me get into difficult conversations and stay there. I discovered the humor deepens tragedy and tragedy sharpens humor. If you present gruesome facts people turn away. But if you can present the idiocy and make people laugh then people follow you into the depths of the story.”

Medill Prof. Loren Ghiglione, this year’s One Book faculty chair, moderated the event and asked King if he

felt optimistic about what the future holds for Native Americans in the United States and Canada.

“One of the things that bothers me is I don’t know that basic societal and governmental attitudes towards Indians have changed all that much,” King said. “Native land has been under attack almost from the very beginning. The culprits are different now. Before it could be anyone from settlers to government officials to missionaries, but now it’s » See ONE BOOK, page 9

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District 65’s Parent Teacher Association partnered with Evanston Public Library to present its second series on diversity and inclusion, this year focusing on increasing dialogue among parents in the community.

The first of four sessions took place Wednesday at the Family Focus Center in Evanston at 2010 Dewey Ave., in which four professional and parent storytellers shared personal journeys of overcoming discrimination based on race, gender or sexuality.

Heather Sweeney, chair of the PTA’s Parent Education Committee, said she was motivated to create the program last academic year after a separate session concerning issues of diversity had an impact on her.

“It totally changed the way I thought and viewed things with my kids, in Evanston, nationally and globally,” Sweeney said.

The program’s debut last year, attended by more than 400 people, was aimed at coaching students and parents in navigating instances of discrimination. The goal of this year’s sessions is to build on that foundation, working toward building skills to act as an ally.

The first session, titled “Seeing Each Other in the Stories We Tell,” drew more than 110 people.

The program featured four professional and parent

Police Blotter Bank employee charged with stealing money from customer A 24-year-old TCF Bank employee was arrested Monday evening in connection with fraud after he allegedly stole more than $3,000 from a customer’s account.

Police were called at about 5:30 p.m. to TCF Bank in Jewel Osco at 1128 Chicago Ave., where they found that the bank’s internal investigator had taken an employee into custody for fraud, said Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan. The employee, a

Chicago man, had made a total of seven withdrawals totaling $3,200 from the customer’s account since August, Dugan said. The employee had filled out withdrawal slips by faking the person’s signature.

The employee was charged with a felony for fraud.

Woman arrested after screaming obscenities at neighbor A 48-year-old woman was arrested Monday morning in connection with violating a no-contact order when she yelled obscenities at her neighbor who filed the order, police said.

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Series aims to boost parent dialogue storytellers from Evanston or Chicago who shared anecdotes about journeys of diversity, followed by a dialogue facilitated by Rahul Sharma, a professor of diversity psychology at Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University and an Evanston/ Skokie School District 65 parent.

Sharma said the focus of the evening was “opening our ears and opening our hearts as we share stories with each other.” The programs were created to deepen parents’ understandings of each other’s experiences and especially to obtain the tools to teach children the same practices, he said.

Kristine Nesslar, a writer and activist living in Evanston, spoke to attendees about her role as a white woman who observes her black husband and son’s experiences with discrimination. Nesslar said she had never experienced racism until she started dating her now-husband and now must worry about her two sons facing discrimination. Discussions about race are necessary to have with children because of how influenced they are by their parents’ ideologies, she said.

“Children will not believe something fully until they hear their parents say it,” Nesslar said.

Sweeney said last year’s series received positive feedback from attendees, leading to an expansion of its message across the district.

“People liked what they saw,” Sweeney said.

“Speakers from the series last year have been asked to go to almost every school in the district.”

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Jenny Blickenstaff (Weinberg ’90), a parent of a fifth-grader and a seventh-grader in District 65, attended last year’s series and found that this year’s format was more conducive to communication between parents and speakers.

“I like the fact that the format is a little more discussion-based this year,” Blickenstaff said. “It allows people to go deeper if they want to or remain observers if they just want to listen.”

The next session in the series on Nov. 16 will be co-facilitated by Evanston Township High School students.

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The police department has received multiple calls for conflicts between the neighbors, Dugan said. The younger woman told police the older woman had been harassing her on an ongoing basis.

The woman who violated the no-contact order is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 21.

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On Campus ASG seeks new speaker, begins work on fall plans

By SHANE MCKEON

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Associated Student Government Senate prepared for a speaker race and began work on its second 100Day Plan in its first meeting of the year Wednesday.

Weinberg senior Matt Clarkston, usually the body’s parliamentarian, served as interim speaker during the meeting, stepping in for Noah Whinston, the previous speaker. Whinston announced Oct. 7 he was resigning from the position and dropping out of Northwestern to take a job in Los Angeles as the CEO of a professional gaming franchise.

“This is not my day job,” Clarkston said. “Obviously, we need a permanent replacement for the rest of the term.”

Last week, Clarkston told The Daily he planned to run for the speaker position, which will be elected by

Senate at next Wednesday’s meeting.

The meeting was the first official Senate meeting since ASG released its 100-Day Plan for Fall Quarter.

In part, the plan says student government will investigate McCormick students’ workload and how it affects mental health, as well as if reducing the school’s credit requirement could address the problem.

McCormick junior Jason Arkin killed himself in May and his mother, Karen Arkin, told The Daily her son said McCormick’s academic requirements were a major stressor in his life.

ASG President Noah Star said ASG was pushing for reform in the school before Arkin’s suicide.

“It’s been front and center for a while,” the Weinberg senior told The Daily. “It’s important that students in any school on this campus are mentally healthy.”

The plan also says ASG will work with University departments to expand its mental health campaign, Take Time. McCormick junior Wendy Roldan, ASG vice president for student life, spearheads Take Time

and said the program aims to help students navigate their options for seeking mental health support.

“It’s more to raise awareness and to help improve the state of mental wellness on our campus,” she told The Daily.

The plan also says the accessibility and inclusion committee will work to conduct trainings for senators and ASG executive board members focused on “identity-based social inequality.”

SESP junior Matt Herndon, ASG’s vice president for diversity and inclusion, said the committee hopes to expand the training to student group leaders in the future.

“We want it to be mandatory,” he told The Daily.

“We need to target communities that have been historically not accessible for students of marginalized identities … I’d like to see most student groups do it.”

Senators also discussed their goals for the year, and Clarkston encouraged senators to write and introduce their own legislation.

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OATH OF OFFICE Weinberg senior Matt Clarkston, Senate’s interim speaker, swears in new senators Wednesday.

“We don’t want (senators) to be intimidated by introducing your own legislation,” Clarkston said. “You should very much feel empowered to do so.” shanem@u.northwestern.edu

NU to add official study abroad program in Taiwan

By MERCY YANG

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For the first time, Northwestern study abroad locations will expand to Taiwan, with three affiliated programs eligible for financial aid debuting in Fall 2016.

The faculty-led study abroad committee approved affiliations with two Taiwanese universities on Oct. 5 after about two years of planning by the Study Abroad Office, the Asian Studies program and the Department of Asian Languages and Culture. Previously, students studying abroad in Taiwan only attended unaffiliated programs, which are not eligible for financial aid.

Paola Zamperini, DALC chair, said students learning Chinese should explore Taiwan to fully understand the Chinese language and culture.

“I felt very strongly that our majors and minors should have the possibility to study abroad in both mainland China and Taiwan,” she said. “It’s impossible

to know what the adjective ‘Chinese’ means, including language and culture, without going to Taiwan.”

While the two countries use the same spoken language, Taiwan generally uses traditional characters in writing, as does Hong Kong. China, Malaysia and Singapore generally use simplified characters. NU students in Chinese language classes have the option of studying either set of characters.

