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Early votes for school boards fall By Marissa Page

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Early voting in Evanston to elect new school board members dropped by nearly 15 percent from early turnout in the previous election. The Civic Center saw 1,087 voters turn out early for the 2015 election, which will determine three spots on both the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education and the Evanston Township High School District 202 school board. In the last consolidated school board election in 2011, 1,265 Evanston residents voted early, according to the Cook County clerk website. The voting period that year was 16 days, compared to the 13-day period this year. Early voting in the Cook County consolidated election closed Saturday. Five candidates are running for the open spots on the District 202 board and four are running to fill out the District 65 board. Two candidates in each race are incumbents. Jonathan Baum, a current District 202 board member running for reelection, said he thought the small pool of candidates was one factor that contributed to lower early voter turnout.

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I have generally detected a lesser intensity about this election than four years ago. Jonathan Baum, District 202 board member

“I have generally detected a lesser intensity about this election than four years ago,” Baum said. “I think there’s less in the way of really hot issues out

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The Buffett Institute for Global Studies is giving more funding to students and faculty for international travel and expanding its research programs, following a more than $100 million dollar gift from Roberta Buffett Elliott (Weinberg ’54). The institute is expanding needbased scholarships for the Global Engagement Studies Institute, a global service learning program, and increasing its career development opportunities for undergraduate students. The institute has already partnered with the One Acre Fund to offer a two-year post-baccalaureate fellowship in East Africa scheduled to begin this summer. The One Acre Fund, which was founded by Andrew Youn (Kellogg ’06), works with small farmers to increase food production and reduce hunger. Weinberg senior Amanda Meyer,

who works at the Buffet Institute’s Global Engagement Studies Institute, said the funds will allow more students to travel internationally. “They’re trying to reduce the financial barriers to study abroad and have interests in global engagement and international development,” she said. Sociology Prof. Bruce Carruthers, the institute’s director, said a large portion of Elliott’s gift has been “earmarked” for funding scholarships for international students, a move he says will support University President Morton Schapiro’s goal of having a larger international student population at Northwestern. Carruthers said that although the institute does not oversee international student scholarships, it is in charge of funding and developing other programs as well as hiring new faculty. “The idea is to have the Buffett Institute partner with interested schools and departments so it’s not going to be just inside Weinberg,” he said. “It’s going to be inside several » See BUFFETT, page 10

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there (than in the previous election) for both school boards.” Running for District 65 are incumbents Omar Brown and Richard Rykhus, as well as Jennifer Phillips and Adrian Dortch. District 202 board incumbents Baum and Mark Metz seek to reclaim their seats, with newcomers Monique Parsons, Anne Sills and Dortch also in the race. All candidates’ websites address the theme of strengthening the relationship between ETHS — the only school in District 202 — and District 65. Although Dortch pointed out that Spring Break falling during the early

voting period could have contributed to lower numbers, he said he feels Evanston parents have been let down by their educational system, leading to possible apathy in the board elections. “The interest in the educational system is down,” Dortch said. “The schools don’t really have a presence and outreach into the community. A lot of the achievement gap is not just with the students, it’s the same parents who went to the school system who didn’t get that information as well.” marissapage2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Substantial GIFT A panel discusses global issues at the January announcement of Roberta Buffett Elliott’s more than $100 million gift to Northwestern. The Buffett Institute for Global Studies is using part of that gift to expanded its scholarship and research programs.

Jay Sean to perform at SASA’s spring concert

2 injured in driveby shooting in south Evanston

Jay Sean will perform at Northwestern as the headliner for the South Asian Student Alliance’s spring concert, the group announced Friday. SASA’s annual spring concert usually showcases South Asian performances to raise money for a charity. The group has not announced this year’s charity yet. The group chose Sean to appeal to a larger audience, said Weinberg freshman Meghna Katta, who arranged for Sean to come to NU. “We look to see if they’re relevant at the time,” she said. “It’s more fun when you attend the concert if you’re really familiar with their music.” Last year, the audience filled McCormick Auditorium, which fits more than 350 people. The venue » See sasa, page 10

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Two men were injured early Saturday morning in a drive-by shooting in south Evanston, police said. The two men — a 23-year-old resident of Waukegan, Illinois, and a 22-year-old resident of Round Lake Beach, Illinois — sustained non-life threatening injuries, officials said. The 22-year-old man was shot in the arm and back, and the 23-year-old man was shot in the head and groin area, officials said. Evanston police responded around 3:50 a.m. Saturday to a report of shots fired in the area of Howard Street and Dodge Avenue in Evanston, officials said. Officers did not find anyone who had been shot, but found several

shell casings. Shortly after, two people with gunshot wounds came to the emergency room at Presence Saint Francis Hospital, 355 Ridge Ave., police said. An initial investigation discovered that four people — including the two who were shot — had just left a club in Chicago and were driving on Howard Street, when another car pulled up next to theirs and fired several shots into their car, police said. The car from which shots were fired then drove away on North California Avenue toward Chicago. Detectives are still investigating, police said. The 22-year-old is in good condition and the 23-year-old is in serious but stable condition, officials said. — Paige Leskin

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Around Town Car crash results in gas leak, restaurant evacuation

A car that crashed into a Burger King in west Evanston on Sunday morning resulted in a gas leak and the evacuation of the restaurant, officials said. The restaurant, 1829 Dempster St., was evacuated safely and nobody was injured, authorities said. A 72-year-old Evanston woman was driving northbound on Dodge Avenue at about 10:35 a.m. when she approached a stoplight at Dempster Street and was unable to slow down and stop, officials said. The car went through the intersection,

Evanston educators continue to final round for teaching award

Three Evanston teachers have been named finalists for an award that showcases teachers in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs who strive to make differences in the lives of their students. Andrea Macksood, a third-grade teacher at Oakton Elementary School; Gregory Daniels, a kindergarten teacher at Oakton Elementary School; and James Schamber, a second-grade teacher at Orrington Elementary School, were

Police Blotter Three cars broken into within one block of each other Three different cars were broken into within one block of each other overnight Wednesday, police said. Somebody broke the front driver’s side window of the first car, a 1994 Dodge pickup truck, in an alley in the 1900 block of Darrow Avenue, but nothing was taken, Dugan said.

