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Activists rally for affordable city housing By Marissa page
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Activists in Evanston looking to raise the minimum wage say the lack of affordable housing in the city presents an equally important problem. Residents joined in rallies across Chicago on Wednesday in protesting the Illinois minimum wage as part of a nationwide campaign called Fight for
$15. Illinois’ minimum wage is currently $8.25 an hour, just over half of what Fight for $15 says is a fair base salary. Activists from Connections for the Homeless, an Evanston nonprofit that seeks to improve life for homeless individuals, attended Wednesday’s protests. “We’re trying to inspire more advocacy related to Fight for $15 in Evanston,” said Sue Loellbach, Connections’ director of development. Loellbach said the organization has
also been supporting other socioeconomic inequality issues in the city. It has focused on engaging community members that are affected by such problems, Loellbach said, as well as backing proposed city ordinances related to affordable housing. While minimum wage is important, Loellbach said, she emphasized affordable housing as the more pressing issue. “There’s a lot of people (in Evanston) wanting the minimum wage to raise,” Loellbach said. “For us, affordable housing is also a big issue.”
City Council raised the possibility in late March of implementing a citywide ordinance that would require a certain amount of units for affordable housing in residential buildings. The debate came following criticism from aldermen over the lack of housing downtown available to low- and middle-income residents. Nonetheless, the minimum wage resonated with Evanston residents as an issue to rally around. The Fight for $15 campaign — which began in November 2012 when fast food
workers in New York walked away from their jobs to protest low salaries — has since garnered widespread support. Some Evanston residents who protested Wednesday are involved in the Illinois Indiana Regional Organizing Network, which works to organize groups in the two states around public policy issues. Rose Simon-Smith, the organizer of Evanston’s IIRON campaign, said the » See FIGHT, page 7
Author talks beauty at Veritas Forum By Mariana alfaro
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Swearing in Noah Star is sworn as the new Associated Student Government president by outgoing President Julia Watson at Senate on Wednesday. Star’s running mate, Christina Kim, was also sworn in as ASG’s executive vice president.
Star, Kim sworn in at Senate
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Northwestern students officially have a new student body president. Weinberg junior Noah Star was sworn in as Associated Student Government president at its Senate meeting Wednesday, succeeding Weinberg senior Julia Watson. Star and his running mate, Christina Kim, were elected with 60 percent of the vote Friday, defeating Medill junior Haley Hinkle and SESP junior Chris Harlow. Kim, a McCormick junior, was sworn in as executive vice president, replacing Weinberg senior Erik Zorn. Watson and Zorn both gave short farewell addresses, reflecting on their time in ASG. Watson said she stuck with ASG to fight for “justice and equality” and that
Feinberg, SESP receive $10.5 million donation
Two Northwestern alumni have donated millions to the Feinberg School of Medicine to bolster meritbased scholarships. The majority of the $10.5 million gift from Muneer Satter (Weinberg ‘83) and Kristen Hertel (SESP ‘86) will go toward the Satter Foundation
it’s sometimes difficult to satisfy everyone in those pursuits. “I can name only a few projects — therapy dogs being one of them — where everyone is happy at the end of the day,” she said. “As a member of ASG, you’ll never succeed if your ultimate goal is to please everyone.” Zorn said he largely measures his success in ASG in terms of the connections he’s built. “The purpose of ASG, and of life in general, should not just be about accomplishing stuff,” Zorn said. “You shouldn’t find value in experiences just from what you’ve accomplished, but instead in the people you work with and the relationships that you form.” Later, ASG’s Mental Health Working Group presented some preliminary findings. The group said students reported a general disapproval of Counseling and Psychological Services. Harlow, ASG’s vice president for student life, led the working group
and spoke about its findings. He said the group interviewed students from specific cross-sections of the student body, including international students, students of color and students who took a leave of absence. He said students reported a stigma against accessing mental health resources and a lack of diversity among CAPS employees. The working group will release a more substantial report near the end of Spring Quarter, which will include recommendations to improve the mental health climate on campus. Senate debated for a half hour which students should comprise the B-Status Finances Committee. The committee, which oversees the allocation of ASG funds to student groups that receive only a few hundred dollars per quarter, previously required six of its 14 members to be senators.
