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Public Affairs Residential College and Shepard Residential College will be housed in the Mid-Quads next academic year when their current buildings undergo renovation as part of Northwestern’s Master Housing Plan. PARC students will live in the North Mid-Quads Hall and Shepard students will live in the South Mid-Quads Hall. Residential Services Executive Director Paul Riel announced the changes in an email Friday to PARC and Shepard residents. The Mid-Quads will undergo renovations this summer and will open in time for Fall Quarter. The first floor of both buildings will be “reimagined,” Riel said. No rooms will be on the first floor, Riel said, apart from an Americans with Disabilities Act compliant suite. The majority of the area will be used as public space. Except for the first floor, the structure of the two buildings will remain the same, Riel said. All the rooms will be upgraded with new furniture and the bathrooms
will be redone. The renovations will also lay the groundwork for the buildings to have air conditioning, which they currently do not have, he said. “The circulation of space is much more generous and more thoughtful for the students that’ll be living there,” he said. Students did not live in either of the Mid-Quads this year, which allowed construction to begin earlier than expected, said Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, associate vice president for student auxiliary services. “We assigned everything appropriately so we could keep them empty, which is smart. It’s far more efficient,” she said. “Let’s take advantage of the time that they’re dark. While we don’t anticipate we’ll have a lot of those opportunities, if we do we’re going to take it.” Riel said construction on the MidQuads is expected to start around this year’s Commencement on June 19. PARC’s president Sohini Gupta said the move to NMQ is inconvenient, particularly because they completed housing assignments for next year before they » See HOUSING, page 6
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TBT-PAIn Wearing Northwestern apparel, T-Pain performs at A&O Ball on Friday in front of a full crowd. T-Pain headlined the concert with British electronic group AlunaGeorge opening the event.
T-Pain electrifies the Riviera By Matthew Choi
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Throwbacks and new remixes energized the Riviera Theatre on Friday night as T-Pain and AlunaGeorge performed at A&O Ball. Rapper T-Pain headlined this year’s concert with AlunaGeorge, a British electronic pop group, who opened the evening by performing songs off of its first studio album,
“Body Music.” Under blue spotlights and clad in a Northwestern basketball T-shirt, T-Pain came out on stage singing “Cyclone.” Throughout his set, T-Pain mixed some of his wellknown songs, such as “Bartender” and “Low,” with works from other artists. His covers included “Black and Yellow” by Wiz Khalifa, “Make It Rain” by Travis Porter and even “Royals” by Lorde, which he customized the lyrics and sang without
Auto-Tune. T-Pain and his ensemble danced across the stage and encouraged the crowd to wave their hands, particularly as he performed “All I Do Is Win.” Throughout the concert, T-Pain engaged the audience, thanking everyone for coming. “Imma tell you this is by far the best crowd I’ve ever had in Chicago,” he said. “We’ve been here a bunch of times, and this is the most pumped » See BALL, page 5
Thousands stand to fight racism By Michelle Kim Daniel Tian/The Daily Northwestern
welcome home South Mid-Quads Hall will be renovated this summer and will be occupied by Shepard Residential College next year. Public Affairs Residential College will move to North Mid-Quads Hall, as both Shepard and PARC’s buildings will undergo renovations.
Weinberg’s new dean to begin July 1 By Mariana Alfaro
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Adrian Randolph saw Northwestern as an opportunity he couldn’t refuse. “Northwestern is one of the premiere institutions for learning in the world,” he told The Daily. “I’ve long admired Northwestern.” NU selected Randolph in February to serve as dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. He has been associate dean of the faculty for the arts and humanities at Dartmouth College since 2011. He joined Dartmouth’s art history
department in 1995 and became the art history department chair in 2002. Randolph, who will start July 1, said he looks forward to living in Evanston near Chicago, compared to rural New Hampshire, where Dartmouth is located. What draws him to Weinberg, he said, is its commitment to the arts and sciences and how familiar it feels to him, as it reminds him of Dartmouth. “I believe strongly in the teaching of arts and sciences as a really great way to educate,” he said. He said one of the biggest differences, » See RANDOLPH, page 6
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Racism. Heineman said the high participation — which was much greater than it has been in the past — was most likely due to recent events nationwide that have revived discussions about racism in society. “Over this past year, society has given us a lot of reasons to be continuing and growing the conversation
about racism,” Heineman said. “It’s brought people into the conversation that didn’t really think race was still an issue in our country.” Participants held handmade signs that encouraged cars to “honk for fairness” and read a pledge together » See RACISM, page 6
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coming together People line the sidewalks in front of the YWCA Evanston/North Shore for the annual Stand Against Racism. Around 3,000 people participated in the Evanston event this year.
