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Profs submit major proposal Asian-American studies major to face faculty review

By FATHMA RAHMAN

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Weinberg faculty read the Asian American-studies major proposal for the first time Wednesday at a faculty meeting following a 20-year history of campus activism for the program’s creation.

Professors Ji-Yeon Yuh, Nitasha Sharma and Shalini Shankar from the Asian American Studies Program developed the proposal as part of the Weinberg-specific process to introduce new majors to the school. Yuh led the initiative, authoring and guiding the proposal in accordance to Weinberg’s curricular policy guidelines, Sharma said.

“This one has been extremely challenging because it’s been 20 years in the making,” Shankar said. “But these final steps have been better because of the timing of when we proposed it, in addition to so much public support — from the student body especially.”

Weinberg’s guidelines first require a reading of the proposal, which was publicly introduced at the Weinberg faculty meeting on Wednesday for question and comment. Sharma said ideally, the AsianAmerican major would debut in the fall for students to declare as a major.

The proposal is not an open-ended

“petition” for the major — it’s the contents of the major, Sharma said. It provides a general overview of reasons the faculty believe the major is important, as well as specific courses that students will be asked to take and the list of requirements they must meet.

“There was no negative sentiment toward the major (at the meeting),” Sharma said. “In the next faculty meeting, the faculty will vote — so it looks like it is going to happen.”

Weinberg senior Kevin Luong spearheaded a student petition for the major in Oct. 2015. The petition, which is no longer collecting signatures, has amassed 707.

Student campaign for the major stems from a student activist push from the 1990s, in which students staked out The Rock for 23 days in a hunger strike.

“We haven’t put forth this proposal until now, and that’s key as well,” Sharma said. “Part of that has to do with the devaluation of Asian American Studies with regard to our understaffing. We’re a small program and we’re not granted any more tenure track lines than we already have.”

Luong said he joined in on leading the movement last year because he wanted to build upon his experience in the existing minor of the Asian American Studies Program.

“It was really amazing and inspiring for me to learn about those specific narratives in class,” Luong said. “My classes became a lot more involved with one » See PROPOSAL, page 6

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WORK IN PROGRESS Students gather before marching to Sodexo administrative offices in solidarity with food service workers at NU in November. Contract negotiations between the workers’ union and Sodexo are still ongoing despite student pressure.

Sodexo, workers still in talks Admins refuse comment on negotiations

By RISHIKA DUGYALA

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Administrators declined to comment about the ongoing negotiations between Sodexo and the Northwestern dining hall workers’ union despite a recent student protest.

Robert Buzz Doyle, the Sodexo general manager for campus dining, said he could

not speak on the ongoing labor negotiations or the protests by the students, in which they delivered a petition calling for support of workers’ rights. However, he said it was “fantastic that the students love the workers and want to be involved.”

Doyle also said Sodexo and Northwestern Dining are very committed to workforce development and building a diverse as well as inclusive team. Creating a positive working relationship is a priority, Doyle said.

“Are there going to be hiccups?” Doyle said. “Yes. But we value all of our employees and Sodexo values this particular contract with Northwestern University.”

Vicky Scheerer (Weinberg ’11) is an organizer with UNITE HERE Local 1, the union negotiating with Sodexo. Scheerer said that although the students do not currently have other events planned on the workers’ behalf, additional negotiation » See SODEXO, page 6

City to downsize committees CTA ridership grows

By ROBIN OPSAHL

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City officials began the process of consolidating its 46 committees and commissions this month, hoping to cut the number of committees down by as much as half.

City Council’s Rules Committee discussed consolidation at their meeting Jan. 4 after hearing an annual report on the city’s boards,

commissions and committees. City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz said the goal of consolidation is to make sure citizens volunteering are getting good use out of their time and able to actively participate in community processes.

“Some committees are just reading reports and not getting to recommend anything to Council, and that’s frustrating,” Bobkiewicz said.

“We want committees that can be as action-oriented as possible.”

Bobkiewicz said the process of

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COMMITTED City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz attends City Council.

Evanston officials are planning to downsize the number of committees in an effort to streamline decision-making.

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consolidation would center around finding overlap between different committees and combining them without removing any community voices. Cities of similar size, such as Madison, Wisconsin and Pasadena, California, often have about 20 committees, but often don’t have as much community engagement as Evanston, Bobkiewicz said.

“We have between 350 and 400 people serving on boards and commissions in Evanston,” he said. “A lot of committees means a lot of people get heard. But we have to make sure we aren’t wasting their time.”

Although the number of committees allow for more voices in government, it also makes it harder for people to work effectively, especially in areas of overlap between committees, said Oscar Murillo, an International City/County Management Association local government management fellow in Evanston.

“When you have so many commissions and boards it’s a little more difficult to get people to commit to doing things when others are trying to do the same actions,” he said.

Murillo also said the number of committees presented a transparency issue for Evanston. With so much work being done over the span » See COMMITTEES, page 6

after NU partnership

By TORI LATHAM

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New data suggests students and faculty seem to not miss the Ryan Field shuttle, which was replaced by the Chicago Transit Authority’s 201 bus in September.

The free rides for WildCARDholders contributed to an increase in ridership on the 201 route by 19 percent during the weekdays and 14 percent on Saturdays for the months September through November, CTA spokesperson Jeffrey Tolman told The Daily.

“It’s been trending upward every month since we started, and that is absolutely correlated to the CTA’s partnership with Northwestern,” Tolman said. “We have heard extremely positive feedback.”

