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Codjoe’s joy, smile remembered By Tyler Pager
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Transformative “Orange is the New Black” actress Laverne Cox talks about race, gender and sexual identity on Tuesday to a packed Pick-Staiger audience. The transgender LGBT advocate shared personal stories about discrimination.
Cox discusses transphobia By Matthew Choi
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Actress Laverne Cox described her path to overcoming transphobia, racism and sexism in her talk, “Ain’t I a Woman,” on Tuesday in front of a packed PickStaiger Concert Hall. Cox, a transgender woman, spoke about her experiences with race, class, gender and sexuality to a crowd of about 1,000 at an event hosted by A&O Productions, One Book One Northwestern and Rainbow Alliance. Cox, who
plays Sophia Burset on the Netflix show, “Orange is the New Black,” spoke at NU as part of her national tour. The talk was followed by a Q&A on topics such as diversity in entertainment and Cox’s own career. Cox discussed the different parts of her identity, including forms of prejudice and oppression she faces. Racism and transphobia are regular occurrences for her in New York, she said, recounting incidents of transphobia, misogyny and racism and explaining the intersectionality of these experiences. Cox talked about the oppression transgender people, particularly transgender people
of color, face from the police. “We are revictimized by the police,” Cox said. “Far too often, the homicides of transgender people go unsolved. I can’t help but think about what’s happening in Baltimore. When a life is taken, someone has to be held accountable.” Cox used the expressions cisnormative, heteronormative, imperialist, white supremacist and capitalist patriarchy to describe the intersecting oppressive forces in the United States and spoke about how these forces are embodied. “Misgendering people is an act of » See Cox, page 6
Benjamin Codjoe’s smile was infectious. His friends say his trademark smile could brighten anyone’s day. It was the epitome of who he was: a kind-hearted, devout Christian. “It was the type of smile that was just magnetic, so no matter what he was going through he always made sure that his smile showed through,” said Merih Ocbazghi, a first-year Kellogg student and co-president of the Africa Business Club. “No matter what you were going through, you could see the genuineness behind it and you couldn’t help but smile yourself.” Codjoe, a first-year student in the Kellogg School of Management, was found dead Friday morning in the McManus Living-Learning Center. The cause of death is still pending. Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said he had a previous medical condition and there were no signs of foul play. Kellogg Dean Sally Blount notified students of his death Saturday. “Ben was a fantastic student who cared deeply about the quality and integrity of our community,” she wrote. “He always had a giant smile on his face and we will greatly miss his energy and forward-looking attitude.” Codjoe, 28, was from Accra, Ghana, and had previously attended Ashesi University in Ghana and worked for Vodafone in Ghana and India. He was recently selected as the vice president for professional development for the Africa Business Club. Asuquo Mfon, a first-year Kellogg student and co-president of the Africa
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Benjamin Codjoe
Business Club, said Codjoe was responsible for helping people who were interested in careers in Africa. He said Codjoe wanted to do private equity work in Africa. “He made the point to slow down with all the crazy things that were going on with business school with recruiting all that and do the small things that matter,” he said. “Encourage people when they’re down, congratulate people on the good things they did — just kind of infuse positivity into every situation.” Students gathered for a candlelight vigil Sunday to remember Codjoe. There is also a book at the reception table in the Donald P. Jacobs Center for people to share memories about him. The book will be sent to his family in Ghana, Ocbazghi said. “Across a really diverse group of students, they all said the same things about Ben and they’re all incredibly positive,” Ocbazghi said about the vigil. “Those of us who felt like we knew him really well were surprised by the impact that he had on the lives of people that we didn’t even know he was interacting with.” tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu
Former football player City water reach might expand charged with 2 felonies By Julia Jacobs
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A former Northwestern football player was charged with two felonies in connection with possession of multiple weapons. Xavier Menifield, 19, was charged with two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after an unloaded rifle was found in his car near Ryan Field and a stun gun was found in his Foster-Walker Complex room, police said. Menifield, a former sophomore running back, is no longer enrolled at NU or a member of the football team. University Registrar Jaci Casazza said he was last enrolled during Winter Quarter. Police met with Menifield on March 16 after receiving a call from football staff members, University Police Deputy Chief Dan McAleer said. Police found an unloaded rifle and an 18-inch machete in Menifield’s car. The police then searched his residence hall room and found a loaded stun gun, a canister of mace, two four-inch knives and 19 Winchester metric caliber bullets. Menifield admitted the weapons were his and was subsequently arrested,
McAleer said. Police also charged Menifield with two misdemeanors, one for possession of firearm ammunition without a firearm owners’ ID card and one for possession of brass knuckles. Athletic department spokesman Paul Kennedy declined to comment for this story. Menifield appeared in one game during his two years with the football team. Police noted Menifield had visible injuries on his face March 16, McAleer said. Menifield said he suffered injuries to his head March 13 after falling out of his bed and woke up in a pool of blood. He sought medical attention at Evanston Hospital where the staff determined he suffered fractures to bones under his eye, McAleer said. “We were not able to determine whether the injury to his head was inflicted by the fall or whether there were other people involved,” McAleer said. Menifield was released on a $25,000 bond and received permission to leave Evanston, a clerk in the Skokie Courthouse said. He is originally from Valencia, California. His next scheduled court appearance is May 28 at the Skokie Courthouse. tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Evanston’s long-time goal of selling more water to surrounding cities is gaining traction as suburbs are hit with the rising price of Chicago’s supply. The cost of Chicago water has reached $3.81 per thousand gallons, compared with Evanston at $0.92 per thousand gallons. Chicago’s price has risen a minimum of 15 percent per year for the last five years, prompting cities like Morton Grove, Niles and Park Ridge to talk more seriously about switching to Evanston resources. “There’s been more activity now than there’s ever been to try to get some conclusions and clarity to what we’re going to do,” Evanston city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said. Park Ridge officials have been asked to decide by July 1 whether they want to join Morton Grove and Niles in constructing a pipeline to deliver water from Evanston. The system would have to be ready before Morton Grove’s water contract with Chicago expires in 2018, project manager Bill Balling said. “When you (plan the schedule for) the construction, the design, the
financing, you really have to get the engineering authorized by the end of 2015,” he said. But Park Ridge is still working to ensure lower water costs outweigh the investment in a $115 million pipeline, Park Ridge city manager Shawn Hamilton said. It’s unclear whether Park Ridge’s City Council will have enough information to make a decision in the next two months, he said. Balling said he has projected dramatic savings for Park Ridge over the long-term life of the project, but the exact figure will be determined by the rate of Chicago water price increases, which the city said should drop to 2 to 5 percent per year after 2016. Because Park Ridge is the farthest city from the potential Evanston water source, it would shoulder a larger amount of the construction costs, Balling said. With all three cities participating, Park Ridge would provide approximately $47 million toward the project and was projected to save $113 million over 40 years. Niles and Morton Grove would save even more over the fourdecade period. “It almost makes sense to put in the capital expenditure and we can still save money in the long run,” Park Ridge public works director Wayne Zingsheim said.