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clipped a traffic light pole with its bumper and knocked it down, Evanston fire department Division Chief Dwight Hohl told The Daily. The vehicle then crashed into the Burger King drive-thru, he said. There were no other vehicles at the drivethru, but the impact of the car severed a gas line and caused a leak, officials said. Evanston fire officials were able to shut off the gas before Nicor Gas arrived on the scene, Hohl said. The woman was cited for negligent driving, damage to city property, driving on a sidewalk and disobeying a traffic control device, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. She is scheduled to appear in court April 20. — Tori Latham all recognized as finalists for the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching, the organization announced. Golden Apple is a non-profit organization that works to recognize teaching excellence in Illinois. The Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching recognizes teachers who have helped create a more educated society. Macksood, Daniels and Schamber are three of 30 finalists chosen from more than 600 nominees, according to Golden Apple. The finalists will undergo a final round of review and classroom observation before the 10 award recipients are announced later this spring. “All of the selection committee members are Someone stole two compact discs worth a total of about $20 as well as $2 in loose change from the second car, a 2004 Toyota, in the same block, police said. The driver’s side window of the third car, a 2005 Dodge, was also found broken Thursday morning, Dugan said. That Dodge was parked in the 1800 block of Emerson Street, police said, which is less than a block from the breakins in the 1900 block of Darrow Avenue. ­— Julian Gerez

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FAST FOOD A 72-year-old woman crashed into an Evanston Burger King on Sunday morning. The accident caused a gas leak, but no one was injured.

so impressed by the dedication, passion and drive for excellence in teaching that these finalists have demonstrated,” said Dominic Belmonte, president and CEO of Golden Apple, in a news release. “They exemplify the powerful role that an outstanding teacher can play in transforming students’ lives.” Each teacher who wins the award will receive $5,000 and a sabbatical to study at Northwestern for free during a Spring Quarter, according to the news release. A celebration to honor the finalists will be held April 11 at the Chicago Marriott O’Hare. — Tori Latham

Setting the record straight In “Students mull mayoral runoff,” which ran in Friday’s print edition, the story incorrectly attributed a quotation about how resources would be distributed differently in Chicago under the two mayoral candidates. The quotation was said by Zane Waxman. The Daily regrets the error.

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Hinkle, Harlow focus on wellness, student groups By SHANE MCKEON

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Haley Hinkle and Chris Harlow first worked together during their freshman year to create a Campus Loop Shuttle stop outside Elder Hall. The project was the first of many the two worked on together. This week, they are running for Associated Student Government president and executive vice president. Their campaign, the slogan for which is “Build Up,” emphasizes student wellness, inclusive community and student groups. Hinkle said her experience and her desire to help Northwestern students led her to run for president. “How do we do things that, at the end of the day, are making students’ daily lives better?” the Medill junior said. “It could be in a really small way, like a better shuttle stop, or in a much larger way, like opening up conversations on campus about sexual violence awareness.” Hinkle is ASG’s director of campus safety and transportation and Harlow, her running mate, is vice president for student life. Hinkle, the outgoing president of Deering Days and a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, has been an ASG member since Fall Quarter of her freshman year and oversaw ASG’s It’s On Us campaign. Harlow, a SESP junior, was technical coordinator for this year’s Dance Marathon and is the director of fundraising for Lending for Evanston and Northwestern Development. He said he’s running because he sees a lot of potential in ASG and wants to use it as an instrument for good. “I want to run because I think ASG could be utilized much more actively,” Harlow said. “We’re at a critical juncture right now. We’ve had a lot of attention lately. How are we going to take the energy and attention we’ve had and use it for positive good?” If elected, Hinkle and Harlow plan to reform

the Responsible Action Protocol to guarantee students who call for help for another student suffering an alcohol overdose do not find themselves in trouble. The current protocol takes into account students’ conduct but does not guarantee amnesty. Harlow said this forces students to put too much trust in the administrative process, a shaky foundation for what could be a medical emergency. “How do you trust the conduct office if freshman year you got a violation for being in the presence of alcohol even though you weren’t drinking?” Harlow said. “There are lots of aspects of our alcohol policy that lead students to not trust the administration in these areas.” Their student wellness platform also includes dropping the number of credits to graduate from the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences from 45 to 42 and pushing for a day off during Winter Quarter for students to focus on their well-being, something the University of Chicago does. Weinberg senior Amanda Meyer, co-president of NU Active Minds, is endorsing Hinkle and Harlow and said she appreciates the campaign listing student wellness among its areas of focus. “As someone who advocates for mental health on campus, I think it’s incredibly important that they’ve made that a part of their campaign and platform,” she said. “They’ve also done a tremendous job of reaching out to students on campus and student organizations to put their platform together based on the needs of the students and groups.” Hinkle said the University, which is currently moving to implement massive changes in on-campus housing over the next decade, should move to expand gender-open housing to residential colleges and North Campus residences, another aspect of her platform. “There are only a couple spots on campus — Plex and Hinman — where you can live in a genderopen room, so that relegates the segment of our community who doesn’t want their gender identity to dictate where they live,” Hinkle said. “It’s not something that’s so huge that it’s out of the realm of possibility for the University, and it would make

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ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Haley Hinkle (left) and Chris Harlow talk about their platform Sunday night in Allison Hall. The two are running for Associated Student Government president and executive vice president.

such a huge difference in being inclusive to student identities.” The two are also advocating for the creation of a U.S.-based Social Inequalities and Diversities Requirement in all six schools and giving lowincome students subsidies for class materials such as laptops and books. They also want to make the Student Organization Finance Office easier to deal with for student groups. The current system, Hinkle said, is far from perfect and creates unnecessary headaches for groups. “It’s an accessibility issue, it’s a stress issue,” Hinkle said. “SOFO shouldn’t be a barrier to doing your job as a treasurer, and it shouldn’t preclude

you from leading a student group.” Hinkle and Harlow’s platform also demands the University be more transparent in its budgetplanning and investment processes. Hinkle and Harlow are running against Weinberg junior Noah Star and McCormick junior Christina Kim. The first debate between the two sets of candidates, which is sponsored by Coalition of Colors, will be held 6 p.m. Monday in Harris Hall. A second debate will be held 8 p.m. on Tuesday in Fisk Hall. Voting opens Thursday at 5 p.m and ends Friday at 5 p.m. ShaneM@u.northwestern.edu

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Drop-in program links more students to CAPS

NU Mock Trial club to send two teams to Nationals

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Several of the students who have used Counseling and Psychological Services’ informal consultation program have been referred to Northwestern’s traditional counseling services, a success for the program, which was designed to make CAPS more accessible to underrepresented students. “Let’s Talk,” the drop-in program, has seen 50 students since it launched in winter 2014, said CAPS psychologist Monika Gutkowska. A number of those students left their drop-in meetings with appointments for formal counseling. “It can be the first step if a student needs longer term counseling,” Gutkowska said. “It can be just a bridge to coming to CAPS.” CAPS has seen an increase of about 11 percent in demand for its counseling services this academic year, said John Dunkle, executive director of CAPS. Last year, there was an 8 percent increase from the 2012-13 academic year. Five CAPS staff members, which include full-time employees and doctoral trainees, host the program’s drop-in hours three days a week. Gutkowska, who supervises the program, said although it is not a substitute for formal counseling, it can be a bridge to services for students who are hesitant to seek help. “We wanted to remove any barriers for students to get the help that they need,” Gutkowska said. “We wanted to reach students who feel intimidated by starting treatment or that their problems are not big enough.” Although “Let’s Talk” is available for all NU students, it is specifically targeted toward students who have historically been harder to reach through traditional counseling services, such as students of color and international students, Gutkowska said. Of the 50 students who have come to “Let’s Talk,” she said about half were from underrepresented groups. Gutkowska said students come to “Let’s Talk” with many of the same concerns as those who go to formal counseling. She identified stress, anxiety, conflict in relationships and feeling lonely and isolated on campus as common topics. International students also come with questions about American culture and

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LET’S TALK The International Office is one of three locations that hosts “Let’s Talk.” The program focuses on students who are often underserved by mental health programs.