The CTA announced last July it would allow NU students and employees to ride the 201 route — which follows Central Street and Ridge Avenue — for free starting Sept. 1. That month alone, there were more than 10,000 one-way rides taken by NU students and employees, said Paul Merkey, NU’s transportation services manager. Typically,

3,000 to 3,500 people would ride the Ryan Field shuttle in a month, marking a significant increase in ridership.

“It was good for all of September, and especially very good for that first month when students weren’t even back to campus yet,” Merkey said.

When the plans for the service were first announced, University officials emphasized the reduction in traffic that would occur by taking the Ryan Field shuttle off the road and the increased service offered by the CTA route — including the availability of transportation on Saturdays.

Marge Grzeszczuk, University Services’ manager of support services, said additional service is always being requested by the NU community.

The 201 route provides service to the Westfield Old Orchard shopping center and the CTA’s Howard Street station. Because the CTA bus provides more hours than the Ryan Field shuttle, it also gives faculty and staff an additional hour of time to commute, Grzeszczuk said.

New attributes, like the environmental impact of eliminating a shuttle and the community relationship the partnership promotes, also became apparent once the service began. » See CTA, page 6

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Evanston to commemorate MLK Day Programming will focus on arts, community service

By BEN WINCK

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Several city institutions will host a variety of events focused on the arts and community service throughout the coming week to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Many of the events will take place Sunday and Monday — the official holiday — at the Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Ave., to commemorate the life and spirit of King, who is remembered for his influence on the Civil Rights Movement. Northwestern is encouraging students to assist in various service projects throughout Evanston and Chicago.

EPL’s programming on Monday will include activities for children such as a peace tree craft and sing-along that emphasizes Dr. King’s impact on social justice.

Laura Antolin, EPL’s children’s outreach librarian and one of the event’s coordinators, said the library places great significance on teaching Evanston youth about King’s life and work because it can have a large impact on how they grow up.

“When the kids hear Dr. King’s words,

Police Blotter Police increase patrolling around area of suspected gang activity An anonymous source texted the Evanston Police Department tip line early Thursday morning to report a sighting of several suspected gang members, of which one or more were allegedly armed, police said.

Police officers checked the location in the 100 block of Callan Avenue but found no gang

they’re in awe,” Antolin said. “They walk away with a sense of knowing what they want to do.

They know they can make a difference. There’s a mission for them to do.”

The theme of service and altruism, two core tenets of King’s message, will be touched on at several of these events. Lesley Williams, EPL’s head of Anyone adult services, said familiar with the focus on community service perfectly King knows he fits a weekend celwas about a ebrating the activist.

“Anyone familiar lot more than with King knows he being nice and was about a lot more than being nice and holding hands. holding hands,” WilLesley Williams, liams said. “He was EPL’s head of adult about confronting services inequity.”

Williams will also lead a discussion Saturday at the FleetwoodJourdain Community Center following a screening of the movie “Chi-Raq,” Spike Lee’s controversial 2015 film that focuses on gang violence in Chicago.

The screening is just one component of

Fleetwood-Jourdain’s planned festivities for the day.

Titled “Day of Celebration,” the community center will host guest speakers Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and former Mayor Lorraine H. Morton along with the Evanston Children’s Choir and a duet by the Evanston Dance Ensemble.

There will also be a community discussion of King’s work and issues of race in modern society with Black Lives Matter Chicago and Making Evanston Equal Together (MEET) in attendance.

City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz emphasized how the weekend takes a creative approach and uses the arts to positively look back on King’s achievements.

“It’s a celebration,” Bobkiewicz said. “Rather than have individuals speaking, we have arts groups really celebrate. This weekend is truly a celebration of his life and leadership.”

Williams said the goal of the events is to turn attention toward King’s ethos of advocacy.

“I think Evanston has always been associated with a certain amount of social action and activism,” said Williams. “It’s a day to look toward what we can do.”

members or weapons, EPD spokesman Perry Polinski said.

There have been multiple gang and gunrelated reports recently throughout the city, including a shooting Tuesday night at Mulford Street and Custer Avenue, so police have increased patrolling in the area, Polinski said.

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The 54-year-old man attempted to steal infant formula from the store, 2485 Howard St., but was arrested at the scene, Polinski said.

A 30-year-old loss prevention representative for Jewel Osco alerted police to the crime around 3:05 p.m., and the man was arrested about 20 minutes later, Polinski said.

The Evanston resident is currently awaiting trial.

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Man arrested for stealing baby formula

An Evanston man was arrested Tuesday for retail theft at a Jewel Osco grocery store,

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NU appoints Philip Harris as new general counsel New vice president and general counsel brings years of NU ties to role

By ISABELLA JIAO

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Philip Harris was just appointed vice president and general counsel at Northwestern, but he said he still finds himself at the same Burger King as his days as an undergraduate student.

Previously a member of the Board of Trustees for 25 years, Harris said in some ways, the University remains the same school that led him to continue to serve NU after he graduated. Although he noted impressive changes since his time as a student, such as the increasing diversity of the student body, he said he is surprised the Rebecca Crown Center — home to his new office — has remained the same.

“It’s interesting to think that I was once a student going to Burger King for lunch and now I’m in the administration and still going to Burger King for lunch,” Harris said.

Now, Harris said he is ready to take on issues at NU on more day-to-day basis as an administrator. In his new job, he serves as attorney for the University and manages a variety of legal problems such as employment issues, workers’ compensation claims and issues related to the football program.

Most importantly, he will help to anticipate potential legal problems and work on preemptive measures,

MacArthur Fellow William Dichtel to join chemistry department

MacArthur Fellow William Dichtel will join Northwestern this summer as a chemistry professor in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the university announced Thursday.