Alicia Stanley, the associate director of the Study Abroad Office and adviser for its programs in Asia, said the office saw a gap in their program options after a few students expressed interest in Taiwan but ended up attending unaffiliated programs. NU financial aid policy states that students attending unaffiliated programs are not eligible for any kind of type of financial assistance. Students will now be able to use their financial aid awards in Taiwan.

The three programs provide options for Chinese learners of all levels to experience one semester or a full academic year in Taipei, the nation’s capital. The

International Chinese Language Program, hosted by National Taiwan University, provides a full academic year of intensive language training to serious students with at least an intermediate Chinese proficiency.

The two other programs, hosted by National Chengchi University through the Council of International Educational Exchange, offer language training and content courses in business, communications and political economy to students with varying levels of Chinese proficiency.

In the 2014-15 academic year, China was the fourth most popular country chosen by NU study abroad students. Students currently have the option of attending affiliated programs in Beijing, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Hong Kong.

Conducting a thorough review of the programs, Zamperini and Stanley visited Taiwan in April this year. After speaking with faculty and staff, sitting in on classes, visiting housing options and learning about student services, they returned with high

recommendations for all three programs.

“We were thrilled to propose them to the faculty-led study abroad committee,” Stanley said. “Our next step is to formalize our agreements with CIEE and ICLP. They are eager to have Northwestern students who are so brilliant and hardworking.”

Alumna Kayleigh Madjar (Weinberg ’14), who studied abroad in both China and Taiwan as an undergraduate, moved to Taiwan after graduation to pursue a graduate degree at National Taiwan University of Arts.

She encourages students to view Taiwan as a viable option for learning Chinese.

“It’s good to have more options, but more than that, Taiwan is a wonderful place,” Madjar said. “Everything you would want in a country is here in microcosm.”

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The Kunduz Air Strike On Oct. 3, a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, was bombed, killing 12 staff members, 10 patients and wounding an additional 37.

The search continues for more than 20 missing staff members. The U.S. government has switched its narrative of the attack a total of four times. Initially the attack was deemed as possible collateral damage, then dubbed an accident, then blamed on Afghan forces, until the current admission that although Afghan forces requested the strike, the final decision was made by U.S. officials. Gen. John Campbell, the most senior commander in Afghanistan, says

that it is likely these officials “did not follow their own rules” in ordering the strike.

Both U.S. officials and Afghan forces claim the Taliban, which had taken control of the city a week earlier, were using the hospital as a human shield. However, Afghan forces had retaken control of the city days prior. Both Doctors Without Borders and the Taliban, a group that normally is quick to claim terror attacks, state there were no terrorists on the premises. Doctors Without Borders intends to employ a never-used mechanism of the Geneva Convention to launch a fact-finding mission into whether or not the U.S. has committed

When is a human shield a fair justification for killing civilians?

ASHA SAWHNEY

DAILY COLUMNIST

Although U.S. military forces surely recognize that killing civilians, even in times of war, is wrong, they still employ the term “human shield” as a justification for doing just that in Kunduz. This term proves we let the Islamophobia endemic in our culture guide our Middle Eastern policy.

There are only certain people who run the risk of becoming a “human shield.”

For example, when a shooter walks into a school in America, the strategy is always to disarm the shooter and prevent further harm to innocent citizens at all costs.

There is never a question of whether or not to bomb the whole school to prevent the shooter from continuing to attack.

Most people would find this thought absurd and these examples incomparable, and I would challenge them to question why that is. The fact is the United States has invested in a stereotype of the Middle East being a dangerous place that compromises the character of every person we forcefully place into this category. This thinking is most pronounced in CVE (Countering Violent Extremism) programs.

The U.S. government lists a variety of behaviors which may signal a young Muslim is in danger of being radicalized.

Meeting in coffee shops, praying more frequently or quitting smoking are all on this list. I would dare to say that these behaviors would never be considered dangerous if a white Christian engaged in them. In fact, quitting smoking is usually an applauded lifestyle change. We have constructed a narrative in which it takes very little for a Muslim to go from an innocent civilian to a terrorist.

On this campus, I watched as a moderator for a Kellogg entrepreneurship conference ask a young Afghan businessman how he avoided being recruited by extremists.

The Afghan man sat there stunned at the thought that it would have been that easy for him to become a murderer.

So how does this connect to Kunduz?

U.S. foreign policy has effectively decided any person living in the Middle East has the potential to be dangerous. When the United States bombs a hospital, the underlying justification is that patients and terrorists alike pose a danger, and therefore it’s a good thing we took care of it all at once.

This is not mere speculation: In Pakistan and Afghanistan, any men between the age of 20 and 40 The fact is the are valid targets for a U.S. United States drone strike. has invested in a Additionally, stereotype of the young men the only Middle East being aren’t ones affected a dangerous place by this thinkthat compromises ing. Prioritizing our fears that the character of terrorists will every person we claim refugee status over these forcefully place refugees’ basic into this category. human needs has hopelessly backlogged American asylum interviews for women and children.

The bottom line is that Islamophobia guides large parts of our Middle Eastern policy. As long as we let it blur the line between civilian and terrorist, I have little faith that any American intervention in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen or beyond will have a positive impact.

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Asha Sawhney is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached atashasawhney2018@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.

a war crime. Unfortunately for Doctors Without Borders, starting this investigation would require the endorsement of both the U.S. and Afghanistan, and both have shown an unwillingness to do so. Due to its compromised position in the region, Doctors Without Borders has said it will vacate Kunduz, leaving tens of thousands of people without adequate medical care.

On a personal and institutional level, most people can agree that medical care is a human right and that civilians seeking care at a hospital should not be the target of war.

However, we still see civilians in schools, hospitals and their homes killed by drones

on a daily basis. Why does the United States continue to engage in this violence?

How did we develop a narrative that allows human life to be reduced to “collateral damage”?

On a more immediate level, many of the volunteers who provide services in conflict zones are young, and often recent college graduates. As the danger of working in conflict zones increases, should we more closely examine who we send to these areas? How can Northwestern students who want to get services to those who need them most get involved in a meaningful way?

The attack’s impact on sending students to conflict zones ABIGAIL STRATTON

DAILY COLUMNIST

Doctors Without Borders is supposed to be a neutral and safe organization for people to go to when they are in need of medical attention.

Unfortunately, that may not be the case anymore.

On Northwestern’s campus, Doctors Without Borders has an important presence for many students. It has worked with the Global Health Program, Phi Delta Epsilon and MEDLIFE. Doctors Many students consider Doctors Without Without Borders Borders a favorable is a productive option for medical organization, internships and professional medical placeone that ments. Just today, I provides received an email from Northwestern Career necessary Services promoting an services to information session populations like for Doctors Without Borders on Oct. 20. the people of This session is adverKunduz. tised under “Careers in Nonprofit, Government & Policy.”

Despite the risk involved in working with Doctors Without Borders, many students choose to make the personal sacrifice to work in a conflict zone to provide relief. Their sacrifice is admirable, as is the desire to put oneself at risk in order to help others. MSF provides relief for populations that desperately need it. The hospital affected by the bombing in Kunduz was the only of its kind in the northeastern region of Afghanistan, and the surrounding population will almost certainly suffer in the wake of this attack.

In addition to the danger inherent in participating in a program of this nature, students must wonder whether they can make a real, positive difference. Doctors Without Borders offers programs for high school students all the way up to medical retirees. But how much of an impact will a high school student really make? How

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much will a college undergrad make? Granted, most younger participants are not going to war zones like Kunduz, but they still participate in the running of hospitals without necessarily having any prior experience.