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adapting to an American college campus, she said. “The program was slow to start, just because I think students were not aware of what it was or were unfamiliar with it, but over the last few months I’ve heard more comments, and all positive,” said SESP junior Chris Harlow, Associated Student Government’s vice president for student life. Harlow worked with CAPS while spearheading ASG’s mental wellness campaign. CAPS has been coordinating with student groups such as NU Active Minds, which works to change the conversation about mental health on campus, to improve access to mental health services for students and to reduce stigma against seeking help. “I think making sure that we know who’s not being reached and making efforts to reach those groups is important, because everyone deserves mental health care,” said Amanda Meyer, co-president of NU Active Minds and a Weinberg senior. “Let’s Talk” started at Cornell University as a social justice tool to reach students who traditionally did not come to counseling. Gutkowska, who worked on a similar program at University of WisconsinMadison, said bringing the program to NU was a priority for her when she joined CAPS’ staff more than a year ago. The program is offered at the International Office, Norris University Center and the Multicultural Center, where Spanish-speaking counselors are also available. mfox17@u.northwestern.edu

ON TRIAL NU’s Mock Trial A-team and B-team pose after a competition in Naperville, Illinois, last month. The teams will be competing in a national championship in Cincinnati.

By Julie Fishbach

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Northwestern’s Mock Trial program will be one of only five programs in the country to send two teams to Nationals in Cincinnati this month. Although NU usually sends teams to Nationals each year, no teams made it last year. This is the first time since 2009 two out of the four NU teams — the A-team and the B-team — have made it to the American Mock Trial Association’s National Championship Tournament, which will take place April 17-19. “The other programs sending two teams are historically very strong,” said Mock Trial President and Weinberg junior Christopher Erickson. Along with NU, the programs sending two teams this year include University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Berkeley; Vanderbilt University and Rhodes College. Although Erickson said there have been no major recent changes to the club, he said the teams’ hard work and experience had led to its success. Brooke Troutman, one of the B-team’s cocaptains, said this year’s competition varies from previous years because it is the first time the teams will get a new case just for Nationals.

In the past, the SESP junior said the case was the same throughout the entire year. “It is challenging to understand a whole new case as a captain, but I think it will be more helpful in the long run,” Troutman said. “It puts all teams at the same playing level and makes it more exciting and high stake.” This case — which focuses on election fraud — is simpler than traditional cases because teams had only a couple of weeks to prepare, Erickson said. All 48 teams will present this new case for the first time later this month. Troutman said she is particularly proud of sending two teams to Nationals after NU didn’t send any teams last year. “It says a lot about the mock trial community as a whole,” she said. “Knowing we have two teams competing shows our ability to bounce back after last year.” Weinberg freshman Hannah Givertz, a member of the B-team, had no prior mock trial experience before NU. She said the support of the captains and coaches has been really helpful in building her team’s chemistry. “Having that small group of nine people who you’re working with is important,” she said. “We’re with each other a lot, like 12 hours a week, and now practice almost every day.” juliefishbach2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Native museum unveils miniature artwork exhibit By Rachel Yang

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An Evanston museum opened a new exhibit Saturday featuring miniature items from various native communities across the United States and Canada. The exhibit, “Miniature Artwork — Enormous Appeal,� will be on view for the next year at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, 3001 Central St., which focuses on Native American history, arts and culture. Housed on three shelves at the museum, the exhibit includes around 40 miniature objects that reflect the diversity of native cultures from the 1900s to today, said curator Janelle Stanley. It includes

items such as an ivory kayak figurine from Alaska; bronze carvings, wooden totems and masks from the Northwest regions; patterned woolen Navajo blankets and silver seed pots from the Southwest. Miniature objects in native communities in the U.S. and Canada came about in different ways, the museum said. At the turn of the 19th century, train routes began entering native communities and the subsequent growth in tourism encouraged local artists to produce “utilitarian and traditional items in a small, portable size perfect for collectibles.� However, Stanley also said objects such as the doll-like Katsina figurines made by the Hopi tribe in Arizona were used as teaching tools for children to learn about values such as responsibility. For Stanley, the most “astounding� aspect of the exhibit is the disparity in size between the miniature objects and their regular-sized counterparts, which

are also featured in the exhibit. The smallest item in the exhibit is a silver micropot that measures only half an inch in both diameter and height, Stanley said. Stanley, who herself is from the Dine tribe, known more commonly as the Navajo, said such exhibits are great ways for the public to learn more about native cultures. “History books were not written to include us,� Stanley said. “For us at this point in the 21st century, we’re still writing history.� She said people should update their knowledge and learn about the new developments in native communities, like “the innovative approaches that Native American artists are still doing.� Similarly, Allan Niederman, a longtime collector of native artwork who loaned around 20 items to the exhibit, said he is hopeful about the exhibit’s

influence. “Museums like this help educate and spread both the art form and the culture (of native communities),� Niederman said. Another exhibit at the Mitchell Museum, for example, allows people to learn about the Seneca tribe, who have a culture that many people do not know about, he said. Ben Soper, a Chicago resident who attended the exhibit on opening day, said even though he does not hear about native cultures in everyday life, he left the exhibit with a new understanding about native communities. “(It’s) a good place to come learn, see stuff you wouldn’t normally see — actually learn the details about what everything represents,� he said. weizheyang2018@u.northwestern.edu

Source: Mitchell Museum of the American Indian

MINI MODELS The Mitchell Museum of the American Indian displays a figure of a fisherman wearing a seal-gut parka in a kayak and an ivory mask, both from the arctic or subarctic region. The museum unveiled its exhibit of miniatures Saturday.

City looks to redevelop closed recycling center

Evanston is seeking developers to turn a storage facility into a dining or entertainment destination, the city announced Friday. Responses to an online Request for Qualifications, which the city will use to determine whether applicants are an appropriate fit for the project, are

due May 15. The building at 2222 Oakton St. was previously Evanston’s recycling center and currently stores city equipment. The 13,000-square-foot building sits on slightly less than 1 acre of property. “The residents of Evanston have expressed strong desires for an active use for the space to include a bowling alley, arcade, or large restaurant venue,� Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said in the RFQ. “The high roof and large land area make it an ideal

Source: Mitchell Museum of the American Indian

INTRICATE ARTWORK Miniature objects like these baskets made by the Tohono O’odham people in the southwestern United States are also on display. They show the weaving techniques used by Native American artists.