Dichtel, who is currently a professor at Cornell University, brings his experience as

he said.

“We are not just responding to the needs of the University, but we are proactive in identifying ways to move forward,” Harris said.

Harris comes in after working at Jenner & Block, where he represented large companies as the lead attorney in commercial disputes — experience that Harris said will serve him well as the chief legal officer for NU. “I’ve spent most of my first week on the job listening to the members of my staff, to the president, to the president’s team, to determine how we can make

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(He has) great intellectual capacity combined with an abiding love for Northwestern.

Nim Chinniah, University executive vice president

this office better,” Harris said.

Nim Chinniah, NU’s executive vice president who worked with Harris when he was on the Board of Trustees, described Harris as a “very talented lawyer” who is “extremely thoughtful” and particularly in tune with U.S. higher education. “(He has) great intellectual capacity combined an organic chemist and his research in porous polymers to NU. His work focuses on turning his research into practical applications that can be used in daily life.

“I look forward to collaborating with worldclass faculty in chemistry, materials science and other disciplines,” Dichtel said in a news release. “My research team’s expertise in organic and polymer chemistry will contribute further strength in these areas and bring about new collaborations across the University.”

Dichtel’s research in new materials at the

with an abiding love for Northwestern,” Chinniah said.

After receiving his law degree from the University of Chicago, Harris first worked on cases in Iowa, his home state, and then in Chicago. Harris said during his time as a law school student all he wanted to do was to try cases.

“My goal was to become a really top-notch trial attorney,” Harris said.

However, since 2008, his career has morphed from being a trial attorney to counseling clients. To Harris, though, offering counsel is just as fulfilling as defending in court.

“It’s exciting when you feel that you’ve helped someone, ” Harris said. “(The clients) are very grateful, and that’s very rewarding.”

Harris also has spent a lot of his professional life focused on diversity and inclusion in large law firms.

The administration’s vision for increasing diversity at NU, he said, is one of the biggest reasons he’s excited to be part of the administrative team.

Chinniah said he was “thrilled” for Northwestern to have Harris as the general counsel and expected to learn a lot working beside a great colleague and friend.

“He is the right person at the right time for us,” Chinniah said. yawenjiao2019@u.northwestern.edu nanoscale has helped to develop materials for water purification and energy storage, among other things.

Through these innovations, there is the potential to create batteries that charge in seconds, materials that rapidly remove water pollutants and systems that detect explosives in the air.

In addition to being named a MacArthur Fellow last year, Dichtel has received several awards and accolades, among which include the National Fresenius Award, a Cottrell Scholar

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Award and the Sloan Research Fellowship.

However, the benefits of Dichtel coming to NU will extend beyond his research, Chemistry Prof. Peter Stair said in the release.

“In addition to his tremendous accomplishments and vision in research, Will is a committed and innovative teacher,” said Stair, the department’s chair. “The undergraduates will love him. He is a spectacular addition to the chemistry department and Northwestern.”

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New calendar proposed by task force is flawed TIM BALK

DAILY COLUMNIST

When I read Monday’s news that the 2015 Faculty Task Force on the Undergraduate Academic Experience recommended a revamp to Northwestern’s academic schedule, the change to the schedule initially looked appealing to me. The proposed “10-5-5-10” calendar would bring NU students to campus in late August and provide them with a 10 to 14-day break halfway through Winter Quarter.

There are clear benefits to such a schedule realignment, and I immediately considered the fact that the new schedule would bring students to campus in time for the start of football season. Think of all the NU students who would have gotten to enjoy the Stanford game this year if such a schedule was in place!

But a further examination of the schedule change led me to a blunt conclusion: It is a bad idea.

Slapping a break in the middle of Winter Quarter would be a logistical nightmare and a stress inducer.

For all its strengths — and I am certainly a

proponent of the quarter system — NU’s calendar turns each academic period into a mad rush, with professors trying to work minimiracles and impart a semester’s worth of knowledge in a hellishly fast-paced 10-week period. The ultimate result is often a dizzying dash to the finish line, with professors struggling to deal with the obstacles created by various holidays (such as the upcoming Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) and zany class times.

Placing a break in the middle of Winter Quarter would compound those issues, creating a pair of even more fraught five-week periods before and after the holidays. Neither students nor professors would find scheduling around such a break easy.

Furthermore, the revamped schedule would likely exacerbate the very problems it is intended to correct.

Student stress and mental health are huge problems at NU, and the task force proposed changes that might help to alleviate such issues, including the expansion of Counseling and Psychological Services, making the first quarter of classes a pass/fail term and allowing students a 13th quarter of financial aid.

All good ideas.

The schedule change, though, would likely increase academic stress and rob students of a true winter vacation.

Even if the break between the two fiveweek periods was officially assignment-free,

students would spend the holidays with the cloud of half-completed classes hanging over their heads, assuming that 10-week classes were still offered during Winter Quarter.

Many classes at NU are cumulative or involve projects that need to be started well before the midpoint in the quarter.

A student starting slowly in a course might feel compelled to play catch up during the break; another just beginning to understand a difficult subject would find his or her momentum broken by an awkward intermission in an already compressed term. Students would inevitably find themselves doing work, or at least worrying about work, throughout the holiday break.

A break halfway through Winter Quarter would not only be academically suspect, it would also cause problems for professors who wish to assign longer term projects or cumulative finals.

Five-week, half-credit classes have also been suggested for the winter session. I personally question the effectiveness of such short classes.

As hard as it is to fully explore a subject in 10 weeks, it would be even harder in five.

From a purely academic perspective, the schedule proposal is a nightmare.

