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When novelist Teju Cole first heard about the KONY 2012 viral campaign, he immediately took to Twitter to express his disbelief about the “white savior” in a series of tweets. These seven tweets garnered national attention and resulted in Cole writing a piece in The Atlantic called “The White-Savior Industrial Complex.” At an event hosted by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies and other campus organizations, Cole spoke to a crowd of about 300 people in Leverone Hall about this concept. He said white people often try to show their charitability by volunteering for or giving money to programs that help people in other countries, especially in African countries like Nigeria, where Cole is from. “People just try to generalize (the white-savior industrial complex), try to soften it a little bit, ‘let’s not bring race into it,’” said Cole, whose comment was met with laughter. “It’s definitely about white people.” After writing the Atlantic article, Cole realized that he wasn’t only criticizing organizations like KONY’s Invisible Children — which he says are triggered by sentimentality — but organizations that he actually respects, like UNICEF.
“The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon and receives awards in the evening,” Cole tweeted in 2012. Cole said Thursday that people who cooperate with groups like these and fall under the “white-savior industrial complex” go out and try to “save the world” without knowing exactly what they’re trying to do. “Why don’t you ask the people you’re trying to save what it is that they need?” he said. He also made a point of saying how people in the U.S. became invested in KONY 2012, something happening on the other side of the world, but don’t pay as much attention to racial issues going on in their own country. He added Americans try to solve other countries’ problems that can only be solved by the countries themselves. He used the Nigerian presidential elections in March as an example, when people took to the ballot boxes to vote out the incumbent president. “As people who want to help the world, we have to think about (how) each place has its local politics,” he said. “And you have to understand those local dynamics before you can say anything about that place.” Madhuri Sathish, a member of the NU Community for Human Rights who attended the event, agreed that » See COLE, page 6
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CONSCIOUS CHARITY Novelist Teju Cole discusses the “white-savior industrial complex” Thursday night. Cole, author of the novel “Open City,” said he was surprised so many people attended the event.
Commissioner of NFL Roger Goodell to speak at NU
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will speak at Northwestern on April 29. Goodell will speak with USA Today sports journalist Christine Brennan (Medill ‘80, ‘81). Brennan recently joined the faculty of the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing
Communications as a professor of practice teaching part-time at Medill’s Washington newsroom as part of the new sports journalism graduate program. Goodell will be in Chicago for the NFL draft, which will take place from April 30 to May 2 at the Auditorium Theatre. The Northwestern event, which is not open to the public, will be held at 4 p.m. in the McCormick Foundation Center Forum.
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Five candidates for the 9th Ward alderman spot shared Thursday their visions for the ward and solutions to city issues, such as affordable housing and public transportation. About 80 people attended the debate at the Levy Senior Center, 300 Dodge Ave., where one candidate, Kristin Brown, debuted her candidacy after entering the race the previous day. “Why am I doing this? It’s the next logical step,” said Brown, a lifelong Evanston resident and member of Rotary International, who will vacate her position on the McGaw YMCA board of directors in June. “I want to take my community involvement to the next step.” Coleen Burrus left her 9th Ward alderman seat this month for a position at Princeton University. All candidates spoke about prioritizing the $5 million that Northwestern will give the city over the next five years, with the majority of them honing in on needs for infrastructure and mental health programs. “Good government is good infrastructure,” said candidate Brian Miller, chief of staff to Cook County’s 13th district commissioner. “The day-to-day face of government is our streets, our parks, our police cars, our fire trucks …
We have an aging infrastructure that we need to address.” Brown highlighted a need for the Northwestern funds in the wake of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposed budget cuts. She said she would devote some of the grant money to enhancing transportation for lower-income residents, including adding transportation for youth in afterschool programs. Candidate Shawn Jones, an attorney and former reporter who said he brings an “outsider’s perspective” after moving to Evanston in 2008, is focusing his campaign on small businesses and improving affordable housing.
Candidate Schona Buranda, a human relations expert who works at an affordable housing organization in Chicago, said the city has a long way to go to achieve socioeconomic diversity and improve the quality of life for homeless people in Evanston. In the part of the discussion that focused on senior citizens, Candidate Dan Coyne, commissioner of south Evanston’s Ridgeville Park District, suggested a city-run shuttle system with 14-passenger buses to bolster transportation for senior citizens who are often left » See 9TH WARD, page 6
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ARGUMENTS FOR ALDERMAN Kristin Brown, who announced her candidacy for 9th Ward alderman on Wednesday, speaks to a crowd of 80 alongside her opponents. Five candidates for the vacated 9th Ward seat debated at Levy Senior Center on Thursday.