location for a unique redevelopment opportunity.� Groot Industries, the state’s largest solid-waste management service, made an unsolicited proposal earlier this month to purchase or lease the facility long-term. Rainey objected to that potential deal at the March 16 City Council meeting. “Over my dead body will Groot own that recycling center,� Rainey said at the meeting. Rainey earlier expressed her “grave concern� that Groot had been charging Evanston more for its

services than other municipalities. In addition to the proposal to purchase, Groot offered to not increase the residential refuse rate for 2016, which would save the city $50,000. City Council decided to close the recycling center in 2010, replacing its use with a curbside recycling program through which Groot provided multi-family dwellings and businesses with a free recycling cart. — Julia Jacobs

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Internship recruitment hurts students, companies bethany ao

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After I entered college, I realized that the phrase “summer vacation” didn’t mean lazy days spent reading books by the pool anymore. I worked part-time in high school and took babysitting gigs when I could during the three months I had off, but that wasn’t going to cut it in college. Instead, as college students, most of us are expected to spend the precious summer as interns for companies in a field related to our future career. It seemed like I went from watching my neighbor’s cute five-year-old to frantically sending resumes to every newsroom in the country overnight. As the rejection emails started rolling in, I naturally began to question myself. Where had I gone wrong? Was my resume not compelling enough? Were the articles I selected for my portfolio not expressive enough of my skill level? I interviewed for a few companies, only to hear back from them in a few weeks, sometimes not at all, about how they

had to cut intern positions because of budget problems. As this went on, I started to realize that my failures were not just a typo in my cover letter. The problem isn’t how undergraduate students are being underprepared to My peers are take on a summer well-prepared internship. This university is a very to enter their profession-centric respective one. My peers are well-prepared to industries, enter their respecyet they can’t tive industries, yet seem to get they can’t seem to get companies to companies to give them a chance. Addigive them a tionally, professors and career advisers chance. really go the extra mile to help students land that dream job or internship as long as they’re willing to work for it. I, for one, check in regularly with my faculty adviser to pick his mind about the journalism industry. The problem is that companies are hiring interns based on experience rather than

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Support, inspire kids in the political process MEREDITH GOODMAN

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When I first heard the story of a fourth-grade class proposing an actual bill to the New Hampshire legislature to make the red-tailed hawk the official state raptor, I was pretty jealous. I would have loved to do something like that when I was in fourth grade. The kids got to stay inside from recess, which I didn’t particularly enjoy as a shy elementary school kid, to draft a bill that made it through committee and was set to be approved by the legislature. But that was where the fun ended. When the bill came before the legislature, it was surprisingly hotly debated by state representatives and ultimately failed to pass. Representatives questioned the need for an additional state symbol and made fun of the fourth graders’ raptor suggestion, joking that if they approved a state raptor, they might as well also select a state hot dog. One representative even strangely went so far as to make an anti-abortion joke about the raptor, saying that its method of tearing prey apart limb-by-limb would make it an appropriate mascot for Planned Parenthood. I was very angry while listening to the story on NPR. The class’ teacher Jim Cutting described how his students felt discouraged – one of them asked the teacher why people were laughing at them. They had worked for weeks to research the red-tailed hawk and help draft the bill before it was submitted. They wore adorable t-shirts that made a pun on New Hampshire’s state motto, Live Free or Die, saying “Live Free and Fly,” and handed out flyers to the representatives before the voting period. I’m not sure why there was so much opposition to a bill that I believe required almost no debate. Maybe New Hampshire state representatives

felt they have more important state business to consider, like bills about education and public services. Maybe they were fed up with the bureaucracy of the state government, having to approve countless state bill efforts by elementary school kids. What saddens me most about this whole incident, besides the fact that a state representative thought it would be appropriate to make an abortion joke in front of children, is that this could have been an opportunity to inspire these kids for the rest of their lives. I would imagine New Hampshire lost out on at least one future representative in Cutting’s class because their political experiences have already been tainted at the tender age of 9 or 10. I ask these representatives how hard it would have been to devote about half an hour to approve this bill and recognize the students for their accomplishments. Politics is disgusting enough today, with bipartisan brinkmanship and a loss of decorum. The representatives had a chance to show the true meaning of politics, to listen to the voices of the people and act on their demands. Instead they further contributed to the cynical climate of our nation’s current political system. If I believed the fourth graders in Cutting’s class had any chance of reading this newspaper — feel free to share this with them if you went to Lincoln Akerman School in New Hampshire — I would tell them to continue the work that they put into the red-tailed hawk bill. I would encourage them to do their research, support legislation they believe in and continue to be active in the political process. Perhaps one day they will become representatives who will do the right thing and encourage children to be involved in democracy. Meredith Goodman is a Weinberg senior. She can be reached at meredithgoodman2015@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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potential. Although experience is important for any job, how are students supposed to gain that experience when companies are unwilling to open that first door for them? It’s a cruel cycle for many applicants – you get rejected from an internship for not having enough experience your freshman summer, and the next summer they are unsatisfied with your lack of industry experience from the previous summer. Don’t get me wrong – absolutely no one here is entitled to a summer internship. To land the perfect summer gig, students have to do their part by keeping their grades up and joining relevant organizations on campus. But the internship program is supposed to be a mutually beneficial one. Companies train potential new employees and students get to try their hands in the real world. As students do their part, companies should value the potential of the applicants more when considering them. I was lucky to get a really great internship as a features reporter at a local newspaper the summer after my freshman year, but it was only this year I realized how crucial that experience was. Even though I was a freshman with very little industry

experience, my supervisor was kind enough to take a chance on me. Today, I believe that I learned the most of what I know about journalism during the 10 weeks I spent there. It’s time for companies to revamp the internship system to be more inclusive of those with potential. For example, interviewing more applicants can give companies the chance to figure out which students are truly passionate about the position. And even though companies may have to spend more time training inexperienced interns, they may be able to bring bold ideas to the table. In the newsroom where I worked, the interns completed a social media guide at the end of the summer for the full-time reporters and editors. There are many intelligent and hardworking college students who just can’t seem to get their foot in the door. Experience is hard to accumulate when no one is willing to give you a shot. After all, everyone has to start somewhere. Bethany Ao is a Medill sophomore. She can be reached at bethanyao2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

Secondhand smoke near children should be illegal Yaqoob qaseem

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Thankfully, we live in a society where people go to jail for harming others. If an individual decided to rampage through the streets dousing innocent bystanders with caustic acid, he would undoubtedly be subjected to severe legal penalties. Somehow, though, parents who choose to smoke around children seem to discretely circumvent the fundamental restriction on inflicting harm on others. They envelop their kids in a cloud of life-threatening chemicals while, in many cases, fearing no legal repercussions whatsoever. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tobacco smoke contains 7,000 chemicals, approximately 70 of which are known carcinogens. However, the dangers posed by smoking Child abuse is around children already illegal, extend well beyond increased cancer risk. and we must Babies exposed to keep it illegal secondhand smoke are more likely to die by imposing from sudden infant legal penalties death syndrome and to have weaker lungs, for smoking a condition leading around to further health children. problems. Secondhand smoke also leads to an increase in frequency and severity of asthma attacks, ear infections, acute respiratory infections and other respiratory problems in children. A recent study found non-hygienic parental smoking multiplied the risk of children developing heart disease as adults by four. Secondhand smoke also reaches approximately 40 percent of U.S. children ages 3 to 11, according to the CDC. Exposure mostly occurs at home, where children are effectively trapped in a cesspit of toxic chemicals with no options for escape. The detrimental effects of secondhand smoke on children are substantial and diverse, and research continues to uncover more perils. In light of the clear harm inflicted upon children by parental smoking, the difference between parental smoking and the hypothetical use of acid to burn innocent bystanders centers on a single factor: awareness. A person who covers another in a liquid he knows is toxic has no