I recognize the adjustments to the schedule would help facilitate internship and study abroad opportunities currently made

impossible by NU’s unique schedule. Still, such benefits should not come at the expense of learning or mental health.

I applaud the task force for thinking outside the box, and making a modest suggestion for improving an imperfect academic calendar.

Many of their other suggestions are wise, and the fact that they considered student feedback in forming their recommendations is quite commendable.

The quarter system carries with it a variety of inherent problems, along with the benefits of the opportunity to try more classes and get bad classes over quickly. Chief among those problems is the high pressure atmosphere, which I think might be reduced by a change to the three-class-per-quarter standard used at Dartmouth College.

The proposed schedule, on the other hand, will only exacerbate student stress and get in the way of students and professors. All three regular academic quarters should be consistent in setup and duration.

Tim Balk is a Medill sophomore. He can be contacted at timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

The importance of accepting, embracing alone time SARA HALLORAN

DAILY COLUMNIST

The majority of my normal college day is spent alone.

If you told my high school self that as a college sophomore, my day-to-day interactions are mainly with my classmates, she’d certainly be disappointed. I wasn’t the most popular, but I would interact with my close circle of friends throughout the day. Even if we didn’t have classes together, we’d congregate over lunch or visit each other in study hall. Not a day went by in which I didn’t see them. Besides, I had always thought that college, with its schedule more flexible than my rigid, seven-hour high school day, would mean more facetime with my friends. We could virtually — or actually, if we chose to be roommates — live together.

And yet, thanks to our various extracurriculars, homework assignments and jobs, I now regularly go half a week without seeing my friends in person.

In fact, learning how to be alone may be the most important skill I’ve picked up in college. This isn’t to be confused with independence, a quality that is almost inevitably adopted once parents are no longer around.

Being alone is slightly harder to master, especially since it is a state so closely associated with loneliness. However, accepting aloneness has made me feel freer, rather than abandoned — I can go see a movie, have a meal or even work out by myself, all of which would have mortified me in high school.

I know if I truly feel uncomfortable, I can summon a friend with a quick text. But it’s reassuring to me that the single most important person in my life is myself — I know I’ll never feel completely helpless on my own.

I know most people aren’t as introverted as I am, meaning they, unlike me, may not rely on that alone time to recharge. It’s important

to maintain relationships that strengthen you, and if you’re an extrovert, this may include a large number of friends and even acquaintances. However, the healthiest extroverts I know find that people gravitate toward them due to their confidence and strong senses of self, traits that are only cultivated through self-acceptance. Wherever you fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum, sooner or later, you’ll have to spend time by yourself. There is no need to meditate or think deeply during this time — if you simply find a way to feel at ease, you’ll eventually begin to see new value in “me time.”

Truthfully, much of adult life — at least, young adulthood — is spent alone. Almost all college friends go separate ways after graduation, and, after a tiring nine-to-five workday, it may not always be possible or practical to meet with friends. Thankfully, technology enables us to converse with our friends remotely (a skill that adolescents and young adults have been honing for years now). The ease with which we can connect

Mental illness should not be a criminal act ALEX DALY

GUEST COLUMNIST

On Jan. 29, 2010, Aaron Campbell might have been suicidal. “Don’t make me get my gun, I’m serious,” he texted his girlfriend. She called 911, and his aunt had made a similar call that afternoon. Portland City police officers responded, presumably to ensure that Campbell wasn’t a risk to himself or to others. But after a breakdown in communication between Campbell and the police, the police shot Campbell multiple times with a beanbag gun and eventually fatally shot him in the back. “His back was my intended target,” the officer who shot him later testified.

Campbell died as an unarmed black man.

His death reflects the complicated issue of the criminalization of mental illness. This is a problem without a simple answer because the fact that Campbell was black and unarmed puts him in the minority of police shootings involving the mentally ill. In more than half of such cases, recently tallied by The Washington Post in 2015, the victims are usually white and armed.

Campbell’s case may have been a race issue, but there is another problem we can implicate in his death: Officers are often ill-equipped to deal with incidents of severe emotional distress, and as a result, they run the risk of escalating violent

situations to deadly consequences.

A sweeping criticism of police is tempting in these situations, and this type of criticism is necessary in Campbell’s case considering the officer’s reinstatement in the Portland Police Bureau on Dec. 30. But a more productive approach toward the broader issue of police response to these individuals is to look inward at our society as a whole and the way we treat mental health issues. It is true there are cases where suspects pose a threat to officers, but aiming guns and shouting at the irrational and mentally disturbed can sometimes bring their violent tendencies to the forefront. So when an armed suspect threatens the police, how are the police to respond?

And so the issue deepens.

A 2013 joint report by the Treatment Advocacy Center and the National Sheriffs’ Association looked at cases between 1980 and 2008, and found that people with a history of mental illness accounted for just over half of those shot by police during this period. The Washington Post placed this number at about a quarter.

Stigmatization of mental health concerns is undoubtedly a factor at play, because it prevents many from receiving the treatment they need. That those who need treatment often fail to receive it before matters get out of hand is a grave injustice responsible for setting in motion a series of events that result in tragedy. The police response is only part of the problem. We should also level blame at the societal failure to adequately deal with mental illness before confrontation. We’ve outsourced crisis intervention,

essentially, to what Toronto Star columnist Royson James calls “social workers, with guns.”

To be sure, we should be asking critical questions about the way that suicidal, schizophrenic and psychotic incidents are handled by armed officers. In Campbell’s case, the police are to blame for introducing greater and unnecessary degrees of violence into a sensitive situation that would have benefited immensely from greater attention from trained professionals. Instead, the medical professional to last greet Campbell was a medical examiner, and this is too often the case.

