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City Council on Monday approved a lease for city-owned property to house a medical marijuana dispensary.

Aldermen unanimously approved for Pharmacann LLC to lease the storefront at 1804 Maple Ave. More than 20 dispensaries applied to open in Evanston last September, and Pharmacann’s application was approved in February of this year after being the

highest-scoring application in the region, Teddy Scott, Pharmacann’s CEO, told The Daily in February.

Gov. Bruce Rauner on Feb. 2 awarded Pharmacann a license to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Illinois.

The dispensary could come to Evanston by the end of the year, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz told The Daily in February.

Pharmacann will be the only dispensary in the region that includes Evanston and Niles Township. Due » See COUNCIL, page 7 Daniel Tian/The Daily Northwestern

Local governments eye pension reform NU mulls investment committee

socially sensible Northwestern’s Chief Investment Officer William McLean discusses NU’s endowment and investments. McLean addressed the investment committee’s response to recent divestment movements and the potential formation of a committee to examine the social implications of NU’s investments.

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The Illinois pension system was ranked last in the country in September by credit-rating agency Moody’s, and now the north suburbs are considering a plan to consolidate local pensions into a larger pool with better revenue.

Meanwhile, the state is looking at reform for 2016, and Gov. Bruce Rauner wants to move many government employees to a 401k-type pension plan, which would allow them to choose how much of their salary is set aside in a pension.

Deron Daugherty (Weinberg ’06), the president of the Evanston fire pension fund, said a switch to the 401k-

type plan would not benefit Evanston because the current plan acts like a guarantee that protects families of safety employees who might face unexpected work injuries.

Employees must agree to changes in their pensions, and Daugherty said the December 2013 reform law, which changed the terms of employees’ pensions, was not made through balanced two-way conversations.

“In my opinion it’s pretty clearly unconstitutional,” he said. “The state’s constitution says flat out no unilateral changes to the pension funds. You can negotiate changes with the members, but you can’t just go in and say, ‘Hey we’re going to diminish your promised benefits.’”

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Northwestern may create a committee that would weigh the social implications of its investments to address issues brought up by Northwestern Divest, Fossil Free NU and other movements, the University’s chief investment officer said Monday.

William McLean, who heads NU’s investment office, said he will meet with outgoing Associated Student Government president Julia Watson next week to discuss the possibility of creating a “socially responsible investment” committee. The idea is supported by ASG, Faculty Senate and McLean himself, he

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“There’s an argument for having a central place where some of these (investment issues) get vetted,” McLean said. “We’re interested in hearing student voices, and maybe a committee is a better way to do it.”

McLean discussed NU’s endowment and recent controversies about its investment in front of an audience of more than 20 people at the Roberta Buffett Center. Representatives of the two major divestment organizations, NUDivest and Fossil Free NU — formerly DivestNU — were present at the event.

The investment committee is reluctant to divest from fossil fuels despite sustained student support, because trustees are concerned coal divestment would open the door to more divestment issues,

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bus crash A Northwestern shuttle crashed into a tree on Orrington Avenue shortly before 10 p.m. on Monday. The accident occurred near World of Beer, 1601 Sherman Ave. Students were on the Campus Loop shuttle when it crashed, but no one was injured, officials on the scene said. A portion of the vehicle’s front windshield was shattered. University Police, Evanston police and Evanston firefighters responded to the crash, but none of the departments could be reached for comment.

McLean said.

“Where do you draw the line?”

McLean said.

An ASG referendum on divesting from coal passed with 74.15 percent of the vote Friday. McLean said he was not aware of the referendum, but would bring its results to the investment committee when they meet next week.

The Board of Trustees’ investment committee, which oversees NU’s endowment investment policy, voted not to divest from coal in November. McLean said the referendum results could open up the conversation.

“We have a big coalition of support behind us, the board just needs to start listening,” said Scott Brown, a leader in

A board game store and cafe will open soon in Evanston, bringing a new entertainment destination to the city.

Jesse Reynolds, an Evanston resident, is opening Elysium Games at 1610 Maple Ave. with plans to open for business by April 25. The store will be divided in half, with the front of the store dedicated to retail sales and the back serving as the cafe and game area, Reynolds said.

“It’s supposed to be a place where people can just come in, chill and play board games,” he said. “There’s really nothing currently like it in the area.”

Reynolds said he came up with the idea to open Elysium Games simply because he liked board games. He first began playing in high school, when his friends introduced him to different games, and his interest grew from there.

“They started to get me playing and I thought it was really fun,” he said. “It was just one of those things where someone exposes you to something and you latch on.”

After getting into a motorcycle accident in September 2013, when he was a student at University of Illinois at Chicago, Reynolds said he had a moment where he thought about what he really wanted to do with his life.

“It was like, I just don’t want to keep going to school,” he said. “I decided that I would give this a shot.”

Mark Muenzer, the city’s director of community development, said he thought Elysium Games is a great new use for the space it will occupy, especially because it is social and will actively engage people.

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Northwestern professors Monday discussed misconceptions about the Middle East and the reasoning behind the myths.

Held at the Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Ave., the event was the third lecture in an ongoing partnership established in January between the library and NU’s Middle East and North African Studies Program.

MENA program director Brian Edwards spoke about the misconception that Middle Eastern people hate America.

Edwards, an English professor, showed the crowd of around 95 people the October 2001 Newsweek magazine cover titled “Why They Hate Us” with a picture of a Pakistani boy holding a gun. He said the cover represents the problem of defining Middle Easterners and North Africans as a single group, because many different cultures and peoples live in the region.