Michael Miller (Weinberg ’15) participated in a clinical training program aiding the Ministry of Health in South Sudan that undergoes similar efforts. His perspective on the experience is not remarkably positive, reflecting, “As a 20-year-old attempting to work in a conflict area, I learned quickly that I had no business being there. I believe we can all get sucked into this romanticized idea of helping in the most dangerous places with the greatest need, but the reality is that at our age, we cannot yet provide the quality of services that people deserve.” This is something to consider, especially now that there may be a decline of students willing to risk their own wellbeing now that the United States has performed air strikes. Even so, if, as a student, you are not qualified to administer medical aid in the United States, are you qualified to do it in a conflict area or at a hospital in a third-world country with limited resources?

I do not have the answer to that question.

Despite an observed struggle to make a difference as an undergraduate struggle, I still believe that Doctors Without Borders is a productive organization, one that provides necessary services to populations like the people of Kunduz. My concern is how this bombing will affect the organization as a whole, especially since the program recruits at NU. Hopefully it will continue to do good and productive work and not become a victim of more casualties after this tragedy. NU students have innumerable skills than can make a real impact abroad; I encourage students to look into Doctors Without Borders, but for those who are not prepared to encounter those risks, there are plenty of other ways they can make a difference.

Abigail Stratton is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached at abigailstratton2018@u.northwestern.edu.

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Noah Whinston’s favorite Kanye West album is “Graduation.”

But he said “The College Dropout” was on the queue for his 30-hour drive from Evanston to Los Angeles on Monday.

The choice seems appropriate, given the wouldbe Weinberg senior’s decision to withdraw from Northwestern to take a job on the West Coast, where he’ll work as founding CEO of a new professional gaming franchise.

Whinston, who served as speaker of Associated Student Government Senate until he dropped out, now heads up Immortals, LLC, the first e-sports franchise funded by venture capital and angel investment.

Investors include Steve Kaplan — a coowner of the Memphis Grizzlies — and alternative-rock band Linkin Park.

He will oversee Immortals’ day-today operations, responsible for both working with the team’s coaching staff and satisfying its investors.

“Imagine it like an NFL team,” he said. “On one hand, you have to make sure you’re lining up great players and that you’re winning.

On the other, you have to make sure you’re getting sponsors. A team can win lots of games, but that doesn’t mean it’s financially successful.”

The team will focus first on “League of Legends,” an online multiplayer battle game, before expanding to other platforms.

His move comes as e-sports matures from a small niche market into a multi-milliondollar industry, with more and more mainstream investors looking to get in.

With the industry at a crossroads, Whinston said he wants Immortals to set the standard for other wellfunded franchises, managing it like a professional sports team: Even if a top player leaves, the franchise lives on — just like its name implies.

“The goal is to create an organization that is independently strong, based on its reputation, based on its sponsors,” he said. “The Yankees were still the Yankees when Derek Jeter left.”

The comparison isn’t so off-base: Professional sports and e-sports are growing increasingly similar as the latter’s fan base expands.

Sam Lingle, who has been writing about e-sports for more than a decade, covers it for the Daily Dot, an online news site that has been called the “hometown newspaper” of the Internet.

In the last 10 years, Lingle said, live e-sports events have gone from hotel ballrooms to massive stadiums — and selling them out. In

2013, League of Legends fans filled the 18,000-seat Staples Center in Los Angeles, with tickets selling out in an hour.

“Some spectators wear uniforms for their favorite players, holding up signs just like any other sporting event,” he said.

That interest has drawn backers like Mark Cuban to professional gaming: In June, the Dallas Mavericks owner announced a $7 million investment in an e-sports betting website.

And with how much work e-sport players put into games like “League of Legends,” Lingle said it’s “like a professional sport.”

“You could ask what differentiates Major League Baseball from some kids going outside and playing catch,” he said. “The difference is really that big. Not everyone can pick up a controller or a mouse and keyboard and compete at this level. It takes a lot of skill, hard work, dedication and practice to do this.”

In July, Whinston linked up with Clinton Foy, a venture capitalist based in LA, to line up Immortals’ eventual investors. Foy serves as the team’s chairman.

He said this investment is about more than just a return.

“This is a passion project and the chance to help build something great,” Foy told the Daily Dot. “I’m investing alongside some other passionate fans who want to create not just a strong team but help e-Sports realize its potential as a true international sport.”

Whinston, who helped convince the team’s backers to invest, has long had a gift for rhetoric and persuading his peers. As a senior at Evanston Township High School, he led his speech and debate team to a national championship.

And as a junior at NU, Whinston became an unofficial spokesman for Northwestern Divest, a collection of students who want the University to divest from six corporations the students say violate Palestinian human rights. Whinston helped introduce and promote the resolution that would eventually pass ASG Senate.

“At the end of the day, people are going to listen to arguments that are presented in a good way,” he said. “You can be 100 percent right, but if you aren’t saying it right, it won’t matter.”

He might have a couple more people to convince yet: Whinston said his parents, both college professors, were not completely sold on the move at first.

“But they know that learning for the sake of learning has never been my thing,” he said. “College has been a great experience for me, but those great experiences were all things that happened outside the classroom.”

Weinberg senior Erik Baker said he met Whinston when the two were sophomores at Evanston Township High School and became “fast friends.”

Baker said that although he doesn’t fully understand the industry his friend is entering, he knows Whinston as someone who wants to improve the places he loves.

“This is a world he cares a lot about and he thinks that bringing in this higher level of investment and professional structure can help to ensure everyone is getting their due in the wide world of e-Sports,” Baker said. “He feels like he can really do something to make this industry a better place for everyone involved.”

Whinston, who left for the West Coast on Monday, has lived in Evanston most of his life.

That can make dropping everything and moving to L.A. a little jarring.

“It’s 100 degrees there right now, and I don’t have any shorts,” he said. “But for me, what I’m doing is more important than where I’m doing it.”

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Chamber ensemble to feature Evanston composer

By JENNIFER HEPP

the daily northwestern @jenniferhepp97

Civitas Ensemble will launch its fifth concert season Friday at the Merit School of Music in downtown Chicago and will feature music by three living composers, including 30-year-old Evanston resident Roger Zare.

The Chicago-based chamber ensemble comprises four members, three of whom currently play in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The other is a professor at Roosevelt University. The ensemble was formed in 2011 by CSO violinist Yuan-Qing Yu, CSO clarinetist Lawrie Bloom, CSO cellist Kenneth Olsen and pianist Winston Choi. The group performs an average of 12 to 15 times a year.

“We love working with each other, and starting a group allowed us to work closely together and decide what we want to play,” Yu said. “It’s been absolute fun.”

Featured composer Zare works during the day as a substitute teacher at Evanston Township High School. He also runs his own music publishing company.

Zare’s wife is currently pursuing her doctorate in orchestral conducting at Northwestern under Bienen School of Music Professor Victor Yampolsky.

“We’re a musical family,” Zare said. “It’s a lot

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EVANSTON SOUNDS Civitas Ensemble’s four members are Kenneth Olsen, J. Lawrie Bloom, YuanQing Yu and Winston Choi. The ensemble will perform a composition by Evanston resident Roger Zare.

of fun being able to discuss anything musical and knowing that she’ll be able to engage as equally on the topic as I can.”

While running a chamber music festival last summer, Bloom met Zare and commissioned him to write a piece for the 30th anniversary of that festival.

Zare said he composed his first piece, a 10

minute orchestral work, when he was just 14 years old. Since then, he has written more than 60 compositions. The Sarasota, Florida, native said listening to his first composition being performed by his high school orchestra was an amazing experience.