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Cousin recounts Emmett Till’s death By MICHELLE KIM
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Almost 60 years have passed since the murder of Emmett Till, but people still do not tell his story accurately, Till’s cousin Simeon Wright said Sunday in Evanston. Through a retelling of his eyewitness account, Wright took an audience at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 1113 Clark St., back to the summer of 1955, when the 14-year-old Till went to visit his family in Mississippi. Wright was 12 at the time and said he was fascinated by the stories Till brought with him from Chicago. Wright recalled the day he was at Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market when the store owner’s wife alleged Till grabbed her, put his arms around her and asked her on a date. None of these things happened, Wright said. “We didn’t dare him to go to the store — the white folk said that,” Wright said. “They said
that he had pictures of his white girlfriend. There were no pictures. They never talked to me. They never interviewed me.” Wright said Till whistled at the store owner’s wife and then ran into a car without speaking with the woman or her husband. A few days passed, and Till and his cousins had forgotten about their interaction with the store owner’s wife, Wright said. Early one morning, Wright was sleeping in the same bed as his cousin when he saw two white men — one holding a .45 caliber gun — take Till away, he said. “They drove away with Emmett,” Wright said. “I never saw him alive again. After they left, I was in shock. I laid there until the sun came up the next morning. I got up the next day and my whole world had changed.” Three days later, Till’s mutilated body was found in the Tallahatchie River. The neighbors kept silent out of fear for their own lives, Wright said. The trial took place on Sept. 19, 1955. Wright’s father, Mose Wright, pointed out
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CORRECTING HISTORY Simeon Wright, Emmett Till’s cousin, tells his eyewitness account Sunday of Till’s story to community members at an Evanston church. Wright said the story of his death is still being told inaccurately after almost 60 years.
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the murderer on the stand despite urges from neighbors not to testify, he said. Simeon Wright was subpoenaed to be a witness and helped to identify the body by confirming a ring found on the body was Till’s. But in the end, the verdict was “not guilty.” Rev. Taurus Scurlock said he hoped hearing Till’s story would be a way for members of the community to move forward from recent acts of police violence. “I need someone in here to think about Emmett Till,” Scurlock said. “I need someone here to think about Michael Brown. I need someone to think about all the young black people that are being killed senselessly.” Evanston resident MacArthur Bickhem told The Daily he was 3 when he attended Emmett Till’s funeral in Chicago. When he approached the casket, Bickhem said his father lifted him up to see Till’s disfigured body. “That was a very traumatic experience for me,” Bickhem said. “His head was warped and he didn’t look human. That left an impact on me, and I didn’t know it impacted the world at the time, but it was the first time in Chicago that I came to know what being a young black person is and what effects it could have. I haven’t seen much change.” Encouraged by his wife, Wright wrote a book in 2010, “Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till,” because he was angered by inaccuracies he heard in the retelling of the story. Wright said for 20 years after the case, he didn’t talk about Till’s death, but decided to start telling his account so the truth could come out. “He was murdered because he whistled at her,” Wright told The Daily. “I want people to see that under the Jim Crow system we had no protection. We still don’t have protection. I don’t get angry anymore because the lies have given me a door. I got a chance to tell what happened.”
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Tea shop defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti
Someone drew anti-Semitic messages in a restaurant near Northwestern, police said. One of the employees at Kung Fu Tea, 726 Clark St., said he discovered the markings — a swastika and anti-Semitic messages — in the restaurant Thursday night, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said.
Evanston resident robbed of her phone
Two teenagers forcibly robbed a woman of her phone Thursday night in Evanston, police said. The woman, a 53-year-old Evanston resident, was walking in an alley in the 1300 block of Fowler Avenue when two teenagers came up to her and asked if she had any money, Dugan said. When she refused, the teenagers grabbed her and her purse, and she fell to the ground, Dugan said. The two teenagers stole her iPhone and attempted to steal her purse but were unsuccessful. They fled southbound on foot, Dugan added. The woman had a scrape on her right wrist but did not require medical attention, Dugan said. — Julian Gerez
Setting the record straight In a column that appeared in Jan. 12’s print edition, “Let art tell you the truths that journalism can’t,” the gender of the woman’s child in “The Square” was misstated. Her slain child was a son. The Daily regrets the error.
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On Campus The Fung Bros celebrate Asian culture By alice yin
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YouTube celebrities The Fung Bros visited Northwestern on Friday to perform a comedy routine steeped in Asian culture. The two siblings, Andrew Fung and David Fung, run a YouTube channel that has more than 820,000 subscribers and almost 83 million views. Their videos blend themes of Asian-American identity, hip-hop and food with a comedic twist. Taiwanese American Students Club and Asianinterest fraternity Pi Alpha Phi hosted the celebrities for their annual Spring Speaker, which more than 100 people attended. The pair maintained their light-hearted personality as they interacted with the audience, chatting about aspects of Asian-American life. At the event in Fisk Hall, the duo drew upon their life stories of growing up with Asian immigrant parents. They also played on Asian stereotypes, such as being nerdy, good at bargaining prices and not being interested in sports.