“The (cover) itself was what stuck in people’s heads,” Edwards said. “It was repeating a lot of ideas that people had been circulating out there that basically the Arab world or the Muslim world … was all kind of in a state of failure.”

Police Blotter Evanston man charged with disobedience to police, battery Police arrested an Evanston man twice Friday in connection with not following police orders and hitting another man, officials said.

The 18-year-old was charged with two misdemeanor offenses, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said.

The initial arrest came after police responded to a call Friday around 3:30 p.m. that a group of people were fighting in the area of Church Street and Dodge Avenue, Dugan said. When the first officers arrived on the scene, the 18-year-old started to walk away

Edwards said as a result of the cover many people believed a history of Middle Eastern conflict led to “rage” against the West. However, Edwards said portraying the Middle East this way is inaccurate and pointed to examples of Middle Eastern people accepting Western culture, such as Western music and art.

Anthropology Prof. Jessica Winegar talked about the myth that all Middle Eastern and North African men oppress women.

Winegar said it is untrue to generalize that all men in the Middle East oppress women. Some injustice, though, does occur, Winegar said, and Middle Eastern women’s rights are not always respected.

“The mere existence of rights doesn’t mean that they will necessarily be applied,” Winegar said.

Winegar highlighted the fact that women are underrepresented in government and are subject to wage inequalities in not only the Middle East, but also in the United States.

“What’s important to remember is that these legal systems are products of state apparatus, not necessarily of men,” Winegar said.

History Prof. Henri Lauziere presented the misconception that Islam is a political ideology and not a religion. Lauziere said the idea of Islam as a political ideology goes against the teachings of the religion.

“If a government forces the population to do something and follow an Islamic norm, then the idea of and the officers dispatched additional police to follow him, Dugan said.

The Evanston man continued to walk away and did not follow verbal commands from police, Dugan said.

Officers caught up with the man and charged him with disobedience to police, Dugan said.

Police arrested the man for the second time later that night, Dugan said. Officers were dispatched to Wings Over Evanston, 1115 Emerson St., a little before 10 p.m., police said.

A 26-year-old Evanston man told police there that when he pulled up to the restaurant, the 18-year-old — whom he previously knew — verbally confronted him. The 18-year-old then punched the other man in the back of the head and fled the scene in his own car, Dugan said.

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demystification Brian Edwards, director of Northwestern’s MENA program, addresses the audience of about 95 at the Evanston Public Library on Monday.

intention goes away,” Lauziere said. “You cannot be a true Muslim if the government robs that or takes that away from you.”

Political science and Middle East studies Prof.

Wendy Pearlman tried to dispel the idea that violence in the region results from longstanding grudges between groups of Middle Eastern people varying in religious beliefs and ideologies.

Instead, the recent rise of different religious sects to government power has sparked fighting and violence,

Pearlman said.

“Sects plus power … creates inequality, abuses (and) resentment falling along identity-based lines,” Pearlman said.

Timothy Garrett, project coordinator for MENA, told The Daily events like the talk at EPL are great for slowly correcting common misconceptions and myths about the “very complicated” region.

Winnetka police later pulled over the 18-year-old in Glencoe, Illinois, Dugan said. Winnetka officers then handed over the man to Evanston police, who charged him with battery, Dugan said.

The 18-year-old is scheduled to appear in court April 27 and May 19 for his two misdemeanors.

a man had damaged some merchandise, Dugan said.

The store’s security officer had the Chicago man, 44, in custody, police said.

The security officer told police he recognized the Chicago resident as the man who had committed a retail theft on Feb. 11, Dugan said. In that incident, a man had taken a power washer out of its box and tried to return it at the store’s customer service desk, police said. When staff would not accept the return, the man walked out of the Home Depot without paying for the power washer, Dugan said.

Police charged the Chicago man with felony retail theft and misdemeanor criminal damage to property.

Chicago man arrested in connection with property damage, previous retail theft

A Chicago resident was arrested at Home Depot on Thursday in connection with damaging property, as well as with retail theft police said he committed in February at the same store.

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Wael Ghonim doesn’t like to call himself an activist.

However, the Facebook page he created to protest the Egyptian government and its leader Hosni Mubarak after a young Egyptian man was killed by police in 2010 played a major role in starting the country’s revolution.

“I am not an activist,” Ghonim told more than 100 Northwestern students and faculty members Monday afternoon. “I don’t see myself that way, and I didn’t see myself that way in those days. I see myself as a concerned citizen.”

Ghonim, a former Google marketing manager for the Middle East and North Africa, discussed his experience using social media and the Internet to organize and inform citizens. Currently a resident of Palo Alto, California, Ghonim was present in Cairo, his birthplace, during the revolutions in 2011.

Despite his rise to becoming a well-known figure during the revolution, Ghonim reiterated how much he disliked labeling himself the face of the revolution. He did not see himself as an “activist” who spent considerable time researching literature on social issues, he said. Still, he didn’t balk at putting himself at risk, as he flew to Cairo at the start of the protests.

The page he created, “We are all Khaled Said,”

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was named after the young man killed by the police after attempting to expose police corruption. Ghonim said Said’s profile as a normal, middle class man, allowed regular citizens to relate to the movement.

“The page became a platform for creating awareness, to see police brutality in Egypt,” Ghonim said, adding that Egypt before the revolution was divided. “We are living in two Egypts.