Although it’s an option for only two cities to share the pipeline, the most cost-effective plan is for all three cities to establish a water commission and connect to the Evanston water treatment plant on the lakeshore. However, Morton Grove is also considering purchasing water from Glenview instead of Evanston, Zingsheim said. If either of the cities backed out of the project, they would have to reevaluate the cost for a system serving only two cities, he said. “It might change the entire structure to the point where we wouldn’t go forward,” Zingsheim said. If the three cities agree to the proposal, the Evanston water treatment plant — which can supply up to 108 million gallons per day of drinking water — would only have the capacity to supply for an additional small municipality, Bobkiewicz said. The city has been in talks with Lincolnwood since last summer to fill that role. But the city is also considering the option of expanding the plant to serve a group of seven communities farther west that are looking to establish a new water commission, Bobkiewicz said. In this case, a tunnel would be built to transfer water to those western » See Water, page 6
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On Campus Panel talks MLK’s Chicago influence By Mariana Alfaro
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More than 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. turned down a job offer from the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary to continue his work in the South, a panel of local community members discussed King’s influence on the civil rights movement in Chicago and Evanston. “I’ve started on this challenging venture of love and nonviolence and I am all too aware of the fact that this philosophy has not been spread enough in the Deep South,” King wrote in his letter to the seminary, which is located on Northwestern’s campus. The letter was one of the documents shared Tuesday afternoon at an event commemorating King’s 1958 speech at the Technological Institute and the 50th anniversary of his visit to the Winnetka Village Green, where he spoke about housing discrimination. The event, hosted by the Center for Civic Engagement and local organization Open Communities, consisted of presentations by Open Communities’ executive director Gail Schechter and NU archivist Kevin Leonard as well as a panel with activists David Borris, Bennett J. Johnson and Nina Raskin. Schechter discussed Chicago’s role in the civil rights movement and said although the South was dealing with the issue of voter registration, the North Shore Summer Project was dealing with issues of open housing and discriminatory practices. The NSSP operated from 1965 to 1966 to uncover housing restrictions in the Chicago and North Shore areas that prevented black families from buying houses in otherwise white neighborhoods. Schechter said a group of white women in the early 1960s was concerned about the housing situation in the North Shore and began investigating why homeowners wouldn’t sell their homes to black families. Years later, the NSSP discovered most homeowners didn’t care who bought their properties, but realtors wouldn’t sell houses to black families. Although it took three years for fair housing to become part of North Shore law, NSSP efforts helped further this
cause. During the panel discussion, Nina Raskin, one of the coordinators of the Evanston Freedom Center branch of the NSSP and a participant in the 1965 Selma marches, said after moving to Evanston with her husband in 1957 she was surprised to see how segregated the community was. After living in Glencoe for 37 years, Raskin just moved back to Evanston. “It’s very interesting to me to see the contrast from what I left and the community now,” she said. “I do have hope for the future, but there’s a tough battle ahead.” Bennett J. Johnson, longtime civil rights activist, shared his experience working with the integration of the Evanston school system. He said the key to change happened after schools were integrated and people became more politically active and progressive. The final panelist, David Borris, president of Chicago Area Peace Action, spoke about Open Communities’ 2015 Justice Project, which aims to become a grassroots 21st-century social justice movement. The project will kick off a five-year project in July aiming to share conversations about today’s civil rights issues across communities. “It’s not on them to go out there and find all the problems,” Borris said. “But it is on us to put in front
of them the conversation and ask them a simple question: ‘What does a just and welcoming community mean to you?’” Pearl Hirshfield, a community member who participated in the 1965 Selma marches with Raskin, said the event brought back many memories. “I was on the bus with them to the South,” she said. “We have a lot of memories of that trip.” Kerry Brown, Center for Civic Engagement program assistant, said CCE thought it would be important to bring the 2015 Justice Project closer to campus. She mentioned the Baltimore protests that began Monday in reaction to the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African-American man who died in police custody, as evidence that society still faces racial issues. “I would like students to think about how things that we’re seeing today, literally today in Baltimore, but over the last couple of years in terms of race relations in the United States, how these aren’t new issues,” she told The Daily. “It’s important to get a historical perspective and see and appreciate how far we’ve come but also see how much further there is to go.” marianaalfaro2018@u.northwestern.edu
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The ugly, invisible bigotry in science Sai Folmsbee
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I am an Asian-American. My mother is a Japanese immigrant, and my father is white. But because I superficially appear white, I get to participate in all the societal and cultural privileges white males enjoy. However, this also grants me another gift not afforded most other Asian-Americans: I get casual Asian bigotry spoken directly to my face. I’ve heard my mother called “Oriental.” I’ve heard her be asked about what Chinese restaurant she works for, even though she is an attorney. Although this kind of prejudice is ubiquitous, I have noticed something particularly troubling since I began graduate school. This bigotry has penetrated these supposedly learned halls of scientific academia. There is an invisible, yet powerful, marginalization of Asians in science. Any Asian scientist can give you examples of this. Just a few days ago, when talking about a scientific presentation by a Chinese student, another researcher told me “Japanese researchers don’t give good talks.” This horrible statement perfectly encapsulates that racism that Asians in science face: belittling, dehumanizing and dismissive. How can this casual bigotry persist? Perhaps Asians in science are burdened by success — or, more specifically, the illusion of success — from being a so-called “model minority.” We live in a time where it is not unusual to have Asians make up a large proportion of graduate students studying physics, chemistry and biology. Ten years ago, the most common college degree by Asians was computer science, according to a 2013