“When I told our dad we were performing at Northwestern, he said, ‘Why do you want to perform at Northwestern? You should want to attend Northwestern,’” David Fung said on stage. The Fung Bros’ videos, such as “Things Asian Parents Do” and “Bobalife,” often plumb the complexity of the Asian label while also poking fun at common stereotypes. “We say some things that definitely people would not approve of in that field, but we just do it in our style and we’re glad that we can make it accessible to people,” David Fung told The Daily. “I just think it’s a really interesting point to be Asian in America right now … your guys’ generation is really thinking about these issues and taking them seriously.” SESP freshman Michelle Lee attended the event and said The Fung Bros “speak about Asian culture before other people can speak about our culture.” “They try to say things before others can categorize us,” Lee said. “It’s things you already know, but you identify with the culture and you agree with the things in their videos so that’s mostly why I watch them and find them entertaining.” In the middle of the event, the pair tossed out
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Let me take a selfie David and Andrew Fung crouch to take a selfie with students.
Asian snacks, to much cheering from the audience. Students whooped while trying to catch Hi-Chews, packaged seaweed, Szechuan peanuts and other emblems of an Asian-American childhood. “How many of you feel deprived of Asian snacks?” David Fung asked. Students continued cheering as the Fungs surveyed the crowd and gave shout-outs to the various academic majors, ethnicities and other groups in the room. The YouTube personalities also brought audience members on stage for contests in dancing, basketball dribbling and singing. The two brothers are currently set to debut “What the Fung?,” a show featuring the duo’s travels across America while sampling various cuisines. The show will start next month on A&E Networks’ FYI Network. David Fung said he’s excited for the show because Asians have long been underrepresented in mainstream media. Andrew Fung said he’s happy to hear that the first discussion of Asian-American identity for viewers sometimes stems from their videos on the issue, and that the conversation is growing. “It’s getting better every year,” Andrew Fung told The Daily. “Being Asian is different today than 15 years ago … Asian people in general are having a moment. I hope the moment lasts a long time.” McCormick junior Austen Bhayani, TASC president, said the event, which was planned about a month in advance, drew its appeal from the Fung brothers’ focus on retaining one’s culture. “They do fun and comedy but they have this underlying base and this serious tone underneath about a message toward young Asian-Americans,” Bhayani said. “They’re so proud of our Asian culture and heritage ... that appealed to us.” To close the show before a Q&A session, the brothers invited the crowd to huddle near the stage as they handed out more freebies, including boba milk tea, while rapping along to their original songs, “Asians Eat Weird Things” and “626.” “I would say more than ever Asian-Americans can be proud to be Asian, but in a more broad, educated way,” Andrew Fung told The Daily. aliceyin2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Rauner too selective with supporting Illinois ‘family’ HEIWON SHIN
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In a recent speech addressing Illinois’ budget problems, Gov. Bruce Rauner compared his constituency to a family. “Like a family, we must come together to address the reality we face,” Rauner said. “Every member can’t get everything they want.” But from what I’ve seen so far, I’m not sure the governor values all parts of his Illinois “family” equally. As evidenced by his extra cuts to Medicaid that came to light last week, he seems to see certain Illinois family members — like businesses and the wealthy — as more important than others. I can’t help but see Rauner’s $26 million cut in social services and public health funds, including $3.4 million for immigrant integration assistance, as him being willing to leave behind some family members, like immigrants, disabled individuals, people with mental illnesses and those relying on state funding to make a living or get essential support like Medicaid. Even Lilo and Stitch know better: “Ohana
means family. Family means nobody gets left behind.” Granted, when Rauner became the head of the Illinois family, he inherited an unbelievable amount of debt — more than $160 billion. The governor has to make budget cuts in many areas. In the ideal world, we would be able to fund everything that we see as necessary, but with limited resources come hard decisions. I respect him for his courage to make decisions he knows will be unpopular and make bold cuts the state needs. However, Rauner is supporting businesses while leaving out others, such as immigrants. As an international student looking to start a career in the United States after graduation, I can’t help but notice the current status of immigrants. Around the world, extreme right wing, anti-immigrant sentiments have manifested in xenophobic movements. At Northwestern, I know I’m in a protected environment surrounded by supportive friends and peers, but outside of this haven, I realize non-Americans, Americans-to-be, or even recently-recognized-Americans may find themselves far from the ideal of the American Dream. There are almost 1.75 million immigrants
in Illinois — almost 14 percent of the state’s population, according to Illinois’ Office of Policy and Advocacy. With the Illinois immigrant population growing about 35,000 ever year, immigrants are, needless to say, a huge part of the Illinois economy and society. But Rauner proposes cuts to immigrant services as well as Medicaid, making it even more difficult for the new Illinois family members to adjust to life here. I spoke to several immigrant support groups in Chicago to learn more about how the proposed budget cuts would affect health care for immigrants — documented or undocumented, insured or uninsured. Immigrants already face difficult conditions, and cuts would only make them worse. One of the biggest problems for immigrants, including those who have insurance, is their access to information. Immigrants get their information from immigrant support groups that receive state money, funding that would be affected by the budget cuts. The opportunity of the American Dream is becoming increasingly restricted. Coming from South Korea, a country with universal health coverage, I find it difficult to adjust to the idea that the more vulnerable you are financially, the more challenges you face in
