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NU alum Peter Spears reflects on impact of ‘Call Me By Your Name’

Cafe Coralie opens on Howard Street

Second cafe location replaces city police outpost

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Linguistics Prof. Jennifer Cole speaks at Wednesday’s Faculty Senate meeting. Faculty discussed proposed updates to the University’s sexual misconduct policy.

Faculty review misconduct policy Senate proposes updates to University’s sexual misconduct changes

By EMILY CHAIET

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Linguistics Prof. Jennifer Cole led a discussion about Faculty Senate’s proposed updates to Northwestern’s sexual misconduct policy at a meeting on Wednesday.

After the policy was recently updated, administrators called for feedback from students and other University community members in January regarding the changes, which included modifying the definitions of stalking and dating or domestic violence. The policy

currently states that NU prohibits all forms of sexual misconduct, including but not limited to sexual assault, sexual exploitation, dating or domestic violence and sexual harassment.

“Such conduct violates the principles and values of our institution and disrupts the living, learning and working environment for students, faculty staff and other community members,” Cole said.

Faculty Senate President and Communication Prof. Robert Hariman said they discussed the policy so that the administrative team can make further revisions to the proposal before bringing it

to administration. It will be discussed again at the next Faculty Senate meeting, he added.

The proposal outlines the purpose of the sexual misconduct policy, which is “to foster an environment in which all members of the campus community are safe, secure and free from sexual misconduct of any form,” Cole said.

It also recommends a more explicit response to sexual misconduct that occurs outside of the United States, such as in study abroad programs. The policy clarifies that if an incident of sexual misconduct occurs between members of the NU community in a different country, those people

still have access to NU resources.

“For individuals outside of the United States, they are subject to the laws of that land as far as sexual misconduct goes,” Cole told The Daily. “(But) Northwestern University provides any kind of support or guidance services for an individual on the Northwestern campus, so similar support services should be extended to the fullest extent possible.”

The updated proposal is more specific about the services the University offers in cases of sexual misconduct. Cole said there should be greater uniformity in » See FACULTY, page 6

The second Evanston Patisserie Coralie location, Cafe Coralie, opened Feb. 9 on Howard Street, taking the place of a former Evanston Police outpost.

The cafe — located at 633 Howard St. — is an extension of the first, director of operations Fiona Lazar said. The larger space allowed them to add more couches and create a “more luxurious feel.” She said other than size, the cafe has the same interior aesthetic and menu as the patisserie.

Both locations offer traditional French pastries, the “largest selection” of macarons in the Chicago area as well as quiches and sandwiches, according to their website.

The cafe also has a larger kitchen than the other location, allowing owner Pascal Berthoumieux to form a new business model, said economic development manager Paul Zalmezak. Lazar said the added kitchen space makes it easier for the business to sell large quantities of macarons to hotels downtown, country clubs and other cafes in the area.

“Our kitchen in Patisserie Coralie just didn’t provide space to do anything like that so this

is an opportunity to expand,” Lazar said.

Berthoumieux formerly owned a business now called Z Breakfast Club, located at 1512 Sherman Ave., and owned Bistro Bordeaux, a restaurant that closed last spring after seven years in business. At the time of the closing, Berthoumieux said he hoped to open a new Coralie location.

Zalmezak said Berthoumieux has been trying to expand his production to reach more customers than just those he serves at the patisserie.

Zalmezak added that the cafe helps aldermen deliver on their promise to find a daytime restaurant near Howard Street that would serve the community from morning until midafternoon. The cafe will also add more traffic to the street during the day, complementing the business generated by the restaurant Peckish Pig, he said. “(Berthoumieux) put together a beautiful space,” Zalmezak said. “The residents of south Evanston … will have a really nice cafe to go to now.

It’s going to be something that both ends of Howard Street are going to enjoy.”

The city has been working to bring more businesses to Howard Street for several years. EPD left its outpost at 633 Howard St. in 2015, after moving there from 745 Howard St. in 2001.

In November, EPD vacated its outpost on Howard Street, marking a newfound confidence » See CAFE, page 6

Achievement gap ASG discusses course affordability still vexing D65 Senators also call for Asian American, Latinx Studies departments

Community responds to test score disparities

By CATHERINE HENDERSON

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Henry Wilkins, a parent at Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies, witnessed the impacts of the achievement gap as a black student growing up in Ohio.

Thirty years later in Evanston, he’s not sure things have changed for his daughter.

In the past year, the gap between black student and white student achievement widened throughout Evanston/Skokie District 65 schools. According to the district’s 2017 Achievement and Accountability report released in January, test scores for black students from 2016 to 2017 fell more than those of white students on the Illinois Snapshot of Early Literacy and the Measure of

Academic Progress, the district’s primary markers of academic success.

The achievement gap has long been an issue for parents in the district, who have pushed for more black teachers, a growing K-3 literacy program and improving programs for black kids for years.

Wilkins does not know if the gap has impacted his daughter’s education specifically, but said he was “disgusted” by the discrepancies in test scores across District 65. He said his main focus is always helping his daughter succeed in school.

“We try to do our best to make sure that we give her support to … put her in a position to excel,” Wilkins said.

During his time in office, District 65 superintendent Paul Goren said the district has made “a tremendous amount of progress” in closing racial gaps between suspensions between white students and students of color. » See ACHIEVEMENT, page 6

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By ALEXIS WHITE

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Senators Bassel Shanab and Emerson Carlson introduce a textbook affordability resolution at Wednesday’s Senate meeting. The resolution said the University should consider more affordable options for class materials.

Associated Student Government senators introduced new resolutions to address textbook affordability and the creation of Latinx and Asian American studies departments during their Wednesday meeting.

Senator Bassel Shanab, one of the sponsors of the textbook affordability resolution, said the University should make textbook options more affordable considering the increasing number of students at Northwestern on financial aid.

The resolution said this could include creating more online options and putting estimated book costs on syllabi or Caesar.

“Some students right now are struggling to afford classes they signed up for despite the fact that this is a university with many resources at its » See ASG, page 6

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AROUND TOWN

Rauner talks tax, pension reform in budget address

By RYAN WANGMAN

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Two weeks after his state of the state address in the same chambers, Gov. Bruce Rauner delivered an Illinois budget address outlining a proposal emphasizing tax reduction, pension and health care reform and reinvestment in specific areas of need.