report from the National Science Foundation. But now, the fastest rising degrees, and now the most frequently obtained, are in the biological sciences, surpassing both mathematics and engineering. Asian men and women make up about 18 percent of the scientific and engineering workforce. However, from the same report, Asians are struggling where it counts. The unemployment rate for Asian scientists and engineers is much greater than their white counterparts. And when you break down the data into the cause of unemployment, Asians are more likely to not have a job due to family reasons, jobs not being available and layoffs. The only category for unemployment that is more common in whites? Retirement. However, it is unfair to simply group all Asians together because Asian women have it much harder than Asian men in science. Asian women have about twice the unemployment of white men, and the difference in median salary between Asian women and Asian men is vastly greater than that between whites, some $20,000. Most importantly, Asian women still face a large gap in achieving full-time faculty positions. But this data cannot address the most glaring problem of casual Asian discrimination: using the term “Asian.” Asia isn’t a country. Asia isn’t an ethnicity. The illusion that its culture is any more homogenous than that of Western Europe is simply the first step in marginalizing its diversity. Asia is made up of a myriad of countries, including the oft-forgotten nations within Central and South Asia. Assuming Asian scientists are just “Japanese” or “Chinese” is just the laziest form of prejudice. Scientific research, especially, has become a lightning rod for this kind of bigotry. Just
last month, the science publisher BioMed Central retracted 43 publications after it was discovered they were published under fraudulent peer review. For some, the fact that most of these authors were based in China may be enough to reinforce such negative stereotypes. Furthermore, last year, a high-impact paper from a Japanese research group claimed to be able to generate stem cells from exposing cells to acid. This potentially groundbreaking publication was retracted after it was found to have falsified data. In the scientific community, these controversies paint a story of the “problem” of Asians in science. Unfortunately, this has just made it easier for all Asian researchers to be lumped together as inferior scientists who now face an uphill battle in regaining credibility. Asian discrimination in science isn’t overt, so it won’t be easy to fix. It will have to come from small, personal changes from all scientists, whether they are graduate students, technicians or professors. We need to remember that it is not acceptable to dislike a professor’s lectures for being “too Asian,” to distrust a research article because it’s “from China” or to avoid working in a lab because you don’t trust Japanese coworkers. More importantly, you should work to rethink your own prejudices. If you don’t, then perhaps in your future scientific career, you may find yourself joking about Asians with your white boss. Except he might not be white. He might be a half-Japanese guy who won’t hesitate to fire you for your racist drivel. Sai Folmsbee is a Feinberg graduate student. He can be reached at sai@fsm.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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Between rushing to finish readings for the upcoming week and knowing they have to wait five more days to enjoy another weekend, Northwestern students are likely to encounter the Sunday night blues. But for those of us who count ourselves among the many fans of HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” this quarter’s Sunday nights might be a little more enjoyable. The April 12 premiere of Season 5 of HBO’s most popular show of all time, which is based on the book series, “A Song of Ice and Fire,” by Medill alumnus George R.R. Martin, drew a whopping 8 million viewers. HBO manages to churn out another season of the hit show each year while Martin has a reputation for writing extremely slowly and has not announced a release date for “The Winds of Winter,” the sixth book in the series. This has resulted in speculation that the timeframe of the show will eventually eclipse the book, which the show’s producers confirmed in March. Fans of the novels, some of whom have been invested in the characters since before most of the NU student body could read, will find the ending of Martin’s story spoiled on screen before they can read his final novel. While there are pragmatic reasons the story will likely reach its conclusion on screen before it does so in print, the greater interest my generation shows in the television show
over the novels reflects the greater trend that reading for pleasure seems to be a dying — or at least a declining — pastime. The fact that the five books Martin has released so far total 5,216 pages may dissuade many readers. But the fact that the show already consists of almost 40 hours of material does not keep many of us from staying caught up or
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with shows that have much more content like “How I Met Your Mother.” Despite the relatively greater interest shown in TV and movies, reading for pleasure should be valued for its many benefits. In one of the first classes I took at NU, a course on reading and writing in Spanish, the professor asked us how many of us had read a book we were not assigned by a professor
recently. Many of us had not. My professor followed up his first question by asking how many of us thought that books would die in favor of TV and movies. My class did not think so, arguing that books could offer more details, a longer story and other benefits. After a long while, we ultimately agreed that the key element movies failed to offer was an explanation of the character’s thought process. No TV show or movie can lay out the thoughts of characters in the way a book can. Although HBO’s “Thrones” can offer modern special effects and quality acting, it cannot allow the point of view narration present in the different chapters of each novel. It can depict dragons in superb quality but cannot provide viewers with the experience of following the thoughts of the characters as they interact with them. Reading might even have cognitive benefits. A study in the journal Neurology suggested reading improves one’s memory, and, according to research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may even result in a decreased risk of Alzheimer’s Disease. Obtaining information through reading is beneficial for numerous reasons and is a worthwhile hobby, even in the digital age. Many experts believe Americans read far less than they once did, and — accurately or not — some point to younger people as especially not likely to read. Even if we find out who takes the Iron Throne in front of a TV instead of a book, reading has something to offer that TV does not. Matt Gates is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be reached at matthewgates2017@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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Economist Jean Tirole spoke about his Nobel Memorial Prize-winning work on industrial regulations Tuesday in Harris Hall. Markets are often not as simple as one buyer and one seller, he said, and regulators need to be careful or they may impose sanctions over “justified” market advantages often earned by research investment. Government policy needs a mix of unbiased academic insights and applied professional experience, he told The Daily after the event. Tirole also won the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics last year — a $200,000 stipend awarded every two years by Northwestern — and was in Evanston for academic commitments associated with the prize. Seven out of the 11 Nemmers winners, a prize you can’t win after a Nobel, have gone on to become Nobel laureates. The Undergraduate Economics Society, which hosted the event, said the opportunity to host a winner of the Nobel Prize in economics while he was visiting from France was too great to pass up. Tirole spoke about “two-sided platforms” — such as credit cards — which serve as a medium for transactions between two parties. He said regulations in these complex markets often hurt more than they help. “Price coherence” requires that these transactions cost the same with or without the medium. Usually, buying without the platform — like with cash instead of credit