In other cases, where individuals present legitimate threats, we should be asking ourselves what allowed these situations to happen in the first place. Could it have been the failure of a mental health care infrastructure? Or could it be that police officers are not psychiatrists and that prisons are not psychiatric hospitals? These are the questions worth our attention if we want to solve the often unacknowledged crisis of the treatment of the mentally ill. It boils down to the fact that mental illness is a health issue before it becomes a criminal one. And if we look closely enough, I’m confident we’ll find more than the police to blame.

Alex Daly is a Weinberg junior. He can be contacted AlexDaly2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

with our human network means we have the ability to never be lonely, but we may still face a large amount of time alone. The sooner we can adapt to this imminent change by making alone time our own, the better, meaning college is a perfect opportunity to acclimate.

I’m lucky in that, even at this early stage in my undergraduate career, I can see some of the friendships I’ve made here becoming lifelong connections. My close friends are hilarious, caring and undoubtedly make my life better. But we have our own separate, busy lives, meaning that tonight, I’ll most likely eat dinner alone. And I am more than okay with that.

Sara Halloran is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at sarahalloran2018@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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ETHS delivers update on partnership with Northwestern

About three and a half years after a formal partnership was established between Evanston Township High School and Northwestern, ETHS announced Thursday that the collaboration, initially focused on STEM programming, has grown to incorporate more than 70 projects.

ETHS District 202’s Board of Education heard a formal update Monday on the partnership, which was established in September 2012 as part of University President Morton Schapiro’s Good Neighbor, Great University initiative. The program initially focused on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education, but has grown to include all academic subjects, college preparedness, and social and cultural activities, according to a news release from ETHS. Kristen Perkins, partnership coordinator for NU and ETHS, focused on three programs in particular according to the release: Women in STEM (WiSTEM), ETHS students enrolling in NU classes, and tutoring, teaching and

NU promotes Stephanie Graham to associate VP

Northwestern has promoted deputy general counsel Stephanie Graham to associate vice president, Philip Harris, the University’s vice president and general counsel, announced Thursday.

Graham, an alumna of the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago Law School, joined NU in 1993 as an assistant general counsel.

She previously worked in private practice, and is currently a member of the bar in Illinois.

Since joining the University, Graham has served as both NU’s associate general counsel and deputy general counsel, a role she will retain along with her new position.

Graham is an adjunct instructor in the School of Education and Social Policy, and

mentoring opportunities for NU students at the high school.

“This unique and effective model of towngown relationships has garnered interest from other universities and schools around the country for best practices in collaborative partnership,” Perkins said in the release.

Monday’s report showed a drastic increase in participation in these programs, with the number of students in WiSTEM growing from nine in 2013 to over 140 in 2016. ETHS student enrollment in NU classes extended into summer programming and tutoring opportunities at the high school were expanded into multiple subject areas, according to the release.

“Students and faculty at ETHS and NU have unparalleled opportunities because of a gifted partnership coordinator, a visionary university president, and faculty and students with abundant love of learning and creativity who continue proposing and developing more and more meaningful projects and relationships,” District 202 Superintendent Eric Witherspoon said in the release. “This is a win for ETHS, a win for NU and a win for our entire community.

I am so grateful.”

— Marissa Page

she has also served on a variety of committees, including the strategic planning committee and the leadership and ethics task force.

During her time as deputy general counsel, she has developed expertise in litigation and counseling regarding a variety of issues, including hiring discrimination, Title IX issues, athletics and affirmative action issues relating to admissions and financial aid.

Graham’s promotion comes around the same time that Harris, a University trustee for the past 25 years, named vice president and general counsel.

“Stephanie Graham is a true legal scholar and a gifted leader with a deep understanding of the complex legal issues in higher education,” Harris said in the release. “She will continue to play a key leadership role in the Office of General Counsel.”

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Iran’s detention of US sailors sets off debate over nuclear deal WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday defended the Obama administration’s handling of the brief detention of 10 U.S. sailors whose vessels had strayed into Iranian waters, an episode that critics of the Iran nuclear deal seized upon as proof that Tehran shouldn’t be trusted.

Iran released them about 16 hours in custody, during which time the Americans were provided with food and blankets, but also were filmed in prisoner-style conditions, according to videos released by Iranian news agencies.

The Obama administration portrayed the outcome as a diplomatic victory; critics of the Iran nuclear deal considered the whole affair indicative of the risks in letting a longtime pariah back into the international fold.

“I think we can all imagine how a similar situation might have played out three or four years ago,” Kerry said in remarks before a mostly military audience at National Defense University in Washington. “In fact, it is clear that today this kind of issue was able to be peacefully resolved and efficiently resolved and that is a testament to the critical role that diplomacy plays in keeping our country safe, secure and strong.”

Much of the anger was directed at the perceived audacity of the move — seizing uniformed Americans and showing them subjugated on camera just as President Barack Obama touted the Iran deal as a foreign policy success in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. That deal, which offers Iran sanctions relief in exchange for dismantling key parts of its nuclear program, is to go into effect in “the coming days,” Kerry said.

In video footage circulated by Iranian outlets, the U.S. sailors are shown with their hands up and one apologizes on camera, prompting questions of whether Iran had violated Geneva Convention codes for the treatment of detainees. U.S. officials say the Department of Defense is debriefing the sailors about the videos and that it would be premature to say whether any Geneva violation had been committed.