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excuse, while a person who degrades the health of another unknowingly may indeed be less blameworthy despite committing an atrocity. The concept of awareness highlights the central importance of education in public health situations. According to the CDC, no level of secondhand smoke is safe, and smoke from outside can even slip through small spaces to affect children inside. Knowledge of these sinister characteristics of secondhand smoke may not be commonplace. Nonetheless, what better way to instill such knowledge than by imposing legal restrictions on parental smoking around children? With awareness being a potential concern, the laws need not impose a penalty on first-time offenders. Rather, initial infractions of the law could merit a warning facilitating the education of perpetrators on secondhand smoke. Subsequent violations would then warrant a higher form of legal action to uphold the societal restriction on harming others. Such laws could serve as a vehicle for education and justice, potentially withdrawing a significant number of helpless children from the hazards of secondhand smoke. Starting this October, England will enforce a ban on smoking in cars with children. Violators will be subject to a fine equivalent to $77. A similar law exists in Wales and in some parts of Canada, Australia and the United States. Based on the earlier statistic that children are most exposed to secondhand smoke at home, the ban in cars is insufficient and must be taken further. Consider the restriction of smoking in public facilities in many U.S. states. In public locations, all present individuals have the choice to leave if a smoker is present. They are not forced to expose themselves to the detrimental effects of secondhand smoke. Nonetheless, many governments took note of the heavy risks posed by secondhand smoke and justly chose to make the harm of others illegal. Children of smokers have no choice but to reside in their homes. They are subjected day after day to chemicals that cause infections, cancer, heart disease and respiratory problems, with little hope of respite. Child abuse is already illegal, and we must keep it illegal by imposing legal penalties for smoking around children. Yaqoob Qaseem is a Weinberg freshman. He can be reached at yaqoobqaseem2018@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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NU alumna’s book aims to break princess stereotypes Sisters use Kickstarter to fund coloring book featuring diverse characters that make them more than just pretty faces, Laura Winters said. Winters got the idea for the coloring book during the Waa-Mu Show, which she helped write last year. During the show, she found a coloring book backstage for the first time in many years and was upset with how the princesses were portrayed. “What’s fun for girls to color? Long hair and poofy dresses,” she said. “The entire coloring book was about marriage, waiting for the prince to come home, picking out a wedding dress. Pretty much every page just really irked me.” Winters took the books and colored them in, but then changed the captions for some of the photos to say something more realistic. For instance, on a drawing of Princess Jasmine, Winters changed the caption from “Jasmine is a perfect princess!” to “Jasmine is a complex human.” She posted photos of her revisions to the coloring book on Instagram and got positive responses from her friends. She then told her sister about the idea and they created a Kickstarter campaign to fund the project. More than 250 people donated about $6,500 for the book to be produced. “We have a lot of ideas that we just talk about but we don’t actually act on, so it was just a great idea,” Beth Winters said. “We had both finished college last summer and we just wanted to do it. It was the right time.” The coloring book took seven months to complete was printed for the first time about a month ago. It has since sold more than 900 copies. But Laura Winters said she had been thinking about the way female characters are portrayed even before she began the project. As part of the team that wrote a retelling of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night for the Waa-Mu

By emily chin

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Every girl wants to be a princess at some point in her life. But in reality, no one is like a traditional Disney princess. No one falls in love because the glass slipper fits and princely kisses do not wake women from a comatose state. Instead, girls have different passions, skills and abilities that make them more than just a princesses, which Laura Winters (Communication ‘14) has set out to prove. To spread this message to young girls, Laura Winters and her twin sister, Beth Winters, recently created the coloring book “Her Highness Builds Robots.” In the coloring book, one side of a page shows the princess in a stereotypical situation, but the drawing on the other side “shoots it down,” L aura Winters I want girls to said. For example, be like, ‘I’m a one the pages princess but also readsof“After Priya one who designs won the Prince’s love … She also video games.’ won their game of Laura Winters chess!” (Communication ‘14), Another says, creator of coloring “Princess Jae may book “Her Highness not be a princess Builds Robots” for much longer … Her dream is to become President Jae!” The seven modern princesses the Winters describe in the coloring book are all of different ethnicities and have different goals in life. They are each princesses but have ambitions

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disease. The center’s focus will be patient care and research, Northwestern’s hospital system and the Feinberg School of Medicine announced Wednesday. About 30,000 people in the United States have Huntington’s disease, a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder that causes a loss of muscle coordination, mental decline and other

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PRINCESS 2.0 Pages from Northwestern alumna Laura Winters’ new coloring book, “Her Highness Builds Robots,” depicts a princess in two varying situations. The Kickstarterfunded project aims to redefine stereotypical princesses by introducing a typical situation a princess might be in on one side of the page, then contrasting it with not-so-typical situation, like playing chess, on the other side.

show last year, she focused on creating the female characters, giving her the confidence she needed to get started on the coloring Every book. When writexperience that I ing for Waa-Mu, have with a project she avoi d e d is different. This many cliches about girls — one felt so in line the same ones with who I am as she was looking to dispel when a person. I’m a big putting together Disney fan and the coloring feminist. book. “In so many Tyler Feder, cartoons (there) (Communication ‘11), is an old, ugly artist for “Her Highness girl who wants a Builds Robots” girl dead,” Winters said. “That’s a really depressing thing to say. You can either be young and

beautiful and in your prime or you can be old and ugly. That’s something that I wish they could move away from a bit.” After she had solidified her idea with her sister, Winters reached out to artist Tyler Feder (Communication ‘11) to do the drawings for the book. Feder said much of the artwork she has done is similar to the images that Winters wanted for her project. “Every experience that I have with a project is different,” Feder said. “This one felt so in line with who I am as a person. I’m a big Disney fan and a feminist, and it was putting everything I like in one project.” Winters hopes through the coloring book she can make an impact on how young girls view themselves. “I want girls to be like ‘I’m a princess but also one who designs video games,’” she said. “Being a princess in the real world … doesn’t really reflect anything about your intelligence or your skills or your charisma.”

behavioral symptoms. Although there are medications available to manage the symptoms of the disease, it has no known cure. Scientists at Northwestern Medicine discovered a new origin for the involuntar y muscle movements associated with the disease last July, identifying a

new target for treatment of Huntington’s symptoms. The new center will allow experts in psychiatry, neurology, genetics and social work to collaborate in addition to facilitating clinical trials.