In the address, Rauner called for a nearly $1 billion dollar tax cut for Illinois residents.

Rauner said they are “taxed out” and that higher tax rates cannot fix a structural need to slow state spending.

“Our guiding principle is this: Only spend money we have, and don’t increase the tax burden on the people of Illinois,” Rauner said.

Rauner said the state needs to begin asking school districts to share the cost of their pensions, and that Illinois can’t continue to just “pay the tab.” The proposed shift to include school districts would be phased in 25 percent increments per year over four years, and the state would help provide tools for schools to offset the increased costs.

The governor added that the costs that would now be “closer to home” since they would be paid directly by districts, incentivizing people to find ways to lower expenses.

State Rep. Greg Harris (D-Chicago), the assistant majority leader who delivered Illinois

POLICE BLOTTER 15-year-old boy arrested in connection with Evanston carjacking Police arrested a 15-year-old Chicago resident Tuesday and charged him with felony aggravated vehicular hijacking relating to a car theft Feb. 1.

Detectives from another jurisdiction took the boy into custody Tuesday in connection with unrelated stolen vehicle and weapon possession charges, according to a news release Wednesday. The boy was

Source: Anthony Souffle (Chicago Tribune/TNS)

Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks at an event. Rauner delivered his state budget address Wednesday, calling for tax cuts and pension reform.

Democrats’ response to the address, said Rauner’s past three budgets that were introduced to the House were full of “phony accounting” that left the state “billions of dollars” out of balance. He said as a result, lawmakers would carefully review

the latest budget to ensure it is balanced and fills the needs of people in Illinois.

Harris added that the governor’s budget fails to address the bill backlog that was created when the state went without a budget for more than

transported from the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago to the Evanston Police Department and charged with the hijacking.

EPD detectives found the car Feb. 4 in the 5800 block of S. Peoria Street in Chicago. The Feb. 1 incident also involved another unidentified person who is still at large.

woman with domestic battery after an incident in south Evanston on Tuesday.

Police responded to a call at an apartment building on the 100 block of Callan Avenue about 7 a.m. When officers entered the building they found a woman who said she and her boyfriend got into an argument that resulted in him “getting physical” and pouring milk on her head, Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said.

She told police she did not want to press charges against her boyfriend, but he did press

Evanston woman charged in connection with domestic battery

Police charged a 32-year-old Evanston

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two years. The budget passed by a bipartisan group of legislators last year has put Illinois on “a more financially responsible path”, cutting state debt from $16 billion to $5 billion, he said.

“Throughout Governor Rauner’s time in office, progress has been made only when legislators agreed to work together without him,” Harris said. “If the governor is finally sincere in his desire to be a part of this process, he’ll find willing partners in House Democrats.”

Businessman J.B. Pritzker and State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) — Democratic frontrunners to challenge Rauner for his seat — also sounded off on Rauner’s budget address. In a news release, Pritzker said that Rauner “ripped a page from Daniel Biss’ playbook” by trying to balance the budget through slashing benefits for “public servants”.

Biss did not respond to Pritzker’s comment in a news release regarding the budget address, instead charging Rauner with shifting costs for the state’s debts to those who can least afford it.

Biss said the budget shows Rauner is willing to put the state through “another hostage negotiation” to keep the status quo.

“This budget isn’t just a bad financial plan. It threatens us to go along with his cost-shifting schemes, or add more than $1 billion to our debt,” Biss said in the release. “It attacks our workers and takes away our healthcare.” ryanw@u.northwestern.edu

charges against the woman.

Glew said when officers entered the apartment they could see red scratches on the 29-year-old Evanston man’s back and red marks around his eye. The man said the woman punched him in the face, but he refused medical attention.

The woman was charged with one count of domestic battery. ­— Julia Esparza

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ON CAMPUS Students start foreign cash nonprofit

By MADDIE BURAKOFF

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When Weinberg junior Evan Taylor was returning from a family trip to Mexico, he said he remembers his mom running around the airport to spend their leftover pesos on unnecessary trinkets. That moment got him thinking about how much foreign currency gets wasted by people when they return from trips.

“That really blew my mind,” he said. “There’s a lot of potential here. We could potentially raise money and make a difference in the community.”

Upon returning to Evanston, Taylor said he decided to recruit some friends to put that money to good use. In September 2016, Taylor and his team founded Community Currency, an organization dedicated to collecting and converting foreign change for charitable causes. The organization became a 501(c)3 nonprofit later that month, said Taylor, now the president and CEO. Community Currency announced Wednesday that the Boys & Girls Club of Chicago would be its beneficiary. The currency that is collected and converted will go toward sending socioeconomically disadvantaged Chicago children to summer camps run by the Boys & Girls Club, said Robinson

Markus, the organization’s director of research and a former Daily staffer.

“Those camps have time and time again demonstrated that they’re a very effective tool for combating summer learning loss,” the Communication junior said. “(We will be) working to ensure that every child, regardless of the home they grew up in or the resources that their family provides them, are given a fair shot.”

Community Currency joined Northwestern’s startup incubator The Garage last Winter Quarter, he said.

Billy Banks, associate director of The Garage, said the team has since evolved to move from earlier planning stages toward implementation.

“Most nonprofits rely on grants or donations,” Banks said. “They actually identified a market anomaly, if you will, and found a way they could convert unused currency that’s sitting in people’s sock drawers … into funds, and recycle those funds back into the community.”

One of the nonprofit’s main goals is establishing collection receptacles in major airports, especially O’Hare International Airport, Markus said.

Community Currency estimates that $100 million in wasted foreign currency passes through Chicago airports every year, Taylor said, with about $90 million coming from O’Hare and another $5 million out of Midway International Airport. By placing

three bins at O’Hare, Markus said the team believes they could bring in $95,000 per year with minimal marketing.

The team was working over the summer to establish contact with airports, but has not yet solidified a partnership, Markus said.

The nonprofit recently launched a partnership with the Office of Undergraduate Learning Abroad at the beginning of the quarter to place receptacles in affiliated buildings for returning students to donate their leftover currency, Taylor said, and has raised a couple hundred dollars over the course of a few weeks.