Politicians who are against dealing with Iran accused the administration of hastily assessing that the sailors had been treated well. Some

called for a review of the nuclear deal in light of Iran’s actions. Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., said “Congress and the president should not be swayed by Iran’s intentional attempts to humiliate America.”

“Iran’s capture of these sailors raises serious questions about the Iranian regime and what it will take for the Obama administration to understand that Iran is not a partner in peace,” Pompeo said in a statement. “How many American service members does Iran would have to capture? How many U.N. resolutions does Iran have to violate?”

The incident at sea wouldn’t delay implementation of the Iran nuclear deal, administration officials said.

A senior State Department official, speaking to reporters on condition of anonymity as per department protocol, said that Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif talked by phone more than five times over the course of 10 hours, a demonstration of the close working relationship they’ve developed through the negotiations.

The official, speaking on a conference call with reporters, gave a brief synopsis of the tense hours leading up to the sailors’ release.

He said Kerry was in the middle of a meeting Tuesday with Defense Secretary Ash Carter and the Filipino ministers of defense and foreign affairs when he was alerted. Staff members did an initial round of fact-finding and then briefed Kerry at about 12:30 p.m.

As it happened, the official said, Kerry already had planned to speak to Zarif at about 12:45 p.m. as part of their regular contact, though this conversation “obviously was going to take on a different nature and a different degree of importance.”

The official, like others across the administration, insisted that Kerry didn’t apologize to Zarif at any point, though Kerry did offer an explanation. He told Zarif that the sailors were in transit between Kuwait and Bahrain and had experienced some sort of mechanical failure.

U.S. officials lost touch with the vessels, which ended up in Iranian waters, near Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf.

“We did explain that this was basically a routine transit mission, that it had no way — had in no way intended to end up anywhere on Farsi Island or in Iranian territorial waters,” the official said.

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of so many groups, what actions the boards are taking or recommending to the council can become inaccessible for the community.

Currently, Bobkiewicz and city officials are working on a report to present to the council on what the various committees do, and possible plans for which committees could be combined. After that, the process of implementation, which could take up to a year, would begin with recommendations from the council and the public.

Martha Logan, the city’s community engagement manager, said although she hasn’t heard much from community members about this

CTA

From page 1 “By taking the Ryan Field shuttle off the streets, there is one less bus driving around and putting emissions into the air,” Merkey said. “It also had a very good, positive impact with city town-gown relations.”

Evanston officials did admit they were more on the periphery of the decision between the CTA and NU, but City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz praised the partnership in an email to The Daily.

“It was an outstanding decision by NU to leverage the existing resource of the CTA bus,” Bobkiewicz said. “It is great for traffic and

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From page 1 sessions have been scheduled and she hopes a positive agreement will be reached soon.

Director of dining Ken Field also declined to comment on the ongoing negotiations. Field wrote in an email to The Daily that it would not be appropriate

FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2016 process yet, getting feedback will be crucial in the process.

“The initial plan being worked on is just the first step,” Logan said. “After that, getting a community perspective is key, especially from residents that are very active.”

A plan for consolidation and implementation of Evanston committees will be presented in March, Bobkiewicz said. A more comprehensive look at what committees will be affected and how many will be outlined in the report at that meeting.

“We aren’t doing this to devalue work community does,” Bobkiewicz said. “It’s just to make the hard work as meaningful as possible.”

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another after taking ethnic studies classes because I could apply not only my own experiences, but the experiences of those who are typically not represented in such fields.”

The proposal cites the number of current minors, which is at almost 30, and the number of ad hoc majors in Asian American Studies as well as the enrollment in the Asian American Studies Program, all of which show demand for the major — which is what the administration wants to see, Sharma said.

However, this push for another major doesn’t

just apply to Asian-American studies, Luong said.

It applies to an entire progression of ethnic studies at Northwestern. All groups and students should push for all others to be represented under ethnic studies, he said. “(The lack of major) really reflects the devaluation and silencing of Asian-Americans at large in American society,” Sharma said. “When we think about race, we think about black and white, and these are not contentious — having African-American studies, Native American studies, Latin-American studies. They go hand in hand and should all be seen as academically rigorous fields of study.” fathmarahman2019@u.northwestern.edu

robinopsahl2018@u.northwestern.edu the environment to get one bus off Evanston streets.”

NU’s contract with the CTA for the 201 bus route will expire in 2020, but Grzeszczuk said NU is always looking into opportunities to combine services, especially after seeing the benefits this partnership provided to the community.

The CTA has also been pleased with the collective results of the pact, Tolman said.

“This agreement exemplifies the value of private and public partnerships,” he said. “It brings together local neighborhoods with the school for a positive community impact.” torilatham2017@u.northwestern.edu for him to give his opinion on the situation while it was still in process.

Weinberg senior Kevin Luong, who was a part of the protests but not the negotiations, said the current situation has not changed much.

The petition, which garnered more than 1,000 signatures, expressed support for measures including increased wages, benefits for part-time employees

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and a guaranteed 40-hour work week. The petition also raised concerns about disputed reports of disrespect by Sodexo supervisors.

Luong, who helped deliver the petition to the Sodexo office, said he disapproved of the lack of clarity in how Northwestern Dining responded to student concerns.

“I think (the organization of dining at NU) should

be something that’s more clearly stated,” Luong said, “especially because these are workers that literally help these students survive every day, and the students should really better know the people that are working for them and the working conditions that they go through.” rishikadugyala2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern to face rigorous winter opener

By BENJY APELBAUM

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The Wildcats’ winter season begins in a whirlwind Sunday with two matches taking place 281 miles apart.