“I just remember sitting there, feeling the music that I composed, and that’s when I knew

I wanted to keep on doing that forever,” Zare said. “I felt like through music, I could communicate anything I wanted and I had the audience’s attention.”

On Friday, Civitas will perform “Geometries,” Zare’s two-movement piece. When composing this work, Zare said he wanted to take simple geometric shapes and translate them into music.

“I wanted to pick one idea and kind of spin it out among all four instruments of the ensemble,” he said.

Pianist Winston Choi said the piece fits together like clockwork.

“The end result is a really engaging, pleasing, almost hypnotic sound,” Choi said. “We’re basically chasing each other around the same materials. Somebody’s always copying somebody else.”

Zare was able to attend a recent rehearsal and said he was not a bit nervous for the performance.

“It’s amazing to get to work with musicians of that caliber. I’m really looking forward to getting a chance to hear the interpretation and the depth that they can bring to the performance,” he said. “I love hearing my pieces when they get played by different people and just hearing the different kinds of things that people bring to the piece, because then I know they really made it their own.” jenniferhepp2020@u.northwestern.edu

NU alumna directs musical based on ‘American Idiot’

By YAQOOB QASEEM

the daily northwestern @yaqoobqaseem

Lili-Anne Brown (Communication ‘95), artistic director of Bailiwick Chicago, is back on campus for the first time in 20 years to direct Green Day’s “American Idiot.”

The nontraditional musical, based on Green Day’s album of the same title, tells the story of three friends from the suburbs who face disillusionment with America and search for meaning in different ways, said Charlie Oh, a Communication senior who plays Johnny in the show.

“It’s amazing being back at Northwestern,” Brown said. “It gives me a lot of perspective on myself and where I come from and how things have changed and what the next generation of theater artists are looking like.”

Brown said she has been working with college students for about a decade and hopes to help rising theater artists.

“It’s an opportunity to give back, so I’m really relishing that,” Brown said. “There’s a cycle. You get something and hopefully you can give something, and to be able to do it in the exact same spot of course gives one a real feeling of completeness.”

Largely due to the small amount of dialogue, students have faced a significant challenge relating to their characters in the musical, Brown said.

The cast has had to rely on a combination of Brown’s guidance and a poetic analysis of the Green Day lyrics.

“This is a show that asks a lot of you, and Lili-Anne is a really great guide through that,” Oh said. “Her sensibility and temperament as a leader and an artist really help us push ourselves.”

Oh said his character transitions from a suburban resident to This is a show drug addict to recovthat asks a lot of ering addict in the musical — a difficult you, and Lilijourney in the span Anne is a really of 90 minutes. Brown focuses on storytelling great guide in the piece by taking through that. a particular interest in the emotional jourCharlie Oh, neys of the characters, Communication Oh said. senior Brown’s view of the production as an educational experience allows the actors to take risks and grow from their mistakes, said Communication junior Dan Leahy, who plays the role of Tunny.

As an alumna, Brown understands how busy the students are and is able to relate to the actors intellectually, Leahy said.

Brown would like to believe her status as an alumna allows her to understand the situation of the students more effectively, although the

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RISING STAR Charlie Oh, who is hoisted up, and the cast rehearse for “American Idiot.” The show opens on Oct. 16 at the Ethel M. Barber Theater.

University experience has changed since she was a student, she said.

“It’s true, the Northwestern experience was quite different,” Brown said. “I think at its heart it’s the same though. You know, Northwestern sort of has a spirit and a heart that is Northwestern.”

Brown said the songs of the musical were written about the experiences of young people but still apply to multiple generations.

“The questions that are being asked in the show are questions that us, as college students, are asking all the time,” Oh said. “How do we figure out what’s really real and what matters, you know? I think that’s inherently part of our lives as Northwestern students right now.”

“American Idiot” will run from Oct. 16 to Oct. 25 in the Ethel M. Barber Theater. yaqoobqaseem2018@u.northwestern.edu

Flux Dance Project holds classes open to all students

By STAVROS AGORAKIS

the daily northwestern @StavrosAgorakis

Six Northwestern dance majors have created a dance group open to all students, regardless of major or dance experience, who want to explore contemporary, jazz and improv styles.

Flux Dance Project was approved as a student group by the Center for Student Involvement during Spring Quarter, after six freshman Communication students decided to provide an opportunity for more people to get together without the commitment a club demands. They now hold weekly open classes at Henry Crown Sports Pavilion.

Before starting the group, the students held frequent “dance parties” to teach each other dance combinations. They later decided to make the parties official by creating Flux.

“We thought it would be fun if we made it more of an organized thing and get more people to join us,” said Communication sophomore Lauryn Schmelzer, one of the group’s founding members. “A huge part of why we started the group is so it could be what we wanted it to be — and what we wanted was to have an open space to dance.”

Classes last an hour and are offered on Thursdays from 7 to 8 p.m. Each class is divided into three sections: warm-ups and conditioning, improvisation and cool-down and yoga.

Students who attend classes regularly can teach as well, an interactive component Flux encourages.

Schmelzer said the wide range of styles they cover, including improvisation and choreography, will attract more students.

“During our first class this year, we had a lot of people show up,” Schmelzer said. “It was really great to go from just a couple of friends in the studio together (to extending the opportunity) to so many

people.”

Communication sophomore Alana Rosenbloom, a founding member of the group, said Flux hopes to draw students interested in dancing who don’t want to commit as much time as they would with more established dance groups. She also wants to draw students who need a place to relieve stress, adding that NU students may often be overwhelmed with academics, clubs and internships.

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JUST DANCE Dancers from Flux Dance Project Alana Rosenbloom, Katie Ippolito, Lauryn Schmelzer and Anna Celeste Harrer dance and take pictures on the Lakefill. Flux holds weekly open classes.

Medill freshman Kaitlyn Budrow is a student with a background in dance who is interested in attending the Flux classes. She said she likes the idea that little commitment is necessary since she does not plan on pursuing dance professionally.

Anyone is welcome to participate in the classes, as the organizers said they want them to be as inclusive as possible.

“We have a lot of people who have literally never danced at all in their whole lives and randomly show up,” said Communication sophomore Caroline Spikner, another founding member. “This is, in my opinion, the easiest way to learn to dance without committing to anything on campus.”

Flux members also volunteered at the McGaw YMCA in Evanston, helping out with hour-long afterschool programs twice a week. These were aimed toward teaching young girls basic choreography and improvisation.

“It’s definitely something that is continuing,” Spikner said. “We did it last Spring Quarter and I think we’re probably going to do it this spring as well.”

Although Flux mainly focuses on open classes, future plans include a wider range of dance styles and possible collaboration with students from the Department of Radio, Television and Film who are interested in filming dance routines and combinations.

“We really want to get more people involved and more people teaching us,” Rosenbloom said. stavrosagorakis2019@u.northwestern.edu

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2015

JTE tackles sexuality head on in new show, ‘Cock’

By KRISH LANGALA

the daily northwestern

The spectrum of sexuality takes center stage in the Jewish Theater Ensemble’s new fall production, “Cock,” running this weekend in Shanley Pavilion.

The show, by playwright Mike Bartlett, follows the main character, John, as he struggles to reconcile his feelings for his new female lover with his love for his long-term boyfriend. The issue of sexual identity was part of what attracted Communication junior Joan Sergay to direct the show.

“The show is inherIt was definitely ently political, without making a huge political awkward, statement,” Sergay said. like talking to “It’s about sexuality and storeowners in what it means to label Evanston and your own sexuality and what it means for others convincing to label your sexuality.”