seeking the help or services you need. Back home I went to the doctor whenever I didn’t feel well. Thanks to the national insurance, I usually paid less than $10 to both go to the doctor and get my prescriptions. But when I was down with a bad cold while in Texas for a three-week exchange program, a trip to the doctor cost me $200 because I didn’t have insurance. Maybe it’s not the same in different states or regions, but at this rate, I can see how simple medical fees can add up, and more complicated treatments and procedures can become unaffordable. Of course Korea has its own problems, and it’s hard to compare countries with such different histories and sizes, and I don’t intend to do so. But as a human, I feel uneasy letting more people suffer, especially when that suffering is written into policy. I can’t impose values on people, but if Rauner thinks Illinois is his family, he shouldn’t leave the more vulnerable members of that family behind. Heiwon Shin is a Medill sophomore. She can be contacted at heiwonshin2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Students too competitive with fitness, weight goals ALEX KOH
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Much has been written about the competitive nature of Northwestern’s campus, from joining clubs Fall Quarter of freshman year to securing consulting gigs as upperclassmen. However, I think competition can be detrimental when applied to some facets of campus life. One example is fitness. Both the ways we set and discuss our health goals are intense and oriented towards achieving immediate success. An obvious effect is a campus norm of being and looking healthy, an outcome that has received national attention. Setting and discussing aggressive, short-term fitness goals is never effective for long-term health. The first issue is how we set goals, and in particular with the common use of short-term, end-of-quarter or event-centric
endpoints for health goals. For example, a 2007 University of California-Los Angeles review of short-term diet studies found the majority of dieters gained any lost weight right back, and one- to two-thirds actually exceeded their starting weight. The results of the study demonstrate that if you set a short-term goal, it will unlikely lead to lasting results. What the study fails to recognize is that health is a lifelong pursuit, and any achievements like weight loss will be lost without continued efforts to maintain them. In other words, students set themselves up to return to baseline health levels by setting goals that have a quick endpoint, such as losing five pounds or dieting until a certain day. If students were to take a step back and simply acknowledge any sort of long-term plan for persistently improving health, I’d imagine that most would be more successful in their health goals. Although this solution may seem obvious, it’s one that was neglected in many of the studies incorporated into the UCLA review. Most of the patients went
off their diets after achieving weight loss, returning to the food choices that led to their initial weights. Once you realize the diets most likely didn’t work simply because their participants were not instructed to maintain them, it seems more reasonable that students might lose any health gains just because they don’t have a plan to keep them. My second issue is the way we publicly discuss our goals with others. I sense NU students feel pressured to discuss the our impressive health goals just because we’re generally used to being impressive. Although one might think that verbalizing goals would generate accountability and success, it actually has the opposite effect. When we acknowledge our aspirations, we receive some satisfaction despite not actually doing anything, and are may be less likely to follow through with our goals. Derek Sivers’ 2010 TED Talk discussed research indicating telling other people about your goals makes you less likely to succeed. So, when you say you’re going to “get huge” for Dillo Day, the very act of saying so aloud may actually reduce the
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From page 1 set of motherf—ers.” Visibly exhausted, T-Pain had to take breaks and eventually began to perform while seated. He still managed to entertain the crowd. “This is the most f—ed up way to find out you’re out of shape,” T-Pain said. “I just realized how f—ing fat I am.” T-Pain also freestyled without accompaniment and sang a slow and acoustic rendition of “They Don’t Know.” A&O Productions chose T-Pain after hearing his concert on NPR’s Tiny Desk where he performed his signature songs including “Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” without his iconic use of Auto-Tune, Morgan Hecht, the group’s director of concerts, told The Daily in an interview earlier this month. Many students said they were excited to hear T-Pain, who was particularly popular when they were in middle school. “I hadn’t listened to his music in like seven
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Two girls have reported separate incidents of a man on a bicycle approaching them on their way to school, Evanston police said Friday. Detectives in EPD’s Juvenile Bureau are investigating whether the two reports are
years,” said Weinberg freshman Jonathan Huston. “I was excited to see how he’s changed.” AlunaGeorge kicked off the night with “Attracting Flies” from their album, “Body Music.” Lead singer Aluna Francis also engaged with the crowd throughout her set, asking, “Chicago, how are you doing?” The group finished their set with “You Know You Like It.” AlunaGeorge was selected to open the show because of the group’s popularity in the electronic music scene, Hecht told The Daily when the lineup was announced. She added A&O also aimed to find a strong female lead and was drawn to AlunaGeorge’s lead singer. A&O spokeswoman Emily Howell said she was pleased with how the show turned out. “It was great,” Howell said. “Overall, I think both performers were really happy (to come).” matthewchoi2018@u.northwestern.edu related and police have increased their patrol around schools in the area, officials said. In the first incident, police said a girl was walking to school Tuesday when a man on a bike rode up to her around 9:50 a.m. near Sherman Avenue and Madison Street — an area with three schools less than a half-mile away. The man tried to talk to her and said he wanted to take her to a movie, police said. After the girl caught up to another student walking in front of her, the man retreated on
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ROCKING THE RIVIERA Aluna Francis, the lead singer of AlunaGeorge, sings Friday night. The British electronic group opened for T-Pain at A&O Ball.