The Community Currency team is “really excited” to work with its newly announced partner, Taylor said, and believes through the Boys & Girls Club they will be able to make “formative, long-term” change.

“We’re all very passionate about the importance of education in young people’s lives and some of the gaps that exist in Chicago between different communities in terms of education,”Taylor said. “So we really wanted to do what we can to bridge that gap and provide everyone with opportunities to get a good education and make their lives better in the future.”

commemoration of the Bursar’s Office Takeover, according to the release.

The Bursar’s Office Takeover started on May 3, 1968, when more than 100 undergraduate and graduate students occupied the office for 38 hours.

The protest resulted in the creation of the African American Studies Department and the establishment of the Black House.

Organizations that wish to receive funding must apply through an online application, and according to the release, the event or program must have an “educational or inspirational mission” directly related to the takeover in order to receive funding.

The event or programming must take place

between February and May this year, according to the release. The funding can also be used to “enhance” already existing programming, the application said.

The Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and NU Black Alumni Association are leading the University’s commemoration with events throughout the year.

Winter Quarter events include a screening of the film “An Outrage,” a talk with Weinberg Prof. Martha Biondi about her book “The Black Revolution on Campus” and a conversation with activist Kathryn Ogletree, one of the participants of the historic sit-in.

University to help fund Bursar’s Office Takeover commemoration events

Northwestern will provide funding to student groups, departments and centers planning events to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Bursar’s Office Takeover, the University announced in a Wednesday news release.

The Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion is offering up to $2,500 in funding to support events and programming related to the

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NU alum makes Billboard chart with soulful album

By MADELEINE FERNANDO

daily senior staffer @madeleinemelody

It’s no secret that the road to “making it” as a musician is not an easy one. Zeshan Bagewadi (Bienen ’09, ’11) had brief stints as an Uber driver, an auto mechanic and a drill press operator before releasing his first album “Vetted.”

His hard work paid off. The album “caught fire” after it was released in April 2017, moving into the Top 10 of Billboard’s World Music chart within a month.

“I had gotten so used to people not being interested in what I had to offer that it was like ‘Whoa, okay,’” Bagewadi said. “(The album) was a labor of love in every sense of the word.”

Growing up in a music-loving household that exposed him to genres ranging from Indo-Pakistani music to soul tunes, Bagewadi describes “Vetted” as the sum of his life experiences and influences.

Bagewadi studied opera and voice at Northwestern as an undergraduate and master’s student before realizing he longed for a different career — one that allowed him to draw from his personal experiences rather than playing a character. “(I was) being asked to inhabit, for example … the character of a Spanish nobleman from the 15th century,” Bagewadi said. “Do I know what’s like to be a nobleman? Hell no. But I do know how to be Zeshan.”

Bienen Prof. Kurt Hansen said Bagewadi’s individuality played out in his performances even as an undergraduate. For example, Bagewadi’s senior recital was one of the “most unusual” recitals he had ever witnessed.

“Half of the recital was western classical music, half was Indian classical music and it’s the only time that I can remember for a student recital that Lutkin Hall was packed to the gills,” Hansen said. “It was really hot — it was hot vocally and it was really hot in there physically.”

Hansen said he has been “so pleased” with the new direction of Bagewadi’s blossoming career and the breadth of music he is able to sing.

A self-proclaimed “soul music junkie,” Bagewadi

said the 11-track album features several “lesser-known tunes” with his original spin, including a rendition of George Perkins’ 1970s hit “Cryin’ in the Streets,” which he performed on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

The album, he said, showcases his experiences as a Muslim and Indian American. Moved by the Black Lives Matter movement and the death of Sandra Bland — a friend of Bagewadi’s from high school — Bagewadi said he was compelled to use his music as a way to speak out on important matters.

“If you put out good music, no matter what it says, people are going to listen to it …why not preach to them?” Bagewadi said. “If you’ve gone through the things I’ve gone through, if you’ve seen the things that I’ve seen … you have responsibility to use that platform.”

Bienen Prof. Sunny Joy Langton said Bagewadi’s focus on using music as a platform was unsurprising, given his genuine passion for humanity. Langton, who taught Bagewadi when he was a master’s student, said his enthusiasm for life and for honing his craft is what sets him apart as an artist. “(He) sings from his heart, right from the center of his soul,” Langton said. “You feel that everything he sings is the most real, honest, meaningful emotion you’ve ever heard.”

Although “Vetted” was released less than a year ago, Bagewadi said he is “already tired of it,” and has been dedicating most of his time to working on a new album, writing new music and collaborating with other artists across the country.

He hits the road next week for a monthlong tour and has many other performances and festivals lined up in the future — including his debut performance at Lincoln Center in New York in May. Bagewadi said he hopes listeners feel a deep sense of empathy listening to the album. In a society where apathy has become “so commonplace,” Bagewadi said he wants people to look beyond their own lives and feel others’ pain.

“Black people are being killed by the police in

South Side (and) West Side Chicago but if you’re a student at Northwestern (it’s like) ‘Yeah, but I got class at Tech at 3 o’clock,’” Bagewadi said. “People get so caught up in their own lives

that they’re not thinking about others.”

As an artist, Bagewadi said he doesn’t sugarcoat or shy away from uncomfortable topics. Wanting to “tell it like it is,” Bagewadi said he hopes listeners are moved by his music.

“If people feel that empathy, then I guess I’m doing my job right,” he said. madeleinefernando2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Zeshan Bagewadi. Bagewadi’s first album, ‘Vetted,’ moved into the Top 10 of Billboard’s World Music chart within a month.

Dittmar exhibit challenges stereotypes about black men

By ANDREA MICHELSON

the daily northwestern

Rick Lewis’ students at Illinois State University knew him as a helpful administrator and mentor for black students. They were unaware of his artistic talents until they became the subject of his art.

Lewis’s portrait series, “(In)Visible Men,” features 13 portraits of black men, most of whom he knew as students at ISU. The series will be on display at the Dittmar Gallery Feb. 16 through March 22, and seeks to bring visibility to the subjects of his portraits and challenge stereotypes about black men.