Communication them that a senior Drew Guerra, who show called plays the father of John’s ‘Cock’ was boyfriend, says “Cock” is different than other actually a shows centered around legitimate social issues.

“A lot of shows deal production with the trials and tribNicole Bauke, ulations of being gay,” producer Guerra said. “But having it where someone does legitimately fall in between just gay and straight on that scale and they are represented as a real person is really terrific.”

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The depiction of sexuality as a spectrum is not the only thing that makes “Cock” a unique show.

Cordelia Dewdney, a Communication senior who plays the main character’s girlfriend, says Bartlett’s decision to omit traditional stage directions from the script presented an interesting challenge.

“It’s a bit different with the blocking, because there’s this balance between literal and metaphorical, because it’s in the round and it’s so intimate,” Dewdney said. “It’s like an obstacle course — it’s fun and you get through it.”

While the eccentricities of “Cock” attracted the cast and crew, they proved a challenge for Communication sophomore Nicole Bauke. As producer, Bauke was in charge of shepherding the production to completion, which meant raising money from local businesses.

“It was definitely awkward, like talking to storeowners in Evanston and convincing them that a show called ‘Cock’ was actually a legitimate production with a positive message,” Bauke said.

The show’s provocative title proved awkward for cast members who wanted to tell their family about the show.

“We’ve jokingly been calling it ‘Rooster’ around our grandparents, so every time I’m with my grandmother, I’m like, ‘You’re coming to ‘Rooster,’ right?’”

Guerra said.

Despite the unique style and the difficult topics, Sergay said she believes the show still has broad appeal.

“The show has something to say to everyone,” Sergay said. “It really touches on what it means to love and what it means to fight for the people we love. It’s about how our relationships define our identity — who we are and also who we want to be.” shivkrishlingala2018@u.northwestern.edu

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EXPLORING SEXUALITY Reed Lancaster plays the role of John in Jewish Theatre Ensemble’s fall production, “Cock.” The show opens on Oct. 15 at the Shanley Pavilion.

NU student stars in comedic thriller at Goodman Theatre

By AMANDA SVACHULA

the daily northwestern @amandasvachula

Source: Liz Lauren

COMEDY AT THE GOODMAN Jordan Brodess and Olivia Cygan act in “Feathers and Teeth.”

Cygan, a Communication senior, plays the lead role of Chris in the show.

A strong female protagonist drew Communication senior Olivia Cygan to the production of the funny thriller “Feathers and Teeth,” at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

“I read the script and thought it was an unusually wonderful role for a woman,” said Cygan, who plays Chris, the female protagonist. “She’s got strands from the best Shakespearean and Greek woman characters, but she’s this 1978 teenager.”

“Feathers and Teeth” is a quirky show that combines humor from 1970s horror movies and thrilling emotional drama to tell the story of a family hit by tragedy. The play runs at the Goodman Theatre through Sunday.

As both a comedy and a thriller, the production pushes the boundaries of traditional theater genres.

“It’s kind of creating a new genre in theater,” said Northwestern Prof. Henry Godinez, the show’s director. “Its pretty wacky, but at the center it has a beautiful story about grief and loss and how we deal with grief.”

The plot follows Cygan’s character, Chris, as she deals with the loss of her mother. Two months after her mother dies, a nurse moves into her home to live with her father. Once the woman moves in, strange events like the appearance of a mysterious creature begin to occur, and the show spirals into a horror story.

For Cygan, Chris is a character unlike any other she has ever played.

“She’s very different than other characters I’ve played, as I’ve played a fair amount of older characters,” Cygan said. “She’s one of the bravest characters I’ve ever played. The biggest challenge was kind of figuring out

who she was before her tragedy happened.”

Besides the challenge of playing a new charactertype, Cygan has to balance college and performing eight shows a week, which is why she has been taking classes part time. The show rehearsed six days a week for four weeks, with most of the rehearsal process happening before the academic year started.

“I would not be getting to do this if I weren’t at Northwestern and if I hadn’t met so many incredible, kind teachers and mentors here,” Cygan said.

“Feathers and Teeth” features four characters, and a Foley artist, Carolyn Hoerdemann, who creates live sound effects for the show.

“It goes back to the early days of radio and film,” Godinez said. “(Hoerdemann)’s in a little suspended cage to the side of the set so you can see her. She makes the sounds of the creatures using three different microphones and a bunch of different materials and instruments.”

Along with the Foley artist, the show utilizes sound by incorporating rock ‘n’ roll music by bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and the Grateful Dead.

Visually, the show further takes on elements of a 1970s horror film, with shadow puppet animations and a lot of blood.

“There are a lot of lights and sounds and physical effects as well,” said Chicago actor Eric Slater, who plays Chris’ father. “There’s quite a bit of blood. That is very difficult because, blood being what it is, even stage blood gets everywhere.”

Godinez encourages students to see the show because of its unique aspects.

“We’ve found that young students enjoy it,” he said.

“It’s not like what you think theater is. It’s fun, fastpaced and suspenseful.” amandasvachula2018@u.northwestern.edu

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LISTENING IN Jamie Washington, known on campus for presenting the diversity and inclusion Essential NU, facilitated the first two listening sessions on the future of the Black House and the Multicultural Center. About 50 people attended the second session Wednesday evening.

Both administrators apologized for what they said was a “misstep.” Telles-Irvin said she has learned about the Black House’s significance through conversations with alumni and students.

“I do hope that by having an open and honest discussion we may experience movement in a direction that will continue to honor the history and significance of the Black House and at the same time serve the needs of our current students,” she said.

Brown-Henderson acknowledged the timing of the proposed moves of her office and four other CIC staffers’ offices into the Black House was “not ideal.” She then apologized to the audience for the miscommunication during this summer’s decisionmaking process regarding the facilities, as students and alumni alike have said they were not consulted or involved in the process.

“Our major misstep was insufficient communication with you, which placed each of you in a position to have to assume our intentions,” she said.

“In a time when blackness is under constant attack, I understand how our miscommunication elicited distrust and suspicion.”

She praised alumni and students who raised their voices against the changes and said she understood the Black House is a “sacred space” for black students as a “symbol of the fight for equity” on campus.

Brown-Henderson also explained the proposed move came after nine months of “communicating with the Northwestern student, alumni, faculty and staff communities about the restructuring of CIC.”

Before opening the floor for student and alumni voices, Brown-Henderson invited black students and alumni to participate, as well as members of other minority groups on campus who saw their spaces jeopardized by these changes to the Black House and Multicultural Center.

“I invite the students who also care about the (Multicultural Center) to this conversation,” she said.

Many of the students who spoke during the second session talked about their experiences in the Black House, saying it is a safe space for them and that its community positively affected their NU experiences.

Weinberg sophomore Jade Mitchell said she was swayed to pick NU over a historically black college after she visited the Black House and saw its community. She said people at the Black House have her best interests in mind.

“I don’t want that the Black House just becomes another building on Sheridan,” she said. “That’s actually gonna make me kind of regret coming here, if I’m gonna lose the support that I could’ve gotten from another institution.”

Lynette Boone (Medill ‘79) said the current students’ message is not much different than the one students had when she attended NU, and emphasized the importance of the Black House not only in a student’s life at NU but also beyond graduation.

“I’m a product of corporate America and what Northwestern won’t teach you … is how to be an African American in corporate America,” she said.

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REQUIRED READING Author Thomas King, who wrote this year’s One Book One Northwestern selection, speaks at Fisk Hall on Wednesday.

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occupation on my own family members and friends in Palestine,” said Weinberg junior Ruba Assaf, a member of SJP. “This event especially is to commemorate lives that have been lost due to occupation and as a result of an oppressive regime.”