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From page 1 for this year is Ryan Auditorium, which fits twice as many people. The group hopes to have larger attendance than last year because Sean is the most well-known artist SASA has hired to perform at its annual concert, Weinberg junior and SASA’s former president Amar Shah said. The concert will take place April 17. — Emily Chin

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From page 1 schools in Northwestern to bring in new faculty that will help pursue and bolster the mission of the Buffet Institute.” The institute is also asking faculty to pitch large-scale, multi-year “big ideas” proposals. “What we’re encouraging our Northwestern faculty to do is to get together with other faculty to think about a collaborative, interdisciplinary project that could unfold over multiple years,” Carruthers said. Faculty can receive up to $50,000 each year for up to three years. The institute is also creating two-year postdoctoral fellowships in global, comparative or international studies. Another initiative, which Carruthers said will begin Fall Quarter, is the Buffett Prize for Emerging Global Leaders. The institute will recognize a global leader no more than 30 years old, who will be nominated by NU students affiliated with the institute. The winner, who will receive $10,000, will visit campus to lead workshops and speak to the NU community. “I think this is very important because it helps connect the university with what’s going on in the outside world,” said Sofia Rada, a Medill sophomore and Buffet Institute fellow. “With programs like GESI and this and grants … the University can actually help make a difference.” marianaalfaro2018@u.northwestern.edu

Hunger strike by immigrant mothers at Texas facility prompts probe WASHINGTON — Federal civil rights officials will meet Monday with two immigrant mothers who have been leading a hunger strike at a family detention camp in Karnes, Texas. According to advocates working with the detained families, investigators from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties are expected to talk to the mothers about their allegation that they and their children were assigned to the facility’s medical clinic to punish them for the hunger protest. According to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, a Texas-based advocacy and legal services group, three women were taken to the medical clinic on Monday, the first day of the hunger strike. Two of the women were held overnight with their children, said the group’s advocacy director, Mohammad Abdollahi. Others were warned they could lose custody of their children as a result of participating in the strike, he said. “The women technically had not started their hunger strike on Monday when they were put into medical, so there was no reason for them to be in medical in the first place, let alone be threatened with their kids being taken away,” said Abdollahi. He called use of the clinic “solitary confinement.” The hunger strike has focused attention on a rarely scrutinized portion of the network of facilities run by the government’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, part of the sprawling Department of Homeland Security. The Karnes County Residential Center, about an hour southeast of San Antonio, currently houses about 300 mothers and their children who are awaiting a decision on their petitions for asylum. About 40 are participating in the hunger strike. Some of the women have been held for as long as 10 months, according to one of the detainees, Kenia Galeano, a 26-year-old from Honduras who spoke with McClatchy. They began refusing food on Monday to protest the lengthy detention of their children. “We have come to this country with our children seeking refuge and we’re being treated

as delinquents,” the women wrote in a letter explaining their actions. ICE officials said they don’t have solitary confinement areas and that the medical unit was not used for punishment. ICE said it also is investigating claims from some detainees at the Karnes facility that a member of a nonprofit group encouraged residents to stop eating to protest their detention. According to a handbook of ICE standards, residents who do not eat for 72 hours will be referred to the medical department for evaluation and possible treatment. When medically advisable, medical personnel may place residents in a single occupancy observation room to measure food and liquid intake, the handbook states. The Karnes detention camp is one of three facilities set up to house mothers and children in the United States. The Obama administration last year revived the once almost abandoned, and highly controversial, practice of detaining mothers and children. Since July, more than 2,500 immigrants, mostly women and children, have been detained at family detention centers across the country. — Franco Ordonez (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)

Another watchdog seeks FEC inquiry into whether Clinton must declare candidacy

WASHINGTON —In the latest barb of a recent conservative onslaught aimed at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a new watchdog group said Friday it has asked the Federal Election Commission to determine whether she has violated campaign laws by failing to formally declare her presidential candidacy. The complaint cited media reports that Clinton has already picked her staff, selected pollsters and that her team is feeding talking points to a new political group to try to defend her amid a controversy over her use, while secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, of a private email account to conduct official business. At the same time, the Washington-based Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust wrote, Clinton has “continued to give paid speeches, possibly paid by corporations and other organizations in excess of contribution limits to fund her campaign related activities.” “Both the duration and substance of Hillary Clinton’s activities indicate that she is in fact a

candidate and cannot avoid the disclosure and transparency required by law,” said the complaint, marking at least the fourth action against her in recent weeks by a conservative-leaning watchdog group. It was signed by its executive director, Matthew Whitaker. He is a former U.S. attorney in Iowa who ran unsuccessfully for the state’s Republican senatorial nomination in 2013 and 2014. Nick Merrill, a spokesman for the former secretary of state, had a tart reply: “While we appreciate the legal advice from the GOP, their claims are patently false.” The complaint was not unlike those filed days earlier by two different nonprofit watchdog groups against four other likely candidates– three Republicans and a Democrat–alleging they have been flying across the country to presidential primary states and raising a torrent of cash without acknowledging that they’re testing the waters. Those candidates are former Republican Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and former Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland. The FEC recently dismissed a similar complaint against Clinton by a conservative political action committee known as the Stop Hillary PAC. Federal election laws require politicians to register a campaign committee once they announce they’re running for an office or if they raise or spend at least $5,000 toward that end. Candidates also can opt to form exploratory committees, which delay the registration requirement. One complication stemming from a 2010 Supreme Court ruling striking down post-Watergate limits on campaign fundraising is that would-be candidates are now allowed to appear at fundraisers for outside groups, which can now raise unlimited sums, so long as they don’t directly solicit donations. There also were reports circulating Friday that Clinton’s team had signed a lease for a campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, N.Y., but even that action would not trigger a deadline to declare her formal candidacy for another 15 days. Asked about the latest complaint, FEC spokeswoman Judith Ingram said she could not comment on potential enforcement matters. — Greg Gordon (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)

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Wildcats can’t overcome deluge of Illini offense Northwestern

By TIM BALK

Junior Jake Stolley pitched the next four frames, but allowed 2 runs in the top of the 13th. NU went quietly afterwards, failing to answer in the bottom of the inning. On Saturday, Illinois cruised to an 11-4 victory. NU took a 1-0 lead in the first but then watched as the Fighting Illini racked up runs between the second and fifth inning. A home run from sophomore outfielder Joe Hoscheit was one of the lone highlights of the day for

the Cats. The Fighting Illini’s hot bats reigned for the second straight game on Sunday. Illinois romped from the opening frame, taking a 3-0 lead in the first inning on the back of infielder Reid Roper, who blasted a 3-run home run off of Cats senior Brandon Magallones. Magallones started the game after earning his second win of the season against Minnesota on March 29. He only lasted two innings in this contest, allowing 8 runs, 7 earned. He left the game with no outs in the top of the third. NU managed a run in each of the first two innings. Hoscheit drove in junior first baseman Zach Jones with a double in the first, and senior infielder Cody Stevens doubled in the second to drive in sophomore outfielder Matt Hopfner. But the 2 runs would be all the Cats could

muster on the afternoon. Illinois added to its 8-2 lead with a 2-run fourth inning, a 4-run fifth and a 1-run sixth. The Fighting Illini used a 2-run ninth to take the contest by a final of 17-2. Three NU pitchers saw action in the drubbing, which came in front of a crowd of 913 in Champaign. The Cats were technically the home team in the series, but played in Champaign while Rocky Miller Park undergoes construction. NU won’t play its first game of the season in Evanston until April 21. NU will get the whole week off before taking on Michigan State on Friday in East Lansing, Michigan, where NU will attempt to regain the momentum it had going into the Illinois series.