Northwestern’s long day begins with a match at No. 36 Louisville, a team that defeated the Cats 5-2 in their last meeting two years ago. Then the team will hop on a plane back to Chicago for a match against Chicago State at home.

Junior Konrad Zieba acknowledged the challenges that come with the schedule, but expressed optimism about NU’s chances.

“It’s definitely tough, especially first match of the year, having a doubleheader,” Zieba said. “But, hopefully we have enough rest and take care of business for both matches.”

The Cats come into this season at No. 26 and are led by a trio of juniors at the top of the lineup: Sam Shropshire, Strong Kirchheimer and Zieba.

Zieba went into the fall unranked and emerged with a 7-2 record and five wins over ranked opponents, along with a trip to the second round of the exclusive National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship. His success vaulted him to No. 16 in the country, highest on the team and third-highest in the Big Ten. Shropshire and Kirchheimer are the other two Cats ranked in singles play, listed at No. 50 and No. 55, respectively. Additionally, the doubles team of Kirchheimer and senior Fedor Baev is No. 52.

Last year, Shropshire led the team at No. 1 Singles and earned the opportunity to play in the singles field at the NCAA Championships.

Coach Arvid Swan has not yet finalized a lineup for Sunday’s matches, however last year’s lineup often featured Shropshire at the top, followed by Kirchheimer, Zieba, senior Mihir Kumar, Baev and junior Alp Horoz.

The team’s experience will be one of their key assets this year as the upperclassmen will try to successfully lead NU through a schedule with 12 top-50 teams and six top-25 teams.

Sunday’s matchup against Louisville is the first match against one of those top-50 teams, and the

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STRONG STROKE Strong Kirchheimer revels in a recently earned point. The Wildcats will look to the junior to turn in a big performance in their first match since November.

Cardinals will have a lot of fresh faces after losing six of their top seven players.

“Louisville is pretty tough,” Zieba said. “We definitely have a good chance of winning away on the road and they’re pretty hostile over there.”

Similar to Louisville, Chicago State’s roster is inexperienced, with all six of their players being either freshmen or sophomores. Five of the six are from outside the United States.

After finishing fourth in the Big Ten last year, advancing to the second round of the NCAA tournament, and having all of their starters outside of UCLA transfer Logan Staggs returning, NU has high hopes for the upcoming season and their chances of navigating a tough schedule.

“To beat the top teams we have to focus on winning our doubles matches and staying consistent in singles,” Swan said. benjaminapelbaum2019@u.northwestern.edu

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her is we felt like she could be a physical presence on the glass, which she was tonight,” coach Joe McKeown said of the freshman. “She’s able to score around the basket. When she got offensive rebounds and putbacks, she was poised.”

Kunaiyi-Akpanah especially excelled in the second half, scoring 8 points and adding eight rebounds. Many of her tallies came during an Ohio State run late in the fourth quarter that brought the Buckeyes to within 5. She grabbed an offensive rebound and scored the putback to put NU up 12 with under six minutes to play.

A couple minutes later, she had subpar positioning yet leaped above an Ohio State player to grab the ball. Less than 30 seconds later she took a pass from junior guard Christen Inman and scored, extending NU’s lead to 14.

“It’s a really great feeling,” Kunaiyi-Akpanah said of her performance and ability to help her team to victory. “My teammates have been very supportive of when I make a mistake or when I forget the play. They’re always just telling me that it’s okay, just get the next one.”

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He said he hopes his team’s success with the out-of-character style of offense will give them confidence with strategy audibles in the future.

“I don’t want (my players) to feel in a game that if we miss some shots early, ‘Uh oh, we can’t win because our 3s aren’t going down,’” Collins said. “(If) these teams (are) taking away our 3s, then let’s go to Plan B. Let’s get to the basket and let’s play defense and let’s try to figure out how to get a win.”

Saturday, however, may offer a prime opportunity for NU to take advantage of their forte.

The Nittany Lions’ defense ranks fifth in the Big Ten in opponent 2-point field goal percentage but 14th — dead last — in opponent 3-point field goal percentage.

In particular, Senior guard Tre Demps could look to the favorable matchup as a chance for him to regain his shooting touch. Demps, who has shot a woeful 31 percent in Big Ten action so far this year, went 5-of-10 from the field and 2-for-4 from 3-point range against Penn State last season.

The Nittany Lions enter Evanston having lost four of their last five games, including three defeats

any previous effort from the center position for the Cats this season. Senior Christen Johnson, who started 14 games this season, has not scored in double figures nor had at least 10 rebounds in a single game this season. On Thursday, Johnson played just two minutes and did not score.

McKeown said Kunaiyi-Akpanah showed improvement Thursday from earlier in the season, noting that her ability to score on putbacks and pass the ball out following offensive rebounds were “things we’ve been working on with her.”

Her growth on putback plays was especially noticeable. She had two such plays on Thursday; in Sunday’s loss to then-No. 23 Michigan State, she had four offensive rebounds but did not score. She scored just two points in a loss to Purdue on Jan. 7.

Against the Buckeyes, however, KunaiyiAkpanah looked like a different player. Ohio State coach Kevin McGuff was among the many impressed.

“She’s a good athlete,” McGuff said. “She plays really hard. She’s got a knack for finding the ball.

She was really, really good on the offensive glass.” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu by more than 16 points.

As of Thursday, they boast two of the top 12 players in the conference in terms of points per game — forward Brandon Taylor (16.2 PPG) and guard Shep Garner (14.6 PPG) — but have struggled to generate scoring from the rest of the team.

Penn State coach Patrick Chambers referenced that weakness after Garner struggled in his team’s 74-57 loss at Purdue on Wednesday.