There are conflicting reports about events leading up to the video. The viral video reenacted at the event depicts 13-year-old Ahmed Manasra sprawled bent-legged on the pavement of Jerusalem according to The New York Times, NBC News and USA Today. In the video filmed Monday, Israeli police officers circle the boy’s body, occasionally nudging him and shooing away spectators, including at least one who yells for his death, the three news sites reported.

Israeli police said the boy had stabbed two Israeli citizens prior to being shot, according to NBC News, which also reported officials have confirmed Manasra is still alive.

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Jostens, based in suburban Minneapolis, is the main operating unit of Visant Holding Corp., which

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King pointed to British Columbia, where members of tribes are squabbling over land with supporters of the Keystone Pipeline.

King did not address how he thinks the University should treat John Evans, one of the University’s founders. Evans was the governor of the Colorado during the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864, in which U.S. soldiers attacked a Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment and killed about 150 people, most of them women and children. However, the University’s John Evans Study Committee concluded he was not directly involved in the massacre, though NU

ignored his moral failures both before and after the Sand Creek.

Ghiglione said facilitating a campus-wide discussion about Evans is one of One Book’s programming goals for this year. “(Evans’) name is on a lot of things around campus,” Ghiglione told The Daily. “So how do we treat him today? That’s something (the University) has to figure out.”

Many Evanston residents attended the event, One Book fellow Melody Song said.

“I think it was really cool that we reached the community at large,” the Weinberg senior and former Daily staffer said. “It wasn’t just students.” jeremymargolis2019@u.northwestern.edu

At the event, one student dressed in a similar outfit to Manasra’s in the video — black shirt, jeans and red-checkered keffiyeh — lay on the ground near The Rock as SJP members jeered and called for his death. In the background, other members either clad in normal clothes or dressed to represent Israel Defense Forces held signs listing numbers of Palestinian casualties and shouted: “Thirty Palestinians have been killed in the past two weeks!”

Another group of students is hosting a solidarity event Thursday in support of Israel.

Weinberg sophomore Inbal Hirschmann and McCormick junior Charles Tokowitz created a Facebook event Wednesday inviting students to wear a blue shirt to the Arch on Thursday to take a group photo with the flag of Israel. The event was created in response to SJP’s demonstration, Hirschmann said, and is meant to pay homage to Israeli families affected by stabbings and other assaults in the past two weeks. The Facebook page lists examples, saying 19 Israelis were attacked.

Hirschmann said she hopes her event will work toward peace and that all students are welcome to come and commemorate innocent civilian lives lost on both sides.

“Northwestern is a campus that is supposed to promote open conversation and open dialogue, and Charlie and I feel this (SJP) event is absolutely not productive,” Hirschmann said. “I know a lot of Israelis and Jews on campus feel so very uncomfortable with this event because they feel personally attacked.”

Both Hirschmann and Assaf said they condemn any civilian death, no matter what side of the conflict. However, Hirschmann said she found SJP’s event did not properly distinguish between innocent civilians and people who were killed for attacking Israelis.

“There have been Palestinian terrorist lives lost as well,” Hirschmann said. “We are by no means ignoring Palestinians lost. We 100 percent sympathize with those who lost families.

It’s difficult to distinguish between those people and people who weren’t innocent.”

Weinberg freshman Ennis Hajyousif acted as Manasra for a duration of the event. The SJP member said he played the role of the injured boy to give the Palestinians a voice.

“Not even as a Palestinian but as a Muslim, or as a human, seeing someone suffering like that while people stand there and yell at you, like, ‘Die, son of a bitch, die,’ that’s terrible,” he said.

The demonstration was also meant to reach beyond just the Palestinian community at NU, Assaf said. She said she believes the struggle for liberation is not singular to Palestinians — it affects the rest of the world too.

“It’s different when you’re seeing a peer or a classmate lying in the middle of the square by The Rock, that place you pass by to go to class every day,” Assaf said. “You’re hearing those words out loud, but when you see someone yelling at a dying person, “Die son of a bitch, die,’ you can’t help but feel like it would reach people more.”

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Jostens has been led since the start of last year by Chuck Mooty, a well-known Minnesota business leader who was previously chief of Dairy Queen, Fairview Health Services and Faribault Woolen Mills.

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LAS VEGAS — After a months-long slide, Hillary Clinton heads into fall with a new-found burst of energy thanks to her standout performance at the first Democratic debate.

She’ll need it as she still faces many critical tests on the road to the presidential nomination.

With more than three months before the first state kicks off the nominating process, Clinton still has to out-hustle chief competitor Bernie Sanders for money, still has to testify before Congress on the fatal Benghazi attacks, still has five more debates with her Democratic rivals, and still has to endure an ongoing FBI inquiry into her handling of sensitive information on a private email system while secretary of state.

Still, her confident turn on the stage at the Las Vegas debate will calm nervous supporters who had grown anxious with each new poll and send a strong message to Vice President Joe Biden, who is considering jumping into the race.

“I am feeling really lucky in Last Vegas,” she said during a visit Wednesday to a union hall in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson.

“Last night was a good night. Today is just as good,” she added picking up the endorsement of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.

She declined to comment on whether her strong debate showing could keep Biden out of the race.

“I’m going to continue to run my campaign and make my case for my candidacy,” she told reporters.

Clinton said she and Biden were friends, and would not comment on whether he should run. “It’s not my place to do so,” she said.

“She has the opportunity to take back the momentum,” said John Hudak, a fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, a centerleft policy research center. “She has the opportunity to take back the media conversation. She has the opportunity to take back her campaign.”

Immediately after the debate, a very energized and enthusiastic Clinton spoke to a loud crowd of cheering supporters at the Wynn, the Las Vegas hotel and casino where the debate was held.

“Thanks each and every one of you,” she said.

“We are going to win!”

On Wednesday, Clinton stopped by a training center for painters in nearby Henderson, Nev., and later planned to headline a rally in Las Vegas.

Clinton’s supporters couldn’t help but express their excitement after a summer filled with new revelations about her email use and growing support for Sanders, who has garnered what can only be called an intense following across the nation.

But they were quick to say that Clinton has several more significant hurdles in the coming weeks and months.

“She absolutely cannot declare victory,” said Donald Fowler, a former Democratic National Committee chairman who is close to the Clintons. “She absolutely has to work hard.”

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The first test comes Thursday. Clinton and Sanders must inform the Federal Election Commission how much they raised in the previous three months.

Early estimates had Clinton only barely out-raising Sanders, $28 million to $26 million, in July, August and September, surprising given her vast network built over three decades of public life.

Next week, she will appear before a House committee to answer questions about her role in the fatal 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, as well as about her exclusive use of a personal email account routed through a private server at her Chappaqua, N.Y., house for all four years she served as secretary of state.

Though she benefited when House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suggested the Republican inquiry was political, indicating Clinton’s poll numbers were dropping in part because of the Republican-led inquiry, the issue has harmed her standing in the polls, where more voters say Clinton is not trustworthy, in part, because of the email controversy.

Also, the FBI is looking into the unusual email setup, and the State Department is releasing her emails monthly in response to a lawsuit over an unanswered public records request, prompting questions about her judgment and the motive for actions that potentially led to national security risks.

The first debate provided a national stage for Clinton to apologize to Americans for using the email system as well as to show her off her depth of experience on the issues and explain her recent policy shifts.

She not only defended herself against criticism from all opponents, including her vote to go to war in Iraq, she unexpectedly shifted her role to the aggressor after largely ignoring the other Democrats for months. She tried to show she could relate to Americans, speaking about members of her family, including her grandfather, mother and granddaughter. And she turned at least three questions into attacks on Republicans, coming across as a possible stronger general election candidate who could unite the party.