his bike into an alley, officials said. The following day, another girl reported she was walking to school around 9:10 a.m. when a man approached her on a bike and spoke to her, police said. The girl told officials she screamed at the man to leave and ran from the area of Austin Street and Elmwood Avenue, which is a block from Oakton Elementary School, 436 Ridge Ave. The first girl described the man who approached her as a black man in his 40s or
50s with a mustache and a missing tooth. The second girl told police the person who came up to her was a black man around 6 feet tall with black marks on his face and a gap in his teeth. Police issued an alert and are encouraging anyone with additional information to come forward, EPD spokesman Perry Polinski said.
Buckeyes’ 9 runs being unearned. Seniors Kyle Ruchim and Scott Heelan each had a pair of hits in the loss. A rainy Saturday canceled the teams’ game, which was rescheduled for Sunday morning, setting up the doubleheader. In the early game Sunday, Ohio State jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning and led throughout. Junior first baseman Zach Jones led the Cats with three hits. Junior Matt Portland started and was credited with the loss, pitching six innings and allowing three earned runs. Junior Reed Mason started for the Cats in the second game of the day and pitched 8.2
innings, allowing just two runs, one of which was earned. Although Mason pitched a gem, the Cats’ offense sputtered for most of the afternoon. NU scored a pair of runs in the second inning, but was otherwise quiet. The Cats and the Buckeyes finished nine innings locked in a 2-2 tie. After a scoreless 10th, Ohio State plated 3 in the top of the 11th. NU was unable to answer in the bottom of the inning, going down 1-2-3. The Cats will look to bounce back against Chicago State on Wednesday at Rocky Miller Park.
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knew about the move. However, she said the move also has some positives. “We’re moving into a brand new dorm with all new amenities and Res Services is being really helpful in sorting everything out,” the Weinberg freshman said. She added that everyone who was originally returning to live in PARC will be able to next year. Goodrich House will also close next year and undergo similar renovations to the Mid-Quads. Goodrich, which is mainly occupied by upperclassmen, will reopen fall 2016, Riel said. Additionally, Seabury Hall will no longer house undergraduate students after this school year. This quarter, only 11 students live there. Seabury will be repurposed for administrative space.