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An education and technology development organization will host its first Chicago-area event at the Roycemore School, 1200 Davis St., on Saturday, April 25. Share Fair Nation was founded in Denver in 2009 by John and Carrie Morgridge of the Morgridge Family Foundation, a group that invests in educational development. Share Fair specifically aims to educate and provide teachers with access to the latest in educational technology and developments in teaching science, technology, engineering and mathematics, Carrie Morgridge said. “(The foundation) invested in technology, and we went to put it into the classrooms, but the teachers weren’t even trained on how to turn on a SMART board let alone hook it up to their laptop or desktop,” she said. “That really was an ‘Aha!’ moment for us, that we need to train teachers if we’re going to give out interactive whiteboards and put technology into their classrooms.” Saturday’s event, co-sponsored by Northwestern’s Center for Talent Development, will feature two parts. Educators will spend the day engaging in professional development sessions called Classroom Intensives and engaging in
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workshops and an interactive “STEMosphere,” which will be free and open to the public, said Kevin Smith, Roycemore’s headmaster. “This is a time when parents and kids come in and play,” Smith said. “We have great exhibits, everything from materials from the Field Museum to very hands-on coding activities and a number of various flight simulators.” Several of the outside speakers and presenters for the Roycemore Share Fair event were facilitated by CTD, said David Johnson, manager of marketing and communications for CTD. “We’ve helped to spread the word for them and we’ve helped to recruit different exhibitors and different instructors to come and be a part of the Classroom Intensives as well as the STEMosphere,” Johnson said. Smith, who became Roycemore’s headmaster in July 2013, said the event would hopefully occur annually. He said he developed a strong relationship with the Morgridges and Share Fair when he served as headmaster at Denver Academy. “I’ve attended every one of the Denver Share Fairs and have a long relationship with (the Morgridges) both as donors and as friends,” Smith said. “I really believe in the mission they have, so I wanted to help them with their ambition to scale it to a national model.” marissapage2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Chicken and Waffles closes By Tori Latham
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The restaurant that has served chicken and waffles to the Evanston community for a little over two years has closed its doors. Chicago’s Home of Chicken & Waffles, 2424 W. Dempster St., closed Sunday, despite plans to relocate to a location in Chicago, restaurant owner Darnell Johnson said. “It was just not the right fit for our type of restaurant,” Johnson said. “We have a couple other locations we want to focus on now.” The restaurant currently has two other locations — one in Chicago and one in Oak Park, Illinois. Johnson said the restaurant is looking to expand into Cleveland and Homewood, Illinois. Chicken and Waffles opened in Evanston in January 2013 following a $200,000 loan from the city. Earlier this year, city officials agreed to restructure the restaurant’s loan to relieve some of its financial struggles. The restructuring extended the restaurant’s payback schedule to reduce its monthly payments. “We are disappointed that Chicken and Waffles was unable to succeed in Evanston,” Paul Zalmezak, the city’s economic development coordinator, said in an email to The Daily. “Evanston’s
Police Blotter Man attempts to steal from Evanston Best Buy Best Buy staff declined to press charges Wednesday against a 36-year-old man who tried to steal more than $125 worth of goods, police said. Police responded to the Best Buy, 2301 Howard St., around 1 p.m. Wednesday, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The store’s security guard had a man in custody who had set off the anti-theft alarm while trying to leave,
restaurant scene is highly competitive and high quality. The best operators will continue to do well.” Johnson said although he liked the restaurant’s location, he had some concerns with Evanston itself. “It wasn’t the best place for us demographically, geographically,” he said. “We could have a chosen a better place.” Johnson originally decided to open a Chicken and Waffles in Evanston after an Oak Park village official said the restaurant seemed like a good fit for the city, Johnson said. However, the restaurant chain has partnered with a new investment group, closing the Evanston location to “move forward,” he said. “(The financial issues) were not a factor in the restaurant closing,” he said. “We are looking forward to opening new locations and excelling with our brand.” Luis Garcia, one of the managers of the Oak Park restaurant and a former manager at the Evanston location, said he enjoyed the time he spent in the city. “We have no regrets,” he said. “It was a real honor to be there and cater to everyone in Evanston. It’s an amazing suburb and maybe in the future … we will open again.” torilatham2017@u.northwestern.edu Dugan said. When the security guard stopped the man and asked if he had taken anything, the 36-yearold admitted he had, Dugan said. He opened his sweatshirt and showed a number of items totaling more than $125, police said. However, the security guard said he did not want to press charges, but wanted the incident taken down on police record, Dugan said. The 36-year-old man was kicked out of the store and will not be allowed back into the store again, police said. — Paige Leskin