“She made a compelling case for why she would make the strongest candidate and, frankly, she made the compelling case for why she’s the candidate Republicans fear the most,” said Antonio Villaraigosa, a former mayor of Los Angeles and a Clinton supporter.

After the debate, even Sanders’ campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, told reporters that the best line of the entire debate was the one uttered by Sanders defending Clinton.

“The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails,” Sanders said. “Enough of the emails! Let’s talk about the real issues facing America.”

He’ll still get more chances to talk about those issues, and the way he differs from Clinton. Democrats are scheduled to debate at least five more times between now and March.

WASHINGTON — Student loan servicing companies are coming under fire by regulators for the second time in two months.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a report Wednesday criticizing student loan servicing companies, which are contracted to handle details like collecting monthly payments, for not helping borrowers get into plans that make it easier to repay loans.

The agency’s student loan ombudsman found that in particular, borrowers with older federal student loans may be more heavily affected by loan servicing problems, although complaints about servicing are widespread.

In September, after analyzing 30,000 public comments that showed companies using “a wide range of sloppy, patchwork practices that can create obstacles to repayment, raise costs, cause distress and contribute to driving struggling borrowers to default,” the bureau announced plans to explore industry-wide regulations.

More than 25 percent of all student loan borrowers were behind or defaulting on their loans, according to the September report, while Wednesday’s shows that 30 percent of borrowers with Federal Family Education Loan Program loans are behind.

Both reports point to problems like paperwork processing delays, inconsistent instructions from loan servicers and difficulty enrolling in incomedriven repayment plans as contributing to struggling borrowers’ challenges.

Natalia Abrams, executive director of Student Debt Crisis, a nonprofit group that pushes for changes in how education is financed, said loan servicing companies “are not alerting the student loan borrowers of all of their options if they run into trouble.”

In a survey of 3,000 borrowers done by the group, almost 60 percent said their loan servicer did not inform them of federal programs to help repay their loan, even though they were eligible to apply for them, Abrams said. Borrowers also complained of loan servicers processing payments late, incorrectly reporting credit scores and losing information.

Although graduated students are not typically referred back to their schools for help with loans, said Anna Griswold, executive director for student aid at Pennsylvania State University, she has heard of problems with servicers from both struggling borrowers and those just trying to pay down their principles early.

Griswold said students receive guidance from their school on loans when they graduate, but servicers have direct access to the borrowers for the rest of their repayment.

“Students are given packets of information when they leave school about their options in loan repayments. Some study these carefully and others may not,” she said in an email. “However, when

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a servicer first sees that a borrower is struggling (misses a payment), they are not always proactive in helping the borrower or moving them to a different payment plan.”

Despite the Education Department’s requirement that students get counseling when they take out loans and when they graduate, there is still a lack of information and they “don’t know their options,” said Sheelu Surender, director of financial aid at Wichita State University.

“There are so many different types of repayment programs out there,” she said.

The first income-driven repayment plan was created in 2007, and payment plans have become more complicated since, evolving with the Pay as You Earn program from the Department of Education, changes from Congress and the White House.

The complexities of laws around student debt contribute to the lack of information about federal repayment programs, said Beth Akers, a fellow at the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.

“It’s easy to pick on the servicers for doing a bad job, but it kind of begs the question, why is it so difficult for students to navigate the system on their own in the first place?” she said. “It’s just this building up of incremental policy changes that have led to the building of this complex and complicated set of repayment options for borrowers.”

In contrast to legal complexities, there are only a handful of companies that service student loans.

For federal loans taken out through the Education Department, there are only 10 companies that do the job.

Servicers’ biggest problem is borrowers who aren’t engaged, said John Remondi, president and CEO of Navient, one of the largest loan servicers, which used to be affiliated with Sallie Mae, a publicly traded corporation involved in the student loan business.

“Ninety percent of the defaults that we see off of our servicing platform each year are from customers who had zero contact with us during the 12 months that it takes to default,” he said in a September statement at a Deutsche Bank conference. “During that time frame, we would typically attempt to connect with that customer 300 times through mail, phone calls, text messages or emails.”

In July, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau charged Discover Bank $18.5 million for illegal student loan servicing practices, like overstating how much was due on bills and calling consumers early in the morning and late at night to collect debts.

A timeline for new rules isn’t specified yet, but the report recommends policy actions like incentivizing servicing companies to enroll borrowers in federal student loans’ flexible repayment options, which would increase their motivation to fit borrowers into the best plans.

— Ali Montag (McClatchy Washington Bureau)

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2015

Sustainability program offers free rain barrels

By AMANDA SVACHULA

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Aldermen approved Monday a new sustainability program that makes available free rain barrels for residents to collect and reuse rainwater.

The initiative, organized with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, distributes free 55-gallon barrels to Evanston residents to conserve water, reduce flooding and decrease rainwater overflow in sewage systems. The captured water is commonly used to water yards, plants and gardens.

Ald. Brian Miller (9th) said while many Evanston residents already use rain barrels in their yards, the new program is likely to increase the use of barrels, saving the city more water. When residents use rainwater to water their lawns or wash their cars, they cut out the step of treating the water and conserve resources from the city’s water plant, Miller said.

“It’s a really great program for folks who like to think about reusing things,” said Kumar Jensen, an Evanston sustainability fellow. “It’s a great opportunity, and it’s a low-tech solution for re-using water.”

By encouraging residents to capture rainwater on their properties and to use it for other purposes, the city will also see a decrease in the amount of storm water overflow, Jensen said.

Many areas of Evanston use combined sewage overflow systems, which collect and transport both rainwater and sewage, he said.

“If you have a lot of rain ending up there, it can overflow and you can get raw sewage overflow,” he added.

The program also aims to reduce the spread of pesticides in local soil as the rain barrels collect water before it carries chemicals across the ground.

Officials were able to bring the program to the city because the MWRD revised its eligibility requirements, making all towns in Cook County eligible, Jensen said.

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The MWRD does not charge for participation in the program for the order and delivery of rain barrels. The program is open to residential property owners, but occupants of commercial can purchase rain barrels through the MWRD website.

To receive a rain barrel, residents can fill out an application on the city’s website. Once Evanston’s Office of Sustainability reviews the applications, rain barrels and instructions for installation will be delivered to residences.

The rain barrels program is a good option for residents looking to live more sustainable lifestyles, Jensen said.

Although Miller said the lawn of his townhouse is too small to warrant applying for a rain barrel, he encourages other residents to consider the program to decrease their individual footprint as well as strengthen the city’s sustainability efforts.

Julia Jacobs contributed reporting. amandasvachula2018@u.northwestern.edu

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SILVER LINING Ald. Brian Miller (9th) told The Daily that the city’s new sustainability program offering free rain barrels to residents would help conserve the water that the city treats at its plant. City Council approved the program at Monday’s meeting.

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By CHARLOTTE VAZIRI

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No. 24 Northwestern (10-3-2, 4-2-1 Big Ten) is looking for a victory to kickstart a winning streak as it faces against conference foe Nebraska (5-6-2, 1-4-2 Big Ten) at Toyota Park on Thursday at 7 p.m.

The Cats snapped their two-game losing streak after defeating Michigan State 1-0 last Sunday in East Lansing.

“It was difficult for us after losing two games. It put a dent in our confidence,” coach Michael Moynihan said. “But to come back and get a result on the road against Michigan State… even without key starters, brings the confidence levels up. Now we want to reassert ourselves.”