Police Blotter Electrical supports damaged on elementary school roof Someone damaged electrical conduit supports on the roof of an Evanston elementary school between Friday afternoon and Monday morning, police said. An unknown person or group of people moved a dumpster and some milk crates to the south end of Lincolnwood Elementary School, 2600 Colfax St., in order to access the
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Money Matters Award-winning economist Jean Tirole discusses industrial regulation and complex markets at an Undergraduate Economics Society event Tuesday. Tirole won the University’s Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics in February of 2014.
card — allows for a lower price, but following coherence hurts consumers, he said, by forcing the discounted price to rise toward the full price. He also discussed multi-company “bundles” – modernly seen through technology patent pools – which he said can limit competition. Prices will only stay down, he said, if companies can sell their contribution outside of their pools or bundles. Policy will work best when the price of each part of the bundle
is clear and regulators fully understand the industry, he said. Tirole emphasized his success was made possible by his colleagues and by economists who came before him. There are many issues, like net neutrality, that are far from decided, he said, and he expressed hope they will be solved by economists who will come after him.
roof, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. Three electrical conduit supports were removed and damaged before being tossed to the ground next to the dumpster, Dugan added. The incident was reported by a 49-year-old employee of the school early Monday morning.
said. Someone broke a small window that leads to the bathroom and broke off the handle of the back door of Trattoria D.O.C., 706 Main St., but was unable to enter the restaurant, Dugan said. The incident occurred between about 10:30 p.m. Sunday and 9:00 a.m. Monday and was reported by a 41-year-old restaurant employee, police said.
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A new restaurant is sharing a space with Curt’s Cafe South after Curt’s closes in the evening. Heavenston Eatery opened mid-April, shortly after the opening of Curt’s South, 1813 Dempster St., said Susan Trieschmann, Curt’s executive director. Husband and wife restaurateurs Malaika Marion and Adam Lebin opened Heavenston after their former restaurant, The Brown Sack in Logan Square, closed last October after more than eight years of service. Heavenston offers a varied menu of soups and sandwiches, similar to some of The Brown Sack’s offerings. Curt’s Cafe, which specializes in food industry job training, opened its second location, Curt’s South, at the end of March. Curt’s South focuses on training at-risk young women and teenage mothers. Trieshmann said she had the idea to lease Curt’s South’s space as an easy way to generate revenue for the program. “One of my ideas was to rent the space out at night to people who wanted to start a restaurant but didn’t want to put half a million dollars into a buildout,” Trieshmann said. “The idea was to build revenue without having to run a program all day and all night.” Trieshmann said Marion and Lebin have proved a great addition to the Curt’s South team, bringing passion for the food industry and compassion for Curt’s trainees to the table. Two Curt’s South graduates currently work at Heavenston Eatery, where they continue to receive some restaurant training, she added. “Adam and Malaika are amazing with the students,” Trieshmann said. “They’re still training them at night even though they’re not part of our formal training program. … They genuinely have embraced the students the way that our managers (at Curt’s) do, and most people don’t do that.” marissapage@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 1 violence,” Cox said. “Pronouns matter.” Cox began her speech declaring, “I stand before you this evening a proud African-American, transgender artist,” Cox said. “It is important to claim the multiple components of my intersecting identity because I am not just one thing.” Cox said the title of her talk, “Ain’t I a Woman,” comes from a speech by abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth in 1851, and is also the title of a book by feminist Gloria Jean Watkins, better known as bell hooks, a writer who inspired Cox. Cox described her early life and the realization of her womanhood. “One is not born a woman but rather becomes one,” Cox said quoting existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. “It is not guaranteed the one who becomes a woman is necessarily a female.” Cox was born in Mobile, Alabama, to a workingclass family with a single mother and twin brother. Her mother highly valued education and taught her and her brother about the history of racial oppression and resistance to that oppression in Alabama, Cox said. She recounted stories of being bullied every day, chased home from school and being subject to
National News History in the balance as divided Supreme Court weighs gay marriage WASHINGTON — Same-sex marriage divided the Supreme Court on Tuesday in a protracted and at times passionate oral argument that may have tilted, ever so slightly, toward marriage equality. Justice Anthony Kennedy, the author of past decisions supporting gay rights and widely presumed to be the swing vote once more, hinted at sympathy for same-sex marriage. “It’s dignity-bestowing,” Kennedy said of marriage in general, adding that gay and lesbian couples “say they want the same ennoblement.” In 2013, Kennedy deployed the term “dignity” numerous times in his decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act’s prohibition on samesex couples receiving federal benefits. In 2003, he wrote the decision striking down a Texas law banning homosexual sodomy, and in 1996 he wrote a decision striking down a Colorado ballot measure targeting gay rights. At the same time, Kennedy underscored lingering uncertainties Tuesday when he cautioned that the definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman “has been with us for millennia, and it’s very difficult for the court to say, ‘Oh, well, we know better.’” Amid all the pomp and carnival that accompany landmark court cases, including flag-waving demonstrators outside and a jam-packed press gallery inside, the 21/2-hour oral argument Tuesday revolved around marriage limitations in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee
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homophobic slurs as a child for being too feminine. “It was curious,” Cox said. “Antigay slurs were used against me, but it was really against my gender.” Shame became a large part of Cox’s life, she said, as people told her something was inherently wrong with her. She differentiated shame from guilt, saying guilt is the belief she did wrong, but shame is the belief she is wrong. Cox spoke at length about shame and how it is ingrained in American culture. Cox told the story of when she was in third grade and her teacher accosted her for holding a hand fan in a way seen as feminine. “Your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we don’t get him in therapy right away,” Cox said her teacher told her mother. Dance became a safe space for Cox, she said, and in third grade, she began dancing lessons. Inspired by the show “Fame,” set at a high school for the performing arts in New York City, Cox pursued her dancing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. Though the school was a positive experience because it allowed Cox to be independent from her mother, it was also where she first encountered racism and classism, adding more parts of her identity to her sources of shame, Cox said. Cox eventually attended Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. Visiting clubs and meeting other transgender people allowed her to further