against racism. On one block, groups gathered to discuss flaws in the criminal justice system, Heineman said. Former city mayor Lorraine Morton — the first African-American to hold the position — came to the event to show her support. The city has a history of working to be fair to all residents, going back to struggles for housing open to all races, she said. “The city of Evanston is totally committed to open and fair everything,” Morton said. “People move here because they know how liberal this community is.” The issues addressed by the event carried personal meanings for many community members who participated. Karen Chavers, district director for the Cook County Commissioner for the 13th
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though, is how large NU is and the amount of professional and graduate schools it has in comparison to Dartmouth, a smaller research college. “In terms of challenges … it’s probably going to be trying to figure out how to make Weinberg work really well with the other schools and within the broader umbrella of Northwestern,” he said. As students continue to push for Weinberg to adopt a U.S.-centric Social Inequalities and Diversities requirement, Randolph said faculty should have control over the curriculum, but he will explore the proposal in more depth once he arrives on campus. The proposal asks the six undergraduate schools to include Social Inequalities and Diversities as a distribution requirement by Fall Quarter 2015. “I don’t think it’s the role of the dean to sort of tell departments or even sort of frame the curriculum for the college,” he said. “I think that’s more of a joint, collective action.” Provost Daniel Linzer, who made the final decision to hire Randolph after a 10-month search, said although they discussed the proposed diversity course
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Gov. Bruce Rauner revoked a $1 million state grant to provide Evanston with ultra high-speed Internet, canceling a project that would have established an “innovation corridor” in the area of Chicago Avenue and Main Street. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said the city received notice within the last two months that the state canceled the grant that would have
District, said she has participated in the Evanston event for the past four years. She said although the city has been fortunate to have such a diverse community, it is still important to show continual commitment to improvement. “I’m a part of the civil rights era and this was one of the first places that Dr. King spoke before the world knew about him and so we have a long history of working together,” Chavers said. “We have the infrastructure, so now it’s about citizens continuing that political will to increase our capacity to live as one.” Jordan Rucker, a YWCA employee and a lifelong Evanston resident, said the issue of racism has become increasingly significant for him over the years because of the city’s efforts to raise awareness and start a conversation. Almost 100 kids from the Child Care Center of Evanston cheered and chanted as they
requirement, the decision must be made within Weinberg. “We talked about various aspects of diversity and inclusion. The conversation about the diversity requirement is within each school,” Linzer said. “So that would be more of a conversation that he would have with people in the dean’s office and department chairs.” Randolph said diverse topics and issues should be included in the curriculum. “It may be a question of credit or distribution requirement, it may also be a broader issue to do with the curriculum and I think that those things need to be discussed,” Randolph said. “I don’t think it’s my role to have a strong opinion one way or the other about this. I want to listen to my colleagues and try to figure out what the best way forward.” Anna Rennich, former Associated Student Government vice president for academics, said students hope to see the requirement become part of the curriculum sometime in the next two years. However, nothing has been passed yet. “We’ve had some really productive discussions with Weinberg already about this requirement,” the Weinberg senior said. “But we understand they can’t
make a decision until the dean has evaluated (the situation).” Linzer said Randolph’s global experience will improve Weinberg. “One of the attractive features that we saw in Adrian as a candidate is his own global upbringing,” he said. “That broadens the perspective for his thinking that will be valuable as we have a more and more global university.” Randolph’s research in art history focuses on gender and sexuality studies. He has written two books and has also served on the international advisory board of the journal Art History and the University Press of New England. Randolph said he is excited to work with NU’s art history department but has no plans to teach courses. However, he hopes he’ll be able to collaborate with the art history department after his first year at NU. “Certainly on the first year I’m going to wait and see to make sure that I can do the things I’ve been hired to do,” he said. “But I would love the opportunity to … (teach) some visiting lectures and be a part of the structure.”
helped fund the project, which was meant to attract entrepreneurs to the area. The grant was withdrawn earlier this year amidst attempts to cut the state budget. The city will have to return the money it received from the state, Bobkiewicz said. “We were all a little saddened by it, but I think, quite honestly, we know what the state is going through,” Bobkiewicz said. “I can’t say that we were actually surprised.” Former Gov. Pat Quinn announced in January 2013 that the city would receive the grant in a speech at Evanston Public Library’s Chicago Avenue/Main Street branch, 900 Chicago
Ave. The grant was part of the Illinois Gigabit Communities Challenge, which is meant to enhance communities’ broadband networks to boost their economies. The city and Northwestern submitted a $2.5 million joint proposal to the state in 2012. About two years into the project, the design for the gigabit-speed Internet link was set and the city was preparing to find a contractor to begin laying the fiber, Bobkiewicz told The Daily. The city and NU intended to execute the project by July 2015. Access to the the high speed Internet — which would increase
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stood on the sidewalks. “It’s important to introduce to children the idea of standing up to fairness as soon as possible,” said King Hampton, a teacher’s aide from the center. Various Northwestern departments and groups also joined the stand, amounting to the largest participation the university has ever had, Heineman said. “It’s really remarkable because my knowledge of Evanston is always in the context of the university,” said Communication freshman Claudia Fendian, who came with a group from the Communications Residential College. “So stepping outside of that and seeing Evanston for what it is — as a community with people supporting each other for the cause — was really heartwarming.” yeareekim2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Cats lose first Big Ten Championship in 17 years By ALEX LEDERMAN