of other minorities. “The fact is, they don’t want people like us,” Amoafo-Yeboah said. “They just don’t.” Rini Sampath, USC’s student body presidentelect, said she was disheartened by the online comments, even if it wasn’t clear that a student wrote them. “It showed that there’s a mindset about this school that we have to eradicate,” she said. “It showed me that we need a space where students who feel like they’re marginalized feel comfortable.” USC students said no Greek organization has been part of an incident as racially charged as one at the University of Oklahoma, where fraternity members recently were caught on video singing racist chants. But, they acknowledged, the Los Angeles campus is not immune to racial insensitivity. Some students said incidents on and off campus have led them to feel isolated and as though they are viewed with suspicion. Two years ago, USC students held protests after police wearing protective gear broke up an offcampus party and arrested six people. Most of the partygoers were black, and some accused the police of racial profiling. And in 2012, security was increased on campus after a Halloween party shooting, in which a black

man fired into a crowd and injured four. Some black students said they felt less welcome at social events after the incident, even though the gunman was not a student. “While USC is probably as inclusive as any predominantly white campus, beneath that surface is an ongoing tension and very real issues of race,” said Melina Abdullah, who graduated from the university in 2002, taught there in 2008 and is now the chair of Pan-African Studies at Cal State L.A. Abdullah said most other schools’ cultural centers are in academic or more residential settings, and the USC project could be unique if it ends up in the midst of the Trojan party scene. “Instead of retreating, it seems like those students are pressing forward and reminding the school that they have a right to be here in a very visible way,” she said. Student supporters said the proposal, which became known as the Black House, was modeled after programs at schools such as Stanford, Georgetown and Yale universities. It would not be residential, and no alcohol would be allowed inside. Instead, the building is supposed to be a space where students can relax, hold cultural events and display some of the history of African

Americans at USC. The house would not be affiliated with undergraduate black Greek organizations, which are not on the Row. Overall, about 4,200 USC students are fraternity or sorority members. It is unclear how many Greek members are minorities, school officials said. Of USC’s nearly 19,000 undergraduates, about 720 — or 4 percent — are black, according to the school. Some black students report feeling isolated, saying they are often the only African American in their classrooms. Abdullah, the USC alumna, said she and her friends “didn’t have a defined space, so we’d hang out on the bookstore steps, which was problematic.” The Black House’s student organizers are trying to raise up to $8 million within the next several years. Although many see the Row as an ideal location, buying there may not be easy. Most of the properties on the Row are owned by national Greek organizations that may be reluctant to sell real estate in what they consider a prime location.

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Northwestern (8-22, 2-4 Big Ten) ran into a buzzsaw this weekend, losing three straight to streaking No. 15 Illinois (24-6-1, 5-1). The Wildcats simply couldn’t find an answer to the Fighting Illini’s prolific offense, with NU’s defense yielding a total of 31 runs during the series and the Cats’ offense struggling mightily to keep up. NU’s best showing of the weekend came in the opening tilt Friday. The Cats and Fighting Illini battled for 13 innings, with Illinois ultimately pulling out a 3-1 win. Junior Matt Portland started for NU and pitched nine innings, striking out five and allowing just 1 run.

Across Campuses USC’s Black House proposal raises questions about racial tensions When some USC student government leaders voiced support for creating a cultural house for black students, Ama Amoafo-Yeboah thought she and other undergraduates were closer to having a space where they could hang out and hold events. But before a vote was held, word spread that the house could be located on the Row, USC’s twoblock stretch of fraternities and sororities near 28th and Figueroa streets. Social media lit up. “Why would they open a prison on the Row?” one user asked on Yik Yak, a popular social media app that allows anonymous comments from users within a 1.5-mile radius. Student leaders passed a resolution on the house in late October. But Amoafo-Yeboah said the onslaught reinforced her sense that black students aren’t always welcome at USC. That feeling of exclusion, she said, is especially obvious on the Row, the heart of the undergraduate social scene — which seems to be made of mostly white students, along with some Asians and a smattering

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We had kind of a rough day honestly. We needed to pull that one out. — Kaleigh Craig, junior midfielder

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By CLAIRE HANSEN

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On a beautiful Easter Sunday at Lakeside Field, No. 6 Northwestern (8-3, 1-1 Big Ten) narrowly survived an overtime scare against No. 11 Penn (9-2, 3-0 Ivy), clinching a 9-8 win against one of the country’s top 10 defenses. Despite losing an early advantage, the Wildcats secured the victory after a clutch goal by junior Kaleigh Craig put them ahead with just 13 seconds in the first overtime period. “Hopefully the tight game and the overtime was a lesson,” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said. “I’m excited that we came out with a win, but we can’t play like that anymore. We need to play as a team, come up with draw controls and be better overall.” Despite a couple of early shots by an aggressive Penn offense, NU jumped out to a quick 4-goal lead. Offensive powerhouse Selena Lasota put the Cats on the board first with a quick shot off a rebounded attempt just over five minutes into the game. The goal was the freshman’s 41st of the season. Sophomore Sheila Nesselbush, senior Kara Mupo and Craig each added their own goals over the next 10 minutes,

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taking advantage of Penn’s low-pressure defense. “We have a lot of really strong dodgers,” Nesselbush said. “Penn relies heavily on one-v-ones, so we knew if we could just isolate the person we’d be able to beat (the defense).” Penn put itself on the scoreboard with 12:52 left in the first half after a feed from the top of the fan found a cutter in front of the goal. As Penn found its offensive footing, the two teams traded a pair of goals each to head into halftime with NU up 6-3. Although Penn edged the Cats in ground balls in the first half, NU earned a 6-4 advantage on the circle and shot almost twice as many times as the Quakers. Penn also appeared sloppy in the first 30 minutes of play, slinging wild passes out of bounds and lacking NU’s offensive poise and patience. But the tables turned in the second period of play. The Quakers mustered a 3-1 run in the first 14 minutes of the half to put themselves within 1 against

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CRASHING THE NET Selena Lasota delivers a pass. The freshman stung Penn with her prowess near the goal, scoring 2 goals on eight attempts.

the faltering Cats. NU became frazzled defensively, loosing the vigilance it displayed in the first period and leaving cutters wide open in the eight-meter fan. “I think part of the issue was that we switched from our main defense — which is really high pressure doubling — to a low pressure D,” Nesselbush said. “I think that we kind of took that as ‘take it easy,’ and the coaches brought us in and told us even though we were playing low pressure, we could still be intense.” The Cats also lost control in the circle as a series of fouls on the draw gave the Quakers possession in the midfield. “(Draw control is) a point of