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The more people know about politics, the easier it is for them to believe exactly what they want, editor in chief of Vox.com Ezra Klein told a Northwestern audience Thursday. Klein said people will believe what they want to believe about politics and will come up with the best possible case for what they believe. “We are in a place now where it is really hard to think because the better we are at thinking, at researching, at learning, the easier it is for us to learn what we want to know,” he said. Klein, who previously worked at The Washington Post, spoke to about 100 people Thursday in Norris University Center about how hard it is to change people’s minds and how easy it is for people to defend their opinions. The talk was presented by the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series — a group that in the past has brought Jill Soloway, a comedian and Emmy-nominated TV writer, and Angela Davis, a political activist and author. The board decided to bring Klein to speak because he has been at the “forefront of new media,” said president Joe Eichenbaum. “Our goal is always to bring people who have very interesting ideas about how the world is changing right now,” the Weinberg senior said. “Ezra Klein is the first speaker we’ve brought who’s really changing how news is delivered and written today.” Klein began his talk saying everyone in the room attending the talk was probably on some level interested in politics — and everyone was attending NU because they were smart. But his argument then took a turn. “The convergence of those two things,” he said, “has a tendency to make you very stupid.” He referenced a study done where people were asked to do a math problem. “It was a kind of math problem that if you didn’t look at it very closely, you’d get it wrong,”
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he said. At first, the problem was about the effects of a skin cream. But then, the researcher edited the same problem and made it about gun control policies. When the subject of the problem changed, statistics showed people’s math abilities stopped mattering, Klein said. What really made a difference on whether or not someone got the problem right was whether they had a prior belief if gun control saved lives. People have a lot of trouble admitting they’re wrong and being an outsider in their group, Klein said. “Its a really painful thing to be on the wrong side of your tribe,” Klein said. Weinberg sophomore Remy Smith said he went to the talk because he had read a lot of Klein’s articles, but what stood out most to him was Klein’s pessimism. “Pessimism about global warming, the majoritarian system that we have in congress, the inability of parties to get anything done even if they
have a majority in both houses and the presidency,” he said. Even though he agreed with Klein’s points, Smith said he was surprised by how negative he was. Klein said he usually gives a different talk about politics, one that felt more salient a few years ago when people cared more about American politics breaking down. But he went in a different direction this time. “There’s been a sort of diminishment in interest in why Congress doesn’t work,” Klein told The Daily. “Disfunction is leading to apathy.” But he also said the topic felt challenging to him and he hoped it challenged the audience, too. “Our minds are not just about finding the right answer,” he said during the talk, “but they are about finding the answer that we need to believe.” rs@u.northwestern.edu
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Letter to the Editor: A response to Dr. Wang on college athletes
Last year, I wrote to The Daily in response to Dr. Norman Wang, shortly after Kain Colter and College Athletes Players Association announced their intention to have a union election for Northwestern football players. Since that time, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has made some nominal changes in response to intense public pressure, including repealing the rule that limited athletes’ meals and allowing the “Power 5” conferences to create many of their own rules, such as offering a “cost of attendance” stipend to athletes. While these changes are small, they are indicative of the way this conversation is being perceived across the nation.
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Now, one year after the union election, Dr. Wang writes again, arguing that athletes are not exploited, that they have a real value near zero beyond their association to the NCAA and member schools, and that the true failing of the NCAA is not that it has a seeminglyexponential profit growth that is not placed in its athletes’ pockets, but rather that it does not provide its athletes with a proper education because of increased time commitments and number of games. Dr. Wang’s first two arguments go handin-hand, because if the players are truly worth nothing outside the confines of the NCAA, then they must not be exploited. But we know that these players do indeed have value, which schools themselves have implicitly acknowledged. As laid out by Andy Schwarz in an excellent VICE Sports article, the fact that these players receive scholarships when the school has no obligation to provide them proves that the school values them at least at the cost of a scholarship, if not more.