Scholarship program. The program gives $40,000 per year to three firstyear students, an amount that they continue to receive through their third year at Feinberg. Since the scholarship was started in 2008, 18 graduate students have been provided with tuition support. “Kristen and I are committed to the goal of assuring a Northwestern education to promising future physicians and medical scientists,” Satter said in a news release. “These scholarships are investments that will
ultimately benefit medical science and humanity.” The rest of the gift will support initiatives in the School of Education and Social Policy, including Project EXCITE, which provides gifted minority students in Evanston schools with supplementary education in math and science. The gift is part of NU’s $3.75 billion “We Will” campaign that launched in March 2014.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson explored the ways humans respond to the universe’s beauty through theology and science Wednesday before a packed audience in Ryan Auditorium at this year’s The Veritas Forum. The Veritas Forum, a group of several Christian campus ministries, hosts a speaker event each year followed by a Q&A session and discussion groups. The speaker focuses on a topic of relevance for the Christian community. During her speech, Robinson discussed the multiple ways societies interpret beauty, not only in humans but universally. She described how sometimes humans struggle to find an exact definition of what they think is beautiful because there are many standards of beauty, both within and outside the realm of spirituality. “The idea of beauty varies from one receiver to the next, one decade to the next, one culture to the next,” she said. However, she said humans have the capability to acknowledge beauty, even if it doesn’t fit their own definitions. “Sometimes, with a little instruction, we recognize varieties of beauty we could never otherwise approximate or even imagine,” she said. “If existence were designed to immerse us into the
world, to charm and engage us, what could be better suited to accomplishing this than beauty, with its inexhaustible openness to variation?” Robinson said science and theology agree that reality captures a series of moments that cannot be repeated and that this causes beauty in our world. She cited the scientific theory that believes any number of universes are possible. “God’s freedom is expressed in what is usually called miracles, but I think the world and human experience itself should be valued as miraculous as well,” she said. Following her speech, Robinson sat down with University of Pennsylvania law professor David Skeel, who interviewed her about her novels, writing process and ideology. Robinson’s novel “Gilead,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, chronicles the story of a dying congregationalist pastor and sparked a debate on Christian multiculturalism and the representation of Calvinism and Puritans in literature and society. During the interview, Robinson said her life has not changed much since she gained international fame through her novels and that she remains “a solitary creature surrounded by many books.” Robinson said Christianity has been a large part of her life for as long as she can remember. “I’ve always been fascinated by the » See BEAUTY, page 7
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Beautiful Universe Author Marilynne Robinson and University of Pennsylvania professor David Skeel discuss beauty, science, religion and the writing process Wednesday. Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, spoke at this year’s The Veritas Forum.
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Around Town Committee talks Harley Clarke future By BILLY KOBIN
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Evanston residents explored the idea Wednesday of creating a park district around the historic Harley Clarke Mansion, allowing it to stay in the hands of the city and remain open to public use. The Harley Clarke Citizens Committee met to continue to deliberate the future of the mansion, 2603 Sheridan Road, which has been home to the Evanston Art Center since the 1960s. The Art Center will move to a new space by the end of next month, leaving the mansion unoccupied. Committee members, who will make recommendations to City Council, considered establishing a newly expanded park district that will include the city-owned mansion in order to maintain public ownership. Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said the process of creating a park district that includes the mansion would begin with meeting with the people in charge of the existing district — the Lighthouse Park District of Evanston board. She added there would be a problem with the next step in the process — calling upon residents living in that district to approve the expansion — because nobody lives in that area. “We are very systematically just working through all of the identified and suggested options and measuring (options) against the criteria we established earlier on,” Grover told The Daily. “What’s clear to me is that there is no consensus … on what should
Police Blotter Chicago man arrested in connection with reckless conduct, criminal damage to property Police arrested a 36-year-old man Monday at his home in Chicago in connection with a fire started at an Evanston apartment building in early April.
be the state of the Harley Clarke Mansion.” Committee members discussed bringing in a private owner to pay for the mansion’s upkeep, yet keeping access to the mansion and beach open to the public. During the meeting, several community members from the crowd of about 35 people advocated for the city to continue its ownership of the mansion. “I think it would be a big mistake for Evanston to give up (the mansion),” Evanston resident Barry Greenberg said. “This is our castle, and it shouldn’t be cast away so easily.” Several residents expressed confidence that the city would raise the funds needed to maintain control of the mansion. “What we’re talking about here is funding,” said Steve Hagerty, chair of the committee and founder and CEO of Hagerty Consulting. “I am curious to date … has anyone stepped forward and said ‘Hey, I would be willing to contribute half a million, a million dollars or anything like that to the (project)?’” Grover told The Daily some residents seem to think the citizens committee will be making a final decision regarding the Harley Clarke Mansion. However, the committee is only gathering information and will present input to City Council in early June, she said. “I think what the public is not understanding is that the committee is not necessarily the place to do lobbying for one option over another,” Grover told The Daily. Evanston police and firefighters responded to a fire April 3 around 1:50 a.m. in the 300 block of Howard Street, police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. Firefighters put out the fire and no one was injured, he said. People at the scene told officials they were having a party in one of the apartments and had kicked the 36-year-old man out, Dugan said. The man made some threatening statements to them before leaving, Dugan said. Soon after, people
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MANSION MEETING Members of the Harley Clarke Citizens Committee discuss Wednesday the future of the Harley Clarke Mansion. The committee talked about possibly creating and expanding a park district around the mansion.
Grover added that recent recommendations from the public are not focusing on how to bring about changes. “So if somebody wants a museum, great,” she said. “Museums are a great idea, but how do we get to there? The hard part is always going to be how do we make any of these (changes) a reality?” Despite the challenging process faced by the committee, the meetings have still been useful and informative, Grover said. The Harley Clarke Citizens Committee is scheduled to meet next on April 29. williamkobin2018@u.northwestern.edu noticed a fire had been started in the kitchen area of the apartment next door, police said. The people at the party knew the man and were able to provide his name to police, Dugan said. The Chicago man was charged with two misdemeanors and is scheduled to appear in court May 27. — Paige Leskin
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People Power “Hit the Wall,” a play based on the Stonewall Riots of 1969, opens Friday for a three-day run at the Wallis Theater.
By Kimberly Go
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The riot that served as the impetus of the modern gay rights movement is coming to a Northwestern stage. “Hit the Wall,” a play based on the Stonewall Riots of 1969, opens Friday for a three-day run at the Wallis Theater. The play is set at the Stonewall Inn, an underground gay bar in Greenwich Village, New York, where a routine police raid breaks into a fullscale three-day riot. Issues such as LGBT rights, racial tensions and police brutality are present throughout the show. “(Hit the Wall) deals with a lot of issues that we’re still dealing with now,” director Gina Hayes said. “That’s why I picked it originally.” The play is part of NU’s Masters of Fine Arts Lab Series, in which student directors and designers from the MFA program are matched and have the freedom to create their own productions of contemporary plays. Hayes said she first saw “Hit the Wall” at The Greenhouse Theater Center in Chicago. She said it resonated with her because she was grappling with issues about her own sexuality at the time and was just about to come out publicly as bisexual. “I got very emotionally attached to the play and what it was trying to say,” the second-year MFA student said. “I didn’t really realize before I saw it the real extent of why we march in pride parades and the beginning of the gay rights movement.” Communication senior Brannon Bowers, one of the actors, said the play tells an important and unique story. “It has such great characters that don’t succumb to stereotypes, but are really their own people,” he said. “(It shows) a spectrum of gay
characters which you never get to see in other works.” Bowers said the cast worked with a dramaturg who taught them about the New York politics in 1969 and the different groups in the gay liberation movement. “There was a lot of dramaturgy work to get into the mindset of being in this specific time period because it’s completely different from what we see now,” he said. “There were very strict laws about being gay and you could be arrested.” Stylistically, the play will be different from the production at The Greenhouse, Hayes said. She incorporated some dance elements into the riot scenes to make the play her own. “I have a real interest in dance and I come from a little bit of a dance background, so my riot is much more stylized than the riot that was staged,” she said. “That was much more visceral, people rushing through the space.” The choreography tries to capture many emotions that cannot be expressed in words and will be “both jarring and exciting to watch” at the same time, said Communication senior Frankie Bennett, an actor in the play. Another notable difference in Hayes’s version of “Hit the Wall” is that it will be performed in an alley configuration. Audience members will sit on opposite sides of the stage, as opposed to a “three-quarter thrust” configuration in which audience members sit on three sides. “It’s an interesting way to use the space,” Bennett said. “You get to see (the play) from all angles.” Bowers said he is looking forward to seeing the audience react to playwright Ike Holter’s script. “It’s sassy, it’s smart, it’s quick,” he said. “There’s a lot of banter back-and-forth and a lot of inventive name-calling. I’m really interested to see how the audience responds to some of those quick wits.”
But more than that, Bowers said he wants the audience to realize that the characters being portrayed still exist today and that the fight for LGBT equality is not yet over. In the same vein, Bennett said he hopes people come away from the play wanting to start something and create change. “I think that the real heart of ‘Hit the Wall’ is that change does not come easy and you just have to start changing to get what you need to
get done,” Bennett said. The first pride parade was held in 1970 — one year after the Stonewall riots. “That’s why there’s a pride parade every single year in all of these different cities and countries across the world,” she said. “This is the story of all the individual revolutionaries who came together and made that happen.” kimberlygo2018@u.northwestern.edu
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IT’S A REVOLUTION Actors perform in “Hit the Wall,” which deals with issues including LGBT rights, racial tensions and police brutality. The play is part of Northwestern’s Masters of Fine Arts Lab Series.
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By Rachel Holtzman
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“Opening Doors,” an art installation centered around sustainability, was unveiled in Level One of the South Tower of University Library on Friday. The project involved both Evanston artists and NU students. The artwork will be on display from now until the end of summer 2015. Over the past year, students and artists working on the project created murals on four recycled doors, using discarded items to talk about the need for sustainability and people’s disconnect from the world around them. “I don’t think we saw it as a political thing,” McCormick junior Agnes Wang said. “There are a lot of ads to be sustainable around campus that are very direct, and I think having an art installation is more subtle. When students look at it, they can reflect on their own ideas about sustainability instead of being preached at.” The installation is the result of a year of work for Wang and Weinberg junior Emery Weinstein. The two met while working on the Associated Student Government sustainability committee, Wang said. Because Wang is an engineering student and Weinstein is an artist, they decided to team up and combine their talents. Three of the doors were created by the professional artists, and Wang and Weinstein created the fourth. “Each of the doors is a different commentary on commercialism, consumerism, sustainability, urban gardening, eating local and ways to create something beautiful out of something old,” Weinstein said. “I want people to stop and think before they throw something away and think of how they could use it in a creative way. It may be less convenient, but still purposeful, diverse and positive.” She and Weinstein said they wanted to give the artists working on the project, Diana Berek, Alfonso Piloto Nieves Ruiz and Joyce
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Elias, as much freedom as possible within the topic of sustainability. On one door, Nieves Ruiz mixed together dark clay and garbage to “try to show the mental garbage and spiritual disconnect we are exposed to every day,” he said in a summary of his display. Other pieces include a painting of the Milky Way with stars covered by plane fuel fumes, a mixed media piece of butterflies being consumed by fire, a study of women’s magazines and graffiti, with some surrealist elements throughout the entire exhibit. Elias, an Evanston artist who specializes in using recycled created a When students materials, multimedia piece on look at it, they urban gardens. “On the black and can reflect white side… it was on their own supposed to be an empty lot, while the ideas about other side is very colsustainability orful and has some instead of being vegetables growing,” she said. “The idea is preached at. to have people plant Agnes Wang, urban gardens and take McCormick junior care of these spaces.” Weinstein said the biggest struggle was finding funding, as her and Wang’s proposal was rejected from multiple venues. Almost all of their funding came straight out of their pockets, but they eventually received support and materials from the library, Home Depot and Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse. Wang said the team also faced a few challenges installing the art. Wang and Weinstein wanted to show the doors in the library plaza but had to move them into the South Tower. They then had to make sure the pieces would actually stay in place. “It’s hard to make freestanding doors stand up,” Elias said. “As we got closer and closer to the installation, we were all emailing back
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Go Green The “Opening Doors” art installation opened in the South Tower of University Library on Friday. The installation features murals on four recycled doors designed by students and artists.
and forth. Most of us don’t have the carpentry tools to (make stands), so they contacted Home Depot to make stands for us, which solved the problem.” Both Wang and Elias said they thought people who saw the installation at its opening on Friday were intrigued by it.
“The people that were there really enjoyed it,” Elias said. “People came up and asked us a lot of questions. They were very engaged, and I think that it’s nice that it’s going to be up for a while so many more people will see it.” rachelholtzman2018@u.northwestern.edu
Alum acts in Chicago-based show at Goodman Theatre By Rachel Davison
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The Chicago theater scene has embraced Northwestern alum Travis Turner (Communication ’05), who plays the only nameless character in the cast of “The Upstairs Concierge,” a comedy playing at the Goodman Theatre until April 26. After growing up in Atlanta and attending a performing arts high school, Turner came to NU for the strong theater program and access to a network that extends into the professional theater scene. While on campus, he was part of THUNK a capella and performed in a number of productions, including the Waa-Mu Show and a special production of “Topdog/Underdog,” produced by WAVE Productions. Though Turner performed in NU’s New York Showcase and originally hoped to work in New York, he booked his first job in Chicago
and stayed as he was cast in more shows. “I decided that I wanted to stay in Chicago once I started booking work,” Turner said. “I really love the community of actors we have here.” Turner also appreciates the strong ties to NU academia in the Chicago theater community. “There is a strong sense of dramaturgy, they really bring (theater), in terms of studying,” Turner said. “The same is true with a lot of professors from Northwestern who still direct in Chicago.” “The Upstairs Concierge,” in which Turner plays a representative of the Houston Astros baseball team, exemplifies Chicago theater, Turner said. Though Ella, a new concierge at a fictional hotel in the Loop, is the show’s central character, the comedy showcases the entire cast. “What makes this show truly Chicago is the fact that it’s a real ensemble on that stage,” Turner said. “(Ella) is really just a member of the ensemble like all of the rest of us.” Because of the actors’ Chicago ties, the
cast became close, which Turner said has been common in his experiences as a Chicago actor. “As an individual performer, when you’re cast in a show with performers you’ve worked with before, there’s already a history. You’re already a family,” Turner said. “Because this show came out of a collaboration with Goodman and (Chicago theater company) Teatro Vista, there’s already a strong connection with one another.” Director KJ Sanchez said Turner embodies the reputation of NU actors and brings a breadth of experience, great work ethic and humor to his role as a member of the ensemble cast. “Northwestern has a national reputation of producing actors that are very inventive and theatrical, artistic, experimental and very willing to try a lot of different things,” Sanchez said. “Travis is a great example of all of those things.” racheldavison2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Blaze Pizza and Evanston: A tasty combination campuses, and on Belmont Avenue, drawing a number of DePaul University students. “College students and millennials, in general, are anxious to play around with the foods that they’re eating,” Cummis said. “They love the value perception that’s there as well as the speed of their pizza.” The option to specialize the pizza is already something that stands out to NU students. “I like how you can see your pizza being made and you can customize it with whatever you want,” said Weinberg freshman Clay Davis. Even in Chicago, a city known for its deep- dish pizza, the chain holds up well because it adds the opportunity to
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Your pizza then gets sent to an oven set at 800 degrees. The oven, along with the crust recipe, lets the pizza cook in less than 180 seconds, Cummis said. From there, a “Pizzasmith” is in charge of preparing the pizza and adding extra pesto or arugula at the customer’s request. Cummis suggests a customer choose five to six different ingredients that satisfy his or her palate. His current go-to? A pizza with classic sauce, mozzarella, gorgonzola, grilled chicken, spinach and red onion.
Step three The “Pizzasmith” places your pie into the 800-degree oven until it’s cooked to perfection.
Step one Line up and start thinking about what sauce, cheese(s) and toppings you’d like.
Since it opened last month, Blaze Pizza appears to have quickly won over the hearts of Northwestern students and Evanston residents alike. The restaurant, in which customers watch workers assemble and cook their pizzas within a matter of minutes, often has a line out the door at night and on weekends. The easy setup draws in college students and millennials, making Evanston a logical place to open the eatery, said owner Adam Cummis. Cummis owns six Blaze Pizza franchises in the Chicago area — including one he plans to open in Niles in a couple of weeks — and three others in south Florida. Blaze Pizza is spread throughout the Chicago area, including just off Michigan Avenue near NU’s and University of Chicago’s downtown
NU students have excitedly embraced Blaze Pizza. If anything, its operations is too small for some students who hope to dine in. “Many people would stay if they could. But a
Step two Tell the “Pizza’olos” your order, and watch as they prepare your personalized pizza.
have pizza for a quick meal, Cummis said. “If you think about it, how often did you get pizza for lunch?” he said. “There’s a time investment required.”
lot of the times I go there, there isn’t enough seating so I have to take it home and eat it there,” McCormick freshman Chinedu Okoroafor said. “That’s fine and all, but I live 15 minutes away and (the pizza) gets kind of cold by then.” Cummis said he hopes to build up relationships with the Evanston community through advertising profitsharing initiatives and participating in local events.
Step four Devour your purchase slice by slice. (Caution: Eating too fast could cause mouth burns by piping hot cheese).
How it works:
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Once you make it through the line, you’re greeted by a “Pizza’olo,” an employee who will assist you in choosing sauce, cheese and toppings.
Helen Lee contributed reporting. lydiaramsey2015@u.northwestern.edu
Festival links music, film
Show lets songwriters shine
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By joanne Lee
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Reggae, blues and hip-hop melodies will drift through different venues across Chicago from April 16 to April 19 as part of the seventh Chicago International Music and Movies Festival. Several Northwestern alumni are involved in the festival, which aims to combine the power of music and movies. “It’s much different than the traditional music or film festival, in the sense that we are all about film and music and how one can’t exist without the other,” said Ashley Charleson, CIMMfest assistant marketing director. “We’re all about the marriage between film and music.” The music and film presented at CIMMfest comes from many different parts of the world, ranging from Cambodia to Thailand. In addition to concerts and film showings, the festival shows the relationship between music and film with interactive panel discussions and live musical accompaniment of films. “It’s kind of an eclectic mix of music,” said CIMMfest marketing intern Alexander Findlay (Weinberg ’15). “There’s everything including reggae, blues, indie rock, world music, soul, electronic and more. There are a lot of the artists most people may have not heard of. There are some more mainstream people, but a lot of the films are independent films and for the most part the acts are an eclectic mix of music.” Findlay said Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, a band that will perform at CIMMfest, embodies the type of music featured at the festival. The group was originally
formed by refugees displaced by the Sierra Leone civil war. Along with their performance, a documentary about the group will be played at the festival. “It has a kind of reggae sound and (uses) African instruments and percussion, so there are traditional African sounds,” Findlay said. Alongside international acts such as these, several DJs from WNUR’s Streetbeat will be performing, including Searchl1te and DJ Madrid. In anticipation, Streetbeat is giving away two free tickets for NU students to attend CIMMfest. “We have passes, and we’re going to try to do some write ups (on performances),” said Brian Campbell, general manager of WNUR. “There will be a ton of cool shows (at CIMMfest). They’re good at keeping it local and doing a lot of Chicago-centric things.” CIMMfest is set at venues across Chicago, making it different from traditional musical festivals like Lollapalooza. This year, the festival also has partnered with Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, to be a part of the Lake FX Summit, which also runs from April 16 to April 19 and features free speakers, music and film showcases at the Chicago Cultural Center. Charleson said CIMMfest is a great way for NU students to go out and discover new parts of Chicago, while also experiencing new types of music and film. “I would say pick something random (to see at CIMMfest), something you would normally never go to and just check it out,” Charleson said. “All of our programming is so rich in culture and has such a story about it.” amandasvachula2018@u.northwestern.edu
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A new show for novice and experienced songwriters alike to share their work is making its debut at Northwestern. “There is just a plethora of new work that is itching to be created and this event is just a really good outlet for that,” said Communication senior Kyle Sherman, co-producer of the New Songwriters’ Cabaret. Vertigo Productions will hold its first annual New Songwriters’ Cabaret on Saturday, April 18 at 8:30 p.m. in the Jones Great Room. The show will be free and will showcase 10 new songs, written and performed by eight NU students. “It’s really just a chance to show off that part of the Northwestern writing community that often doesn’t have a place to show off,” Sherman said. Outside of the Waa-Mu Show, a music production put on every spring, there are limited outlets for songwriters to share their work with the public, he said. This how Sherman and Communication senior Amelia Bell, the other producer of the New Songwriters’ Cabaret, got the idea. “Our impetus was to give people an outlet for new musical creativity that wasn’t available already,” Bell said. In hopes of getting their work showcased in the show, NU students submitted their songs, which were then voted upon by a committee without
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Hit the Wall at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. in Wallis Theater Fusion Dance Co. Presents: Fusion Goes to Werk! at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. in Ryan Auditorium TONIK Tap Presents: #tbtonik at 8pm and 10pm in Shanley Pavilion Vertigo Presents: New Songwriters’ Cabaret at 8:30 p.m. in Jones Great Room
friday College Democrats Present: Bill Nye the Science Guy at 6:30 p.m. in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall TONIK Tap Presents: #tbtonik at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. in Shanley Pavilion Hit the Wall at 8 p.m. in Wallis Theater SASA Presents: Jay Sean Concert at 8 p.m. in Ryan Auditorium
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Fusion Dance Co. Presents: Fusion Goes to Werk! at 9 p.m. in Ryan Auditorium Hit the Wall at 2 p.m. in Wallis Theater
knowledge of who wrote which piece. “There’s this very crazy amalgam of (songs) that don’t necessarily make sense together, which is partially weird and partially the fun of it,” Bell said. “It will really tailor to a lot of different people’s tastes.” Medill senior Susie Neilson, whose song will be performed for the first time at the New Songwriters’ Cabaret, described her work as an “angry folk song.” Through the New Songwriters’ Cabaret, Neilson said she was able to improve upon her song through hearing how other people interpreted and performed it. “My favorite part about creating things is sharing them with other people and getting other people involved in my creative process,” Neilson said. Communication junior Christopher Anselmo, who has been songwriting since he was young, said he enjoys the fun, community-oriented environment the New Songwriters’ Cabaret provides. “This is an amazing forum for new songwriters, old songwriters and anyone who has written songs to showcase their work,” Anselmo said. “Hopefully that music will later become part of a larger show.” In fact, Sherman said he feels excitement in being on the front end of knowing these songs could be playing on the radio someday. “It’s new work,” Sherman said, “and new work is so important to the world.” Sherman and Bell said they hope this Saturday show will be only the first of many others, and that it may become an established production at NU. joannelee2017@u.northwestern.edu
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‘American Horror Story’ actress talks Hollywood By Kimberly Go
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Actress Naomi Grossman spoke Wednesday night about her journey to Hollywood and advice she wishes she knew before going there. Known for her role as Pepper on FX’s “American Horror Story,â€? Grossman (Communication ‘97) gave a talk titled “So, You Wanna Work in Hollywoodâ€? in Annie May Swift Auditorium to about 30 people. The event was part of a speaker series put on by the School of Communication’s External Programs, Internships, and Career Services, known as EPICS. “For the most part, unless you’re Zooey Deschanel, actors first starting out in Hollywood right out of college are usually demoted to those ‘nurse number four to the left’ type of roles,â€? Grossman said. “There’s nothing wrong with these kinds of roles, but they’re typically for wallflowers. They’re there to support the star and I’m not like that.â€? After Grossman graduated from Northwestern, she knew she wanted to go to Los Angeles and have her own sitcom. But when she first got to Hollywood, she struggled to break into the entertainment industry. Instead, she worked as a waitress by day and a cocktail server by night. “About five years in, I had an epiphany,â€? she said. “I realized I want to be an actress, but I’m not acting ‌ So if no one would cast me, I cast myself.â€? She wrote, produced and starred in a solo show titled “Girl in Argentine Landscape,â€? based on her personal experience as a foreign exchange student in Argentina her senior year in high school. It received critical acclaim from LA Weekly, as did her second solo show, “Carnival Knowledge: Love, Lust and Other Human Oddities.â€? However, she still wasn’t getting attention from Hollywood, so she decided to put some of her work on YouTube. Some of the videos received more than one million views and were shown at comedy and theater festivals nationwide. “This was keeping me in the game,â€? Grossman said. “I was keeping my creative mind active, finetuning my comedic voice, putting myself out there in case anyone cared. And finally, someone did.â€?
She got an audition for “American Horror Storyâ€? and was eventually cast as Pepper. What was originally a small role ended up spanning two seasons, put her on the map and changed her life. “I got lucky,â€? Grossman said. “But what is luck? Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity. My ‘If you build it, they will come’ attitude really ended up paying off in the end.â€? Colin DeKuiper, assistant director of EPICS, said that Grossman is an “incredibly successfulâ€? alumnus. The focus of EPICS, DeKuiper said, is to look for alumni who are out in the world doing great things. “I think when you start to get these narratives from people like Naomi, you start to get a better sense of what the business is like and what to expect,â€? he said. Grossman gave students 10 tips to stay sane once moving to Hollywood. She told them to make sure they love what they do and do work they are proud of. “I think listening to yourself is the most important,â€? Grossman said. “Deciding what it is that you want and going for it in spite of the odds ‌ Spend your time however it fulfills you. We create our own realities.â€? She also told the audience to not make a backup plan or give themselves a deadline. “The minute you impose a time limit, you’re giving yourself an out,â€? she said. “You’re implying that this might not happen for you so you prepare yourself with a plan B, which means you don’t actually love plan A enough.â€? Weinberg freshman Karen Adjei said she attended the talk because she is a big fan of “American Horror Story.â€? “Her speech was very inspiring and it answered a lot of questions about just life in general and navigating Northwestern,â€? Adjei said. The last piece of advice Grossman left the audience with was to not micromanage life. “Do what you do as best as you can and don’t get attached to results,â€? she said. “The end in store might even be better than the one you envision for yourself.â€? kimberlygo2018@u.northwestern.edu
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group is trying to evaluate how city residents feel about socioeconomic concerns. “We’ve been meeting with the various aldermen in Evanston about these issues,” she said. “It’s not just about the minimum wage. The issue is a lot more complex than that.” The Fight for $15 protests also drew advocacy from NU students, around 30 of whom rode
buses to The University of Illinois at Chicago on Wednesday to participate in protests near the school’s campus. “Fighting for social justice for low-wage workers has been something that has motivated a lot of students in the past already,” said SESP junior Emiliano Vera, who attended the rally. “We really hope to see the Fight for $15 … be a sustainable movement.” marissapage2018@u.northwestern.edu
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PAY PROTEST Students protest alongside Chicago workers and activists Wednesday. Around 30 Northwestern students joined the demonstrations, which were part of the national Fight for $15 campaign to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour.
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Senate amended its code and removed that requirement. Now none of the 14 students need to be senators, though senators can still apply for the committee. Some senators objected to that change and said it would remove student-elected representatives from the funding process. But the amendment’s supporters disagreed, because Senate still needs to approve B-status funding. Weinberg junior Erik Baker, the senator who represents four sexual health and assaultrelated groups, spoke in favor of the amendment, saying non-senators could also function as representatives. “These students are also members of the student body,” the Weinberg junior said, “and can represent the student body, by representing their student group or in other ways.”
scripture,” she said. However, Robinson said she never worried about her Christian faith intervening with her writing, saying that she writes about what interests her and that she was impressed by the popularity of “Gilead.” “These books have a global audience that I certainly never anticipated,” she said. McCormick freshman Samuel Lobo said he found Robinson’s philosophical views very interesting. “You can tell she’s a writer just by the way she thinks so philosophically, so circularly,” he said. “She had some really interesting points about suffering and beauty, about how our humanity nowadays is not experiencing the world like most humans in history have experienced it.”
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I think if we focus the small things, the bigger things will happen. — Bridget Bianco, senior goalkeeper
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NU seeks key road win against ranked Notre Dame By CLAIRE HANSEN
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No. 7 Northwestern vs. No. 10 Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana 6 p.m. Thursday
On the heels of a disappointing loss to Stony Brook on Sunday, No. 7 Northwestern (94, 21 Big Ten) looks for redemption in South Bend, Indiana, on Thursday against No. 10 Notre Dame (95, 33 ACC). Thursday’s game will wrap up a 3-game away series and is the last before the Wildcats finish out the regular season with a pair of home matches. And while the Cats come into Thursday’s matchup licking their wounds from Sunday, Notre Dame has momentum off a big overtime win against Syracuse and a decisive victory against Michigan. “Coming off a loss, we really wanted to reevaluate how we are doing and get better,” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said. “Each individual is focusing in on what they need to do to be successful.” The numbers certainly don’t appear to be in the Cats’ favor. NU is 44 against ranked opponents and 02 against ranked teams on the road, but the Cats
have not lost back-to-back games this season. Furthermore, all four of their losses to ranked teams have been against foes ranking in the top 5 of this week’s IWLCA poll. Their loss against Stony Brook just may turn out to be the driving force needed to defeat the Fighting Irish. “(Our mindset is) aggressive and competitive and all out,” senior goalkeeper Bridget Bianco said. “It’s do or die.” And, in a way, it is do or die. The Cats will need all the momentum they can get before heading into the inaugural Big Ten Tournament, where — if all goes right — they will almost certainly have to face No. 1 Maryland. To win against the Fighting Irish, however, the Cats can’t turn the ball over the way they did against Stony Brook. Five NU turnovers led to five consecutive Stony Brook goals in the first half. Bianco said that in the end, it’ll come down to how well NU can execute the fundamentals. “Paying attention to all the details — throwing, catching, ground balls — it doesn’t have to be the big plays,” the senior said. “It’s all the small plays that lead to the bigger picture. I think if we focus the small things, the bigger things will happen.”
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HEAT CHECK Kara Mupo stick checks an opposing player. The senior is second on Northwestern with 27 goals.
Freshman standout Selena Lasota, who leads the team with 48 goals on the season, agreed with her teammate. “Little mistakes when you play good teams, like Stony Brook, turn into big mistakes,” she said. Draw controls continue to be a focus for the Cats. Even in their loss to the Seawolves, the Cats managed to grab almost twice as many draws as their opponent. The trick against the Fighting Irish will not only be snagging the
ball on the circle, but maintaining possession afterwards. “We need to continue to do well at the draw control,” Amonte Hiller said. “We’ve been gaining momentum in that area, and that’s going to be so crucial. When you play a top tier team the possession is very valuable.” And while Amonte Hiller describes the Fighting Irish as “very athletic and very aggressive,” it’s nothing that the Cats can’t match up to.
This week, Lasota joined teammates Bianco and senior Kara Mupo on the Tewaaraton Award Watch List. The award is the most prestigious accolade in college lacrosse. If the Cats play to their potential on Thursday, they should leave South Bend with another tally in the win column. “For us, we need to do our thing and do it well,” Amonte Hiller said. clairehansen2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Northwestern squeaks by UIC By JESSE KRAMER
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3 CHICAGO — Reid Hunter missed batting practice because of a migraine, but he was ready when coach Paul Stevens called his name Wednesday in the top of the eighth inning. Northwestern and UIC were tied, 2-2, and the senior had an opportunity to give the Wildcats a lead with two teammates in scoring position. Hunter did not waste any time, sending a first-pitch fastball from reliever Ryan Hinchley into right field for a two-run single. “I was ready to go,” Hunter said. “I knew he was probably going to start me with a fastball, so I just took a hack, my first of the day.” That gave the Cats a 4-2 lead, which the bullpen secured in the
final two innings. The Flames put runners on first and second to start the bottom of the ninth against reliever Jake Stolley, but the junior narrowly escaped with his fifth save of the season, thanks to the arm of senior I was centerready to go. I fielder Kyle knew he Ruchim. With two was probably outs, Ruchim going to start gunned d ow n t he me with a game-tying run at home fastball, so I just took a hack, pl ate and NU escaped my first with a 4-3 of the day victory. “ To b e Reid Hunter, honest, I got senior a pretty bad third baseman grip out of the glove,” Ruchim said. “But I was coming through, I used my momentum a little bit. I’ve made better throws, but it got the job done.” The Cats had trouble getting the job done offensively aside from that
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breakthrough eighth inning. NU failed to capitalize in the second inning with one out and runners on second and third. The Cats pushed one runner across in the third inning, but wasted another opportunity as senior catcher Scott Heelan grounded into an inning-ending double play. The Cats had a chance to strike in the seventh inning with two men in scoring position with one out. However, after freshman Connor Lind popped up, senior Luke Dauch got caught leaning off third on a pitch in the dirt, ending NU’s turn at the plate. Once again, NU would not let back-to-back opportunities go to waste. With the bases loaded and no outs in the eighth inning, junior Antonio Freschet scored on a passed ball before Hunter drove home the go-ahead runs. “Look at what Reid’s done all year,” Stevens said. “He smoked the ball all (last) weekend and didn’t have much to show for it, so that hit wasn’t any surprise to me.” jessekramer2017@u.northwestern.edu
USA Basketball announced Wednesday that Northwestern women’s basketball coach Joe McKeown will head the 2015 USA Basketball Women’s World University Games Team. The selection comes on the heels of McKeown leading the Wildcats to a 23-9 record and NCAA Tournament appearance this season and winning a Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Victory Club award for reaching 600 career wins. “It’s a great honor,” McKeown said in a statement. “I’m excited to have the opportunity to represent
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SLIDING OFFENSE Brianna LeBeau dives into second base. The junior infielder struggled against Notre Dame, going 0-for-3 at the plate.
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Northwestern.” The 2015 Women’s World University Games will be held from July 4 to July 13 in Gwangju, South Korea. The competition, organized by the International University Sports Federation, is held every other year. Athletes are eligible to participate if they are between the ages of 17 and 24, are enrolled full-time as a student and have at least one year of college eligibility remaining. Approximately 30 people will be invited to try out for the team two months prior to the competition. McKeown will be joined on the sideline by Holly Warlick, the head coach of Tennessee, and Tanya Warren, the head coach of Northern Iowa. — Bobby Pillote
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Northwestern dropped its fourth straight game, losing 3-2 to No. 25 Notre Dame on Wednesday, off of a two-out hit in the bottom of the seventh inning. Although the Wildcats (20-15, 8-3 Big Ten) were able to keep up with the Fighting Irish (34-11, 13-5 ACC) throughout the game, their inability to rally for runs in the sixth inning left room for a Fighting Irish comeback. Notre Dame struck first with a second inning sacrifice fly to right field from infielder Sara White, bringing home a runner from third base. Junior pitcher Kristen Wood was able to keep the Fighting Irish at bay for the rest of the inning and ended the second with a strikeout.
At the top of the third, freshman centerfielder Sabrina Rabin raced from second base to home plate on a sacrifice fly from junior Andrea Filler to put the Cats on the board. The sacrifice fly was Filler’s NCAA-leading eighth of the season. The Fighting Irish scored again at the bottom of the third with a grounder to left field, bringing a runner home from third base. NU evened the score, 2-2, at the top of the sixth, starting with singles from freshman catcher Sammy Nettling and senior first baseman Julia Kuhn to get the Cats on base. Freshman pinch runner Marissa Panko came in for Nettling and scored on a Brooke Marquez hit to Irish shortstop Morgan Reed. But the Cats’ rally proved too little, with Notre Dame pulling out the win in walk-off fashion. After retiring all of NU’s batters in the top of the seventh, the Fighting Irish scored on a two-out single followed by a smash through the middle that brought home the runner. Rabin led the Cats’ batters with two hits and a run, while Wood finished the game with six strikeouts. — Melissa Haniff