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contention for us,” Amonte Hiller said. “We started off strong, then had a bunch of illegals calls. I think that kind of shifted the momentum their way.” Penn scored two goals to NU’s one in the latter half of the period, including the tying score — a textbook crease roll — with just 1:36 to play. The Quakers and the Cats headed into the first overtime period with the score locked at 8-8. The Cats suffered a scare in the first minutes of overtime when a hard Quaker shot bounced off the top pipe of the goal. Although Penn secured the draw at the three-minute mark, NU was able to regain possession by swarming

the Penn offense. With the clock ticking down, NU patiently passed around the 12-meter arc. After motion play left Craig open on the right side of the fan, Lasota passed her the ball and Craig ripped a hard, low angle shot just inside the left pipe of the goal with 13 seconds left. NU held the Quakers off as the clock ran out to win 9-8. “I was just aiming for the net. It was a good spot I guess,” Craig said. “Penn is a great team, but we’ve played tougher. We had kind of an off day honestly. We needed to pull that one out.” clairehansen2018@u.northwestern.edu

Men’s Tennis

Cats stay perfect in Big Ten NU wins two in trip to Michigan 4 2 5 Northwestern

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Northwestern closed out an impressive pitching series Sunday afternoon at Evanston’s Sharon J. Drysdale Field with a three-game sweep of Purdue. The Wildcats (20-11, 8-0 Big Ten) held onto the top spot in the conference while rival Boilermakers (24-15, 4-5) dropped further back in the Big Ten race. It was a hard-fought series, with NU winning all three games despite outscoring Purdue by just 6 combined runs. The series was a pitchers’ duel from the start, with NU’s offense facing Purdue ace Lilly Fecho in all three games, and Wildcat pitchers juniors Kristen Wood and Amy Letourneau holding down the fort at home. Wood ended the series with 27 strikeouts overall, and a career-best 14 strikeouts on Sunday. “Our plan coming into each series is attacking the strike zone and I think we did that well this weekend,” Wood said. “Coming into the Sunday game of the series, you’ve seen them two times, you’ve got to keep the mentality of really spinning the ball and narrowing the strike zone.” NU kept the first two games close, beating Purdue 4-3 in eight innings on Friday off a Sammy Nettling walk-off home run in the eighth inning. Nettling, a freshman catcher, missed the first month of the season with an injury but has since come back to hit four homers in 10 games, including two during this series. Saturday’s game remained close as well, with the Cats securing a 2-1 win over Purdue after a Nettling home run

to left field in the fourth inning. Freshman outfielder Sabrina Rabin also scored in Saturday’s game off of a twostrike hit from senior outfielder Andrea DiPrima, who extended her hitting streak to 15 games by the end of the series. Rabin — who had four hits and 3 runs in the Purdue series — and Nettling helped propel the Cats’ offense throughout the weekend, and their impact on the field did not go unnoticed. “Freshmen are these great people who love playing the game, and our upperclassmen have done a great job of pulling them along too,” coach Kate Drohan said. “So when you see those things happen hand in hand, that’s when you see ballplayers start to do really special things on the field.” Wood started Sunday’s game, finishing with a 5-1 win over the Boilermakers. She and Fecho were both dominant in the early innings of Sunday’s game, with eight of Wood’s 14 strikeouts coming in the first three innings. NU’s bats came to life with two outs in the third when DiPrima hit a 2-run home run, bringing home senior infielder Anna Edwards and senior outfielder Olivia Duehr. Following DiPrima’s home run, junior infielder Andrea Filler smashed a double

to left field and Letourneau hit a single to bring Filler home. NU ended the third inning up 3-0. The Cats scored two more runs in the fifth inning off of a double by Duehr. Although NU rallied for runs in Sunday’s game, the series was defined by strong pitching performances from both sides. “This series was a battle, Lilly (Fecho) is a great pitcher, and it was really good for us to see a pitcher like that,” DiPrima said. Drohan agreed, noting that both pitchers played well and that “it was tough to come by runs” throughout the series. The coach was extremely happy with the way her team fought for all three wins. “I like the way our team competed, and even if we had a tough at-bat, we came back,” Drohan said. “We came up with some key clutch hits, and that’s what good softball this time of year is all about.” The Cats face UIC at home Wednesday and will then travel to No. 14 Minnesota for a conference series on April 10. melissahaniff2016@u.northwestern.edu

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PAINTING THE BLACK Kristen Wood winds up for a pitch. The junior had a record game Sunday, tossing a career-high 14 strikeouts.

By KHADRICE ROLLINS

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Northwestern had no trouble in Michigan this weekend and left the state with two impressive wins. “Any time you can go on the road in the Big Ten against two quality opponents like Michigan State and Michigan and come back with two wins, I feel good about it,” coach Arvid Swan said. “It’s good momentum going into the last two weekends of the Big Ten season.” The No. 24 Wildcats (16-7, 5-2 Big Ten) started the weekend with a trip to East Lansing, Michigan, on Friday, where they took on the Michigan State Spartans (11-12, 2-4). It was a fantastic start for the Cats, who won the doubles point and took a 1-0 lead into the singles matches. The pairings of senior Alex Pasareanu with sophomore Sam Shropshire and sophomore Strong Kirchheimer with junior Fedor Baev won their matches so quickly the third doubles match went unfinished. “Against Michigan State and Michigan … being able to win a doubles point definitely helped us,” Shropshire said. The Cats then captured five of the six singles matches against the Spartans to earn a 6-1 victory. The next day, NU visited Michigan (3-14, 0-6) for a very competitive match. The Cats picked up the doubles point — a crucial advantage before heading into some intense singles matches. Two of the matches went three sets, with NU splitting the points. Baev picked up a big comeback win in his match, 3-6, 7-6 (7-4), 1-0 (13-11), but unfortunately freshman Logan Staggs was not able to walk away triumphantly in his nail-biting match, losing 2-6, 7-5, 1-0 (11-9). Luckily for the Cats, Shropshire,

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Kirchheimer and sophomore Alp Horoz were able to win their matches and help lead NU to a 5-2 victory. However, the results for sophomore Konrad Zieba’s matches this weekend were displeasing. Although Zieba won both of his matches in NU’s two wins last Sunday against Penn State and IUPUI, he was unable to claim victory in either of his matches this weekend. As Zieba looks to bounce back from his performance, he is comforted knowing his team still came up victorious and his teammates are there to help him get back on track. “It’s always encouraging when you’re not playing your best tennis that you have your teammates there to pick you up and motivate you,” Zieba said. “When things aren’t going well, it’s always good to have someone to help you out.” The Cats are now on a four-match winning streak with only five matches remaining before the Big Ten Tournament. NU sits at fourth in the conference, but this current hot streak has the team feeling assured and could help it leapfrog the conferences foes still ahead in the standings. “We feel good about where we’re at,” Swan said. “We know we still can get better, but I think the group as a whole is confident.” khadricerollins2017@u.northwestern.edu

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