The issue of exploitation comes in because the NCAA limits the potential earning value of players, when the players themselves have had no input into that decision-making process. Twelve of the 14 Big Ten schools are projected to make $44.5 million in 2018 based off their TV contract alone, yet the players will be limited from selling autographs or signing endorsement deals in an effort to uphold the sanctity of “student-athletes.” As Dr. Wang points out, membership on a football team is entirely voluntary, but it remains the only viable path to a career in the NFL and an important aspect of unionism is that we don’t tell employees “if you don’t like it, leave.” As college sports have become increasingly profitable, athlete compensation has been almost completely static. Those economics do not make sense. Besides, if opponents of reform truly believe that athletes have a market value near zero, then they should have no problem lifting the restriction on an athlete’s ability to earn additional profit. If the athlete is indeed
worth near zero, then the market will quickly make him aware of that fact by providing him little or no extra spending money. To me, testing the free market seems to be the easiest way to answer the question of how much these athletes are truly worth. As for Dr. Wang’s contention that educational opportunities go to waste for these athletes, recent scandals at schools like University of North Carolina show us that this must be true. But the NCAA and member schools have no incentive to adopt Dr. Wang’s proposals for reform, such as cutting back on the number of games played. Logic tells us that, when acting with no pushback, the NCAA is going to make changes that will allow it to make more money, not less. Ironically, Dr. Wang’s proposed reforms could potentially be achieved by the thing he seems to fear most: giving athletes a voice in college sports. Jonathan Forman WCAS ‘12
It’s time for police to own up to their actions SARA HALLORAN
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A couple of months ago, directly after a grand jury released its decision not to indict New York Police Department officer Daniel Pantaleo for the choking death of Eric Garner, my immediate family members and I received a surprising email from my grandfather: “I can’t let this day pass without an expression of sadness with the non-verdict in the Staten Island killing … the Thugs in Blue (killed) a defenseless man. God rest his soul.” This is the last opinion I expected from my grandfather, who is very conservative, set in his ways and still maintains that the grand jury in Ferguson “got it right.” It does not bode well for police perception in America that law enforcement has come under scrutiny in the minds of even older, white, right-wing men, a group that is historically its most steadfast ally. Ever since 18-year-old Michael Brown’s shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, the media are uncovering cases of police brutality and racism at alarming rates. However, with the
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On Tuesday evening, J Street U Northwestern hosted an event to present both a “Palestinian perspective” and an Israeli one on “major milestones in Israel’s history.” The Israeli occupation of Palestinians cannot be reduced to a two-narrative binary. It is a history of colonialism, occupation and settlements, and the great efforts that have been put into uncovering its truths should not be pushed aside in favor of such a grand simplification. Israeli historian Ilan Pappe’s “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine,” for example, is not a Palestinian narrative but, rather, a well-done documentation of the Nakba, the systematic uprooting of Palestinians for the Zionist project and maintained by the Israeli state. Alarmed by the apparent paternalistic nature of the event, we, Northwestern
law on their side, cops have encountered little trouble convincing their support base many of these incidents required the use of deadly force. This is an issue that The Brown case, a grand will not be solved where jury failed to with half-measures even indict like body cameras, Darren Wilson although there which, though they should have been further are progress, still is a require a degree of exploration, prime example accountability from of the propaofficers some have gation of the “hardened thug proven they cannot vs. dutiful cop” scenario workhandle. ing perfectly. The Ferguson Police Department may have successfully painted Brown as a weed-smoking, cigarillo-stealing, disrespectful criminal in their posthumous slander campaign, but for the toy-gun-brandishing Tamir Rice and John Crawford and the wholly unarmed Akai Gurley, Garner, Ezell Ford and now Walter Scott, there is no ambiguity. Police are
fearlessly killing unarmed black men (or, in the case of 12-year-old Rice, boys) in hopes that America will see their victims as the violent criminals society expects them to be. The tide seems to be changing, especially with the widespread implementation of police body cams, which recently caught Tulsa, Oklahoma reserve deputy Robert Bates shooting Eric Harris, and the new instinct to film particularly forceful arrests, which brought Garner’s and Scott’s cases to America’s attention. Instead of acknowledging their systemic problem, police have attempted to suppress allegations of wrongdoing: most notably, besides Ferguson, they and their affiliates have arrested Ramsey Orta for recording Garner’s death, falsified Bates’ records, turned their backs to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio for calling out their wrongdoing and described prepubescent Rice as “menacing.” This cowardly stance is absolutely shameful. A police force that takes, by some estimates, the lives of three of its citizens every day (compare that to other major democracies) and disproportionately targets one demographic needs to take a good, hard look in the mirror. The mentally ill, like Ford, and their families deserve better than execution during mental health episodes. Though it will not
bring their loved ones back, the black community deserves justice for their lost lives, a police force that will truly protect and serve them and the attention of white people when they speak up about injustice. I am upset, and I cannot imagine how people of color are feeling. This is an issue that will not be solved with half-measures like body cameras, which, though they are progress, still require a degree of accountability from police officers some have proven they cannot handle. There needs to be a foundational change: The violent, racist police culture that has made law enforcement a breeding ground for racist bullies must be altered. There can be no more excuses about “some bad cops,” as it is clear that the good, justice-minded people who become police officers are working within the framework of a flawed system. The police owe it to Rice, Crawford, Gurley, Brown, Garner, Ford, Scott and the countless others whose names will never be released to quit resisting and step onto the right side of history.