The upper middle class are living their own lives, they don’t care too much about the police brutality that happens every day, some of them will even tell you ‘this is the only way these people can be governed.’ We needed to see how we could get their attention.”

The page garnered more than 100,000 “likes” in three days, Ghonim said, and grew even more after he created a Facebook event calling for protests in Tahrir Square.

A few days after the protests, Ghonim was detained by Egyptian authorities and unable to monitor the ensuing national unrest in the country. Eleven days later, he was released and gave an emotional televised speech about the protesters who died while he was detained.

Ghonim said the mobilization that led to the revolution was successful due largely to the collective ownership participants felt for the movement.

“Muslims and Christians, Islamists and liberals, communists and leftists, groups from different economic standpoints were living in euphoria,” he said. “They were all dreaming of a different

Egypt. What was happening was a collective ‘Let’s get rid of Mubarak.’”

Medill graduate student Aditya Prakash said he was impressed with Ghonim’s talk, but differed slightly on Ghonim’s rationale behind being a proponent of democracy while supporting Mohamed Morsi as a candidate for the Muslim Brotherhood in 2012.

“The question was asked, ‘How can you reconcile yourself with voting for the Muslim Brotherhood with regard to its history,” Prakash said.

“If you look at the guy that founded the Muslim Brotherhood, he is considered the father of radical Islamists today, and with (Ghonim) being a liberal and supporting them temporarily, I think this is an explorable dichotomy.”

Ghonim concluded his speech with a preview of a new social media venture called “Parlio,” a meritocratic variation on Facebook. The website’s algorithm will sort the importance of content based on experts that “like” or comment on posts rather than by the number of “likes” a post receives, as Facebook currently functions.

McCormick Prof. Michael Marasco, director of the Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, encouraged his students to attend Ghonim’s lecture.

“This was a perfect example of the power of technology and the utilization of social media as a tool to mobilize people that share different views,” Marasco said.

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politiques in Paris — known as Sciences Po. Richeson’s research focuses on cultural diversity and how identities including race, gender and socioeconomic status impact people’s lives. She was awarded a 2006 MacArthur Fellowship, also known as a “genius grant.” Richeson and her husband, NU’s assistant vice president for student engagement Burgwell Howard, are both leaving the University to join Yale University’s faculty.

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Kirkland: An open letter to Senator Rand Paul

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The following letter is addressed to U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who recently announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president. Paul’s announcement was quickly overshadowed by Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s announcement of her own presidential campaign on Sunday, which had been widely expected for more than a year.

It’s not surprising Clinton’s announcement was met with more enthusiasm at Northwestern (full disclosure: I’m a Hillary fan), but Paul is a fascinating force not to be ignored in American politics. As one of the few serious Republicans willing to engage in legitimate policy debate, he is a highly unique politician, which is why I have written him the following letter:

Dear Sen. Paul, I write to you today to invite you to speak at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. I am compelled to do so because of the poor state of cross-party and cross-ideological political discourse at NU and on college campuses across the country.

As a Democrat and a committed progressive, I disagree with many of your political views. But in light of the political dysfunction in this country that stifles meaningful debate and encourages cloistered factionalism, it would be extremely valuable to have a conservative voice like yours come to a school like NU for a serious policy discussion that touches on issues engaged college students care about.

Just as in the political world, partisanship has taken root in the academic world. Far too few conservative politicians come to liberal-leaning universities like NU to make their cases and engage in substantive policy debates. Why a prominent Republican would decline an invitation to speak at a liberal institution is obvious — the case studies in protests against campus speakers

are numerous. The most egregious is the case of Condoleezza Rice, the first female African-American Secretary of State, who cancelled her commencement speech at Rutgers in 2014 because of student protests against her role in the misbegotten Iraq War. How are we going to repair the deep partisan divide and engage in real political discourse if liberals won’t allow conservatives to even open their mouths on college campuses, and conservatives refuse to meet protesters with conviction? What is the future of the political system, of the American intellectual tradition, if college campuses begin in earnest to segregate by political party and politicians play along?

In the spirit of fighting those trends, I implore you to come to NU. You’re in a unique position as a libertarian-conservative Republican who has signaled a clear willingness to engage the other side and find common ground on vital issues of our time, particularly those important to college students, like criminal justice reform and racial inequality, mass surveillance and the War on Drugs.

The key here is policy, not politics. I can’t

Matney: Yik Yak allows for real talk LUCAS MATNEY

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Every year a new startup rattles the cages of the Internet world, amasses millions in venture capital investments, then turns into an empire or, more often, fizzles out. The social media startups that have captured our imaginations and productivity feed our obsessions to present our lives in the most manicured, positive way possible. This trend is what makes the rise of Yik Yak over the past year such an improbable, yet noble, story. Through the location-based anonymous posting app, there are opportunities to find the genuine beliefs and general feelings of an area — such as Northwestern’s campus — and give us an opportunity to accurately address issues.

For anyone who has interacted with Yik Yak, it’s strange to think of the app as something that should be admired. The rampant racist, sexist and otherwise profane messages in the app’s feed tend to be the ones that attract attention. At NU, the posts that garner less attention are the cries for help, descriptions of social anxieties and explanations of major shortcomings in our campus culture.

Dial into Yik Yak during midterms and you’ll see student stress manifests itself there — much more prevalent than the Spring Break #tbt photos and statuses about Netflix temptations seen on Facebook. People’s reputations aren’t at stake on Yik Yak and, as a result, people are inevitably more willing to say something stupid. However, this anonymity also means users are more likely to say something painfully true.