Lewis, who was the associate dean of students at ISU for 11 years, said his career as an advisor for black men inspired him to create art as a form of social commentary. “(These students) talk about feeling ostracized, feeling invisible in the classroom and not feeling like a part of the campus community,” Lewis said.

“So I’ve tried to work with these guys and help them understand how to work in these predominantly white institutions, and these issues have been incubating (in me) for 30 years.”

Lewis has a master’s degree in art from ISU, but he put his painting career on hold when he was offered a position as a residence hall director after graduating in 1987. He briefly returned to painting in 1992, then went back to serve in administrative roles at ISU. In 2013, with retirement on the horizon, Lewis took up painting again for the first time in almost twenty years.

One of the students he had mentored, Sam Geralds, said he walked into Lewis’ office one day in 2013 and saw Lewis looking at some of his own paintings. The two men discussed Lewis’ artwork, and shortly afterwards, Lewis asked Geralds if he would be a subject of a painting. He completed the portrait in August 2013, and it became the first in the “(In)Visible Men” series.

Lewis said the collection of portraits may create a sense of discomfort for a viewer who has not spent a lot of time with people of color, but that the feeling of discomfort is central to the purpose of the exhibit.

“You paint one portrait and it’s a standalone portrait and it’s realistic, and people look at it and say ‘Oh, that’s a nice portrait,’” Lewis said. “But once you fill a space with all of these portraits and these portraits are looking at you and you’re confronted with this experience, that’s part of the art.”

He said he hopes to challenge stereotypes about black men by elevating their images to the status of art.

There is a lack of visibility for people of color featured in the art traditionally displayed in galleries, Lewis said. He said race is also a factor in one’s access to art, as many of the students depicted in his portraits had not been to an art gallery before he invited them to see his work.

Lewis said the opening of the “Contemporary Portraiture” exhibit at the McClean County Arts Center in Bloomington, Illinois, where eight of his paintings were featured, made systemic inequality clear to both the student population he painted and the gallery’s usual crowd.

“I’m sure it was a lot of those folks’ first times seeing these types of portraits, and you have these students who had never been to an art show or reception of that level,” Lewis said. “I’ve done diversity training for the last 20 years, and I’ve never seen that kind of dynamic played out in terms of people learning about other people.”

At the gallery, the students featured in the portraits and the predominantly white gallery goers had an opportunity to interact and share experiences, Lewis said.

Jamol Griffin, another former ISU student featured in the portrait series, said his family was impressed by the details of the portrait. Lewis even managed to capture the distinctive veins in his arms,

Source: Kate Arthur

Rick Lewis with one of the portraits from ‘(In)Visible Men.’ The portrait series seeks to challenge stereotypes about black men.

Griffin said.

Geralds said he was approached by some of the people in the gallery who recognized his portrait and that he felt proud to be a part of Lewis’ art.

“It was dope, because this is something he

visualized and brought to life,” Geralds said. “I don’t know how much of it came out of that conversation (in 2013), but it was pretty cool to help spark that.” andreamichelson2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Recent alumna shines in latest Joffrey Ballet show

By CHARLOTTE WALSH

the daily northwestern @charwalsh_

Joanna Wozniak (School of Professional Studies ’16) describes the course of her education as “unconventional.”

She left her home of Rolling Meadows, Illinois, when she was 14 to go to the Harid Conservatory in Florida, a professional training school for young dancers. She dropped out of high school when she was 17 to begin dancing for the Joffrey Ballet full time. When she enrolled at Northwestern University for her undergraduate degree in business leadership, she was 30 years old and still working full time for the Joffrey.

“Many dancers forge unique paths for their education because the demand in this industry and the success of it happens often at a very young age,” Wozniak said. “I had always admired Northwestern and thought of it as this unreachable goal, and I just knew I had to do something with all the knowledge I had attained over the years.”

Wozniak is currently dancing in the Joffrey’s “Modern Masters,” a mixed repertory program that showcases works of revered modern choreographers alongside those of rising artists. The program runs from Feb. 7 through Feb. 18 in the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University.

The show features pieces from two legendary choreographers: George Balanchine’s “The Four Temperaments” and Jerome Robbins’ “Glass Pieces” in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Robbins’ birthday.

These are performed alongside dances from two up-and-coming choreographers: “Body of Your Dreams” by Myles Thatcher and the world premiere

Source: Todd Rosenberg

Members of the Joffrey Ballet rehearse for ‘Modern Masters.’ Joanna Wozniak, a dancer in the production, said her time at NU largely shaped her identity.

of “Beyond the Shore” by Nicolas Blanc.

Ashley Wheater, the artistic director of the Joffrey, said the company is strong in technique and ready to take on the challenge of these dances.

“These are really iconic pieces that deserve to

be seen,” Wheater said. “(It’s) about giving young choreographers the opportunity to have a platform alongside two iconic giants.”

Wozniak is a lead dancer in “Body of Your Dreams,” which she said plays on society’s obsession

with physical perfection and fitness. She said the piece satirizes the idea that quick fixes can be used to achieve the body of your dreams, and features music that’s spliced with audio from advertisements for easy weight loss and exercise solutions.

Wozniak is currently attending the University of Chicago to pursue her master’s degree in business analytics. She said she feels the field is relevant to the future of business, and she hopes her education in analytics will allow her to have another career after dance.

School of Professional Studies Prof. Marina Davis taught Wozniak during her time at NU. She remembers her as a hard worker who constantly pursued excellence in both her academics and her dance career.

“Normally people choose to go to Northwestern because they want to better themselves,” Davis said.

“Joanna was at the top of her profession already, but I think it says something about her that she wanted to continue to improve and become the leader that she can be. She doesn’t rest on her current success.”

Davis said she could see Wozniak’s aptitude as a leader when she saw her applying some of the leadership and conflict resolution skills she learned in class to her work at the Joffrey. She said younger ballerinas in the company look up to Wozniak, and seek her help in working out interpersonal conflicts.

As for Wozniak, she said she’s excited for “Modern Masters” to premiere to a Chicago audience. She added that NU makes up a large part of who she is no matter where she ends up in her career.

“When I was younger, I never knew if I would actually get a degree, because I knew I wanted to dance,” Wozniak said. “It’s great that Northwestern allows people to pursue those dreams.” charlottewalsh2021@u.northwestern.edu

‘An Outrage’ documentary explores lynching history

By JANE RECKER

daily senior staffer @janerecker

When filmmakers Lance Warren and Hannah Ayers learned about lynching as young adults, they said it was presented in their education as “a sidebar of American history.”

It was through working to create an online history course for high school teachers that they began delving deeper into the topic and realized just how pervasive this crime was within U.S. history.

“For the 4,000 or so people who were killed, for the families affected, lynching represented the limits of the American experience, the limits of American democracy, it represented the country,” Warren said.

“Once you start to look at it that way … the history of racial violence becomes the center point that it is all along.”

This discovery inspired the two to make a documentary about the country’s history of lynching: “An Outrage.” The 33-minute film will be shown in McCormick Auditorium at Norris University Center on Feb. 19.

Warren said “An Outrage” presents lynching through the eyes of affected families. While working on the film, the non-profit organization Equal Justice Initiative released a study that revealed the number of lynchings was far higher than previously reported. Warren said he and Ayers felt it was important to share the stories of individuals to imbue these large numbers with a sense of humanity.

Much of the film is comprised of interviews with family members of lynching victims, Ayers said.

She noted that she was particularly affected by the

story of a woman in the film whose great uncle was lynched. After he and his infant daughter were murdered, his wife did not receive his postmaster’s government pension, leaving her to struggle to support five children for the rest of her life.

“You start to see how it’s not an isolated incident,,” Ayers said. “It harms entire branches of family trees and affects deep down and for multiple generations. I think that was something that really helped me see how lynching is still very resonant for these families today.”

Warren said he also wanted to show many sites of past lynchings in the film to draw attention to the fact that the vast majority of them remain unmarked and not memorialized. University Provost Jonathan Holloway said he thought the decision to show the locations of past lynchings, many of which are commonplace sites like a town square or a tree off the highway, “packed a real punch” and helped to bring the discussion into the present.

Holloway, who is interviewed as a scholar in the film, will host the screening of the documentary and participate in a Q&A with the directors. He said he hopes the film will make students realize that not only was lynching a prevalent part of our past, but that it also has ramifications in the present.

“I hope (the film) will help students recognize that these ugly episodes in our past aren’t mythological,” he said.” They have happened in a real place; a real place just down the road is where some really horrible things happened. People need to understand that these episodes are not just things frozen in time.”

Ayers said they are showing the film at universities and other academic settings to make the film an educational tool. She said the two are currently

Source: Lance Warren

‘An Outrage’ features scenes shot at the sites of former lynchings. The filmmakers noted that many of these locations are as commonplace as a town square or a tree off the highway.

partnered with the Southern Poverty Law Center and are working to distribute the film for free to 500,000 teachers across the country.

Warren and Ayers hope that widespread distribution of their film will help spark a national conversation about lynching and push people to find the agency to make change in the present.

“As we wake up everyday and check all the feeds and see all the things in the world that trouble us

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and are deeply flawed, so many of those seem to be things where there is little room for us to do anything of measurable good,” Warren said. “The history of lynching is different. The history of racial violence is one in which we’re not only all implicated, but we all also have a direct role that we can play in changing it.” janerecker2019@u.northwestern.edu

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the medical and support services across all NU sites, including study abroad sites.

It also encourages people to seek medical help immediately after experiencing sexual misconduct. The proposal addressed the problem that the availability of medical services for sexual assault survivors — such as emergency contraceptives and evidence collection, or “rape kits” — is currently dependent on where students go for medical help and what campus they are on.

Cole said the policy needs to clearly state that if people experience sexual assault, they can get emergency contraceptives from NU Health Services, but for evidence collection they need to seek help elsewhere.

“Evidence collection in particular has to be administered by trained personnel in a facility that can handle it, and that’s just not the case at NU Health Services,” Cole told The Daily. “People need to know if they experience sexual assault on this campus … they should also call a taxi and get you a hospital so you can get that service.”

The proposed sexual misconduct policy outlines procedures for investigation and resolution of sexual misconduct policy violations. Cole said the strongest recommendation was to loosen numerous restrictions on the role of an adviser or legal counsel to the complainant or the respondent so that all parties have access to the full range of support they need in investigating alleged sexual misconduct violations.

Cole said there is language in the new policy that addresses definitions of consent and prohibited conduct.

McCormick Prof. Gregory Ryskin proposed adding a “presumption of innocence” to the sexual misconduct policy. Earth and Planetary Sciences Prof. Suzan van der Lee objected to this addition, and suggested adding a presumption of confidentiality instead.

“It’s usually a case of ‘he said, she said,’” van der Lee said. “If there is a literal presumption of innocence, that’s like saying the victim coming forward is lying presumptuously.”

in an area that has had active police presence for nearly 30 years.

Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) told The Daily at the time that the south end of the city has come a long way since EPD first opened an outpost in the area in 1987. She said before the outpost opened, there was not much foot traffic, though there were some businesses.

Rainey, whose ward houses the new cafe, said the space has never been on the tax rolls before.

She also noted the neighborhood may “smell really good” from the baking.

“It’s very exciting,” Rainey said. “We’re trading crime for croissants.”

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ACHIEVEMENT

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Senators Seri Lee and Evelyn Molina introduced a resolution to call on the University to create an Asian American Studies Department and a Latinx Studies Department. The resolution said departmental status would make Northwestern a flagship university in these studies and help provide “adequate funding, hiring power, office space, resources or personnel to staff ever-growing fields.”

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During his tenure, he said the district passed policies requiring the superintendent’s office to approve any suspensions over five days and implemented an extensive restorative justice program focusing on the rehabilitation of offenders through reconciliation with the community.

Academically, Goren said the district is still performing above state averages. In Evanston, however, Goren said black students are often behind their other classmates. He estimated that the gap is about three years’ worth of academic content and becomes evident around third grade.

In another attempt to close the gap, the board recently announced they will hire both a director of black student success and an equity instructional coach. However, Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) said the district’s other attempts to close the gap have been unsuccessful.

At the meeting where the board announced the creation of the black student achievement director, District 65 parent and alum Tracy Fulce Gentle said her son went into District 65 in fifth grade at

a seventh-grade math level and has since dropped back to grade level.

“Clearly something is wrong,” Fulce Gentle said. “Unfortunately, like me, my son has experienced firsthand how racism can impact student performance.”

Wilkins said the district’s decision to hire a director of black student success was the “easiest thing to do.” He wants to see the district consult with black residents in Evanston to come up with other solutions for the achievement gap.

Fleming said the gap became more apparent after the district started looking at test scores by race. She emphasized curricula often center on European and white history, which can make it difficult for black students to perform as well as white students.

“I don’t even really love calling it an achievement gap,” Fleming said. “You just look at student and value them based on a test score, (not) holistically what a student brings to the school environment, to the community.”

Fleming also highlighted the Foster School, an elementary school in the 5th Ward that closed in 1967. After the school closed, the “burden” to bus children outside of their neighborhood fell

disproportionately on communities of color, Fleming said. Wilkins also noted the 5th Ward faces particular challenges. Opening up a school in the neighborhood may help, he said.

According to the Achievement and Accountability report, the gap negatively impacts students of color, students on free or reduced lunch and students with Individualized Education Programs for learning disabilities. In 2017, only 30.6 percent of black students met college readiness benchmarks for reading, compared to 83.7 percent of white students.

“We have to put a mirror on our practices,” Goren said. “Putting a mirror on our practices as it relates to race … will provide our educators and administrators with the opportunity to be reflective on data.”

Alex Morgan — board member for the Organization for Positive Action and Leadership, an Evanston grassroots organization focused on equity — said the gap is still an “urgent concern” in District 65.

“I’m not impressed,” Morgan said. “I don’t think there’s a single school in our district that should be content with their performance around the achievement gap.”

The Latinx Asian American Collective, which is a joint effort from the Asian Pacific American Coalition and MEChA de Northwestern, recently exceeded its goal of 1,000 signatures on a petition for this cause. ASG released a statement in support of the coalition in January.

Also during the meeting, senators voted to approve funding for three “Wild Ideas,” an ASGsponsored initiative open to all undergraduate students to help fund students’ creative ideas.

Chief of Staff Lars Benson introduced the Wild Ideas, which were all approved, to the Senate. Persona, a production that will combine

digital and live storytelling, received $700. Get Fresh — a Refresh Dance Crew initiative to create concept videos for events and shows and host a master class during the Chinese Students Association’s Celebrasia event — received $1,044.

The other approved idea was Yikes, which proposed hosting music-themed nights to highlight lesser-known local artists. It received $2,220 for speakers, lights, a projector and other equipment.

Its application said this idea was wild because Yikes is “transforming the live music space at Northwestern” by showcasing music “not represented in the mainstream media.”

Wild Ideas started the year with $25,000 to distribute to organizations, equally distributing it per quarter to ensure programming is balanced, Benson said.

Out of the total funding for the year, the committee has so far dispersed $12,600 in grants, including the newly approved ideas, Benson said.

Senators also unanimously elected Communication sophomore Kimani Isaac and SESP sophomore Isabel Dobbel to the A-status and B-status selection committee as senate representatives.

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SOFTBALL

NU looks to continue win streak in North Carolina

By ANDREW GOLDEN

the daily northwestern @andrewcgolden

Northwestern looks to keep up its winning ways as it rides a four-game winning streak into Raleigh, North Carolina, this weekend for the Big Ten/ ACC Challenge.

The Wildcats (4-1) are coming back from the Kajikawa Classic where they depended on veteran leadership, along with help from freshmen, to get off to a great start to their season. NU’s offense relied on getting off to quick starts to earn an advantage against its opponents, scoring in the first inning in four of five games.

Senior shortstop Marissa Panko said that starting games strong marked the difference between five-inning games — which end early due to the mercy rule — and seven-inning games over the

weekend.

“We, more so than not, capitalized on the bases being loaded, and we scored runs when runners were on bases,” Panko said. “That’s something we’ve been working towards and something that was good to see in the games.”

The Cats put their big innings to use last weekend, closing out Boise State and South Dakota in five innings.

However, as well as they played offensively this weekend, coach Kate Drohan believes there is a lot more power in the offense we have not yet seen.

She said that upcoming practices will make a big difference.

“I love this week of practice between the first week and the second week of the season,” Drohan said. “There are a lot of very specific things to improve on. I think the team is very energized to make those adjustments, to take the next step together.”

Drohan said NU will work to make specific adjustments with its mechanics to shore up its play defensively and on the mound.

Drohan hopes these changes will ultimately help the Cats win two double headers against Louisville (4-1) and North Carolina State (3-2) this weekend.

“Louisville is always tough and right now heading into this weekend, it’s time to separate ourselves from these two teams,” Drohan said. “We’ve kind of been around the same RPI the last few years, so it’s our opportunity to separate ourselves; it’s an important weekend for the Big Ten to do that as a whole.”

Drohan added that it will be a great atmosphere for the NC State game because it is practically a home game for the Wolfpack, but said that competing and battling on the road is a part of who NU is.

NC State put up big numbers offensively in its first five games as it scored 10 runs twice in the FGCU Kickoff Classic. The Cats’ pitching staff

knows that it has to produce good outings to limit the offensive outbursts by the Wolfpack. Freshman pitcher Kenna Wilkey said that the staff has to figure out where N.C. State’s weaknesses are offensively and attack them. “(We’ll) see what their disadvantages are in the beginning and see what holds them back,” Wilkey said. “(We’ll) jump on them really quickly and keep it going throughout the game.”

Panko said that the road trip is a great opportunity for the team to gel with each other on the field and learn how they play together. Drohan agreed, adding she is excited about this weekend and what the future holds for the Cats.

“We’re excited about it. We’re excited about the opportunity,’ Drohan said. “As long as we keep playing physical softball, I think we will make things happen.” andrewgolden2021@u.northwestern.edu

FENCING

Six Wildcat fencers to compete at Junior Olympics

By PETER WARREN

the daily northwestern @thepeterwarren

Following their first week off since the beginning of Winter Quarter, six Northwestern fencers return to action this weekend in Memphis as the Wildcats look to turn the Blues City purple.

Freshman sabre Alexis Browne, sophomore foil Alexandra Banin, sophomore epee Pauline Hamilton, freshman epee Anya Harkness, freshman sabre Jacqueline Hua and sophomore foil Amy Jia will all be fencing at the Memphis Cook Convention Center for the 2018 Junior Olympic Fencing Championship.

“In practice, it is a lot like the (North American Cups) we went to,” coach Zach Moss said. “The only real difference is that it is considered the junior level national championships.”

All six fencers have winning records on the year,

with Hamilton and Banin leading the way with over 45 wins each this season.

To qualify for the Junior Olympics, which is only for American fencers, the athletes must have been born between 1998 and 2004 and meet certain points requirements or finish at a certain level in a qualifying event.

“Everyone that is going can have a really good result,” Moss said. “The level is appropriate for all of them.”

Five NU fencers participated in last year’s Junior Olympics: Banin, sophomore epee Adelle Berdichevsky, Hamilton, Jia and sophomore sabre Abby Tartell. Hamilton went 6-0 during pool play and was the No. 3 seed in the junior epee tournament before being upset in the round of 64. Jia was the highest placed finisher as she finished in No. 32 out of 213 competitors.

Harkness also competed in the event in 2017 representing her club team from California and tied for No. 173 out of 208 fencers competing in

the junior women’s epee event.

Those six fencers are not the only Cats competing on a big stage this weekend. Freshman foil Sarah Filby and freshman epee Marta Amador Molina will both be competing at international events. Filby is competing for Canada at a World Cup event in Mödling, Austria and Molina will represent Spain at the Tournoi de la ville de Dijon in Dijon, France.

“Those can be some really good results,” Moss said. “Those are tough events. I’m excited to see how they do.”

While the Junior Olympics are a big event for the individuals going, a much greater competition is looming in the near future: the Midwest Fencing Conference championships.

The conference championships will be held next weekend in Columbus, Ohio, and the team has gone all-in preparing for the event. As a result, the Junior Olympics is not the main focus in practice.

“The biggest thing that we are doing is, this

sounds terrible, but mostly ignoring JOs,” Moss said. “The way we are practicing is all with conference championships in mind. Within that structure, for these individual people, we are making adjustments.”

One of the biggest things NU has been able to do during the past week is rest. This past weekend was the only weekend the whole team had off since the beginning of January.

Moss said having a week, or two for the 21 fencers not fencing this weekend, of rest following such an exhausting stretch during the middle of midterm season is very important to the team’s psyche.

“That five week stretch is really tiring, mostly mentally for everybody especially because midterms hits three or four weeks in, so just as you are starting fatigue from the fencing mode already,” Moss said. “More than anything, having that time off is huge.” peterwarren2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Everything she’s done, she’s earned. It’s a byproduct of her work ethic.

— coach Joe McKeown on Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah

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Despite Kunaiyi-Akpanah, McKeown falls to 0-22 vs. PSU

By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

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Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah has never been down this road before. The junior forward hasn’t experienced a losing season at Northwestern, and her impressive rebounding and shot-blocking skills helped propel her high school team to finish as state runner-ups.

But this season, the Wildcats (9-18, 2-11 Big Ten) have been demanding KunaiyiAkpanah do something completely different — score. And despite her 21 points and 14 rebounds Wednesday night, NU lost its eighth consecutive game in a 67-59 contest against Penn State (15-12, 6-8).

“I really played hard and hoped that my teammates would follow suit,” KunaiyiAkpanah said. “I’m being confident about my game and just playing and not thinking too much.”

During the preseason, coach Joe McKeown said he anticipated Kunaiyi-Akpanah, who averaged 1.6 points per game last season, to become one of the best rebounders in the Big Ten. The junior became the third player in program history to collect 300 rebounds over the season Wednesday. But McKeown said he didn’t expect KunaiyiAkpanah, who now scores 11 points per

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game, to become the Cats’ most consistent source of offense when they are struggling to score.

After trailing by double digits in the second quarter, she scored 12 consecutive points for NU spanning the second and third quarters and paced the Cats to a 13-point lead. McKeown said her intensity gave them a chance to win their first conference game in a month.

“She plays so hard that she creates havoc and so much contact in the lane,” he said.

“Everything she’s done, she’s earned. It’s a byproduct of her work ethic, and without her we wouldn’t do so well in the Big Ten.” But NU’s struggles in conference play, especially to start games, haven’t been alleviated by Kunaiyi-Akpanah’s growth. The Cats dug themselves another sizeable hole in the first quarter by scoring only seven points in the first ten minutes, and despite the junior forward’s run that followed, they were unable to maintain a level of play which would have led to a victory.

For the second consecutive game, freshmen guards Lindsey Pulliam and Jordan

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Hamilton struggled to provide an offensive spark as the duo combined to shoot 7-for25 from the field. In the two games following Pulliam’s 33-point outing against Indiana, she has averaged less than 12 points per game. Kunaiyi-Akpanah said she is trying to help her younger teammates to become more confident.

“There’s not a lot of people who are ready to be aggressive,” she said. “They’re mostly still trying to find their rhythm, so I have to step up and contribute.”

Even after a disappointing showing by the backcourt in a game McKeown said the Cats should have won, he said he didn’t feel the need to say much in the locker room.

Turnovers and defensive rotations, he said, cannot be fixed on the fly.

Kunaiyi-Akpanah said it is her responsibility to take her teammates under her wing. NU’s physicality might suffer without her, McKeown said, and he is relying on the junior and the other upperclassmen to maintain team chemistry throughout this difficult stretch.

“That’s not a problem with this team,” he said. “They played really hard tonight, but we just need to prevent some foul trouble and breakdowns, which will lead to instead of playing from behind, playing from in front. But we just couldn’t finish it out.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

LACROSSE

Cats looking to take next step Competition set to get much tougher for NU

By PETER WARREN

the daily northwestern @thepeterwarren

Heading into the 2017 season, expectations for Northwestern were not very high. The team was coming off a season when it lost the most games in school history and had not made the conference tournament since 2010.

Now, following a season in which the Wildcats won 21 of their final 33 games and reached the Big Ten Tournament final for the first time since 1984, the expectations have been raised.

“Guys are expecting to win now,” assistant coach Josh Reynolds said. “They had fun winning, they saw winning was hard but also fun, so hopefully we can get on a roll and start the season in that fashion this year.”

Leading the starting rotation will be sophomore right-hander Hank Christie.

The Oak Park, Illinois, native is coming off a season in which he won five games, pitched a team-high 83 innings and was named to the All-Big Ten Freshman Team. With former starters Cooper Wetherbee and Josh Davis graduating last June, Christie will now be the Friday night starter.

Three southpaws — junior Danny Katz and freshmen Ryan Bader and Quinn Lavelle — will all start a game during this weekend’s opening series, Reynolds said. Sophomore left-hander Sam Lawrence will return to the bullpen where he had a solid freshman season, finishing with a team-leading 2.85 ERA and winning five games.

“A lot of the guys have gotten better and changed their roles a little bit, but once we get some games going we will have a better idea of what it is going to look like,” Reynolds said.

The only two everyday starters NU lost to graduation were outfielder/first baseman Matt Hopfner and outfielder Joe Hoscheit. Both hit in the middle of the Cats lineup and were the top two hitters on the team in batting average, on-base percentage, hits and runs.

Coach Spencer Allen said that the team has not shied away from addressing the question of replacing those two in

By ELLA BROCKWAY

the daily northwestern @ellabrockway

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Jack Dunn prepares to hit the ball. The junior infielder hopes to lead the Wildcats to a series sweep of Nebraska (Omaha) this weekend.

the lineup. The third-year coach said that there is not one person they are looking at to replace Hopfner and Hoscheit, but instead hoping that the lineup as a whole can pick up the slack.

The infield returns four players who started at least 37 games last season: junior first baseman Willie Bourbon, sophomore second baseman Alex Erro, junior shortstop Jack Dunn and senior third baseman Connor Lind. In addition, senior catcher Jack Claeys returns for his third season starting behind the dish.

One player Allen said to look out for is sophomore outfielder Leo Kaplan.

Kaplan hit .287 with a .491 slugging percentage and 41.9 extra-base hit percentage in 37 games, 22 of them starts, last spring.

Over the winter, former volunteer associate coach Tad Skelley left the program when the Toronto Blue Jays hired him as an amateur scout and video coordinator. Erro said that Skelley was a major reason for the infield’s success defensively.

“He was pivotal in getting us to where we were last season,” Erro said. “(The) coaching staff as a whole has done a great job of getting us ready, really making his absence feel not as bad as it should.”

NU opens its season Friday with a four game series against Nebraska-Omaha in Glendale, Arizona. The Mavericks are coming off of a 12-40 season in which they finished 3-21 in non-conference play. The team does have 15 new players on their roster, including eight freshman and seven junior college transfers.

The Cats are set to face six teams who played in a 2017 NCAA Regional, an achievement NU is hoping to accomplish for the first time since Baseball Hall of Famer Fred Lindstrom managed the Cats in 1957.

“We are expecting to play baseball in June and get into an NCAA Regional,” Erro said. “If the team succeeds and we are playing baseball in June, that is the biggest thing.” peterwarren2021@u.northwestern.edu

Northwestern has been here before.

The Wildcats (2-0) will face their first ranked opponent of the 2018 season Thursday when No. 19 Colorado visits Evanston. NU is coming off a strong opening weekend that saw the Cats score 18 goals in Saturday’s win over Canisius and 21 in Sunday’s takedown of Detroit Mercy, and will enter Thursday’s matchup as the No. 9 team in the country.

The position is familiar. Last season, NU also won its first two games of the year and entered a February meeting with Colorado ranked at No. 9. NU lost 11-10 to the Buffaloes in a rollercoaster overtime match.

After that heartbreaking loss, the Cats dropped their next three games, including one to Southern California that also ended in overtime. Coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said she doesn’t see that happening this season.

“We’re a totally different team and this is a totally different year, so we’re not really going to go back in time,” Amonte Hiller said. “We have been addressing that type of thing since day one of the summer, trying to really develop ourselves so that we don’t get ourselves in that situation, and (so) when we do get in that situation where it is overtime, we’re ready to really take advantage of it.”

In just two games, NU has already proven that this is a different team than last year’s, which left the NCAA Tournament in a second round loss to Stony Brook. NU had 16 players score at least one goal all of last season; it saw 16 players score across the two games this weekend.

Amonte Hiller said the team moved the ball well and finished its shots better on Sunday against Detroit Mercy. NU tallied 13 assists on the day, the most in a single game since March 5, 2011, and scored on 60 percent of its shots.

“The fact that we had that kind of depth and really can trust anybody with the ball is amazing,” said senior attacker Nicole

No. 19 Colorado vs. No. 9 Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 2 p.m. Thursday

No. 9 Northwestern vs. No. 18 Duke Durham, North Carolina 11 a.m. Sunday

Beardsley, who finished the weekend with three goals and three assists. “It makes it that much more fun, but it also makes us that much more lethal. Other defenses can’t just worry about one person. They have to worry about the whole team.”

Attacker Selena Lasota made her longawaited return to the field after missing 17 games last season with an injury. The junior scored six goals and won seven draw controls over the weekend, and was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week.

The Cats are now tied for first in the country in draw controls per game (19.0) and sit first in scoring margin (15.0).

They’ll face a Colorado offense that returns three of its five leading scorers from 2017, including midfielder Miranda Stinson. Stinson has eight goals in the Buffaloes’ two games thus far and scored a team-high three goals when the teams met last season.

This weekend will bring another challenge for NU, as the Cats travel to No. 18 Duke for their first road game of the season. NU has won four of its last five matchups against the Blue Devils, most recently a 12-10 win at home in 2017.

Thursday’s game will kick off an important early-season stretch for the Cats: Five of their next six opponents are ranked. For now, Amonte Hiller said, the focus is on Colorado.

“We feel like we know that they’re competitors, and they’re going to bring a great fight.” Amonte Hiller said. “We’re going to have to really focus on our game and play well together and really just focus on the small details that are going to help us be successful.” ellabrockway2021@u.northwestern.edu