“Unfortunately, where we are, (Garner) can’t have a bad night,” Chambers said in West Lafayette.

“That’s tough on a kid, that type of pressure and that type of stress.”

Saturday’s contest will be the fourth consecutive meeting between the Cats and Nittany Lions to have taken place at Welsh-Ryan Arena, with the visitors taking two of the past three.

Nevertheless, NU’s win over Penn State last season — a 60-39 rout on Feb. 21 — did prove noteworthy, marking the fewest points the Cats have conceded to a Big Ten opponent since 2005.

Perhaps if last year’s game was any indication, the history books will be rewritten again Saturday after all. benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu

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challenged us this week in practice, and we responded.”

Freshman forward Pallas KunaiyiAkpanah took full advantage of just the second start of her career. She finished with 14 points and 14 rebounds, seven of which came on the offensive end. She consistently used her height and athleticism to give NU important second chance opportunities.

“Our team puts a lot of emphasis on rebounding,” Kunaiyi-Akpanah said.

“Just by playing hard I’m going to get rebounds.”

Yet, Kunaiyi-Akpanah’s rebounding wasn’t shocking. Despite averaging just 9.3 minutes per game before Thursday’s game, she came in as the team’s third leading rebounder. What was different was her ability to score, as she more than tripled her previous career high of four points.

By WILL RAGATZ

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Northwestern didn’t take well to being unranked for the first time since last February.

Three days after falling out of the AP Top 25, the Wildcats (13-4, 2-3 Big Ten) snapped a two-game losing streak in stunning fashion, beating No. 5 Ohio State (12-4, 4-1) 86-82 on Thursday night.

Senior guard Maggie Lyon led the way with 24 points and junior forward Nia Coffey added 23 for the Cats in a victory that quieted talk of the team’s demise in a big way.

“We were disappointed with how we performed against Purdue and Michigan State, and we knew that wasn’t who we are as a team,” Lyon said. “Our coaches

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NU began the season as the No. 19 team and spent nine weeks in the poll, climbing as high as 12th. However, after winning just one of its first four conference games, the Cats fell out of Monday’s poll. The last time they had been unranked was week 15 of the 2014-15 season.

“We brought in (women’s lacrosse coach Kelly Amonte Hiller), a great coach who has won seven national championships, to talk to our team this week,” coach Joe McKeown said. “She gave a great message and I think that really inspired us.”

Sure enough, the Cats came out inspired and full of energy from the jump. Lyon swishing from long range became a theme early on, as the senior knocked down four 3s on her way to an 11 point first quarter and 14 point first half.

After two consecutive double digit losses, the Cats found themselves up 48-30 at

the break against the No. 5 team in the country.

“I thought we handled (Ohio State’s pressure) well in the first half, and that gave us some shots that we knocked down,” McKeown said.

The rest of the game was about holding off Ohio State’s high-powered offense. The Buckeyes came into the game averaging 86.5 per contest, good for fourth-best in the country, and did not go quietly into the night.

With a 10-4 run at the end of the third quarter, Ohio State trimmed its deficit to 12 points heading into the final period.

They continued to turn up the gas in the fourth, cutting the Cats’ lead to as little as six points on a 3 by senior guard Ameryst Alston. To make matters worse, Coffey went down with a left ankle injury on the play after falling awkwardly while chasing a loose ball, and was unable to return.

With NU’s situation looking bleak, two players stepped up and willed the Cats to victory. Junior guard Christen Inman and Kunaiyi-Akpanah, showing poise beyond their years, scored nine of the Cats’ final 14 points as NU hung on by a thread.

“I just tried to bring up the spirits because it seemed as though because Nia had gone out that we might lose some energy,” Kunaiyi-Akpanah said. “But I think we kept it together.”

Now rejuvenated by its biggest win of the season, NU will head to No. 8 Maryland on Sunday for another top-10 showdown.

For now, the Cats can enjoy a signature win over a top-5 team.

“Winning on our home court after a two-game losing streak in the Big Ten, that was huge for us,” Lyon said. williamragatz2019@u.northwestern.edu

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NU wants rhythm to extend streak Freshman shines with double-double

By BEN POPE

By COLE PAXTON

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The stars seemed to align Thursday for Northwestern, and Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah took full advantage.

Making just her second career start, the freshman forward recorded

a double-double with 14 points and 14 rebounds, helping the Wildcats (13-4, 2-3 Big Ten) to a stunning 86-82 win over No. 5 Ohio State (124, 4-1) on Thursday at Welsh-Ryan Arena. Both figures were career highs for Kunaiyi-Akpanah.

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Northwestern has been rewriting history books a lot lately.

Last Saturday, the Wildcats (15-3, 3-2 Big Ten) recorded their most decisive conference road win since 1944 with a 77-52 rout of Minnesota. Then on Tuesday, their 70-65 triumph over Wisconsin gave the team its best record to start

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an 18-round fight,” coach Chris Collins said after Wednesday’s victory. “We’re just going to keep playing. We’re not going to overreact.”

Collins noted the Cats quieted chatter that their offense ran exclusively through 3-pointers by dominating Wisconsin down low, scoring 30 points in the paint and another 22 from free throws but taking only a dozen 3-point shots.

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in the conference season since 1968.

However, on Saturday against Penn State (10-8, 1-4), there are likely no records to be broken and no milestones to be reached. It is improbable that freshman center Dererk Pardon will repeat his performance his collegiate debut or that sophomore guard Bryant McIntosh will again score 20 points in a single half.

Instead, NU is simply hoping to settle into the rhythm of conference play.

“We’ve approached this thing like it’s

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