Most of Yik Yak’s home feed consists of raunchy thoughts most NU students are too self-aware to

say out loud. However, some of it is genuinely offensive and hurtful. What’s even more disappointing is when upsetting yaks are upvoted by campus users and show up high in the app’s “top yaks” section.

Despite the constant barrage of negative press, Yik Yak is still one of the few apps that manages to accomplish a scary, often repressed, goal. The app gives users the opportunity to be themselves and say what they’re really thinking.

Some use this opportunity to spew

hate, some to share their darkest feelings and others to try to get the most upvotes to increase what the app calls “yakarma.”

At the end of the day, it’s important to remember what Yik Yak is. It’s a geographic location’s comment board. It’s the Wild West of Internet message boards, before many of them began to tie your online posting activity to your actual identity. Is this kind of anonymity on the Internet a good thing? Anonymity springs truth and ugliness, but the importance of

maintaining the mediums that allow it to exist in some form shouldn’t be forgotten.

It may be increasingly clear that any “anonymous” activity on the web is ultimately traceable by someone somewhere.

But with trends that glorify public shaming on the Internet and its fairly consistent, “one-strike-you’re-out” policy of justice, it’s clear the web is not evolving to become more open to free discourse. Yik Yak gives students like us, who are currently engaging with these thoughts, a

imagine NU students have much interest in serving as a stump speech audience in your quest for the GOP nomination. There would be, however, a political advantage in it for you. Coming to NU would cement your candidacy as one dedicated to serious debate that reshapes political coalitions and rehashes staid policies.

Following are some of the issues that would yield the most fruitful debates.

Police reform, due to your support for police demilitarization, your firm stance on the civil rights of people and communities of color and your outspokenness on the injustices in Ferguson, Staten Island and North Charleston.

NSA mass surveillance, about which you have signaled a keen interest in reviving the debate, which has dangerously and tellingly become a third-tier policy concern for many Americans.

Mass incarceration and criminal justice reform, which have become central concerns at NU and other universities across the country. This is an area in which you have already distinguished yourself in the Senate, having cosponsored, along with Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), on the comprehensive criminal justice reform REDEEM Act. Drone warfare, the subject of your 13-hour filibuster in 2013 against President Obama’s nominee to run the CIA. This is a vital conversation to have in the context of invasive domestic counterterrorism efforts by the U.S. government and the extralegal drone killings of foreign nationals abroad.

To be sure, NU students would hold you accountable for some of your dogmatically conservative positions on issues like gun rights, abortion, a “flat tax,” gay rights, Obamacare, Benghazi and others.

But we need a serious conservative voice to engage in real debate on the important issues of our time. Sure, we’ve had Rick Santorum and Allen West come by to spew their tired, second-rate conservatism on our campus, but those weren’t serious political debates. Our campus needs real policy discussions, our national academic system needs them and our political system needs them. So, Senator Paul, please come to our lakefront campus to engage in an honest debate on the issues.

Hey, if we’re worthy of a visit from a president, I’d say we’re worthy of one from a presidential hopeful.

Sincerely, A Northwestern Student William Kirkland is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at williamkirkland2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

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A coalition of Northwestern students are spending five days in Washington to discuss higher education issues with members of President Barack Obama’s administration, Congress and national advocacy groups.

As part of “Big Ten on the Hill,” which is sponsored by the Association of Big Ten Schools, NU students are meeting with government officials to talk about issues including sexual assault, mental health and college affordability.

“The overall purpose of the trip is to continue what we do in (Associated Student Government) in terms of representing students and specifically to focus on higher education issues at the federal level,” said Kevin Harris, ASG’s vice president for community relations.

This is the second year NU students have attended the event, but last year only members of ASG traveled to Washington. This year, Harris, a Weinberg junior, ASG President Julia Watson and Weinberg junior Liz Deadrick, a member of ASG’s community relations committee, were joined by Amanda Walsh, president of NU’s chapter of Quest Scholars Network, and Elizabeth Bohl, president of College Feminists.

Watson, a Weinberg senior, said ASG wanted to bring other student leaders on the trip because of their expertise on specific issues, namely college affordability and sexual assault.

On Monday, the NU delegation, along with members from the 13 other Big Ten schools, met with members of the Obama administration to discuss environmental policy, health care and the “It’s On Us” campaign.

The students will go to the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to meet Congressional staffers. They plan to meet legislative staffers from the offices of Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) — who represents Evanston — and Rep. Bob Dold (R-Ill.).

Walsh, a Communication junior, said she learned a lot about the different policy factors that impact colleges and universities around the country.

“I have also been able to give explicit, specific feedback to people who make policies, lobby for policies and advocate for policies that will directly affect Northwestern students,” she said. “I am able to give Northwestern’s opinion, my opinion, the students’ opinion to these people who have the ability to make actual, salient change not only on a city level, not only just for Northwestern students, but on a national level.” tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu

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ECF, DonorPath create fundraising project for city nonprofits

The Evanston Community Foundation, in collaboration with fundraising consulting group DonorPath, will offer a program designed to help nonprofits grow their resources, the foundation announced Friday.

NU launches new online fundraising platform for student groups

Northwestern has developed a new online tool to help student groups fundraise.

In partnership with ScaleFunder, a crowdfunding platform for universities and nonprofits, NU launched Catalyzer to allow people to donate tax-deductible gifts. All of the money donated through Catalyzer will go directly to

Across Campuses University of Michigan reverses course, will show ‘American Sniper’ After a day filled with intense controversy, the University of Michigan reversed course late Wednesday night and decided to show the movie “American Sniper” at its originally scheduled time and place.