Palestinians and allies, mobilized to reclaim the Palestinian voice that J Street U, an organization that consistently rejects Palestinian calls for solidarity, had hijacked. The Palestinians among us wore T-shirts with the words “Palestinian Perspective” across the front and an arrow pointing up to remind attendees that there are Palestinians on campus capable of delivering perspectives, and it has been happening: in articles, at events and through conversations. It is unfortunate when Palestinian narratives are only deemed worthy of listening to if facilitated by the privileged and delivered “side by side” with negations and/or more dominant narratives. The event grew more problematic as the presenters began to explain the Nakba. The Nakba, which refers to the forced exile of over 700,000 Palestinians and the demolition of over 450 towns, is celebrated this week as Israeli Independence Day. Without citing evidence of the Nakba, the event showcased handpicked Palestinian narratives, reducing the Nakba from the ethnic cleansing of an indigenous population to a
few video clips of stories. The stories were meaningful indeed, but presenting them without context does them, and the audience, a great injustice. Also included with the “Palestinian perspective,” or “Nakba perspective,” was a video of a former Haganah fighter acknowledging the brutality of his organization and explaining the destruction of villages that he witnessed (the Haganah is widely regarded as a terrorist organization but was portrayed as an “underground military force” at the event). That this Israeli man’s account was included as a “Palestinian perspective,” or a “Nakba perspective,” demonstrates precisely the problem at hand: Facts on the ground either remain unsaid or are portrayed as biased toward Palestinians when they are in fact biased toward the truth. On the other hand, the videos of the “Israeli perspective” painted Israel as a state that miraculously survived Arab onslaught. There was no mention of settler-colonial plans to forcibly remove indigenous Palestinians and the involvement of imperial powers. So in this way, the Palestinian
narratives on display are posited simply as another perspective to hear, rather than the account of a tragic history of oppression that all must stand against. We are not saying that J Street U should not seek out different narratives and discuss this topic. Rather, we are suggesting that when people are oppressed systematically by an apartheid system, it is on the rest of the world to heed their calls for solidarity. Oppressed peoples do not need facilitators or saviors, but rather, support in the stride toward freedom.
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Sara Halloran is a Weinberg freshman. She can be reached 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.
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Students march for sexual violence survivors By jee young LEE
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Nearly 80 Northwestern students marched through campus Thursday as part of the annual Take Back the Night March to support survivors and raise awareness about sexual violence. Energy was high despite the cold weather as participants gathered for the march in front of The Rock, taking pictures with banners, which were created by students participating in the march and a number of Greek organizations. Weinberg sophomore Isabel Sturla, one of the leaders of Take Back the Night, stood in front of The Rock to speak to the crowd before the march began. “I know (sexual violence) has been a really big subject this year, but I can tell you with absolute certainty that this would not even happen 10 years ago,” Sturla said. “Finally these conversations are starting. They really needed to be started a long time ago.” The march was part of the Take Back the Night
week, which was organized by members of NU’s chapter of Take Back the Night and sponsored by College Feminists. Carrie Wachter, coordinator of sexual violence response services at the Center for Awareness, Response and Education, discussed creating a safe space on campus and ending “rape culture,” an environment where she said rape is excused or normalized and sexual violence is glamorized. “Sexual violence does not happen only at night,” Wachter said. “It takes place when our bodies are constantly held under scrutiny, and it happens when we’re being judged for what we choose to wear, how we choose to act or who we choose to have sex with, even.” Students marched down Sheridan Road repeatedly chanting phrases including, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, sexual assault has got to go,” “Yes means yes, no means no, whatever we wear, wherever we go” and “Shatter the silence. Stop the violence.” They turned at the Donald P. Jacobs Center and headed toward the Norris University Center, where the march ended. A speak-out session followed inside Dittmar
Gallery where some students shared personal stories about sexual violence. “I was thrilled so many people came to support Take Back the Night,” said Erin Clark, assistant director of CARE. She said she was excited to see people who, as a united force, participated in the march to support the survivors of sexual violence. The Take Back the Night initiatives are only the beginning, and the conversation about sexual violence needs to continue to create real change, Sturla told The Daily. Although there are student groups at NU that contribute to the supportive energy for sexual health on campus, she said there needs to be stronger and more serious support from the administration. “I think it’s almost the issue of our generation when it comes to college campuses,” said Communication freshman Olivia Kuncio, a spokeswoman for Take Back the Night. “The march is a lot about showing support for survivors of sexual assault or domestic violence.” jeelee2018@u.northwestern.edu
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taking a stand Students march through campus Thursday to raise awareness about sexual violence. Nearly 80 students participated in the event.