discover her gender identity. She said she was often welcomed in night clubs, which finally gave her a sense of appreciation. “New York City represented the space of ultimate possibility,” Cox said. “It was really the first time in my life my gender identity was celebrated.” Cox ended the talk by describing difficult conversations she had with her mother that led to her mother’s acceptance of her womanhood and called on the audience to engage in these conversations. “I would like to charge each and every one of you to have those difficult conversations, to create safe spaces to make mistakes,” Cox said. “Empathy is the antidote of shame.” Medill junior Bo Suh and Weinberg sophomore Car Jansen, co-presidents of Rainbow Alliance, introduced Cox, listing her many achievements including being the the first openly trans actress to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. Organizers of the event said they were happy with the talk and high attendance. “We were so excited to talk about a topic that doesn’t get brought up on a campus like Northwestern,” said Communication senior April Quioh, A&O’s director of speakers. “We’re excited to start fostering that conversation.”
cities as well as provide a second pipeline for the cities Evanston already serves. The city presently provides water to Skokie and is contracted to keep serving Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Palatine and Wheeling until 2035. The current draw to Evanston is its stable water prices relative to Chicago. In 40 years Evanston’s price is expected to more than double to $1.99 per thousand gallons, which is still significantly lower than the current Chicago price, Balling said. The rising price for Chicago water, which has increased 186 percent in the past 10 years, is due to major infrastructure improvements. For a water system as large as Chicago’s — which includes the largest water plant in the world — this sort of maintenance is justified, he said. “That’s a good thing but it comes with a cost,” Balling added. “What makes our situation unique is that we have economic alternatives that other communities don’t have.”
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and Michigan. Each of the states has restricted marriage in a variety of ways. In 2004, for instance, 74.5 percent of Kentucky voters ratified a state constitutional amendment that declares only marriage between “one man and one woman” to be valid. Questions and statements from the other justices Tuesday showed the rest of the court split along customary lines, with Republican-appointed conservatives opposing same-sex marriage and Democraticappointed liberals supporting it. “There’s a right to marry, and that’s fundamental,” Justice Elena Kagan said, citing previous Supreme Court decisions involving prisoners and others, “and everyone should be entitled to it unless there’s a good reason for the state to exclude them.” Skeptics countered that individual states deserved the opportunity to decide marriage policy. “People feel very differently about something if they get to vote on it, rather than have it imposed on them by the courts,” Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said. Justices addressed two fundamental questions during the argument, which was more than twice as long as the typical Supreme Court hearing. One is whether the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which guarantees due process and equal protection of the law, compels states to license same-sex marriages. The other is whether the same constitutional protections require states to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. In theory, the court could answer “no” to the first question and “yes” to the second. This would leave intact the laws or lower-court rulings that render same-sex marriages legal in 37 states and the District
of Columbia while allowing the remaining states to make their own decisions. Roberts, intriguingly, suggested that “the first question is a big step,” while the question of requiring states to recognize marriages performed elsewhere might be “pretty straightforward.” The chief justice’s comment raised the possibility that he might join some but not all of a narrow-majority decision backing same-sex marriage. His conservative colleagues, Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito, voiced flat-out skepticism, and their votes against same-sex marriage aren’t in doubt. “I’m concerned about the wisdom of this court imposing through the Constitution a requirement of action which is unpalatable to many of our citizens for religious reasons,” said Scalia, himself a devout Roman Catholic. All told, some 400 people fit into the courtroom for the argument, which started shortly after 10 a.m. The audience members included politicians and family members, ranging from California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom to Kennedy’s wife, Mary, as well as members of the public, who rotated through temporary seats for as little as five minutes at a time. The decorum was broken only once, a half-hour into the argument, when a mutton-chop-wearing man stood up and began shouting, “The Bible teaches that if you support gay marriage, you will burn in hell,” before he was forced outside. His shouts could still be heard for several more minutes. The man was subsequently charged with several offenses, including making “a harangue or oration, or uttering loud, threatening or abusive language in the Supreme Court Building.” Mary L. Bonauto of the group Gay & Lesbian
Advocates & Defenders, a longtime advocate making her Supreme Court debut, split time with court veteran Douglas Hallward-Driemeier. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. represented the Obama administration, which supports same-sex marriage. Former Michigan Solicitor General John J. Bursch and Joseph L. Whalen, Tennessee’s associate solicitor general, defended the four states’ same-sex marriage prohibitions. Bursch argued that the state-sanctioned institution of marriage is not “all about love and commitment” but rather “developed to serve purposes that, by their nature, arise from biology.” Citing an increase in the number of out-of-wedlock births, Bursch declared that traditional marriage is required for “keeping kids and their biological moms and dads together whenever possible.” The argument fell flat with several of the justices, who noted that opposite-sex couples may choose not to have children or may be incapable of it. The multiple cases heard Tuesday were consolidated under the name Obergefell v. Hodges. Ohio resident James Obergefell’s 2013 marriage in Maryland to his ailing longtime partner, the late John Arthur, wasn’t recognized by the state of Ohio. Obergefell and more than 30 other gay and lesbian plaintiffs represented in the various lawsuits were in the courtroom, listening closely to an open argument about a formerly hidden subject. “We had stayed in the closet for 45 years,” recalled Luke Barlowe, a Bardstown, Ky., resident and retired optician who challenged the Kentucky marriage limitations along with his spouse, Jim Meade.
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Not in Our Fair Name Scott A. Shay WCAS '79 KGSM '80 In February, the Northwestern Associated Student Government Senate (ASG) passed -- by a very slim majority -- a resolution sponsored by NU Divest and endorsed by the BDS movement calling on Northwestern to divest from six companies that sell products to the State of Israel by which they claim these companies violate Palestinians' human rights. Samantha Stankowicz (WCAS '14) and I have been circulating a letter that has been signed by Northwestern students, alumni, parents, faculty, staff and donors declaring that this resolution is not in our name and should not purport to represent the views of the Northwestern University community. At no level does this resolution improve the situation in the Middle East writ large or for the Palestinian people. Further it damages the cause of free speech at Northwestern for Northwestern students present and future. An advertisement with the signatures THAT CAN ÀT ON ONE PAGE WILL BE RUNNING every day in the Daily Northwestern until all the signatories are listed once. We have attempted to list only those who provided a valid connection to the university. The following is a very brief analysis of the resolution and its implications, which will make the motivations behind our letter clear. Although some proponents of the resolution within the ASG argued that the resolution is not an indication of the ASG's support for the BDS movement and its political aims, this is hard to believe. In fact it is not only disingenuous to say the ASG resolution is not linked to the BDS movement, it is untrue. No fair reading of the links and materials used by NU Divest could lead to that conclusion. And frankly, even if it were not directly linked to the BDS movement, the ASG resolution is universally recognized as a victory for the BDS movement and is exhibited by the BDS movement as a notable trophy. So it is useful to ask if it is appropriate for the ASG to align itself with the BDS movement. Such an alignment is extremely problematic for three reasons. 5HE ÀRST PROBLEM WITH THIS ALIGNMENT is the BDS movement itself, which even critics of the State of Israel's policies have come out against for its ideology and tactics.
None other than Norman Finkelstein, himself a harsh critic of Israeli policies, has described, in a now famous interview with BDS activist Frank Barat, how the BDS movement is not only against a two-state solution, but is also against the state of Israel. Finkelstein has pointed out that the BDS movement disingenuously obscures this aim. Further he has criticized the movement for hypocritically appealing to international law to bolster its claims for Palestinian national rights while ignoring the fact that international law upholds Israel's right to exist. Thus WHILE THE #%4 MOVEMENT CLAIMS TO ÀGHT for the rights of Palestinians it is actually ÀGHTING TO DELEGITIMIZE *SRAELI RIGHTS completely. It goes without saying that supporters of Israel have criticized the BDS movement for this reason for years. Thus it is clear even to critics of Israel that the BDS movement upholds an extreme anti-Israel view which does not advocate peace based on a negotiated two-state solution or represent the mainstream opinion in the US or in the Northwestern community. In addition, critics of the BDS movement rightly notice that it seems irrationally and almost fanatically focused on delegitimizing Israel despite its mantel of human rights. Many have asked why the BDS movement against Israel has become such a cause cÊlèbre when so many other countries are guilty of grievous human rights. Indeed if one supports the BDS movement for humanitarian and not political reasons, why support primarily or only the BDS movement against Israel? Why not call for divestment from Chinese, Russian, or even American companies if one's main concern is human rights? Even Noam Chomsky, also a strong critic of Israeli policies, has made this last point in a much discussed article on the BDS movement in The Nation. 4UPPORTERS OF *SRAEL HAVE IDENTIÀED THIS double standard for years. The fact that the international BDS movement, which is composed of people from all over the world, not only Palestinians, has hostilely focused only on Israel despite this criticism indicates yet again that the movement is more focused on the SPECIÀC POLITICAL AGENDA OF DELEGITIMIZING the State of Israel than on Palestinian or human rights more broadly. Further, many people have noted that the BDS movement hurts Palestinians
economically. The movement also does little to advance the cause of peace, which many Palestinians and Israelis as well as outside observers insist can only come through a negotiated solution. Given BDS's well-known and extreme political stance, one has to be honest and call a spade a spade. When NU Divest called on the ASG to support divestment from certain companies they were actually calling on them to become fellow travelers with BDS, which means supporting the BDS movement's rejection of a two-state solution and of the legitimacy of the State of Israel. Thus, a student body purporting to represent the students at NU has now, THROUGH THIS RESOLUTION OFĂ€CIALLY ADOPTED an extreme political position on this one GLOBAL CONĂ ICT Âľ AND THIS CONĂ ICT ALONE The second problem with the alignment of the ASG and the BDS movement is the question of free speech. The resolution de facto delegitimizes the Northwestern community members who have different views. I want to stress that I have no problem with NU Divest expressing its views. Were it to put out a press release every day saying that it supports BDS, I would defend NU Divest's free speech rights to do so, however greatly their position differs from mine. But what we protest is that NU Divest has successfully convinced the ASG to speak on behalf of every student of Northwestern and implicitly of the broader Northwestern community REGARDING THE *SRAELI 1ALESTINIAN CONĂ ICT Indeed by calling on the ASG to make a resolution and by the vote itself, the ASG no longer enables debate on an issue where there is a great deal of disagreement. This tactic is out of the BDS playbook of silencing and delegitimizing those opposed to it, including proponents of Israel whether they be on the left or right as well those who disagree with its tactics. This should be an anathema to any community of free speech such as a university. We should all be enabled and ennobled by OUR /ORTHWESTERN AFĂ€LIATION TO SPEAK OUR minds about any issue and not told that SOME OFĂ€CIAL BODY SPEAKS ON OUR BEHALF The third problem with this alignment is what the vote represents. By seeking to use the student senate to ask Northwestern University to