“It was a mistake to cancel the showing of the movie ‘American Sniper’ on campus as part of a social event for students,” the statement from E. Royster Harper, the vice president of student life, said. It was sent just after 10:45 p.m. to the media.

“The initial decision to cancel the movie was not consistent with the high value the University of Michigan places on freedom of expression and our respect for the right of students to make their own choices in such matters.

“The movie will be shown at the originally scheduled time and location. We recognize, however, that some students are uncomfortable with the content of the movie, and appreciate that concern.

“Therefore, the university also will show an alternative movie, ‘Paddington,’ in another location on campus at that same time and date to provide our students with additional options that evening.”

The university had cancelled the planned showing of the Iraq war movie after some students complained about it. The movie had been planned to be shown on Friday night at a social event for students.

The Fundraising Readiness Project, which will undergo its pilot phase during May and June, is aimed toward helping local nonprofits develop and hone planning and fundraising skills, according to a news release. ECF, which has assets of approximately $20 million distributed across more than 80 funds, works to establish endowments for local organizations.

Marybeth Schroeder, ECF’s vice president of programs, said the foundation is excited to work with DonorPath to improve the structure

within various Evanston organizations.

“We’re thrilled to be able to partner on this innovative project to address a core challenge of our local nonprofits,” Schroeder said in a news release.

Throughout the project, development consultants will work individually with nonprofit leaders to assess the current state of their fundraising and establish a year-long fundraising plan. There will be no cost to participants, according to ECF. “When all nonprofits succeed — even the

small ones — we create real impact for our communities,” DonorPath founder Brian Lauterbach said in the release. “The Fundraising Readiness Project is about embracing new realities and confronting these challenges head-on.”

An informational meeting on the Fundraising Readiness Project will take place Wednesday, April 29 at One Rotary Center, 1560 Sherman Ave., at 8:15 a.m.

student-led projects and count toward NU’s $3.75 billion “We Will” campaign.

“Catalyzer gives student leaders a powerful new social media tool for raising awareness about and funds for projects, events and organizations for which they may share a common passion with other members of the Northwestern community,” said Bob McQuinn, vice president for alumni relations and development in a news release.

Thus far, four student groups have launched projects on the site.

NU Threads, a shared formal wear closet,

was created to help students acquire formal clothing for events such as job interviews and date functions. The group, which lends the clothes for free, is looking to raise $5,000 to purchase more formal wear clothing.

The Crew team set an initial goal of $15,000 to buy new boats but has since reached that mark. They have increased their goal to $25,000 to buy the necessary accessories for the boats.

The Waa-Mu Show, the largest studentwritten musical in the country, wants to raise $10,000 to help support next year’s production.

In its 84th year, this year’s show is titled, “Gold,” and is inspired by the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. The show’s organizers want to build up reserves for next year’s 85th production.

Additionally, the International Student Association aims to raise $4,000 to support students who will travel to Chincha, Peru, to help rebuild schools, community centers and homes. The city suffered a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in 2007, and the group has been sending students to Peru since 2011.

That set off a firestorm of criticism — including from Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh, who tweeted: “Michigan Football will watch “American Sniper”! Proud of Chris Kyle & Proud to be an American & if that offends anybody then so be it!”

The cancellation was announced Tuesday, following a student campaign.

Lamees Mekkaoui led the drive to get “American Sniper” tossed. She questioned why the school would play a movie that makes her uncomfortable and promotes what she and others have said are anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiments.

The drive, which included a letter signed by a couple of hundred fellow students, led the university’s Center for Campus Involvement to pull the film from its lineup of UMix events.

But when word of the movie showing being canceled became known, a backlash quickly developed, with a second petition making its rounds through the campus on Wednesday, accusing the university of censorship.

“The movie American Sniper is not about a racist mass murderer or a criminal,” that petition said. “If the University prevents a movie like this from being shown, it promotes intolerance and stifles dialogue and debate on the subject and goes directly against the atmosphere UMix purports to provide.

As adults at a public university, we should have the option to view this movie if we so choose and have the opportunity to engage on the topics it presents to come to our own conclusions on the subjects. Students should

be trusted to interact responsibly on a movie no different than any other film depicting the lives of the troops at war, such as ‘Saving Private Ryan.’”

Midafternoon Wednesday, the univerI think sity said it would show “American Sniper” at you can show it a different time and and if it offends different place with a you, then just discussion to follow. It don’t go. said it would replace it with “Paddington,” a Mary Coles, children’s movie.

University of “American Sniper,” Michigan junior directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper, is based on the autobiography of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who served in Iraq and has the most confirmed kills as a sniper in U.S. military history.

It was a major hit at the box office but drew controversy over its depiction of the prolonged war.

Mekkaoui, a sophomore at Michigan, said she’s seen the movie.

“I felt uncomfortable during it,” she told the Free Press. “As a student who identifies as an Arab and Middle Eastern student, I feel that ‘American Sniper’ condones a lot of anti-Middle Eastern and North African propaganda.”

She wrote one letter to the university’s Center for Campus Involvement, asking for it to be pulled from the schedule of Friday’s UMix event.

“I like those events,” Mekkaoui said. “I don’t

think this film fits that event, which is supposed to be fun and enjoyable. I think it should be played, but not at this event.”

She sent a second letter signed by a couple of hundred students, including some from the Muslim Student Association. Mekkaoui is a member of Students Allied for Freedom and Equality and the Middle Eastern and Arab Network at the university.

“Student reactions have clearly articulated that this is neither the venue nor the time to show this movie,” the Center for Campus involvement said in a statement it posted on Facebook and Twitter. “We deeply regret causing harm to members of our community, and appreciate the thoughtful feedback provided to us by students.

“We ... did not intend to exclude any students or communities on campus through showing this film. Nevertheless, as we know, intent and impact can be very different things. While our intent was to show a film, the impact of the content was harmful, and made students feel unsafe and unwelcome at our program.”

On campus Wednesday, many students said they didn’t have a problem with the film being shown.

“I think you can show it and if it offends you, then just don’t go,” said junior Mary Coles, 21, of East Grand Rapids. “It wasn’t like it was mandatory to go. It was just an optional event you could go to if you wanted to. Pretty easy to skip if you don’t like what they are showing.”

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Fossil Free NU. The Medill sophomore and former Daily staffer said the group’s next goal is to build a broader base of support among faculty and alumni to put more pressure on the investment committee.

Next week, McLean will also sit down with NUDivest, the student movement that wants the University to divest from six corporations that supporters say violate Palestinians’ human rights.

“We’re encouraged that he’s open to the idea of a

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to state law, only one dispensary is allowed in the area. Only 60 dispensaries are allowed throughout the state.

Teddy Scott, Pharmacann’s CEO, told The Daily in February he thought Evanston was a good fit for the dispensary because of the city’s progressive nature.

“There’s a long history of negative connotations with cannabis that we’ve all grown up with,” he said. “Evanston, we believe, is one of those places that is on the progressive side of things and more open-minded and able to recognize the benefits of this as a viable treatment for people that are in dire need of help.”

Aldermen on Monday also approved a 6-percent tax on the profits that cultivation centers make on cannabis sales to dispensaries.

Last year, Illinois enacted a law to allow cities

committee for socially responsible investment,” said Weinberg junior Noah Whinston, an NUDivest organizer.

However, Whinston said McLean made it clear such decisions ultimately rest with the Board of Trustees.

McLean referenced the University’s history of divesting from companies associated with human rights issues — NU was one of many universities to restrict investments in companies that did business in Sudan in 2005 in response to the conflict there.

McLean’s talk was the third in a series on divestment put on by NU’s Political Union. The Monday event follows a Winter Quarter panel discussion

between NUDivest and Coalition for Peace, two student groups that represent opposing sides of the Israeli divestment issue, and a panel last week about coal divestment between members of Fossil Free NU and NU College Republicans.

“At the end of last year, one of our goals was to increase awareness of campus political issues,” said Political Union co-president Alexi Stocker, a Weinberg junior. “We find students really like being able to engage and discuss with each other issues of this kind of importance.”

to tax the cultivation of medical cannabis.

Aldermen also unanimously voted to authorize the distribution of affordable housing funds to a local nonprofit that will use the money to purchase and rehabilitate units in the downtown Evanston area.

Some aldermen voiced concerns about how the $400,000, which will be donated by the developers of a residential building at 1571 Maple Ave., would be administered.

“This is an extraordinary agreement that we have reached with the developer,” Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said. “I am very concerned about turning this money to a not-for-profit to administer and rehab units in the downtown district.”

Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) agreed with Rainey and said it was a hard decision because the specific non-profit has not yet been chosen.

“It’s very difficult when the not-for-profit isn’t named,” Fiske said. “Asking us to vote on

this is difficult.”

The resolution passed, but Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) suggested the city staff talk to the housing commission about how to proceed.

City Council also bid farewell to Ald. Coleen Burrus (9th), who is stepping down as alderman to take a position at Princeton University.

Burrus thanked residents of her ward for allowing her during her time in office to prioritize fiscal responsibility, economic development, public safety and delivering municipal services.

“I’m most grateful to the 9th Ward residents that embraced my common-sense direct approach because I realized my style is not for everyone,” Burrus said. “But the 9th Ward residents got it, and I will always be thankful for that.”

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A highly anticipated Illinois Supreme Court decision will decide the fate of the law, which is currently under constitutional review. The court heard oral arguments March 11 and is pursuing an accelerated review before the state budget is due May 31. The decision will likely shape what reforms state legislators will seek for 2016, but court spokesman Joseph Tybor told The Daily a final date is still “really uncertain.”

In the meantime, Rauner’s 2016 budget proposal calls for a 50-percent cut in the local income tax allotment to reduce the Illinois debt. State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) called the plan “completely irresponsible” because of the stress it puts on local communities while potential savings from pension reform are still so uncertain.

Mark Fowler, executive director of the Northwest Municipal Conference, which represents about 1.3 million citizens in 44 municipalities and one township, said even if the income tax allotment cut does not pass, the possibility causes massive problems for local governments trying to plan for 2016. Currently, pensions can pull from income tax revenue if cities cannot pay their deficit, he said.

“When you’re either in the middle of your budget, or trying to craft a budget, how do you do that?” he said. “Do you craft a budget based on a 50 percent reductions of (income tax revenue) and hope that doesn’t happen?”

A larger pension fund would allow greater investment opportunities than small local pension funds, Fowler said. Although this would not change the size of pension payouts, investments would be able to grow faster before the payouts, decreasing the overall deficit.

Marty Lyons, Evanston’s chief financial officer and assistant city manager, said the city supports investment consolidation and looser restrictions on investment. The state currently requires the city to invest over a third of its funds in fixed income investments. Lyons said cities would benefit from being able to invest more in equities, which generate greater revenue for little extra risk.

Daugherty is less optimistic about the benefits of a larger fund but agrees restrictions need to be lifted. He said Evanston is already a large city, and a larger fund will not necessarily help shrink the deficit.

“We’re making good progress on addressing the pension debt that Evanston carries … and over the last six years have really worked with the boards to really address that problem,” he said.

“For us to pool our resources, there’s not really a benefit to us at this point.”

Lyons said he met with Evanston pension officials a few years ago, and when they talked the primary concern was that state oversight would lead to reduced coverage for injured Evanston police or firefighters.

“That group wasn’t necessarily opposed to the idea of consolidated investments,” he said. “They were opposed to the idea of total consolidated administration, meaning that they didn’t want someone at a state agency determining whether or not a police officer or a firefighter was disabled or not. (But) the short answer is the city is very much in favor of a consolidated investment fund.” kevinmathew2015@u.northwestern.edu

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fare.”

The store is meant to be a space that encourages people to interact with those they might not get to know otherwise, Reynolds said.

“Games are social experiences,” he said.

“I really want this to be a social space where everyone is welcome.”

Although living in Evanston was an incentive to opening the store in the city, Reynolds added he has friends in Dead City Productions, a Northwestern student group focused on playing board games, so he knew he would have a customer base before starting out.

Arjuna Chatrathi, a McCormick sophomore involved in Dead City Productions, said he is excited for Elysium Games to open, mostly because there is no place similar to it in Evanston.

“It’ll be a cool place to go and play games, especially since they’ll also be serving food,” Chatrathi said. “It’s also a good way to get more people interested in games without them having to invest the money on something they might not necessarily like.”

Reynolds said he hopes the store will be a success, but that no matter how it turns out, he expects to remain happy.

“Maybe in a few months, I’ll be able to hire another employee,” he said. “But if I have to work there all the time, six days a week, I’d probably be okay with that.” torilatham2017@u.northwestern.edu

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DOUBLE TROUBLE Sophomore Sam Shropshire and senior Alex Pasareanu celebrate a point. The No. 44 doubles pair helped Northwestern to victory over Iowa on Sunday.

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The Wildcats are clicking at the right time.

No. 26 Northwestern (18-7, 7-2 Big Ten) picked up two more victories this weekend and is on a six-match winning streak.

“I think we were competitive at all spots,” coach Arvid Swan said. “I was just pleased with the preparation and then how we competed throughout the weekend.”

The Cats’ weekend started with an easy 4-0 victory over Nebraska (10-11, 3-6) on Saturday. NU picked up the win without having to finish all three doubles’ matches and half of the singles’ matches.

The next day, the Cats took on No. 72 Iowa (12-8, 4-5), who put up a good fight but did not have enough to snatch the win from NU. The doubles pairing of sophomore Strong Kirchheimer and junior Fedor Baev started off hot and took a 6-0 lead in their match before eventually winning it 8-5. Sophomore Sam Shropshire and senior Alex Pasareanu brought home the doubles point for NU by claiming an 8-5 victory in their match as well.

Shropshire then sped through his singles match to get the third point of the match for the Cats, thanks to his

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6-3, 6-4 win.

“That’s what everybody’s trying to do — get that first point on the board,” Shropshire said. “Definitely gives us a lot of momentum when you hear somebody scream, ‘that’s the match!’”

Despite great play, the Hawkeyes simply could not keep up with the Cats on Sunday. NU picked up a 6-1 win, but the scoreboard did not properly show just how close the match was.

Sophomore Konrad Zieba got a point for the Cats with a 6-2, 6-3 victory, a match that was a perfect example of the score not telling the full story.

When it came to Zieba’s match against Iowa’s Dominic Patrick, he looked at mental toughness and his ability to stay positive as factors for why he walked away victoriously.

“As soon as he started getting down on himself, I kind of jumped on it,” Zieba said. “He cracked, he was missing a lot, and I made sure to take advantage

of that.”

Although two wins added to NU’s record is a big deal, the weekend also helped the team to prepare for the remainder of the season.

The Cats played outdoors for both matches, an experience that could be crucial as they get ready for the Big Ten Tournament and the NCAA Tournament. NU had to deal with Chicago wind this weekend, and although that does not make for a model environment, it does make for good practice.

“You have to be able to play good tennis in conditions that aren’t ideal,” Swan said. “We know that going forward there’s potential to play more outdoor matches. So to be able to play outdoors this weekend is great, it’s great preparation for the rest of the year.”

The Cats have won 12 of their last 14 matches and have gone 5-1 against ranked teams during that span. NU is fourth in the Big Ten, just two games behind Illinois in first place and only one game back of Ohio State and Minnesota in second place.

Although it looks like the Cats are finding their stride as they approach the final stretch, they are also looking to take their game to another level.

“We still can play better than we are,” Swan said. “We’re improving each weekend, which is the positive thing, and we still have improvement to go, so that’s exciting as well.” khadricerollins2017@u.northwestern.edu

The Wildcats emulated their form from a year ago with two dominant wins this weekend.

No. 23 Northwestern squashed No. 61 Minnesota, 7-0, and Wisconsin, 6-1, in one of its most impressive weekends of the season.

“I think we can use this weekend as a catalyst for the future,” freshman Alex Chatt said.

The Cats have now won their past five Big Ten matches and eight of their past 10 overall.

Junior Alicia Barnett had a particularly strong weekend. She has struggled filling the graduated Veronica Corning’s shoes this season since being promoted from third to first singles.

“It has been frustrating, but it’s to be expected,” Barnett said. “Coming from three and having a perfect record in the Big Ten to playing one and losing is obviously going to be quite demoralizing at times.”

This weekend is the first time since February 14 and 15 against Penn State and Purdue that Barnett has won both her matches in one weekend.

She won two three-setters, first 6-4, 5-7, 10-5 over Minnesota’s Tereza Brichacova on Saturday, and then 7-5, 3-6, 10-6 against Wisconsin’s Lauren Chypyha on Sunday.

“Going 2-0 and winning both of her breakers hopefully will give her a push forward,” coach Claire Pollard said. “I talked to (Barnett) and said, ‘Maybe you can’t always win, but you can always grow and learn from this experience, and you can always be a better player as a result.”

The freshmen were impressive as well with a 5-1 overall record. Erin Larner shined with a 6-0, 7-6 (4) victory over

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Minnesota’s Caroline Ryba and a 6-4, 6-0 win over Wisconsin’s Maria Avgerinos.

Alex Chatt also won both her matches in straight sets and Rheeya Doshi pulled out a tight come-from-behind three-setter, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (1), over Minnesota’s Julia Courter.

Senior Lok Sze Leung looked as impressive as Larner with victories against Minnesota’s Aria Lambert and Wisconsin’s Lauren Burich.

Most importantly, NU put on a show in doubles.

Since winter break, the Cats have rolled over the competition. They’ve won the doubles point in every Big Ten matchup in the spring season.

This weekend, NU won four of its six doubles matchups and led in a fifth before play was suspended.

“Now that we’ve stabilized our doubles lineup,” Pollard said, “we’re constantly getting wins from all over the place.”

No. 39 Barnett and Larner won 8-6 and led 7-4, No. 70 Doshi and sophomore Brooke Rischvbieth split their matches, and Chatt and Leung cruised with a pair of victories.

The Cats return to action next weekend for their final matches of the regular season against Iowa and Nebraska. alexanderlederman2017@u.northwestern.edu

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FLAWLESS PERFORMANCE Lok Sze Leung returns a shot. The senior won both her singles matches and both her doubles matches over the weekend as Northwestern went undefeated.

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NU bests Big Ten rivals but finishes 8th at Kepler

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For the third time in as many events, Northwestern was forced to battle back after a sluggish start, this time at the Kepler Intercollegiate in Columbus, Ohio.

Although head coach David Inglis and some players spoke earlier in the week about the importance of coming out faster than in previous tournaments, a tough first nine holes in the event’s opening round proved once again to be the Wildcats’ primary obstacle in competing for a top-5 finish. A hard-fought final two rounds allowed the team to finish a respectable eighth out of 14 teams, but NU’s early struggles had Inglis lamenting what could have been.

“There’s no question that the first nine holes of the event were the worst that we played all weekend, which is really too bad because our guys battled hard out there for all three rounds,” he said. “They came

out with a lot of energy for that final round, but we just shot ourselves in the foot a bit early on.”

The event was not without its bright spots for the Cats, as three of its usual standouts finished inside the tournament’s top-20. Senior Matt Negri posted a score of 6-over 219 to finish tied for 18th, while freshman Dylan Wu and junior Josh Jamieson each tied for 20th with a pair of 7-over 220s.

Despite the trio’s efforts, an inability to card a fourth low score ultimately hurt the team total.

“Any time you have three guys in the top-20, that’s something you have to be happy with,” Inglis said.

“We just really needed a strong fourth performance to pick up a few shots and maybe jump up the leaderboard a couple places, but unfortunately we didn’t get that.”

Yet even these solid finishes were tinged with disappointment. Each of the three was prevented from finishing even higher by one of their three rounds on the weekend.

Negri and Jamieson both struggled out of the gate, posting rounds of 76 and 77, respectively, in

the event’s first round. Although Wu began the tournament considerably better, his first round score of 1-under 70 was partially spoiled by a second round 76.

For Jamieson, a Scotland native, the early inconsistency was even more disappointing because of how closely the wet conditions and layout of the course mimicked those he grew up with.

“I tend to play some of my best golf when it’s like that because that’s what I’m used to,” he said. “Honestly I didn’t play particularly poorly in any of the three rounds, I just really struggled getting putts to fall on that first day.”

The Cats are now just two weeks from the Big Ten Championships, the event they have had their eyes on from the start of the spring. The Kepler Intercollegiate offered them a good indication of where they stand within the conference, with six other Big Ten teams competing in the event.

NU defeated four of those teams, including a strong Maryland squad the Cats previously fell to at Big Ten Match Play in February. Only Ohio State and

Michigan finished higher in Columbus.

“It’s always nice to be able to beat your conference rivals, and I think it definitely gives you some measure of confidence,” Wu said. “Still though, our goal is to compete to win the tournament, so that’s what we have to keep working towards.”

Despite the Cats’ recent string of middling results, history has shown the hotly contested Big Ten Championships are often anyone’s for the taking. Not only does the winner of the event earn a conference title, but a coveted automatic bid to the NCAA Championships is at stake as well.

Inglis and his team need only look back to last year to find reason for optimism.

“If you remember last season, you had a team in Minnesota that hadn’t really been playing that well towards the end of the season, but then they just went out and lit it up and won a Big Ten title,” he said. “It just goes to show that all that needs to happen is for us to get hot at the right time and we can do it too.” tylervandermolen2018@u.northwestern.edu