The Daily Northwestern – April 23, 2015

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Cook County to dismiss minor pot charges

By PAIGE LESKIN

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Cook County will withhold prosecuting many low-level drug offenses, and instead will refer offenders to treatment programs, the state’s attorney announced Monday.

The policy changes aim to keep nonviolent offenders out of the criminal justice system so officials can more effectively deal with the “drug epidemic” and focus resources on more serious crimes, state’s attorney Anita Alvarez said at a press conference.

“With the implementation of this new policy, I firmly believe that we are in the position to create a sea of change in Cook County’s approach to dealing with lowlevel drug crimes and nonviolent repeat drug offenders,” Alvarez said. “While our financial resources are shrinking in Cook County, violent crime is not.”

Under the new policy, the county will drop most misdemeanor charges of marijuana possession under 30 grams. Those with three or more citations for possession will have the option to go through a drug treatment program instead We think that of going to jail. treatment is The new absolutely the policy will right approach directly affect cited to people who those for marijuana have issues with possession in Evanston. drugs.

Under curKathy Lyons, rent city code, Moran Center people with executive director fewer than 10 grams of marijuana are issued a citation and a fine at the city level.

However, cases involving people

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with more than 10 grams of marijuana in their possession are referred to the Cook County court which, under the new policy, would drop the charges if the person had less than 30 grams.

City attorney Grant Farrar said the city will continue to refer people who are charged with possession of more than 10 grams to Cook County courts. It will be left entirely up to county prosecutors to go forward with charges or, as the new policy calls for, drop the case, Farrar said.

The county’s move toward lessening penalties for low-level drug offenses comes a few years after Evanston implemented its own new marijuana policy, which was passed by City Council in November 2011. The city’s ordinance gave less severe punishments to people found with small amounts of marijuana.

In the year after the ordinance was implemented, police arrested a smaller amount of people for possession, in

exchange for an increase in tickets issued.

While 147 were arrested in 2011, only 108 people were arrested in the next year.

However, the county’s initiative covers a broader range of charges. In addition to misdemeanor crimes, prosecutors will offer alternative treatment programs to replace jail sentences for some felony charges for having a small amount of a controlled substance.

The new policy is a “step in the right direction,” said Kathy Lyons, executive director of Evanston’s James B. Moran Center for Youth Advocacy. The center has long worked with the city to offer services for offenders, including referrals to local substance treatment programs.

“We think that treatment is absolutely the right approach to people who have issues with drugs,” Lyons said. “It’s a much more productive, much more restorative type of response.”

Lyons said the new policies would particularly benefit juveniles, as the

lesser penalties could keep them from entering the criminal justice system at a young age.

The reforms include a treatment program that specifically targets juveniles.

The program would be “communitybased,” providing offenders under the age of 18 with localized support and counseling, the state’s attorney office said.

Once someone enters the criminal justice system, Lyons said, it is hard to get out. People who are convicted also often have a harder time getting an education, employment and housing, she said.

“Even just a minimal involvement in the court system presents such significant barriers to being a successful adult,” she said.

But Evanston police have yet to receive direction from Cook County officials on how to go about implementing the new countywide policies, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. Once they » See MARIJUANA, page 10

ASG confirms 7 new cabinet members

By SHANE MCKEON

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Associated Student Government Senate confirmed seven cabinet members Wednesday, with the theme of making campus more inclusive running through the meeting.

The four-hour meeting included candidacy speeches and Q&As that often reflected on how student government can better represent the student body, particularly students who are marginalized.

SESP sophmore Matt Herndon was confirmed as vice president for accessibility and inclusion. The position, created in Spring Quarter 2012, has become one of student government’s most visible in recent years, especially as ASG has become a means for students to address issues of inclusion.

Even though ASG has such a committee, Herndon said all committees should move to be more inclusive.

“I don’t think that accessibility and inclusion is necessarily a priority for the way that ASG operates as a whole and within every committee,” Herndon said.

“And I think that has to change.”

He faced a longer, tougher questioning period than most candidates and fielded questions on socioeconomic status, sexual assault and segregation.

Herndon, who said he was late because he was moderating a Sustained Dialogue meeting, said the program is valuable, but that efforts to make the University more inclusive should extend beyond discussion.

“I think the University sometimes tries to make dialogue the end goal,” he said. “Dialogue is not the end goal.”

Weinberg sophomore Isaac Rappoport was the sole nominee for vice president for student life and was rejected.

Like the other candidates, Rappoport gave a brief introduction speech and took questions from senators. He then left the room for ASG members and outside guests to discuss his candidacy.

Senator Jake Rothstein told The Daily the discussion lasted for more than a half hour and that Senate voted by secret ballot. Rappoport needed two-thirds of the vote to be confirmed.

While taking questions from senators, Rappoport said he wanted to make the student life community more diverse » See SENATE, page 10

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JUSTICE SERVED Law professor Deborah Tuerkheimer discusses legal proceedings in sexual abuse cases.

Tuerkheimer’s visit was part of this week’s Take Back The Night programming.

Prof talks law, sexual assault

By MARIANA ALFARO

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NEW LEADERSHIP SESP sophomore Matt Herndon speaks at Senate on Wednesday. Herndon was confirmed as vice president for accessibility and inclusion.

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Rape is defined as forced, non-consensual sex, yet in some cases so much emphasis is given to the “force” aspect of the crime that the significance of consent is diminished, Northwestern Law Prof. Deborah Tuerkheimer said on Wednesday.

Tuerkheimer spoke to a group of about 20 students about the relationship between sexual assault and the law. The event was hosted by Take Back the Night, an organization that has put together a week of programming to raise awareness of sexual assault.

The professor spoke about the injustices that can occur when cases of sexual assault is brought to court. She spoke from her experience in handling

domestic violence and child abuse cases as an assistant district attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office for five years.

In some court cases, Tuerkheimer said, attackers aren’t charged with rape when the details of the incidents surface. Defense attorneys can argue that victims weren’t forced to have intercourse if they were asleep or intoxicated, or if someone who wasn’t the attacker drugged them.

“That’s historically been the way that the law has responded to rape,” Tuerkheimer told The Daily. “It’s still true in a majority of states and the model that governs rape still requires force.”

Tuerkheimer, a graduate of Yale Law School, said though most cases of sexual assault in which the aggressor was a stranger to the victim are prosecuted, cases where the aggressor and victim know each other often go

unpunished. These, she said, are the most common cases.

She also explained that the defense will sometimes bring up a victim’s sexual history to find patterns that can be used to hurt the prosecution’s case.

Medill freshman Elena Sucharetza, who attended the event, said it was shocking to hear that a victim’s sexual history can be used to justify an attacker’s actions.

“It was most sobering to hear that women’s sexual history is oftentimes brought into the legal realm,” Sucharetza said. “I find that kind of outstanding, that we consider women to be of a certain purity level to be considered ‘rapeable,’ which is really disturbing.”

Tuerkheimer said she remains optimistic, however, that soon these legal aspects surrounding sexual abuse will » See LAW, page 10

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Around Town Evanston music school hosts festival to give back

By Rachel Yang

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An Evanston-based music school kicked off its inaugural festival last week, which features about 125 concerts in the Chicago area over just 16 days.

The Music Institute of Chicago, which has multiple locations around Evanston, aims to give back to the community with its Community Music Festival, said Mark George, president and CEO of the institute.

The school provides music education to students in the Chicago area.

In addition to some professional groups, hundreds of the institute’s students will be performing in various concerts from April 17 to May 3, many of which are free and open to the public. About 30 of the concerts will be in Evanston.

George said the institute exceeded its initial goal of bringing 100 concerts to the festival, instead hosting about 125 concerts in community centers, libraries, senior centers and other venues in the Chicago area.

A key event to cap off the festival is a performance May 2 on the Chicago Transit Authority’s Red and Purple lines, George said. Musicians, including a string quartet, will play live music in the Davis, Howard, Fullerton and Lake stations.

George said the inspiration for hosting the festival came from the institute’s dedication to contributing to the Chicago community. Although he said he does not think the festival will occur annually, he believes it is always important for musicians to share their gifts with others.

Police Blotter Evanston home burglarized

Someone burglarized an Evanston home of more than $800 worth of tools between April 11 and Saturday, police said.

There were pry marks on the garage door of the house in the 1500 block of Davis Street, from

“(Musicians) have a skill, an art, that is so powerful and speaks so directly to people, both to bring them joy and to console them when they need it,� George said. “So as an institution, we’ve been committed to bringing music to people who might not otherwise experience live music.�

Since the festival began, George said the reception from audiences has been generally positive, with some performances attracting around 100 people. He added that he hopes the festival will benefit people of all ages.

For example, children who attend the concerts may be inspired to pick up an instrument, George said. “You don’t have to be a prodigy to do (music), you just have to learn how to play,â€? he said. “For children, when they see their peers doing something really great, like making music ‌ I want them to really believe that they can do this too.â€?

Additionally, the festival is a great way for families to take part in something together, George said. “(The festival) gives adults, especially parents with their children, something to share,â€? he said. “Because the busy lives of parents and kids don’t often converge with their schedules ‌ having the ability to hear them play ‌ I think that’s very important for families.â€?

Paul Larson, president of the Rotary Club of Evanston, said he similarly believes in the institute’s mission to enrich the community through music.

Along with the institute, the Rotary Club, a service organization dedicated to improving the city through volunteering and fundraising, is co-hosting a free concert Thursday afternoon, featuring 14-year-old violin prodigy Julian Rhee. “Our club strongly supports any endeavor that helps the arts thrive in Evanston, and the Music Institute is certainly an example of that,� Larson said. “We which the tools were taken, Evanston police Cmdr.

Joseph Dugan said.

Various Milwaukee and Craftsman tools were stolen from the home, including a combination wrench set, a drill and a cordless saw, worth a total of about $821, police said.

The homeowner, a 62-year-old man, also told police that his car, a 2000 BMW that was left unlocked, was rummaged through, but nothing

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MUSIC MATTERS The Music Institute of Chicago is hosting about 125 concerts in the Chicago area over the span of 16 days as part of its Community Music Festival.

support local theaters and others who are trying to nurture and to strengthen artistic expression in the community.�

George said that when he attended a singalong concert Tuesday at Symphony of Evanston, a nursing and rehabilitation center, he was extremely gratified to see the audience’s reactions. “I am listening to the music and I’m just looking around at peoples’ faces,� he said. “And when you see that you have really touched them, moved them some way emotionally, that’s a reward right there.�

Mike Fehland, the director of activities and volunteer sources at Symphony of Evanston, shared

similar sentiments. He said he thought the concert demonstrated the impact of music on peoples’ lives, especially those who may have limited physical or mental abilities, like some residents at the center. “(The concert was) all about just making it the best it can be for residents to really have meaningful moments,â€? Fehland said. “Music is a universal language ‌ It’s a way to connect to another person and a way to bring joy to residents, especially those who can’t communicate easily with words, because again, music does all the speaking.â€?

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was spray painted with the word “webs,� he said.

This is the third time graffiti has been found in the park this month. Previously incidents occurred on April 8 and overnight on April 14, police said.

Dugan said the incidents are related and police have placed a special watch on the park.

Leahy Park building wall graffitied

Someone defaced the wall of a park building with graffiti between Friday and Tuesday, police said.

A public works employee reported the graffiti in Leahy Park, which is on the corner of Ridge Avenue and Lincoln Street, Dugan said. The wall

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Sending people a message about yourself can sometimes come down to the colors you wear, said author Ben Parr on Wednesday.

Parr (Weinberg ’08), former editor of Mashable, visited Northwestern to talk about his recently published book “Captivology,” which describes the science behind getting people’s attention.

“Attention has become the currency of the modern economy,” he said during the event.

Parr’s visit was part of the Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s Entrepreneur and Innovators at NU speaker series. In the past, the event has been a day-long conference with multiple speakers, but this year organizers wanted to make it a speaker series to appeal to a larger audience, said Caitlin Smith (Medill ‘09), assistant director of the Farley Center.

Parr’s talk stood out from some of the others in that he is an NU alum and was therefore able to engage with his audience well, she said.

Parr told a crowd of more than 30 people how, with all the new information people are receiving everyday, it is difficult to manage everything. That is why it’s difficult for people to get their ideas and products noticed.

“I feel like Doug the dog (from the movie “Up”), always distracted by so many things happening all the time, sometimes unable to focus,” he said. “I’m sure all of you feel the same way too.”

The three different types of attention Parr outlined were immediate attention, “the spark” that occurs when something shocks you; short attention, “the kindling” that occurs when someone consciously focuses their attention on something; and long attention — “the logs” for a fire — a long-term interest in something that can last for months.

“It’s not enough to have somebody listen to your ad or hear your song, you need to turn them to fans, to customers, to users, into

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Hey, Over Here Northwestern alum Ben Parr explains the science behind getting people’s attention in an event at the McCormick Foundation Center. Parr introduced his new book “Captivology” during the event as part of Entrepreneur and Innovators at NU speaker series hosted by the Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

followers,” he said. “You can’t skip over to the logs, you have to go through those three stages in order to capture attention.”

One of the captivation “triggers” he emphasized was acknowledgement, and said giving someone positive attention can capture people’s attention.

To describe the concept, Parr described a psychology study in which women holding hands with their husband, holding hands with a stranger and not holding anyone were given a shock from electrodes. When asked to rate their pain, the women holding their husband’s hand showed less pain.

“That was new for me,” Taniesha Robinson (Medill ‘10, ‘11), a digital media specialist at the Farley Center, told The Daily. “I had never

associated that with attention, that your connection with the person can actually be stronger than a physical pain that you’re experiencing and how do you create that as a business. That was probably the most interesting point.”

Robinson said Parr’s talk was particularly relevant because students are being innovative, but they have to learn to capture people’s attention.

“I hope that students paid attention to his point about the fact that not all attention is good attention, that there’s positive and negative attention and the ultimate way to get positive attention is to focus the attention on your idea and not how cool your company is,” she said. emilychin2018@u.northwestern.edu

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NU history professor named Andrew Carnegie Fellow, awarded funding

A Northwestern history professor was included in the inaugural 32-person class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows, chosen from more than 300 nominations.

History Prof. Kevin Boyle will receive up to $200,000 to support a research sabbatical to write a book about post-9/11 America.

Boyle expressed his appreciation for the recognition and grant.

“I’m so grateful to the Carnegie Corporation for its generous support,” Boyle said in a news release. “I hope the book will speak to the deeply troubling issues the nation faces as we live through our own age of terror.”

Boyle teaches classes at NU on contemporary U.S. history, the civil rights movement and racial violence.

Boyle’s 2004 book, “Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age,” received the National Book Award for nonfiction and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Some of Boyle’s essays and reviews have been published by The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation, said the people who picked the fellowship winners are extraordinary.

“The selection committee includes the heads of some of the nation’s preeminent institutions dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, including

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five current and former (The university presidents,” Gregorian said in the proposals) seek release. “Each proposal to tackle some was reviewed and rated of the most by at least one of the 25 prominent scholars, pressing issues educators and intellectuof our times als who served as anonymous evaluators.” with innovative All 32 of the fellows and forwardwill receive funding for looking ideas. studies in the social sciences and humanities, Susan Hockfield, totaling $6.4 million. president emerita Susan Hockfield, of MIT president emerita of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chaired the panel of judges. She said the humanities and social sciences play a key role in solving today’s problems.

“What impressed me most was the quality of the proposals — they seek to tackle some of the most pressing issues of our times with innovative and forward-looking ideas from a wide range of high-caliber candidates,” she said in the release.

“Solutions to the complex issues of today and tomorrow will not emerge simply through technology and science, but require humanistic and social science scholarship to use lessons of the past to devise paths to future peace and progress.”

Gregorian said he hoped the money will help the fellows to inform both policymakers and the general public.

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Quintessential Quartet The award-winning Dover Quartet will start their three-year residency at the Bienen School of Music this fall, where the members will perform and teach master classes. The members of the quartet met when they were students at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

By Rachel Davison

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The Dover Quartet, which has performed in the Northwestern’s Winter Chamber Music Festival for the past two years, will return to campus this fall to begin a three­-year residency at the Bienen School of Music. As a quartet-in­-residence, the group will perform each quarter and teach master classes.

Comprised of violinists Joel Link and Bryan Lee, violist Milena Pajaro­van de Stadt and cellist Camden Smith, the Dover Quartet is one of the youngest ensembles with such a high level of critical acclaim. The performance group won the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition and now performs around 150 concerts a year.

The members of the Dover Quartet said they are excited to return to NU and work with students.

“It’s this next step in the career that we’ve all been looking forward to a lot,” Pajaro­van de Stadt said. “Both times that we’ve performed at Northwestern have been highlights of our concert season. The audience there is so engaging. You can feel the energy right when you walk on stage.”

The four musicians met while students at the

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Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Link and Lee played in different ensembles together, as did Pajaro­van de Stadt and Smith. At one point, all four of them were available at the same time and felt the need to play together, Link said.

“Immediately, we just felt like a lot of stuff clicked,” he said.

Link recalls Schmuel Ashkenasi, a member of the violin faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music, telling the four of them, “You guys should really consider getting married.”

“If you are really enjoying what you’re doing, it’s not something you can really ignore,” Link said.

After they started in 2008, the Dover Quartet continued to rehearse and grow as a group. They went to Rice University to spend a two­-year residency as part of the master’s program in String Quartet Studies at the Shepherd School of Music from 2011-­13.

“It was a fantastic, really necessary step for us,” Smith said. “Moving to Texas was one of those moments that showed how committed we were.”

It was at Rice that the Dover Quartet spent a great deal of rehearsal time preparing for the 2013 Banff Festival.

Their hard work paid off — they won first place and all three special awards.

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“In 2013 we’d been together for more than five years at that point, with many non­successes, which in many ways was hard,” Smith said. “At Rice University we had time to solidify our playing style.

That was a catalyst for us to launch into the next level.”

Winning first place at Banff “drastically” changed things for the Dover Quartet — so much that it was overwhelming at first, Pajaro­van de Stadt. Their concert schedule increased from 50 to 150 concerts per year and they were offered new opportunities, including an invite to perform at NU’s Winter Chamber Music Festival in 2014.

“That really was the thing that launched us in terms of the professional side,” Smith said.

Blair Milton, the director of the Winter Chamber Music Festival, arranged to have the quartet play at the festival in January 2014. He was so impressed with the performance and how it was received that he brought the Dover Quartet back the next year to perform and teach a master class.

“They demonstrated themselves to be fantastic musicians and wonderful instrumentalists,” Milton said. “The audience loved them so I invited them back.”

Both the quartet and Milton feel that this

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The Dover Quartet begins twoyear residency at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.

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residency will be helpful for students who can see the Dover Quartet as young role models, who are not yet far removed from the student experience.

“To find role models in such great players that are still in their 20s will be a tremendous inspiration,” Milton said. “They have this freshness that they haven’t forgotten where they’ve come from as far as students. They’ll be able to mentor our students through this difficult transition from being students to professionals.”

The quartet members are also looking forward to learning from the Bienen students as well.

“We all know from experience that teaching is a really formative tool for us,” Pajaro­van de Stadt said. “Being at a point that were able to impart some wisdom on others is really rewarding.”

The Dover Quartet values the individual playing and musicianship as well as the group dynamic, both of which they will be able to relate to students.

“We really prioritize being vocal and having each member of the group have a very individual and unique personality, and somehow come together as a whole in a cohesive way,” Pajaro­van de Stadt said. racheldavison2018@u.northwestern.edu

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The Dover Quartet wins first place and all three special awards at the Banff International String Quartet Competition.

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The Dover Quartet will begin three-year residency at Bienen School of Music.

The performance group performs at Winter Chamber Music Festival at NU.

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Q&A: Tan Pin Pin, alumna and documentary-maker

By Kimberly Go

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Forbidden Film Northwestern alum Tan Pin Pin created the documentary “To Singapore, with Love.” She was inspired to create the film after reading first-person accounts written by Singaporean political exiles.

Singaporean director Tan Pin Pin (Communication ’01) created the award-winning documentary “To Singapore, with Love” as a love letter to Singapore, only to have it banned by the country a year later. Released in 2013, the documentary follows Singaporean political exiles around the world — some of whom have not returned to Singapore in more than 50 years — and explores their lives away from home. The student group Northwestern University Singaporeans and Friends will be screening the film Friday on campus, followed by a Q&A with Tan. The Daily caught up with her to learn more about why she created the film and the challenges she faced in making it.

What inspired you to create the documentary?

I’ve always been interested in the idea of exile in a literary sense. So when I actually stumbled upon a book of first-person accounts written by Singapore political exiles (“Escape from the Lion’s Paw”), I just thought, ‘I should just meet them up to find out how they have coped.’

How did you go about filming the documentary and contacting the Singaporean exiles?

I approached the editor of the book from which these first person accounts were found

and she connected me with some of them. I wrote an email to them introducing myself, showing them some of the films I had done, and that’s how I met them. Those were for (the exiles) in London. For those who were former communists fighting in the jungles of Thailand, when I heard that one of them had died, I went to the funeral in Hat Yai, which is in Southern Thailand … and at that funeral I met a few of the other communists who are still in exile.

How did you feel when you found out your film would be banned in Singapore?

I was very disappointed for myself as well as for Singapore. I feel that my film should be seen and, more importantly, I think Singaporeans should be allowed to find out about our own histories for ourselves. The reason that was given for the ban was that it undermined national security, which I don’t agree with. I think they are severely overreacting.

What other challenges did you face filming the documentary and how did you overcome them?

I think the main challenge was trying to anticipate which portions might be troublesome in the eyes of the censors. I think I overcame it by just deciding that I wasn’t going to anticipate it and I would just make the film that I felt was important.

How did your experience at Northwestern influence your filmmaking career?

When I was at Northwestern, they really

forced me out of my comfort zone. I went to read books I had never read before, saw films I would never otherwise have seen and saw art that I would never otherwise have been acquainted with as well, so I think it really gave me a very strong theoretical foundation to make the work that I do now. It was instrumental.

What do you hope viewers get out of watching the film?

I think it’s important for them to realize that the formation of a nation is actually really complicated and that there are many, many paths and there’s just a lot of collateral damage to get to where we are today. And this is one of the examples of that, people being exiled, even now. And the other thing is that I think audiences who may not be familiar with Singapore history will get a sense of what home means … it’s actually a universal theme, a sense of wanting to make a connection with where our home is.

What advice do you have for students interested in making documentaries?

I think coming off from this experience, my advice would be to really follow your gut and to find a quiet place to actually hear what your gut is telling you. In my situation, I felt that this film was important enough to be made and that’s what I did. kimberlygo2018@u.northwestern.edu

City’s community yarn art project to color downtown

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Getting Cozy Yarn circles will cover Evanston in the upcoming weeks as part of the Evanston Community Yarn Art Project. Last Sunday, over a dozen Evanston residents got together to learn about how to become involved in the project.

By Helen Lee

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In the coming weeks, bright circles of yarn will cover the trees and add spurts of color to downtown Evanston. The yarn circles, crafted by anyone willing to participate, are part of the Evanston Community Yarn Art Project, which aims to brighten up the city and make people more aware of its art scene.

Last Sunday, over a dozen Evanston residents gathered in Spex, an eyeglass store, for a workshop about yarn art and how to get involved with the Yarn Art Project. The yarn circles are due by May 6 and will be wrapped around the streets shortly before the Young Evanston Artists festival the week of May 11.

Headed by Jaime Leonardi, the Yarn Art Project aims to add color to the Evanston community by crafting circles of yarn, stitching them together and then placing them around the city.

Leonardi has a background in arts and decor and is an owner of Stumble & Relish, a jewelry and gift shop located at 1310 Chicago Ave. “We have a really big tree in front of our really small window,” Leonardi said. “I was talking to customers and trying to figure out what to do with it and so many people suggested that we make it a fun art project and put yarn on it.”

And the Community Yarn Art Project was

born.

Leonardi said she decided to take on the project because she believes there is always room for more creative artwork in a neighborhood.

“On Chicago and Dempster, creativity has definitely been lacking,” she said. “There’s a lack in color and vibrancy in our community even though there’s a lot going on.”

Leonardi said her goal is to make Evanston a more creative, artistic environment, and she believes community art projects like these are important to better understand the city and the people around her.

“I have met so many amazing people,” she said. “Just getting out there and getting to know what’s going on, not just in your little world, is a cool thing to do.”

Leonardi described the project as the cheapest, easiest way to bring Evanston together. And in the end, she hopes it will bring color and life to the neighborhood.

“I want people to drive by and be like ‘Oh there’s something going on here! What is it?

What’s this about?’” she said.

Stumble & Relish will host two other workshops like last Sunday’s, including one Thursday from 1-3 p.m. at Bagel Art, 615 Dempster St., and one Monday from 5-7 p.m. at Studio Armadi, 1303 Chicago Ave. Amanda Leung, an arts enthusiast and Weinberg freshman, described Evanston’s art

Source: Jaime Leonardi

Nicely Knit The art project is designed to help residents better understand the city and the people around them. The yarn circles will be completed before the Young Evanston Artists festival, which begins the week of May 11.

community as a work in progress.

“Taking classes at the art center, I can see that there are many who appreciate art and creativity in this community,” she said. “But it isn’t

as evident just walking around downtown or in the city.” helenlee2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Student plays shine

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Production examines racial violence, LA riots

By Amanda Svachula

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Race. Justice. Violence. These are the themes Northwestern students will explore this upcoming week in their performance of “Twilight: Los Angeles 1992.” The play deals with the tension surrounding the riots that occurred in Los Angeles in 1992, most likely due to the acquittal of four white LAPD officers for beating Rodney King.

“I actually picked this play in the wake of hearing about various protests in response to the Ferguson

case,” said Jamie Joeyen-Waldorf, director of the show. “It is a documentary theater piece analyzing racial tensions that resonate in modern day society but through the lens of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

All the words from the show are taken verbatim from the interviews the author collected in the aftermath of the events of the time.”

Joeyen-Waldorf said that in order to tie other points of view into the show, the actors play characters that differ from their own personal identities.

“We have an Asian man playing a black man,” the Communication freshman said. “I think that is something people will be surprised at, but once people see that (all the cast members) do it, then

they will think about them and really connect with the characters. We want the actors to portray the opinions as realistically as possible and not portray their objectivity.”

By featuring a wide range of identities, “Twilight: Los Angeles 1992” explores a multitude of perspectives and ideas for people to think about.

“I truly don’t find any bias in this show at all, which is really unique,” said cast member Angelina Strohbach, a Weinberg freshman. “I feel like the writer included so many different people, and it captures so many perspectives.”

The show will be performed in the MusetterStruble Theater on April 24 and 25 as part of NU’s

Struble Project Series.

In light of Ferguson and with the advent of many issues involving race and police violence in the news, the show aims to create discussion about justice in the NU community.

“Northwestern as a student body struggles with issues of race and I think it’s a play that does address a wide variety of opinions,” Joeyen-Waldorf said. “It helps examine the processes of how these problems arise and how it’s difficult to blame things on one particular part of society. I’m interested in the reactions and how they will vary.” amandasvachula2018@u.northwestern.edu

‘The Grapes of Wrath’ comes to Northwestern

Autobiographical play explores transgender issues

By Benjamin Din

By rachel yang

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Dust off your shoes, because the Joads will be hitting the road and coming to a Northwestern stage this Friday.

The show, an adaptation of John Steinbeck’s 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Grapes of Wrath,” will run through May 3 at the Ethel M. Barber Theater. Steinbeck’s novel follows the Joad family as they migrate to California from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl.

Originally adapted in 1988 by Frank Galati, a former NU professor, the production won a Tony Award in 1990 and was shown on Broadway and in London.

“People have often asked me, ‘Why ‘Grapes of Wrath?’” director Aaron Snook said. “I didn’t pick it as much as it picked me.”

His inspiration to direct the show was threefold, Snook said, citing his love for Steinbeck’s work, his admiration of Galati and his desire to tell a “truly American story.”

“It’s just the American spirit that I grab on to and do want to tell with my theater,” he said.

The production will feature choreography and live musicians, he said. The score for the production was specifically tailored for the NU adaptation of the show, with strong influences from singer-songwriter and musician Woody Guthrie, said Snook, who is in his final quarter of coursework for NU’s MFA program,

“Woody Guthrie was singing the songs of the Dust Bowl,” he said. “He was telling the stories of these people, and music was so integral to the people of the Dust Bowl … so I really felt like bringing that kind of authenticity … into the play would go a long way.”

Major themes throughout “The Grapes of Wrath” include helping one another and the importance of family, Snook said.

“What I’ve been learning myself from the Joads is this idea that when someone asks you for help … you’ll just give them help without any questions asked,” he said. “Only with all of us giving help will we move forward as humans, as a country, as individuals.”

Communication junior Jack Olin, who read the novel in high school, will play the role of main character Tom Joad, a recently released prisoner who “fights hard for family.”

“I think it’s a really good chance to see people being very vulnerable on stage,” he said. “This play especially pushes the actors to be very vulnerable and brave, and that’s so exciting to watch on stage.”

Snook hopes his production will change people’s perceptions of “The Grapes of Wrath” to be more than just an assigned high school reading.

“A lot of people … have this impression of this dusty old book jacket, something that they were assigned to read in high school,” Snook said. “What I’m excited for is for them to sit down and for the play to start … and (for them to) shake off that dust from the book jacket.” benjamindin2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Like a line in her upcoming play states, Bea Cordelia said the last few years of her life have “felt like a decade.”

The Communication senior said she has experienced so much in such a short period that “time feels stretched out.” Cordelia came out as transgender while studying abroad in 2013 and said she had to write down all her thoughts to preserve and process everything she was going through.

Thus began the first iteration of her one-hour autobiographical play “Chasing Blue,” which premieres Thursday night in Jones Residential College and runs through Saturday, with all proceeds going to a local transgender organization.

The production involves monologues, exchanges with the audience and slam poetry that recounts the last three years of her life and her struggles with identity and self-worth.

Communication senior Andrew Hitzhusen is directing the performance and said the creative process was extremely collaborative, but ultimately the production is in Cordelia’s voice.

Cordelia said developing the play allowed her to heal from the upheaval in her life in the last few years, and was a way to reaffirm her own selfworth. She said oftentimes she will go days or even weeks without seeing someone on campus who looks like her and understands her struggles.

“It’s hard to have that be your constant lived experience and to somehow say, ‘I matter,’” Cordelia said. “And so this play has been an exercise in reminding myself that I matter.”

She also said the play displays an honesty also shown in her other works, such as her poetry and her blog in which she’s written personal essays. “(My work) is very no-holds-barred, very transparent,” she said. “I’m going to tell you everything that happened, regardless of how that will make me look.”

Her ability to produce such a show allowed her to use it “as a tool of education with people who are not as familiar with the diverse needs and obstacles of the (transgender) community,” she said.

Cordelia said that from what she’s seen at Northwestern, there is still not enough being done for the transgender community, despite the University’s recent policies to help LGBT students, such as creating gender neutral restrooms.

“I think that we lie to ourselves to a certain extent,” Cordelia said. “Have you ever really considered walking in that person’s shoes?”

Cordelia said the play touches on topics everyone can relate to and she hopes it will empower people of all backgrounds.

“It’s (about) just human stuff. It’s heartbreak and worth and all these things, through my more uncommon experience in this culture,” she said. “(It’s) about issues of body image and self-worth and how do we uplift ourselves and not rely on other people to do that for us?”

Hitzhusen said he hopes the play will initiate dialogue about transgender issues and educate more people in the long run.

“I would love to walk out of the theater after a show and see people having a debate, arguing about points or something from the show,” he said.

“That to me would be a magical moment.” weizheyang2018@u.northwestern.edu

CALENDAR thursday Chasing Blue at 10:30pm at Jones Residential College

friday A&O Ball 2015: T-PAIN and ALUNAGEORGE at 8pm at The Riviera Theatre Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 at 8pm at Mussetter-Struble Theater The Grapes of Wrath at 7:30pm at the Ethel M. Barber Theater Chasing Blue at 9pm and midnight at Jones Residential College To Singapore, with Love screening at 7pm in Annie May Swift Hall Symphonic Wind Ensemble concert at 7:30pm in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall

saturday Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 at 2pm and 8pm at Mussetter-Struble Theater The Grapes of Wrath at 7:30pm at the Ethel M. Barber Theater Chasing Blue at 8pm and 11pm at Jones Residential College Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra and University Chorale: Vive la France at 7:30pm at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall

sunday

Laura Osnes Master Class at 5pm at The Struble Theatre The Grapes of Wrath at 2pm at the Ethel M. Barber Theater Northwestern Tree Walk at 10:30am at Crown Clock Tower

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Letter to the Editor

Rethinking the student-athlete model

April 25 will mark one year since the Northwestern football team voted on whether to form a union represented by the College Athletes Players Association (CAPA).

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional director Peter Sung Ohr ruled that they are employees and eligible to collectively bargain. The NU appeal is still pending.

The status of the players — student-athletes or employees — remains in limbo. Is the student-athlete concept false? What are we to make of the CAPA initiatives?

The student-athlete model continues despite reformation of the amateurism concept in other sporting competitions, such as the Olympics. This is testament to that fact that it is beneficial to the majority. This model is challenged mainly in college football and men’s basketball. These individuals are not victims. They are adults who voluntarily accepted the parameters of the studentathlete tenders. The term student-athlete has become so reviled, however, that the College Athletes Rights and Empowerment Faculty Coalition has framed this as a human rights issue stating, “We stand behind and with college football and men’s basketball players in their efforts to be treated humanely and with dignity.” Not surprisingly, they do not stand behind and with non-revenue sports players.

Regarding employee status, CAPA admitted, “It may be more difficult to make that case in other sports and divisions.”

Did the exceptional NU women’s lacrosse team feel exploited during their nine-day tour through Italy in 2014? At what revenue point does the student-athlete tender transform from a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to indentured servitude?

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Revenue may lead many to believe that these players are intrinsically worth millions.

That is almost entirely false. If every player who would go on to be a professional athlete were to be removed, the events would be barely diminished. The real product is the pageantry created by the NCAA and universities. Dayton, Ohio estimated that the region generates over $4.5 million as host for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament’s First Four. These teams competing in Dayton would be afterthoughts if not part of March Madness. Additionally, stellar athletes that increase viewership are rare since many of the best remain in college for only 1-3 years.

Outside of their college uniforms, the vast majority of players have a market value of near zero. Former two-time All-Big Ten NU shooting guard Drew Crawford currently plays in the NBA Development League, where the highest salary tier is $25,000 per year.

The faults of CAPA are two-fold. First, it has been disingenuous. Kain Colter stated, “a lot of people will think this is all about money; it’s not.” The main objectives consist of guaranteed coverage for sports-related medical expenses, minimizing the risk of sports-related traumatic brain injury, improving graduation rates by establishing educational trust funds and rewards for on-time graduation, increasing athletic scholarships and allowing players to receive compensation for commercial sponsorships, and establishing a system to secure due process rights.

CAPA Founder and President, Ramogi Huma, co-authored a study titled “The $6 Billion Heist: Robbing College Athletes Under The Guise of Amateurism” which focused “primarily on financial aspects of reform.” These costly proposals have everything to do with money.

Second, CAPA fails to address the core problem. A 2009 article titled “How (And Why) Athletes Go Broke” suggests that even the few who sign lucrative professional

contracts are unlikely to benefit long-term if not prepared to judiciously manage those finances. Commercial sponsorships would, in most cases, be insignificant compared to an education which prepares one for life. CAPA would like to increase graduation rates, but a diploma does not necessarily equal meaningful learning. In 2008, USA Today revealed how many are steered to “major in eligibility.”

In the University of North Carolina scandal, some could not read or write at a high school level. An entire “shadow curriculum” was created to maintain eligibility. Yet, CAPA neither calls for decreases in training time and games, nor details improvements to academic evaluation and oversight.

The fundamental failing of the current student-athlete model is that many, either due to time constraints or poor pre-college preparation, cannot take advantage of educational opportunities which would provide the best chance for long-term employment and financial security. This is the true travesty.

In 2005, the NCAA increased the number of regular season football games from 11 to 12 despite protests from a number of academic administrators and coaches. This past season, The Ohio State University football team played 15 games on their way to win the national championship. The College Football Playoff has been a pursuit of The Walt Disney Company for over two decades. When originally proposed as the Disney Classic in 1993, university presidents scoffed. Disney was undeterred and purchased Capital Cities/ ABC, which owned the ESPN networks, in 1996. In 2008, ESPN signed a contract with the Bowl Championship Series and all BCS bowls were moved to cable television in 2011.

ESPN earns the largest cable subscriber fees of any channel so it is imperative to continually enhance it. The first College Football Playoff championship game in 2015 was the highest viewed cable television event of all time. ESPN has already suggested an 8-team

playoff.

The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team played an astonishing 40 games to reach the championship game of the NCAA tournament. Not long ago, a 96-team men’s basketball tournament field was considered.

This is not surprising when a staggering 90% of NCAA revenue comes from March Madness.

True reform demands cuts in the schedules. The football regular season should be 10 games. Conference championships and a national playoff should finish by early December. There should be no other bowls games. The men’s basketball regular season should be 20 games with only four teams advancing to the Big Ten tournament. Offcampus “multi-team events” and most games during winter break should be eliminated.

The NCAA tournament should be decreased to 48 or 32 teams.

A monumental conflict-of-interest exists for the NCAA and universities. It is impossible to maintain objectivity when regulatory bodies, including unions, have large financial stakes. Federal oversight has already been considered. Congressmen, however, are beholden to their constituents who have regional financial interests in these athletic events. An independent accreditation organization that does not benefit from profitdriven relationships and has complete transparency is the only solution.

The student-athlete model requires adjustment, but is generally positive. CAPA propositions miss the main problem entirely. Those in positions of influence at NU should make efforts within the Big Ten Conference and the NCAA to decrease athletic commitments so players may devote more time to academic pursuits. Reversing trends in college sports will result in less revenue, but will also certainly bring more integrity.

Norman C. Wang, McCormick ‘94, Feinberg ‘98

Star Wars VII won’t flop — and here’s why jacob altstadt

Daily columnist

Last Thursday will go down in history. No, not because of some crazy story from the Deuce, but because the second teaser trailer for “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens” was released.

The collective noise you might have heard was fans across the globe, myself included, spontaneously combusting into a cloud of euphoria and excitement.

But somewhere hidden in that concoction of glee and delectation was a hint of doubt. A shred of apprehension. A dash of caution.

Here is why: The prequel trilogy of Episodes I to III was a letdown, and that’s putting it extremely mildly. The three-part sequence began atrociously with the mildly racist, wholly annoying Jar-Jar Binks, ended with an incredibly forced way of leading Anakin to become Darth Vader and didn’t have a lot in the pros column in between. While the action sequences were pretty stellar, there’s enough wrong plot-wise with the first three episodes that I could fill up about 100 other columns and then some, but I won’t go into that. Instead, I’m here to tell you that the sequel trilogy won’t be a repeat of the prequel trilogy’s shortcomings. In short, Episode VII won’t suck.

From a strictly technical side, the biggest reason that the upcoming sequel will succeed

is simply that Star Wars creator George Lucas has no power in the making of the movie, and instead serves as a creative consultant to entertainment powerhouse Disney, which acquired Lucas’ company Lucasfilm. While the imagination, vision and creativity of Lucas are unparalleled by any other movie maker, his script-writing and directing are sub-par when put on the relative scale of other writers and directors in today’s world. Some of the dialogue in the prequel trilogy was an absolute mess, and his directing style rarely expands beyond a static camera position. The mind that was ambitious enough to fabricate Jedis and the entire fantastical culture of the previous six films is not nearly as adept at portraying these incredible entities as it is at ideating them. However, Disney has the resources to take Lucas’ ideas, improve them and conceive a better movie than Lucas ever could.

The biggest asset Disney brings to the table is that it has demonstrated it can take over other companies, like it did Pixar and Marvel, while continuing to create incredibly profitable movies that still respect the original material.

This is huge for any Star Wars fan. Since “A New Hope” was released in 1977, the Star Wars entertainment universe has expanded so far beyond the movies that it has created its own culture that transcends race, religion and language.

You would be hard-pressed to find someone that doesn’t know where “Luke, I am your father” came from.

Disney understands this. It knows there are millions of fans around the world who expect — and deserve — a trilogy that lives up to the

precedent of the original trilogy’s magic. It knows it is creating a movie that’s second trailer was watched 88 million times in its first 24 hours of existence. Disney is fully cognizant of the pressure it faces, and its track record of success with Pixar and Marvel shows Disney can handle the burden of adding to an already massive franchise.

This self-awareness is key, and is a sign Episode VII will live up to its name. Disney is able However, to learn from Lucas’ Disney has mistakes in Episodes the resources I to III, and will make incredible movie to take Lucas’ an because it has to. It ideas, improve knows it can’t mess up.

It knows it can’t make them and a repeat of the prequel conceive a trilogy.

If the absence of better movie and the presence than Lucas ever Lucas of Disney combine for could. the biggest reason for predicted success, then director J.J. Abrams’ influence on the movie is an incredibly close second. Abrams has given new life to the visual quality of Star Wars.

In only the 3 minutes and 39 seconds of footage released in the two trailers — a good chunk of which is only title sequences — it is quite clear Abrams has given a modern spin on a cultural classic while still respecting the tradition of the franchise. Whether it’s the tracking shot of the Millennium Falcon, the Abrams-

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trademarked solar flare, the handheld feel during the Stormtrooper fight scene or the snap zoom used throughout, Abrams has added a modern directing technique never before seen in a Star Wars film.

Gone are the simple, static camera techniques of the previous six movies. In their place stand Abrams’ modern directing skills that create a vastly new look, yet the trailers don’t feel foreign because there remains a sense of familiarity.

This is attributed to the nostalgia induced by recognizable scenes — the Millennium Falcon, Stormtroopers, desert planets, etc. — but more importantly it is done by forgoing the computergenerated imagery that turned off so many traditional fans from the prequel trilogy and instead reverts back to the practical effects that made the original trilogy so magical. By employing practical effects, Abrams will not only make the scenes more realistic and believable, but also inherently improve the actors’ acting abilities because they are able to interact with actual objects instead of green screens. The practical effects guarantee a better movie than the CGI-laced prequel trilogies, and the return to the same type of effects used in the original trilogy promise a film that will live up to the grandeur of Episodes IV to VI. Whether you consider yourself a Star Wars fan or not, get excited for “The Force Awakens.” It’s going to be awesome.

Jacob Altstadt is a McCormick sophomore. He can be reached at jacobaltstadt2017@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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Professor live-tweets son’s sex ed class, garners national attention

A Northwestern professor attracted national attention for criticizing her son’s abstinence-based sex education class in a series of tweets last week.

Medical humanities and bioethics Prof. Alice Dreger attended her son’s high school class in East Lansing, Michigan on April 15 and live-tweeted the abstinence-themed curriculum.

Dreger uploaded 45 tweets, criticizing the class instructors for presenting a conservative agenda full of “sexual shaming,” the professor told The Daily.

The tweets, which garnered hundreds of favorites and retweets, have sparked discussion about sex education.

East Lansing High School does not use an abstinence-only program, Dreger said. However, last Wednesday’s class was taught by a guest speaker from Sexually Mature Aware Responsible Teens, a group affiliated with the Christian non-profit Pregnancy Services of Greater Lansing, that visits schools to teach abstinence.

Dreger said the speaker identified only two types of stories: “happy stories” of abstinence and “tragedies” of non-abstinence.

In one of her tweets, she wrote, “The whole lesson here is ‘sex is part of a terrible lifestyle. Drugs, unemployment, failure to finish school — sex is part of the disaster.’”

Dreger said the instructors were teaching misleading information about using condoms. The students were told to pick a number and were given paper babies representing condom failure each time the number was rolled on a die, Dreger tweeted.

“What they were teaching was that condoms fail all the time, birth control fails all the time,” Dreger

Across Campuses Lexington police to increase patrols near University of Kentucky campus April 22 — Lexington police will increase patrols around the University of Kentucky campus in response to the shooting death of a UK student last Friday.

Lt. Thomas Curtsinger told Urban County Council members Tuesday that patrols will be increased during times when there are a lot of UK students on the streets. “We are

told The Daily. “They were giving the message that every sixth time a man and woman have sex with a condom, the woman will get pregnant.”

Dreger stressed the importance of talking honestly about sex with children so they can be properly educated. Sex education teachers should embrace reality and provide students with accurate information so students feel comfortable trusting adults, Dreger said.

“What they were teaching is completely contrary to the evidence,” she said.

Dreger also criticized sexual activists who promoted their own political or religious agendas when discussing sex with students.

In a letter posted on the East Lansing Public Schools district website, Superintendent Robyne Thompson explained some of the district’s policies and commented on being respectful in a classroom setting.

“The Board welcomes and encourages visits to schools by parents, community members, business partners, Board members, and interested educators,” she wrote on the site.

Dreger tweeted April 16 that, following her messages about the sex education class, she had been banned from all East Lansing High School events unless they directly related to her son.

The school told her it was because she swore in front of the class following the abstinence presentation, Dreger tweeted.

Thompson said in her statement that parents should adhere to the “civil behavior” that the school expects of its students.

“Parents are to be silent observers and not to participate or disrupt the learning process,” Thompson wrote. “Any inappropriate disruptive behavior by a visiting parent may result in that parent being prohibited from class or school participation in the future.”

— Peter Kotecki

increasing patrols particularly in the South Limestone area in the peak hours,” Curtsinger said. That’s mostly Thursday night through Sunday, when many UK students walk to area bars.

Jonathan Krueger, a UK junior from Ohio, was killed early Friday while walking on Maxwell Street. Two men and a male juvenile have been charged in connection with Krueger’s death. Krueger died of a gunshot wound to the chest in what police think might have been a robbery. ­— Beth Musgrave (Lexington Herald-Leader/TNS)

THIS WEEKEND IN MUSIC APR 24 - 26

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Symphonic Wind Ensemble Pick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m. $6/4

Mallory Thompson, conductor One of the Bienen School’s premiere ensembles will host an evening of works and arrangements of classical and contemporary favorites. Works by Mozart, Brahms, and Carter Pann will be performed.

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From page 1 and let inclusiveness shape its actions more. “How is (the committee) affecting all of the diverse communities on our campus, and how do we ensure that we’re empowering them in everything we’re doing?� he said. “When we talk about something like sexual assault, we need to make sure we’re not just talking about white, Greek, upper-middle-class Northwestern students. We need to make sure we’re talking about everyone on campus.�

Weinberg sophomore Joji Syed was confirmed as vice president for community relations, the chief liaison between ASG and Evanston.

Syed said she wants to work with Herndon to make Evanston and Chicago more accessible for low-income students. “I want to make sure (leaving campus) isn’t just for students who can afford to pay for the L,� she said. “I really want to make sure that this is something that anyone and everyone can take advantage of.�

McCormick junior Serendi Lau was confirmed as vice president for analytics, the head of a committee largely focused on conducting ASG-sponsored surveys.

McCormick junior Michael Wang was confirmed as vice president for services, the head of a committee that, in the last year, has hosted “RedesigNU: hackathon� and overseen the creation of CourseDJ, an application designed to help students plan course schedules.

Communication freshman Simran Chadha was confirmed as chief of staff, who coordinates ASG’s recruitment efforts.

Weinberg junior Riko Ohashi was confirmed as vice president for academics, and Weinberg sophomore Christina Cilento was re-confirmed as vice president for sustainability.

After confirmations, ASG President Noah Star, a Weinberg junior, and Executive Vice President Christina Kim, a McCormick junior, introduced an amendment to ASG’s code that would make the vice president for student activities directly elected by student groups. Currently, the position is confirmed by senators.

If the amendment passes, the vote would be held during the Student Organization Symposium on May 10.

The change was proposed by Star and Kim during their campaign, fitting with their theme of returning power and voice to individual student groups from ASG. Senate also passed a resolution supporting a pro-environmental bill in the Illinois General Assembly.

SB1485 calls for Illinois to move towards more renewable energy, specifically by ramping up its wind and solar industries.

The passage came on Earth Day.

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A new retail location of an Evanston gelato shop will open on Dempster Street on Friday, offering coffee and pastries to complement Argentine-inspired gelato.

The owners of Frio Gelato received final city approval a few weeks ago to begin serving artisanally-crafted gelato and other products at its new shop, 517 Dempster St. Its original location at 1701 Simpson St. location will continue to be the company’s production facility.

Forced to close their Simpson Street location during the winter because of a lack of business, owners Sebastian Koziura and We’ve taken Enrique Schcolnik said they will sell gelato for some kind of retail purposes yearthe original round on Dempster Argentine Street while maintaindessert, but also ing production for wholesale purposes on we’re artfully Simpson Street. “We’re ready to go,� creation our Karla Tennies own creations. said Koziura, Frio Gelato’s marketing and busiKarla Tennies ness de velopment Koziura, director. “We’ve got our Frio Gelato machines, we’ve got marketing everything decorated.� and business The company moved development to the more denselydirector p a cke d D e mp ste r Street to gain business from higher amounts of foot traffic, Tennies Koziura said. “As excited as I was when we opened the first location on Simpson, this location has a little bit more product that we are offering,

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Get the Scoop Frio Gelato, a local gelato shop, will open its new retail location Friday at 517 Dempster St. The store’s previous location at 1701 Simpson St. will remain as its production facility.

and it’s a denser neighborhood with more restaurants around it,� Sebastian Koziura said. “I think that we’re going to have more exposure to people to see the location, to come in and try the products.�

In addition to its signature Argentine gelato, Frio will be offering new menu items such as “cafe-latos,� coffee with melted gelato in place of artificial sweeteners, and “alfa-latos,� dulce de leche-flavored gelato sandwiched between traditional Argentine alfajor cookies, Tennies Koziura said. “We’ve now kind of changed our tagline to read, ‘Frio Gelato: Artfully Argentine,’ because we’ve taken some kind of the original Argentine dessert, but also we’re artfully creating our own creations,� she said.

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Damir Latinovic, Evanston’s neighborhood and land use planner, said he predicted Frio would make more money because of its new location, which is only a few steps off of a major pedestrian roadway, Chicago Avenue. “Evanston is a little different from most other suburbs,â€? Latinovic said. “It’s definitely a more walkable environment ‌ Obviously the proximity to Northwestern offers that clientele that these kinds of stores are seeking, so that’s why you see quite a few of them along Chicago (Avenue) and downtown.â€?

The store will open to the public at noon Friday and a ribbon-cutting will take place April 30 with Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl at 4 p.m. clarevarellas2018@u.northwestern.edu Medill freshman Hannah Johnson, one of the organizers of the event, said that Take Back The Night wanted to bring “some aspect of the law� to this week’s sexual-assault awareness programming. “There’s not a lot of knowledge of it amongst students, especially the divide between campus and city or state law,� the Medill freshman said. “So we really wanted to bring someone who had an expertise in this because its something that’s really unknown and there is a lot of gray area, like we talked about tonight.� marianaalfaro2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Clutch hitting lifts Cats to season sweep over UIC

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Matt Hopfner is not a fan of using the term “sophomore slump” to describe his struggles this season.

“I don’t like the word,” the sophomore outfielder said. “When I bring it up with my dad, he hates it. So I can’t tell him I’m in a slump — ever.”

No matter the phrase, Hopfner’s season has been nothing compared to last year’s. He led Northwestern with a .335 batting average last season, earning a spot on the All-Big Ten Freshman Team. College baseball publication Perfect Game gave him freshman All-America honors.

But this season, the Minnesota native has been one of the Wildcats’ weak points in the batting order, with a .254 average and an on-base percentage that barely eclipses .300.

So when Hopfner singled the tying and go-ahead runs in the bottom of the eighth inning Wednesday against UIC (18-16-1, 13-5 Horizon League), the clutch hit was important for both him and the team.

“It was pretty big. I was overdue,” said Hopfner. “It’s been a struggle this year, but I’ve been working on some things with coach (Paul Stevens) and feeling a lot more confident. Hopefully this is the start of something good.”

Hopfner’s base hit gave NU (13-26, 4-8 Big Ten) a 5-4 lead after it appeared the Cats might squander a great opportunity.

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Junior second baseman Antonio Freschet led off the eighth inning with a walk. Junior first baseman Zach Jones followed with an infield single.

Stevens gambled, taking the bat out of sophomore slugger Joe Hoscheit’s hands to move the two runners into scoring position.

After junior Jack Mitchell struck out, the inning rested on Hopfner.

Although Stevens brought in Hopfner as a defensive replacement for the top half of the inning, he had faith in him at the plate. The sophomore responded by lacing one up the middle against reliever Alex Posey.

“If there’s anybody that I believe can sit there and play in really clutch scenarios, it’s Hoppy,” the coach said.

Two batters later, freshman Jack Claeys dropped a blooper into centerfield to score Hopfner, adding an insurance run.

Hopfner received a warm greeting upon returning to the dugout.

“He’s had some moments where he hasn’t really been himself this year, but we’ve always got a lot of confidence in him,” Jones said of his teammate. “Going up there, we definitely believed in him, and he was able to

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TOOK ONE FOR THE TEAM Joe Hoscheit fouls off a pitch. The sophomore laid down a sacrifice bunt to set up classmate Matt Hopfner’s game-winning hit.

come through.”

Claeys was fi lling in for senior starter Scott Heelan, whom Stevens said simply needed a day’s rest.

“Scottie Heelan has been like Iron Mike, so it was time for him to get a bit of a breather” Stevens said. “It’s really nice to see Jack do the things he did today, because he hasn’t had much playing time. Scottie Heelan, when you take his bat out of the lineup, you’re always worried. But Claeys filled in

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HEAVY HITTER Andrea Filler watches a home run fly away. The junior infielder drove in 4 runs in Northwestern’s doubleheader against Illinois.

mound in the second game.

Down by 5, the Cats rallied back with a two-out double from Filler and an RBI from freshman Sammy Nettling to bring Filler home. In the bottom of the third, Filler drove in two RBIs, and Senior Anna Edwards also drove in a pair of RBIs on a left field homer in the bottom of the fourth.

With the score at 7-5, the Cats displayed a sense of urgency. Senior Andrea DiPrima doubled to center field, bringing freshman Sabrina Rabin home. The Cats evened the score by driving a fly ball to right centerfield to bring Filler home yet again.

Filler’s offensive play stood out through the game, and coach Kate Drohan noted how crucial those hits were to providing momentum for the team.

“Those hits have been pivotal to our offensive production,” she said. “The thing that I really respect about Filler is that she has a very consistent approach

to her work on the diamond and her work in the batters box, and we’re reaping the rewards for it.”

Even after a strong fourth inning, NU was unable to stop Illinois from scoring 2 more runs in the sixth inning, bringing the score to 9-7. The Cats scored once more in the seventh, but they were unable to overcome the first inning deficit that the Fighting Illini had created.

Although the second game’s outcome was not what Drohan had expected, she believed there were several positives in the team’s play.

“We picked up a lot of walks today and they turned into some big innings,” she said. “We put ourselves in the position to win.”

The Cats will next face another conference rival, Ohio State, in a weekend series beginning April 24 at home. melissahaniff2016@u.northwestern.edu

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this weekend against the Ohio State Buckeyes.

Jones has enjoyed plenty of early success on the new field, going 5-for-9 with three RBIs in the two games. The native of nearby Glenview, Illinois is happy to stay put.

“Just knowing we don’t have to get on a bus, we just come here? That’s awesome,” he said.

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After winning the first game of a doubleheader against Illinois, Northwestern lost the second by yielding a sixth inning rally at Sharon J. Drysdale Field in Evanston.

The Wildcats (22-18, 10-6 Big Ten) put forth two strong offensive showings, scoring 20 combined runs throughout both games, but allowed the Fighting Illini (22-23, 11-6) to score 5 runs in the first inning of game two. The split leaves the race for a conference bye in the Big Ten Tournament wide open, with NU just a half-game behind Illinois.

The Cats’ offense dominated the first game. Although the Fighting Illini scored 3 runs in the top of the third, NU immediately returned the favor.

The Cats scored 9 runs in the bottom of the inning off of two home runs and several miscues and walks from Illinois pitcher Jade Vecvanags.

“We really jumped all over these pitchers and really made them throw a good pitch for us, but also took our walks when we needed them,” Junior shortstop Andrea Filler said.

NU plated 2 more runs in the fourth to seal the deal, run-ruling the Fighting Illini by a score of 12-4 at the end of the fifth inning.

Game two did not go as smoothly for the Cats. The Fighting Illini capitalized on two Cats errors and two walks by senior Olivia Duehr, who took the

pretty well today.”

Claeys finished 2-for-4 with a pair of RBIs. Cats pitcher Matt Portland got the call in the ninth inning. After surrendering a lead-off walk, the junior retired three batters in a row, including two on strikeouts.

NU is now 2-0 at the freshly renovated Rocky Miller Park after playing 37 consecutive games on the road. The Cats continue an 11-game home stand

The Wildcats are looking to bounce back from defeat for the first time in a long time.

No. 30 Northwestern (19-8, 8-3 Big Ten) will begin postseason play this weekend as it heads to Urbana, Illinois, for the Big Ten Tournament.

The Cats will be taking on the winner of a match between Indiana and Purdue, two teams they beat earlier this year in back-to-back contests.

NU followed up a close 4-3 road win over then-No. 27 Indiana with a 7-0 triumph over Purdue in Evanston.

The Cats are coming into the tournament pretty hot, having won seven of their last eight matches. The lone loss in the stretch came in the team’s last contest, a nail-biting match against Minnesota on the road.

“We feel confident, feel good,” coach Arvid Swan said. “Everybody’s healthy, ready to go.”

It makes sense for NU to be optimistic heading into the tournament.

Although the Cats have lost to Illinois, Ohio State and Minnesota, the only teams ahead of them in the Big Ten standings, they were all close matches. Along with that, two of those three losses were on the road.

For NU though, it is not about the losses, but how the team plans on responding to them. After the losses to the Fighting Illini and the Buckeyes earlier in the year, the Cats rebounded each time by knocking off a ranked team in their following match.

With the match on Friday being the team’s first since the loss to the Golden Gophers, there is some extra motivation to go out and pick up a win.

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“Obviously it was a very frustrating loss,” sophomore Strong Kirchheimer said. “I think it motivated everyone to really try to get ready this week, to really try and make a run this weekend, see what we can do. And hopefully, if we ever get a chance to play those guys again, we’ll be very excited about it.”

Another source of inspiration for NU going into the tournament will be its play in doubles the past weekend. Although the Cats played well against Wisconsin and Minnesota, they were unable to win the doubles’ point in either match.

Doubles play has been a strong spot for the team all year, and it expects to return to the usual level of excellence this weekend.

“I think we’re right there,” sophomore Sam Shropshire said. “Last weekend we played two teams with good doubles players, but I think that we’ll be right back on track with everything this weekend.”

NU’s ability to respond well after losses this year may have a lot to do with its experience. Logan Staggs is the only freshman on the roster, and with most of the team having played in postseason tournaments before, it could be quite helpful for assuring the team plays at its best.

“I think it’s invaluable,” Swan said.

“It’s great to have guys with experience in postseason play, both Big Ten Tournament and NCAA Tournament. They understand and have been through the pressure of playing in the tournament.” khadricerollins2017@u.northwestern.edu