Based on the Big Ten rankings, NU should be able to “reassert” itself. The Cats check in at at No. 5, while the Cornhuskers are No. 11.

The NSCAA Coaches Poll further punctuates the disparity between these teams as it slates NU at No. 24, while leaving Nebraska unranked.

However, the water becomes murky when the formula-based poll, RPI, is checked. RPI is a calculated ranking system that takes into account factors such as strength of schedule, opponents’ strength of schedule and winning percentage.

A loss to Penn State and a tie against Missouri, teams the Cornhuskers tied and beat respectively, have the Cats looking like equals to Nebraska in RPI. NU sits at 34 and the Cornhuskers are currently 35.

“It’s going to be a tough one for us,” Moynihan said. “Over the last couple of years it has always been interesting. One year, we outshout them by a huge margin, yet, they ended up winning the game. They play a very different system, which causes a lot of teams problems. They are hardworking and definitely not a team to take lightly.”

Statistically however, it is hard

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Redshirt sophomore Maddie Lipp and true sophomore Alex Chatt came away as the champions in the consolation draw at the Riviera Women’s All-American Tennis Championships.

Among other teams, the duo faced doubles tandems from Texas A&M, USC, Nevada and Oklahoma State. On the first day of the tournament, Chatt and Lipp fell 8-4 against an Auburn duo that ended up being eliminated in the next round. Both Northwestern players wanted another shot at that first match.

“We wish we could redo our first match,” Lipp said. “We learned a lot, (coach Claire Pollard) coached us well on positioning. In the first match we were a little rusty I would say. A huge improvement and progression was shown by the end of the tournament.”

That first match sparked a streak of wins to the consolation title. “(Pollard) put in our minds that we’ve been working hard and that we’ve been training for this moment,” Chatt said. “It’s only once a year, it’s not duel match where you have it every weekend so we just wanted to put everything on the line.”

Lipp, especially, has been putting everything on the line since

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LOOKING FOR VICTORY Junior Addie Steiner chases down the ball. Steiner is leading the Cats in both goals and assists so far this year and will be needed to produce against a stout Nebraska defense.

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to take Nebraska too seriously.

Although the Cornhuskers’ goalkeeper, Erika Johnson, is fifth in the Big Ten in saves, Nebraska’s offense is far from formidable.

The team’s top scorer and assister is defender Jaylyn Odermann, who ranks 11th in the conference in goals scored.

With NU’s sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Clem ranking second in the conference in shutouts with nine, and third in save percentage, it is hard to imagine Nebraska putting

on a scoring clinic.

But injuries have the Cats ready to treat the Cornhuskers like an offensive juggernaut.

“Our defense will have to be packed in tight, communicate, and due to all the injuries in the back line, the new girls need to be versed on the game plan,” Clem said. “That is what worked against Michigan State, so we hope to carry that over to this game.”

With the defense playing back, NU will rely heavily on junior forward Addie Steiner and senior midfielders Nandi Mehta and Niki Sebo to produce on offense.

The three have been sparks for the Cats’ attack this season and understand that when the chances

present themselves, they need to make Nebraska pay.

“We need to capitalize on opportunities,” Steiner said. “ If we only have a few shots, we need to finish, or at least get them on frame.”

Mehta, Sebo and Steiner are all capable of creating chances for themselves, and that trifecta may be the only thing that separates NU’s attack from the Cornhuskers’.

With both teams scoring at almost an identical pace so far this season, the slightest advantage in the opposing third could mean victory.

“Whoever gets on their front foot first will take ownership of the game.” Moynihan said. charlottevaziri2014@u.northwestern.edu

Cats win consolation title at All-Americans

By MIKE MARUT

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the summer.

She is coming back from a season-long injury, and it is not easy.

Pollard said Lipp has put tennis above everything else other than her academics. What Lipp learned this week: She and the team have to work harder.

“It’s really eye-opening for us, the team,” Lipp said. “The top collegiate players in California showed us that, when you think you’ve worked really hard, you have to work way harder because there are girls who are so good. It was really good to see the best of the best.”

For Lipp’s partner, Chatt, having Lipp back since the summer has proven extremely beneficial compared to last year. Last season, Chatt teamed with then senior Lok Sze Leung.

“It’s nice knowing your partner at the very beginning of the year,” Chatt said. “Last year we were experimenting until the last minute and Lok Sze and I finally figured each other out. It’s nice that Maddie and I got a fresh start in the summer and now we can continue for the entire year.”

Currently, the tandem is ranked No. 34 in the preseason doubles rankings. With the doubles point so crucial to a Cats victory, NU will need to make all the progress it can on the doubles front. michaelmarut2016@u.northwestern.edu

Northwestern announced Monday that former running back Darnell Autry, a key member of the 1995 team that won the Big Ten and went on to play in the Rose Bowl, will be the grand marshal for the annual homecoming parade. His selection is part of an effort — complete with throwback jerseys — to honor that iconic season during its 20th anniversary.

Autry, who went on to play in the NFL, stands as one of the Wildcats’ alltime great players and someone without whom NU could not have made its historic run. But is he the best ball carrier to ever wear the purple-and-white? Ahead of Saturday’s homecoming matchup with Iowa, a game that features two running backs ranked in the top 10 nationally in rushing attempts this season, we take a look back and rank the Cats’ best.

5. Venric Mark, 2010-2013

It says quite a bit about NU’s scant running back tradition that Mark is on this list, but he makes the cut because of how much he excelled as a junior in 2012. Mark ran for 1,366 yards on just 226 carries and also caught 20 passes for 104 yards, accounting for 13 total touchdowns from scrimmage. But where he really excelled was as a punt returner, averaging 19 yards on 15 returns throughout the season and running two back for touchdowns. His efforts as a return specialist were enough to earn him a first-team All American nod.

4. Justin Jackson, 2014-

It’s crazy to have a player in his true sophomore year on the list, but Jackson has already earned the spot. Last year, Jackson took over for a suddenly departed Mark — he was suspended the first two games of the season and subsequently transferred — and nearly erased his memory by running for 1,187 yards and 10 touchdowns. So far this season he’s followed that effort by being the Cats’ workhorse, carrying the ball an FBSleading 150 times over six games.

3. Tyrell Sutton, 2005-2008

Sutton was NU’s first freshman running back to exceed 1,000 yards in a season, smashing the mark by carrying 250 times for 1,474 yards. His role as a feature back declined later in his career, with Sutton just eking out 1,000 yards his sophomore season and never surpassing the mark again, but he remained consistent as a receiver, catching a total of 149 passes for 1,244 yards over his career.

2. Darnell Autry, 1994-1996

Though he played just three seasons, Autry ranks second because of how vital he was to the teams that won the 1995 and 1996 Big Ten championships. His 387 carries in 1995 ranked first in the country, and his 1,785 yards that season ranks as the second best year among all NU running backs. Despite his abbreviated career, Autry remains the thirdleading rusher in Cats’ history.

1. Damien Anderson, 19982001

Women’s Tennis Daily file photo by Sean Su

IT TAKES TWO Junior Brooke Rischbieth and sophomore Alex Chatt discuss strategy. Chatt worked with a few different doubles partners last year, but redshirt sophomore Maddie Lipp looks to be her partner for this season.

Nobody beats Anderson in terms of statistical achievement. His 2000 season is the best all-time by an NU rusher, with Anderson carrying 311 times for a staggering 2,063 yards and touchdowns.

He also holds the Cats’ career records for rushing yards and rushing touchdowns, with 4,485 and 38, respectively. He never played in a Rose Bowl but stands as the best running back to play at NU.

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