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When coach Claire Pollard won her first Big Ten Tournament in 1999, Bill Clinton was still president, Michael Jordan announced his second retirement and Canadian pop icon Justin Bieber was only five years old. Since the turn of the millennium, the Boston Red Sox won three World Series, smartphones and social media changed the speed of communication and Bieber Fever swept the nation. And consistently throughout, Northwestern won the Big Ten Tournament. Now, for the first time in 17 years, the Wildcats can’t call themselves Big Ten champions. Big-ten ranked No. 3 NU fell 4-1 Saturday to No. 2 Ohio State in the conference tournament semifinals, ending the Cats’ run of 16-straight regular season or postseason Big Ten titles. “If you had told me when I arrived that we would have that kind of streak,”
Pollard said, “I would have taken it. I’d take a one-streak, a two-streak, a three-streak, whatever it is. The fact that it was 16 just speaks to the volume of all the players that have made this program great.” The Cats may have lost Saturday, but they sure didn’t make it easy for the Buckeyes. All three doubles matches were tight. NU jumped out to early leads, but Ohio State claimed the No. 1 and No. 3 matches 8-6 before play was suspended in No. 2 at 7-6. “We had some good momentum early on in doubles and couldn’t quite capitalize on it,” Pollard said. “Credit to Ohio State. They withstood that surge that we made and they knuckled down..” Down 1-0, the Cats had ground to make up in singles. To stay in the tournament, NU could lose no more than two singles matches. First, senior Lok Sze Leung fell 6-2, 6-2 to Sandy Niehaus at No. 3 singles. Then, junior Alicia Barnett lost 6-4, 6-3 to Gabriella De Santis at No. 1. Yet even behind 3-0, one thing remained certain. The Cats couldn’t be counted out — particularly in the Big Ten Tournament. Just one day earlier, NU bounced back from a 3-1 deficit to Illinois to win 4-3. The Cats lost the doubles point and Nos. 5 and 6 singles, but had clutch performances from Barnett, freshman Erin Larner and Leung at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 singles to come away victorious. Similarly, the Cats enjoyed a remarkable come-from-behind victory over Michigan just one year ago in the conference tournament final. Down 3-1 to start
and 5-2 in the third set of No. 2 singles, the Cats seemed down and out. But thensenior Belinda Niu dug deep, fought back and won the next five games to take the match and championship. For a while, it looked like NU might again complete the miraculous. All four remaining matches were in the third set, and the telltale signs were there for another vintage Cats comeback. “We didn’t roll over in any matches,” Pollard said. “Where we lost, we made them beat us.” Larner finished first and reduced the deficit to two, turning in a standout performance. She lost the second set, but convincingly took the third to top Anna Sanford 6-3, 3-6, 6-2. “(Sanford) definitely started playing better in the second set,” Larner said. “She raised her level and challenged me to have to raise mine.” With one down, the Cats had three to go. Freshman Alex Chatt’s match was heading toward a dramatic finish and her classmate Rheeya Doshi and sophomore Brooke Rischbieth had just forced their matches into a third set. Destiny seemed on NU’s side. But it wasn’t meant to be. The Cats needed to win all three matches, and Chatt, it seemed, would have to take care of business first. Yet in the back-and-forth match, she came up short against Miho Kowase, falling 1-6, 6-1, 6-3. On the second to last point of the match, with the Cats’ title hopes on the line, she smashed a shot right into the net. With that, play was suspended in Doshi
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In the last game of the regular season, No. 9 Northwestern (11-5, 3-2 Big Ten) honored its seniors in a 16-6 rout of No. 20 Ohio State (11-6, 2-3) at home Sunday. The win, sandwiched between a tough loss against Penn State last week and the impending Big Ten Tournament, will be key in establishing momentum for the Wildcats as they head into the post-season. “What we showed today is the benefit of what we’ve gone through,” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said. “It was a good step forward but it wasn’t perfect. Hopefully it’s a momentum builder.” Freshman standout Selena Lasota put the Cats on the board first with a clean dodge around the left side of the crease, only to have OSU fire back less than 45 seconds later. But from there, it was all NU. The Cats went on a 6-1 run over the rest of the half, slowly and methodically wearing down the OSU defense and capitalizing on one-on-ones. Freshman Corinne Wessels notched two assists and a goal during the first half run, while sophomore Sheila Nesselbush tallied a pair of goals and one assist. The Nesselbush sisters emerged as the playmakers of the first half as freshman Shannon Nesselbush played particularly aggressive defense in front of the NU goal. At the half, the Cats led the Buckeyes 7-2 and led in almost every team statistic recorded. OSU seemed to come out in the second half with a newfound fire, scoring just 49 seconds into the period, but NU quickly recovered.
The Cats went on an 8-0 run over 16 minutes, absolutely dominating in every sector of play. The run included an incredible diving shot by Lasota and a particularly tricky goal by Mupo off an 8-meter, where she threw a fake against the OSU goal and side armed a low, bouncing shot. NU was able to maintain composure despite an increasingly aggressive and frustrated OSU defense. Four yellow cards against the Buckeyes in the second half resulted in the permanent removal of two OSU players from the game. Play got chippy on both sides, with NU earning a yellow card late in the half. In the last four minutes, the Cats allowed 3 Buckeye goals while only earning 1 goal themselves, but nonetheless clenched a decisive 16-6 victory. “We were all out there and everyone did their part,” senior goalkeeper
Bridget Bianco said. “You know, some seniors don’t start and don’t play, and because we all did our part, they were able to get out there and I think that’s what I’ll remember.” Individually, the Cats shined. Lasota, who was just nominated for the Tewaaraton Award, tallied 2 goals and an assist. Wessels had a standout game with a pair of goals and three assists, and both Mupo and Sheila Nesselbush recorded a hat trick. In goal, Bianco had 10 saves. Despite the win, Mupo says that the Cats are nowhere near done. “This was good momentum moving forward to the Big Ten Tournament, but we want to get there and make a statement, so we have a lot of hard work to do,” she said. Hiller hopes her team is up to the challenge. “I think that our team is ready for this moment,” she said. clairehansen2018@u.northwestern.edu
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A FOND FAREWELL Kara Mupo dodges around a defender. The senior tallied a hat trick in her final home game as a Wildcat.