NU, Evanston library host documentary screening By Billy Kobin
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Evanston Public Library and Northwestern’s Asian American Studies Program screened a documentary about a Chinese-American activist Thursday, followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker. About 25 people attended the screening of “American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs” at EPL, 1703 Orrington Ave. Filmmaker Grace Lee’s documentary, which won a Peabody Award, focuses on the life of Grace Lee Boggs, an activist, philosopher and writer who for 75 years fought in Detroit for the rights of American workers and youth, as well as participated in the labor, civil rights, Black Power and other movements. “I had never met a Chinese-American activist
in the black community in Detroit before, and I just wondered: How did she get there?” Lee told The Daily. The film profiled Boggs and the impact of her extensive activism. “We have a lot of stereotypes about AsianAmericans, and there are a lot of stereotypes about all kinds of different ethnic groups,” Lesley Williams, EPL’s head of adult services, said. “But the idea of the Asian-American woman in particular as being doubtful, as being submissive, as being passive … (Boggs) is just such a wonderful, refreshing, complete rejection of all of those stereotypes. I think it’s just an inspiring story, and I think there is a lot for people to learn from it even now.” The 82-minute documentary showed how Boggs, described in the film as a Marxist surveilled by the FBI, first learned about the civil rights movements in 1940s Chicago, when African-Americans protested rat infestation in
housing. She later moved to Detroit, the site of race riots in 1967, and began a life fighting for equality. “We had to change ourselves in order to change the world,” Boggs says in the film. History professor Ji-Yeon Yuh, director of the Asian American Studies Program, told The Daily that Boggs is an exemplary grassroots activist. “Her life is just so incredibly rich and really fascinating. It upends a lot of stereotypes about Asian-Americans, about women and about activism,” Yuh told The Daily. “What happened in Detroit, a Midwestern, urban, industrial city, could happen in Chicago.” NU’s Office of the Provost and EPL funded the event. “(Yuh) just thought that this is such a fascinating story and such a well-received documentary that it would be great to show it in some place that was really more accessible to the general public and not just to the academic community,”
Williams said. “She recognized that the library … shows a lot of documentaries, and I think we’re getting a reputation for being the place where people can catch up on documentaries and speakers that they might not otherwise have a chance to hear or see.” Lee answered questions after the screening regarding the filmmaking process. “It was a huge endeavor. I didn’t realize how much of an archival film it would be,” Lee said. “(Boggs) would never not answer questions — you would just have to ask the right questions.” Lee told The Daily she hopes the audience felt a sense of who Boggs really is. “Her story is really an American story,” Lee said. “Her ideas are ideas that I think are useful to anybody, whether you’re an activist or a student or just somebody trying to live their life.” williamkobin2018@u.northwestern.edu
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sometimes students don’t realize they can “save the worldâ€? in their own country. “There is stuff that we can do abroad to help, but there’s also a lot of stuff that happens close to home,â€? the Medill junior said. Sociology Prof. Bruce Carruthers, director of the Buffett Institute, said that the large turnout at the event was a testament to Cole’s intellectual work. “His central message was about ‌ (appreciating) what it would really take to help people and what it is they want, as opposed to what it is you want to do for them,â€? he said.
Lynch wait is over, as Senate confirms her as attorney general
Two Evanston residents got into a dispute Thursday at a local Starbucks that escalated into a physical confrontation, police said. At about 7:35 a.m., two men — a 61-year-old and 66-year-old — got into a verbal argument at Starbucks, 528 Dempster St., Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan told The Daily. The argument became physical and the 61-yearold man had a heart-related medical emergency, Dugan said. The man was transported to Presence Saint Francis Hospital, 355 Ridge Ave, officials said. As of 9:20 a.m. he was still in the emergency room, but alive and sedated, Dugan added. “We’re just trying to work it out, check the video and ask witnesses,� Dugan said. “We’ll work from there in order to determine what happened.�
“stranded.â€? Attendee Anna Christina Nelson has heard support for new shuttles from senior citizens in the Ridgeville Park District, where she works as an office manager and corporate secretary. Nelson said she appreciated the forum’s focus on Evanston’s Why am I doing senior citizens this? It’s the next and youth. logical step ... “Those two groups of peo- I want to take ple really have my community to be paid attention to because involvement to someday we’re the next step. all going to be seniors and the Kristin Brown, youth are our 9th ward alderman future,â€? Nelson candidate said. Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl, who will ultimately choose the new alderman, held a meeting at the beginning of the month to gauge opinion from residents on the aldermanic race. Although the public debate wasn’t required by law, Tisdahl chose to hold it by popular demand of 9th Ward residents, Tisdahl told The Daily. “The mayor did not have to do this, and I think it’s very telling the way she chose to set up the forum to give the candidates a chance to create some input ‌ and consensus,â€? said Jane Dowd, who works in Evanston in learning and organizational change in health care. “That was a wise move on her part.â€?