divest from six stocks that it does not own, NU Divest has made it clear that actual efforts for peace are not a key component of its tactics. Instead their primary goal is to ensure that Northwestern is depicted as a university that supports the BDS movement. This is problematic because it is not true. *T MAY ALSO HAVE SERIOUS ÀNANCIAL REPERCUSSIONS 6SING AN OFÀCIAL STUDENT body to represent only one view on a highly contentious issue, thereby associating NU with the BDS movement, causes many alumni and donors to wonder just what is going on here. NU Divest has strangely maintained that TUITION DOLLARS à OW INTO THE ENDOWMENT when in fact the endowment comes from donors and not tuition money. Further, the endowment is the source of ALL THE ÀNANCIAL AID SUPPORT RECEIVED BY Northwestern students. With 3,700 undergraduates who depend ON AND BENEÀT FROM ÀNANCIAL AID generated by the endowment, one can rightly ask what NU Divest is trying to achieve with such a partisan resolution which does not represent the variety of views held by the broader NU community other than to convince donors and alumni that NU is no longer a university committed to free speech. Indeed NU Divest's efforts and the ASG vote WILL LIKELY CAUSE LESS ÀNANCIAL AID TO BE available to future students. As a past student who could not have attended /ORTHWESTERN BUT FOR UNIVERSITY ÀNANCIAL assistance, I am distressed at the thought that this controversy was manufactured to serve the interests of the international BDS movement without considering how it will harm the Northwestern community and its future students. The Northwestern University community must remain an open intellectual environment. For this to be the case the ASG must withdraw this resolution. There should be no pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian resolutions or resolutions on any of these sorts of partisan political issues brought before the ASG. Instead NU Divest should feel free to express its opinions, as should all other campus organizations as independent groups. On behalf of everyone who signed the letter to the ASG, we call upon you to withdraw this resolution.
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Nandi Mehta is best known for what she does off the field. The junior is co-captain of the women’s soccer team and was a solid contributor for Northwestern on the pitch in 2014, starting 18 games and tallying a goal and two assists, but has made bigger waves during her time as co-president of the Student Athlete Advisory Council at NU and as a representative for the Big Ten in the NCAA’s Division I autonomy governance structure. She received the Winter 2015 Campus Life Award for her achievements, and continues to balance her responsibilities as a student, athlete and activist. The Daily sat down with Mehta to discuss the role of SAAC, how she manages her time commitments and her vision for the future of college athletics. The Daily Northwestern: What is SAAC and what does it do? Nandi Mehta: Every campus has its own SAAC, then every conference has one SAAC, then each division in the NCAA has an SAAC. It’s a platform to promote communication between athletes and administrators on campus, or athletes all the way up to the conference or NCAA. It really is a place where athletes can voice concerns or discuss issues and current events that are going on. Anything that affects the student-athlete experience can be discussed through SAAC. It’s a place to have the conversation and then implement change. The Daily : What are the responsibilities of being SAAC co-president? Mehta: The biggest thing is to decide what direction you want SAAC to go in for that year. We design the meetings, we decide what we want to do in the meetings, we pick goals and we make sure we accomplish those goals. A lot of what I’ve wanted to do is really make it more utilized. It
hasn’t really been utilized as it should have been. The Daily: Is there an example of an issue that’s come up in SAAC that you have affected change on? Mehta: One thing that we’ve talked a lot about is time demands. Lots of student athletes have voiced concerns about it and it’s a very sports-specific issue. … Another thing, this was at the Big Ten SAAC level, we got a bill passed to make complimentary admission for student athletes at football, men’s basketball and men’s ice hockey games so that it’s a permissive policy on the campus. At Northwestern, every student gets free admission to every sport. At other Big Ten schools it’s not at all like that. By passing that, each campus could decide if it wanted to give admission. … It was really good to promote a better sense of community within the athletic departments. The Daily: What is your role at the NCAA level under its new governance structure? Mehta: The structure was redesigned in August of 2014 I believe, and it granted the Big 5 conferences autonomy from the rest of the NCAA over certain issues. There are 65 schools in those conferences, and each school gets a vote on issues, and they also wanted 15 student athletes to be representatives, three from each conference. I’m one of the three from the Big Ten and I have a vote on issues and whatever proposals come up, which is huge. The Daily: Given the time demands of being a student athlete and how much you do off the field, how do you make it work? Mehta: My whole life I’ve had soccer and school going on, so I’ve learned really well how to balance things. … It makes me more efficient with my time, and each separate thing is a mental break from the other things. When I just have soccer going on, sometimes it’s overwhelming because there’s no escape from
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LOFTY GOALS Nandi Mehta celebrates a goal with her teammates. The junior has an active role in student-athlete advocacy at Northwestern and at the conference and NCAA levels.
soccer. When I just have school, it’s a lot because I want soccer to get it out. When I have all these other little things going on, it’s nice because each one is a little bit different than the other. … It challenges me, it stretches me a little bit, but I like to think I’m able to put my full effort into all of it.
we’re established in this group, and it’s really difficult to branch out of it. You spend so much time with your team, you just live such a different life that it can be difficult sometimes.
The Daily: Do you think there is a barrier for student athletes to be more involved in campus life?
Mehta: Definitely. We have two representatives from each team on SAAC, so you get all the teams there. … You just get to see people’s faces, know people’s names, and it’s from that that I know a lot of people on teams that I may not know otherwise. The best thing is when you hear them talk about issues that are going on on their teams. Maybe their coaches, or gear, or these time demand things and you wouldn’t even know it otherwise. You feel automatically closer
Mehta: I don’t think so. I think you can be as involved or uninvolved as you choose to be. Personally, a lot of my involvement is via the athletic department, and that’s how I’ve gotten involved. … It’s hard because you come in and you’re very insulated to your team and a lot of us come in so early before the rest of campus that
The Daily: Is SAAC something that facilitates intermingling among athletes on different teams?
NU squares off against in-state rival DePaul Softball
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GREEN LIGHT Andrea Filler takes a big swing. The junior shortstop took home Big Ten Player of the Week honors for her strong performances against Illinois and Ohio State.
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As the regular season draws to a close, Northwestern will host local rival DePaul on Wednesday for its last non-conference game of the year. The Wildcats (24-19, 12-7 Big Ten) will wrap up their final homestand of
DePaul vs. Northwestern Evanston 4 p.m. Wednesday
the season against the Blue Demons (20-21, 11-3 Big East) after splitting a doubleheader with Illinois and taking two of three from Ohio State. Wednesday’s game has some history behind it, as the home team has won
each matchup between the rivals dating back to 2009. NU currently sits in fifth place in the Big Ten and has a chance finish in fourth with a sweep against Iowa (16-37, 7-13) this weekend, obtaining an important first-round bye for the conference tournament next week. Although Wednesday’s game would normally be a contest between two regional powerhouses, DePaul has struggled to stay above .500 this season following a 44-win season in 2013-14. Despite the Blue Demons’ struggles, coach Kate Drohan and the Cats won’t be approaching the matchup any differently. “This is one of the most important games of the year for us, especially with the timing of it,” Drohan said. “They’re one of our big Chicago rivals and we need to finish strong here at the end of the year.” Drohan also emphasized DePaul’s record doesn’t matter because of how well-coached and scrappy the team is. Tammy Williams, an assistant for the Blue Demons, is a former NU All-American who won consecutive Big Ten Player of the Year awards in 2008-09. Williams also holds the University’s career home run record with 57 blasts. Junior shortstop Andrea Filler agreed with Drohan, saying all wins are created equal no matter the opponent.
“Any time we can get a chance to win a ballgame we want to go out and play our hardest,” Filler said. “With (DePaul) being so close to us and being a rival, we always want to have that one-up on them.” Filler even took a playful jab at Williams, her predecessor at the shortstop position, claiming that facing off against a former Wildcat stokes the fire of the rivalry. Additionally, Filler took home Big Ten Player of the Week honors for April 21-27. The award was the second of Filler’s career and third of NU’s season thus far. She slugged 1.214 and blasted two home runs over the homestand while also driving in 12 RBI. Freshman center fielder Sabrina Rabin, who has quietly put together an excellent first season, weighed in on the mentality transition from six straight conference matchups to a non-conference game. “We have the same approach,” Rabin said. “We want to get better every single time, so obviously you can’t underestimate any opponent. Our approach is probably more intense because we want to be ready for the (Big Ten) tournament.” Rabin and NU play their final home game of the year against the Blue Demons beginning at 4 p.m. maxgelman2018@u.northwestern.edu
to them that you’re having these conversations. The Daily: If there was one thing you could change at the NCAA level, what would it be? Mehta: One thing that I’ve thought about a lot is recruiting. I think the cycle for recruiting is way too early, and the rules involved in recruiting are unfair on the recruit and the school. No one wants to be involved in it but you have no choice and it’s just a vicious cycle. … More than that, you make a verbal commitment to a school, but if the coaching staff changes that’s null and void. I would love it if there was something that could protect a recruit because it’s not fair on them to have that happen. bpillote@u.northwestern.edu
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Cats follow Big Ten title with multiple awards
Northwestern followed up its Big Ten championship with a strong showing in the conference’s postseason awards. Coach Emily Fletcher took home Big Ten Coach of the Year, her third time receiving the award in five seasons. She was also named the top coach in the conference in 2011 and 2013. Freshman Hannah Kim was named Big Ten Player of the Year as well as Big Ten Freshman of the year, besting classmate and conference individual champion Sarah Cho. Additionally, Kim, sophomore Kacie Komoto and junior Suchaya Tangkamolprasert were selected as First Team All-Big Ten while senior Hana Lee and junior Kaitlin Park were named Second Team. The five All-Big Ten selections is a program record for the Wildcats and the most in the conference this year, narrowly edging co-champion Ohio State’s four selections. Komoto was also a Sportsmanship Award honoree. One from each Big Ten school is chosen, based on sportsmanship, ethical behavior, academic standing and good citizenship. — Bobby Pillote