and Rischbieth’s matches (3-3 and 0-1 in the third sets, respectively), and NU walked off the court in defeat. The Cats’ streak was officially over. “Props to Ohio State,” Larner said. “They pulled out some great points when they needed to, and it just kind of went their way a little bit more today.” The Buckeyes advanced to the final, where they lost to Michigan 4-0 on Sunday. Even with the loss, Pollard said she liked what she saw from her team. “I thought we probably played our best match of the year,” she said. “At the end of the day, they just executed a little better than we did.” NU faced challenges all year — injuries,
inconsistencies — but ultimately had a strong season, even with Saturday’s defeat. “This has been one of the groups that’s come the furthest,” Pollard said. “These players need to hold their heads up high. They’ve dealt with a lot of tough situations this year and tough times. I’m disappointed for them, but really, really proud.” But even for a team known for miracles, the difficulties added up to an insurmountable challenge. “All year we were like half a position off,” Pollard said. “We’re just half a position higher than I would like. And at the end of the day, that proved to be a little too much.” alexanderlederman2017@u.northwestern.edu
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END OF AN ERA Erin Larner winds up for a return. The freshman won the only point for Northwestern against Ohio State on Saturday as the Wildcats were eliminated from contention for a 17th consecutive year as Big Ten champions.
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Wildcats take 2 of 3 against Ohio State By MELISSA HANIFF
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9 17 9 Northwestern saw positive results this weekend, winning two games and losing one, in an offense-dominated series against Ohio State. The Wildcats’ two wins keep them in the race for fourth in the Big Ten standings. The Cats (24-19, 12-7 Big Ten) came out strong in the third game of the series behind a solid pitching performance from junior Kristen Wood, who kept the Buckeyes (26-21, 9-11) scoreless through three innings. NU also played well in the opener, scoring 4 runs in the first inning and 5 more through the next four innings. The Buckeyes rallied to catch up with the Cats, but NU pulled off a 9-7 win, with three RBIs from senior first baseman Julia Kuhn and two RBIs from freshman catcher Sammy Nettling. Game two of the series was a nailbiter with a rain delay stretching the contest over two days. When the game resumed Sunday, the Buckeyes scored 5 runs to bring the score to 8-4 in their favor by the end of the third. Senior leftfielder Olivia Duehr, who also pitched the entire second part of game two, kept her composure even as OSU piled on the runs. “I was just thinking about getting ahead and making the defense do something,” she said. “Getting ahead and working ahead always helps.” The Cats rallied hard for runs to support their pitcher, scoring 5 more off of
three straight singles followed by a sacrifice fly from junior shortstop Andrea Filler — her NCAA-leading ninth of the season — a Nettling single and a double from Kuhn. The offensive showcase didn’t end there: The two teams ended up scoring a combined 37 runs in the second game and OSU eventually came away with a close 20-17 win. Even with the eventual outcome of the game, head coach Kate Drohan said she was happy with the way the team played. “We have our leftfielder on the mound and she’s battling,” she said. “We needed to make a couple more key defensive plays but I like the way the team’s competing and they still put us in the position to win.” The last matchup was dominated by Wood’s stellar pitching. The junior had nine strikeouts throughout the game and kept the Buckeyes to only four hits. NU’s offense came out swinging yet again, scoring 3 runs in the first three innings with RBIs from Filler and senior rightfielder Andrea DiPrima. Although OSU hit a 2-run homer in the fourth, they did not score again until the seventh inning. 6 more runs from the Cats in the fourth and fifth innings sealed their Sunday win by a score of 9-3. The Sunday Senior Day win was an exciting one for the Cats, who celebrated their four seniors — DiPrima, Duehr, Kuhn and third baseman Anna Edwards — at halftime. Drohan noted the impact the four seniors have had on the program and how their presence has provided leadership for freshmen. “They’re great people, they’re great students,” she said. “We’ve asked them to do a lot of different things through their career and each time they’ve stepped up and made it happen.” melissahaniff2016@u.northwestern.edu