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WASHINGTON — Loretta Lynch survived a long and bitter battle Thursday as the Senate voted to confirm the North Carolina native as the first African-American woman to serve as U.S. attorney general. Lynch, whom President Barack Obama nominated last November, will replace retiring Attorney General Eric Holder, the first African-American to hold the high-profile post. Ten Republicans voted for her. Supporters and Democrats hailed the ascension of Lynch, born in 1959 in Greensboro, just a year before black students sat at a whites-only lunch counter in the city and helped spark the civil rights movement. Her father, a Baptist minister, along with redjacketed members of her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, watched from the gallery as the Senate voted largely along partisan lines, 56-43, to approve Lynch. The female members of the Congressional Black Caucus, all members of the House of Representatives, crossed the Capitol to watch the vote from the Senate floor. “The Senate finally confirmed Loretta Lynch to be America’s next attorney general _ and America will be better off for it,� Obama said afterward. Senate Democrats _ most of whom made their “yes� votes audible _ chastised Republicans for forcing Lynch to wait for a vote, pointing to a Congressional Research Service report that said she had waited longer from nomination to confirmation than all but two nominees in the history of the country: Edwin Meese, under President Ronald Reagan, and A. Mitchell Palmer, under President Woodrow Wilson. While Democrats wanted everyone to hear their support for Lynch, Republicans, including Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Lynch’s home state, cast their “no� votes discreetly. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who had delivered a
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NU seeks another Big Ten Tournament Title By Alex Lederman
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The Big Ten Tournament is where Northwestern thrives — the Wildcats have won 15 of the past 16. This weekend, NU will host the tournament and looks to add to that total. “If we go down,” coach Claire Pollard said, “someone’s going to have to rip our heart out and take it. We’re certainly not going down without an incredible fight.” But the journey ahead won’t be easy. The Wildcats (14-6, 9-2 Big Ten) enter as the No. 3 seed behind No. 1 Michigan (21-3, 11-0) and No. 2 Ohio State (18-5, 10-1). Both teams handled NU 6-1 in the regular season. Even so, that doesn’t worry junior Alicia Barnett. “We’re a different team than we were at the start of the season,” she said. “Whether it’s mental, whether it’s physical, whether it’s on court, everyone has done everything they can.” NU struggled early in the year with season-ending injuries to sophomores Manon Peri and Maddie Lipp, and the doubles lineups were constantly in flux. Since the loss to Michigan though, the Cats have not been stopped. They’ve won seven straight Big Ten matchups and nine straight doubles points. And after last year’s remarkable come-
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from-behind victory against the Wolverines to win the conference tournament, the Cats are hungry for more. “We’ve got some new faces,” Pollard said. “But we’ve also got a lot of girls who tasted that extraordinary win last year. I imagine we’ll be a different team than we’ve been all year.” Multiple members of the team said the key for NU is to take it one match at a time. Up first is No. 6 Illinois on Friday. The last time the Cats and Fighting Illini played, it was a one-sided affair — NU pummeled Illinois 6-1. Only Barnett fell at No. 1 singles, but in a third-set tiebreak (10-2). But in the same match, freshmen Erin Larner and Alex Chatt escaped their matches at No. 2 and No. 3 in even closer three-setters (10-8 and 10-7, respectively), so the challenge ahead won’t be easy. “We’ve got to focus on Illinois first,” Larner said. “You can’t overlook anyone. Everybody earns their spot in the tournament and we have to focus on one match at a time.” The Cats and Fighting Illini have a first-round bye, while the seven through 10 seeds play the opening round
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NU to wrap up season Saturday By Ava Wallace
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For the first time in a long time, Northwestern’s regular season is coming down to the wire. The No. 9 Wildcats (10-5, 2-2 Big Ten) face No. 20 Ohio State (11-5, 2-2) at Lakeside Field on Saturday with Big Ten Tournament seeding on the line. Should NU best the Buckeyes, the Cats are looking at a No. 3 seed at Big Tens, putting them on the favorable side of the tournament bracket, opposite No. 1 Maryland. The Ohio State matchup is NU’s chance to avenge four close losses in 2015 and mentally right themselves before the conference tournament. Senior attack Kara Mupo said two losses in three games took a mental toll on the Cats, who are still struggling to figure out how to play solidly for a full 60 minutes. Her solution is to refocus on lacrosse fundamentals. “It’s just the little plays late in the game that are getting to us, but we just have to figure it out,” Mupo said. Easier said than done. After pulling out an intense win at then-No.10 Notre Dame on April 16, a stinging 14-10 loss to then-No.12 Penn State three days later had senior goalkeeper Bridget Bianco and Mupo visibly frustrated. “We played with this great energy against Notre Dame and then we come
No. 20 Ohio State vs. No. 9 Northwestern Evanston, Ill. 2 p.m. Saturday
back and have this huge game on our own field … the energy just didn’t carry over,” Bianco said. Now, there’s only one thing that will affect Bianco’s mentality after she and her nine senior classmates take to Lakeside Field for their last regular-season game of their careers Saturday. “It’s going to be a mix of emotions,” Bianco said. “I’ll have a good senior day if we beat Ohio State.” Lasota nominated for 2015 Tewaaraton Award Freshman attack Selena Lasota was one of three freshman of 25 players named as a nominee for the Tewaaraton Award, lacrosse’s equivalent of the college football’s Heisman Trophy. Lasota leads the Cats with 54 goals (the next highest scorers, Kaleigh Craig and Mupo, have 29 each) and was the only NU player named to the list. Bianco and Mupo were named to the Tewaaraton “watch list” earlier this season. Lasota is the first freshman since 2003 to score more than 50 goals in a single season. “She just goes out there, plays because she loves the sport and doesn’t let anything get to her,” Bianco said. AvaWallace2015@u.northwestern.edu
Thursday. On Monday, Pollard said she planned to focus this week on the little things each individual player could improve. “I’ll probably be tough to them tomorrow and Wednesday,” she said, “and then really nice to them on Thursday.” NU has tried to get 1 percent better every day — a goal Barnett said the team has reached. “Our confidence is sky high,” she said. “The last few matches, although they haven’t been as highly ranked as previous matches, we’re playing a lot better than we had been.” Even so, the team isn’t focused on its legacy. Chatt and Larner said there are too many good teams in the tournament this year to stick with that mindset. And, of course, every streak has to come to an end eventually. “If you had told me when I arrived that I’d win one Big Ten championship,” Pollard said, “I would have been ecstatic.” But the Cats sure won’t be an easy out in the tournament. “We faced a lot this season,” Barnett said. “It seemed like one thing after another was going wrong. But at the end of the day, I definitely think it made us stronger and hungrier to do well. With everything going so badly at first, we definitely deserve something for all our hard work.” alexanderlederman2017@u.northwestern.edu
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ERIN IT OUT Freshman Erin Larner smashes a serve. Larner is looking to help Northwestern win its 16th Big Ten Tournament in the past 17 years.
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Cats energized for tourney By Kevin Casey
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The start of the postseason has Northwestern brimming with an aggressive attitude as the Wildcats begin their quest for a second Big Ten title in three years on Friday. “Going into this, it’s all of us being fired up to go get the victory at Big Ten Championships and really stick it out start to finish,” junior Kaitlin Park said. “We really need to stick with the confidence we have in ourselves this week.” NU enters the Big Ten Championships, which will take place Friday through Sunday at the Fort Golf Resort in Indianapolis, following a pair of up-and-down performances where players admitted team confidence was shaky. That explains the emphasis on a high sense of belief and that the No. 15 Cats come in as the highest ranked squad in the field and have a chance at redemption from last year. After capturing the first Big Ten title in school history two seasons ago, NU entered the 2014 event as a favorite to repeat, but fell to fifth after 18 holes and never caught up in a third place effort. But the Cats aren’t looking to past results, instead focusing on the current team depth to secure the title. The Big Ten tournament offers a 6-count-4 format, which means NU will have six players counting toward the team total rather than
the usual five. “I think it’ll be really good for us to go Nos. 1-6,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “It’s an asset for us, and we’ll try to capitalize on that.” The Cats’ depth advantage has faltered in recent weeks, but Fletcher said she has seen good signs from her team in practice and the lower parts of her lineup have shown spurts of quality play in recent events and are rounding into form at the right time. Park could be the wildcard this week. The former Big Ten Freshman of the Year placed sixth at Big Tens two years ago. The junior was left off the roster at the Bryan National Collegiate and didn’t have a team-counting score at the Silverado Showdown, but appears to be rejuvenated ahead of the conference battle. “It definitely was a time for me to get some rest and work hard on my game,” Park said. “I had been struggling and the time that was given to me, it was good for me to get my game and confidence back. I feel good going into Big Tens.” Another veteran presence the Cats can count on is Hana Lee. The senior has placed third, tied for 12th and tied for 18th in her three previous Big Tens appearances. Although none of those finishes occurred at the Fort Golf Resort, it’s more her attitude at this tournament that has facilitated Lee’s success. “The environment or atmosphere could be a little bit different, but
mentally I tell myself that it’s still another tournament,” Lee said. “I don’t try to put too much emphasis on it.” And if that’s not enough, the course offers the Cats key advantages. The Fort Golf Resort layout has greens that are soft and holding approach shots, something Lee said would allow the team to attack more often — an aggressive approach Fletcher has craved in recent weeks. The track is also forgiving around the greens, with the bunkers set back aways from the putting surfaces. This allows for straightforward pitches and chips, which is imperative for a Cats squad that has consistently pointed to its short game as its weakest link. A victory is still far from a given, though. Wind in the forecast could complicate matters and No. 33 Purdue and No. 41 Ohio State may be troublesome for the Cats. Also, freshmen Hannah Kim and Sarah Cho must significantly improve on their recent struggles if NU is going to ride its depth to a title. Yet, Fletcher trusts her squad and isn’t taking this week lightly. “This group is very talented, and they’ve worked extremely hard,” Fletcher said. “We’re looking to place some value on a good year that we’ve had so far and really finish it off this time of year is what’s most important. It comes down to playing well at this time of year.” kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu