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FEELING THE BERN Organizers and supporters for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign congregate at the opening of the Evanston Field Office Thursday. The field office opened Thursday night and launched volunteer and outreach efforts for the Northshore area.
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A new field office for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign opened Thursday in Evanston, looking to solidify support for
the candidate in the North Shore. Over 50 Chicagoland residents joined members of Sanders’ campaign team for a meet-and-greet with fellow Sanders advocates and a community discussion on how to gather support around the area. The audience ranged from DePaul University students to elderly Evanston residents and even a few
Illinois primary election delegates. The event allowed individuals to sign up for shifts at the phone bank and canvassing. The new office at 516 Dempster St. will serve as a home base and offer many opportunities for followers to improve their outreach, » See BERNIE, page 6
Almost 50 years after black students and community supporters at Northwestern took control of the Bursar’s Office and presented the University with a list of demands to improve their quality of life on campus, the NU Black Alumni Association is creating a task force to commemorate the protest. The task force will plan a series of events culminating in a large event during May 2018 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the sit-in at the University’s financial affairs office, NUBAA president Dr. Jeffrey Sterling (Weinberg ‘85) said. “The commemoration activities are really meant to highlight all the steps forward that the African-American community has made over the years,” Sterling said. “We hope the events to really be a celebration of progress — and, equally as important, a sense of » See NUBAA, page 6
Islamophobia origins, future analyzed by scholar By MATTHEW CHOI
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Islamophobia is not a Muslim problem but an American problem, said Reza Aslan at a speech Thursday held by the Northwestern Muslim-cultural Student Association. “Fear Inc: The Industrializing of Islamophobia,” the keynote address of McSA’s Discover Islam Week, featured Aslan, an author and religious scholar. Aslan presented statistics on the rise of Islamophobic acts in the United States and addressed their origins, with a Q&A moderated by political science Prof. Elizabeth Hurd following his speech. Over 400 people attended the event at Lutkin Hall. Recently, Islamophobia has been on the rise, Aslan said. Particularly with presidential elections approaching, many candidates are expressing Islamophobic
sentiments unimaginable 10 years ago, he said. While 31 percent of Americans held unfavorable views toward Muslims following 9/11, 61 percent do today, Aslan said. “What’s really fascinating about this unprecedented rise is that it’s not an accident,” Aslan said. “This isn’t the result of home grown fears. It’s actually been a very well coordinated attempt by a very small group (driving) home this message that Muslims are an enemy.” Aslan discussed the role of the media and political figures in making Islamophobic ideas increasingly mainstream. News organizations bring Islamophobia into people’s homes, Aslan said, and allow political figures such as Donald Trump to spread anti-Muslim fears. “Donald Trump is not funny anymore,” Aslan said. “These are not fringe ideas. They are very much in the mainstream … And these words have very clear consequences.”
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Conversely, Muslims are among the most law-abiding and peaceful religious groups in the United States, Aslan said. Aslan cited a 2010 Gallup poll that asked participants about the acceptability of the use of violence. In that poll, 78 percent of Muslims said violence is never acceptable, the highest percentage of all religious groups. “If we are involved in an ideological conflict or war of ideas, then we have at our disposal the greatest weapon in that fight: a Muslim community that is integrated and civil and successful and comfortable in their skin and their Americanness,” Aslan said. The origin of Islamophobia is not ignorance, Aslan said, but fear. He said to combat Islamophobia, the same methods used to combat past forces of religious intolerance, from anti-Catholic policies to anti-Semitism, must be employed: » See FEAR, page 6
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BUILDING BRIDGES Author Reza Aslan speaks in Lutkin Hall at an event hosted Thursday by the Muslim-cultural Students Association for Discover Islam Week. Aslan discussed Islamophobia and its current rise in the mainstream.
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Around Town City activist reflects on civil rights era By NORA SHELLY
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Bennett Johnson said he first encountered discrimination while walking with his sisters from his North Evanston home to elementary school. Johnson, who went to Foster School, then Noyes Elementary, said his six-year-old self wanted to fight back. “I thought about it a little … and these kids, they don’t know who black folks are, so I’m going to tell them who we are,” the 86-year-old Evanston resident said. This incident led Johnson to begin a life dedicated to promoting the political, business and literary power of the black community through his work during the civil rights era and his publishing company Path Press Inc. Johnson was among those who started the Chicago League of Negro Voters in 1958, an independent political organization aimed at supporting black candidates in Chicago elections. “He was always involved — to me it was just a natural thing,” said Johnson’s sister, Ethelyn Baker. “I imagine it was much later when we realized how bad it was … then we just took it in stride.” When Johnson was just 12 years old, he joined Evanston’s chapter of the NAACP. In 1945, he and his sister helped found the city’s branch of the Congress of Racial Equality. Although Johnson fared well at Evanston’s mostly white Haven Middle School, he said he struggled with the racial climate at the more heterogeneous Evanston Township High School. This was a factor in his decision to go to the historically black college Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, he said. There, he played football and began studying chemistry and physics, but transferred after three semesters and moved back to Chicago where he enrolled in Roosevelt University, one of the only schools at the time that did not have enrollment quotas for black or Jewish students. It was at Roosevelt where Johnson met many of the people he would later work with in his political activism, including future Illinois congressman Gus Savage and Harold Washington, who Johnson was a
close advisor for during his political career as a congressman and mayor of Chicago. “Gus and Harold were like sibling rivals … and I was like the ruffian,” Johnson said. Johnson, who took a year and half off after catching tuberculosis, later moved to California to finish his education at the University of California, Los Angeles. Although he said the transition was difficult, it was in California where he first met Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy — King’s friend and a founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference — at a NAACP convention in San Francisco in June 1956. After moving back to the Chicago area the following year, Johnson said he kept in contact with King and Abernathy, and he invited King to Evanston in 1957 to meet with a wealthy couple who had donated money to other civil rights groups. Johnson said he drove King around the city and, surprisingly, lost to him in a game of pool in a billiards room in West Evanston. Johnson continued to stay in contact with King, and said he even helped facilitate a meeting between King and Elijah Muhammad, the head of the Nation of Islam. He said his political activism led him to organize the Chicago League of Negro Voters with other local activists in 1958, an organization Johnson described as aimed at increasing black political power. He served as one of the leaders in a group associated with the League called Protest at the Polls, which Johnson said aligned more closely with civil rights activism and advocated for electing black political officials in the city. “We had protested in the streets, we had protested in the courts, and now it was time to protest at the polls,” Johnson said. Johnson’s work at Protest at the Polls was followed with the election of Washington as the first black mayor of Chicago in 1983, an event Johnson said was a key victory. From then on, Johnson strived not only to increase minority representation in politics, but in business and literature as well. He and his friend Herman Gilbert opened up Path Press Publishing Inc. in the 1960s, after Gilbert’s book, “The Negotiations,” was rejected from another publishing house. Path Press was one of the first black-owned publishing houses.
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“We felt there was a need to get the word out for and by African American and Third World people,” he said. Since then, Johnson has worked for another publishing house, several companies that promote black businesses and was even named an honorary consul general of Uganda for the Midwest in 2008. His consulting work with Urban Consulting Inc. led him to work for Muhammad Ali, the Republic of Lesotho and the city of Chicago. He did this all while acting as the president of the Evanston Minority Business Consortium, a group that promotes business opportunities for black business owners, and staying involved in city politics. Alderman Delores Holmes (5th), who enlisted Johnson to help with her aldermanic campaigns, said Johnson has been indispensible to the community. “He definitely has been active all his life,” said Holmes, who has known Johnson since they were children. “He had perspective from different parts of the country, and he shared that with Evanston.”
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Former writing lecturer Edith Skom engaged deeply with her students, often pushing them to their limits, those who knew her said. Skom, who worked at Northwestern from 1978 to 2012, died Feb. 3. She taught academic writing courses in the Bobbie and Stanton Cook Family Writing Program, often helping students improve their writing skills, said linguistics Prof. Robert Gundlach, who was the founding director of the program, which began in 1977. “Students occasionally would be frustrated because she asked them to revise and revise again,” Gundlach said. “But I think it was simply the way she liked to teach and the way she tried to encourage students to step up to the highest level.” Karen Russell (Weinberg ‘03), a former student of Skom’s, remembered Skom for her particular attention to students, as well as her wit. “Professor Skom was hilarious, and she held us to the highest standard,” Russell said. “She was so tough in the best way imaginable.” At NU, Skom led a freshman seminar for students that focused on the theme of mysteries and thrillers. Although the course has been modified over time, the seminar still exists, Gundlach said. In addition to teaching, Skom was mainly known for her three mystery novels: “The George Eliot Murders,” “The Charles Dickens Murders” and “The Mark Twain Murders,” the last of which was nominated for multiple awards, including the Agatha, Macavity and Anthony awards. At age 15, Skom enrolled at the University
of Chicago, where she graduated with a degree in English. She earned her master’s degree and doctorate in English at NU, having a strong interest in Victorian literature and the works of Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens and George Eliot in particular, said Skom’s granddaughter Elaine Meyer (Weinberg ‘06). “She was very encouraging of intellectual curiosity,” Meyer said. “She was just a very positive role model for a young woman to have.” At the University of Chicago, Skom met her husband, Joseph Skom, now a retired professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Meyer said. They had a relationship that was “never dull,” she added. Edith Skom dedicated “ The Mark Twain Murders” to She was very her husband, writing that he read every encouraging as soon as of intellectual chapter she had written it curiosity ... She and that “he was and was just a very is my best inspirer.” Russell said Edith positive role Skom was not only interested in stumodel. dents’ prose, but also Elaine Meyer, in their ideas. She Edith Skom’s expected her students granddaughter to convey thoughtful arguments using literary techniques, such as parallelism and syntax, she said. Russell, a 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction finalist for her first novel, “Swamplandia!,” said she often spent time talking to Edith Skom in her office on Sheridan Road. When Russell was a junior, Edith Skom encouraged her to submit a piece to The New York Times, although it was rejected at the time. Edith Skom consistently supported
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Northwestern should bring Norris to life at night TIM BALK
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Most weeknights, some time late in the evening, I wander downstairs from The Daily office to the ground floor of Norris University Center and dig into a slice of North Shore pizza or a salad from Subway. Norris is always pretty dead, a few scattered students hanging around munching on dinners of their own, the lights dim in the passage behind Frontera Fresco and a gentle hum radiating from Dunkin’ Donuts. Things are usually a bit livelier at Norbucks upstairs — but only a bit. After around 7 or 8 p.m., Northwestern’s student center starts to fall asleep. By 11:45 p.m, the whole dining operation is closed for the night. Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts, the C-Store, everything. And before that, starting at 8 p.m., the ground floor of Norris is a
virtual graveyard. It’s pretty sad. Our school’s student center should be a vibrant hub on campus all day and deep into the night. To be sure, there are hopping late night options at NU and places where students can meet and hang out. Fran’s Cafe rocks until 2 a.m., and it truly is a hub of South Campus, with students studying, chilling and munching well after midnight. Lisa’s has a similar, if more low-key, latenight vibe for the North Campus crowd. These are cool spots. But there is no reason Norris should shirk its student center responsibility when the sun goes down. If Fran’s is the unofficial capital of South Campus, Norris should be the official 24-7 capital of the whole university. The problem, at least as it relates to dining, comes down to closing times and selection. Food options are limited at Norris even before Cat Shack closes at 7 p.m. And when I head down to dine, my options are severely limited. The assemblage of eateries is bizarre. Why does Norris need a Dunkin’ Donuts and a Starbucks? Why is Frontera Fresco allowed to occupy central space when
it closes after lunchtime each day? I’m not sure, but I know the end result is a disappointing dining venue and a lackluster atmosphere. There used to be a bar on the ground floor of Norris, open until 2 a.m., but it closed back in 1992. Nowadays, Norris is still the spot to be in the afternoon, and the ground floor bustles at lunch time. Finding a table can be difficult, and students meet there just to hang. Chilling in Norris at night though? Forget about it. There are logical explanations for Norris not being a late night hot spot for NU students. It is far from dorms, and accessibility is surely valued when determining where to hangout and stuff your face in the middle of the night. But the biggest issue is the whole building is more or less shut down by 9 p.m. With plans for a new student center in the works and a groundbreaking scheduled for 2017, the somber, utilitarian Norris is certainly on its back nine. Hopefully, its replacement will have a livelier atmosphere after dark and a wider array
of dining options. In the meantime, there are plenty of improvements that can be made to the current student union. While certain problems are unfixable, such as the fact that the Norbucks space is too small, others are not. Dining options can be improved, the overpriced Frontera can be replaced and Subway’s prison quality meat can be blasted into the stratosphere. There is a lot I love about Norris. The staff at the ground floor eateries is friendly. The view of the lake from Norbucks is sublime. And I have collected many treasured college memories at Norris. But I nonetheless think Norris at night is a huge bummer. NU deserves a student center that stays up late. Tim Balk is a Medill sophomore. He can be contacted at timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu . If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
NU extracurricular activities are not “need-blind” CATE ETTINGER
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It’s one of the first things you are asked about when you meet somebody new on campus. After being questioned about your major, you are essentially guaranteed to be asked, “What are you involved with on campus?” At a rigorous, competitive institution such as Northwestern, this isn’t too surprising. NU advertises its myriad of extracurricular opportunities proudly on its website, which proclaims, “More than 450 student clubs. Nineteen varsity sports. Hundreds of events,” in the characteristic purple. Of course it is wonderful that the University has such a wide array of student groups to offer, but this leads to a competitive environment where everyone wants to be doing more. And while it is generally seen as up to each student how involved they want be on campus, the truth is that students coming from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are at
a severe disadvantage. Time is money, and for those who have to work their way through college, this phrase takes on a whole new meaning. Many students coming from families unable to pay NU’s exorbitant tuition receive eligibility for a work-study job through their financial aid packages. Additionally, many other students who do not receive aid are forced to find non-work study jobs, where choices are often more limited. But it doesn’t matter the job type; having a job in college means a lot less time to study, do research, sleep, exercise and participate in other extracurriculars. Trying to balance a job with the academic demands of NU is precarious even without the added stress of involvement in student groups. Although I did not receive work-study as part of my aid package, it still was not financially feasible for me to go through college without working. I work at least twice a week at Phonathon and find it difficult to strike a balance between work and student group life. Of course, it is not the fault of the clubs and student groups on campus that so many students have to work long hours to be able to afford NU — that’s a question for the administration
— but it is important to recognize students who may not appear to be “involved” on campus are working just as hard as everyone else. There is a pervasive expectation you will list off 10 clubs or sports you participate in when asked about your involvement, but the truth is that working a job and being a full time student is just as challenging and admirable. Ironically, at NU, it seems you often have to be in clubs in order to get into Trying to clubs. That interviews balance a for clubs seem to center around a student’s job with the current involvement academic on campus is clearly a demands of NU silly paradox. Students who come from finanis precarious. cially challenged backgrounds and have to supplement their aid packages with income they work hours for each and every week are at a clear disadvantage. Working may not be enough “involvement” to warrant acceptance into a club, but students simply do not have the time to join a plethora of other
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students groups as well. Therefore, it is harder for them to get into any groups they do have the time for. Even if a student who comes from a less affluent background is accepted into a club they are interested in, the meetings for this group may conflict with their work schedule. And, unfortunately, work must always be the priority of socioeconomically disadvantaged students. Clubs on campus are supposed to provide numerous mediums for student involvement. However, because they are so competitive and time-consuming, students who come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and have to work their way through college often do not have the opportunity to participate. They are too often inherently excluded from this aspect of campus life. Cate Ettinger is a Weinberg freshman. She can be contacted at catherineettinger2019@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
Disney should make a movie with a homosexual couple JOE MADDEN
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The Walt Disney Company has always been fairly accepting of the LGBT community, and is known for its week dedicated to the gay community, Gay Days, that began as early as 1991. Recently, Disney has been diversifying its portfolio of love stories (which, admittedly, was not that hard to do). In 2009, Disney presented its first black princess with Tiana in The Princess and the Frog. The next protagonist Disney adds to its ever famous canon should have a love interest of his or her own gender. Consider, for a moment, how entirely different your childhood would have been if you had
grown up seeing gay couples in media. How would seeing them, portrayed as no more or less in love than straight couples, have influenced your childhood? Personally, I might not have considered being gay as strange a concept as I did when my parents would talk about it with me. I might not have tried so hard to be a good football player, or have given those few — hilariously pointless — attempts at having a girlfriend a shot. I might have spent less time in the closet and decided to come out earlier to my entirely accepting parents. Consider how much of a difference seeing a gay couple in a Disney movie would make for those entirely undeserving and unfortunate kids stuck with parents who did not explain what being gay means to them or who were not entirely accepting. Without a doubt, we are most impressionable as kids. The traces of conventional
discrimination, while always present, are weaker in each successive generation, and popular culture plays a large part in that making of a more accepting world. I know many would argue to save children from exposure to homosexuality. But children are already exposed to heterosexuality or, more accurately, heterosexual couples in Disney movies. Two Disney princes, or two Disney princesses, would not need to have any more physical a relationship than their straight counterparts. The gay movie in question would be a huge moneymaker. Ever since Coca-Cola’s controversial Super Bowl commercial in 2014 by featuring one of social conservatives’ greatest fears, a functional gay family, companies have been capitalizing on the growing support for the LGBT community. Some might feel this commercialization of the recent upswing in LGBT popularity demeans the countless accomplishments of the many men
and women who fought to make it happen. But, if a message is sent to make money and it helps the gay community, it helps the gay community. And the message such a movie would be sending would be to the next generation, solidifying the acceptance the work LGBT advocates have done for the generations of gay youth to come. Ultimately, a Disney movie with two princesses or two princes would teach kids that love is love. I can only imagine the number of American parents out there who would pay good money to teach their children that lesson. And I think it’s time Disney took it. Joseph Madden is a Weinberg freshman. He can be contacted at josephmadden2019@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
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NU sustainability director takes talents to Colorado By MATTHEW CHOI
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Rob Whittier has climbed Mount Rainier, conquered the trek to Everest Base Camp and scaled Mount Kilimanjaro during his honeymoon. Next week, he will continue on to the mountains of Colorado in a newly created sustainability position at a mountain resort company. Whittier, Northwestern’s former director of sustainability, left his position Friday to become the firstever director of sustainability at Vail Resorts. During his time at NU, which began Nov. 14, 2011, Whittier was also the first-ever director of sustainability, a role in which he initiated several new programs and goals to reduce the University’s carbon footprint and improve its sustainability, he said. Whittier said he will move to Boulder, Colorado, to begin work Monday. When Whittier joined NU, he found it a new learning opportunity and different from anything he had ever done, he said. He took care to get to know the school and saw great potential for impact from the beginning, Whittier said.
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“If you can influence an entire university like Northwestern, if you can get across the University — faculty, staff and students — thinking differently about sustainability, the impact that that could have, if every student knew how to be sustainable and sustainability methods, that’s a big potential impact,” Whittier said. “They all go to different jobs and amazing places and travel the world and now have that knowledge.“ Whittier worked on creating goals to reduce the University’s greenhouse gas footprint by 50 percent, he said. In order to do that, the Office of Sustainability worked to reduce the University’s electricity use and organized different members of the NU community to create a more unified effort for sustainability, he said. However, his favorite part of working at a university was working with students, Whittier said. He said he met with students almost every day from a variety of student groups and initiatives to discuss new projects focused on making NU more sustainable. “We have an incredibly passionate group of students across a variety of different subjects,” Whittier said. “Those are things that I enjoyed the most and I think will have a lasting memory: just the passion of the students and their ability to get things done
through good, well organized activism.” SESP junior Christina Cilento worked closely with Whittier both as an intern and employee at the Office of Sustainability and as vice president for sustainability for Associated Student Government. She said he was constantly supportive of student innovation and always willing to help student initiatives. “He was really accessible and interested in students and fostering relationships with them,” Cilento said. “He’s just a really cool guy, and we’re really going to miss having that ally in the administration.” Whittier said many faculty and staff members had already been working on projects to improve the University’s sustainability before the creation of his position but did not have the unified resources to create as effective an effort. McCormick Prof. Neal Blair was among those faculty members and worked with Whittier on a committee to evaluate what the University was doing to address climate change. With a background in consulting where business moves quickly, Whittier had to adjust to the academic culture of a university, which was something the faculty and staff helped him navigate, Blair said. “We’re very different from a business, and we’re not doing things for profit,” Blair said. “Decisions aren’t
always made very quickly like in a business where the boss says, ‘OK, we’re going to do it this way.’” Whittier said he looks forward to moving out west, where he — an avid cyclist and outdoorsman — plans to take advantage of the great recreational opportunities and expose his two-year-old son and expected daughter to that environment. “I’m really passionate about the outdoors, so for me when (Vail Resorts) contacted me and I went out there to interview for them, it was too good of an opportunity to pass up,” Whittier said. “It was a dream job. There’s something about the mountain lifestyle that’s just really, really cool with what you can do with your day.” Still, Whittier said he will miss NU and its unique energy and is optimistic about the University’s future in sustainability. “There is great momentum already at Northwestern, a lot has happened and a lot is put in place to allow it to continue to move,” Whittier said. “If that continues, it will continue to get more students, more faculty, more staff and continue to keep building, and really great things are going to happen.”
The study, published in Frontiers in Psychology and led by psychology Prof. Sandra Waxman, focused on examining 24-month-old infants in the U.S. and China. The researchers showed the infants a series of repeated scenes before changing to scenes that involved either a different object or a different action. When the change occurred, the attention of the infants shifted. Those from the U.S. preferred looking at scenes
with a new object, while infants from China were more interested by scenes with a new action. “(These infants) have a great deal in common when attending to dynamic scenes, but they may have also begun to pick up the attentional strategies characteristic of adults in their respective communities,” said Waxman, the study’s lead author, in a release. “The results reported here suggest that by the time they reach their second birthdays, infants may be on their way to becoming
‘native lookers.’” The new research presents the possibility that infants’ attention are influenced subtly by the cultural patterns of adults in their communities. This agrees with past research suggesting U.S. adults focus on objects, while Japanese and Chinese adults focus more on the contexts and events surrounding objects, according to the release.
fund and a full-time alumni career specialist position for School of Law alumni. “This is our running start — though the race no doubt is a long one — to take some tangible steps that attempt to address student need and educational debt in creative and constructive ways,” School of Law Dean Daniel Rodriguez said in a release. Through the $2 million commitment, the law school will expand its Interest Freedom Plan, a recently launched program to help graduates earning less than $90,000 per year by temporarily freezing interest on student loans. The expansion will
extend the current one-year allowance to two years for students. The School of Law is committed to fund the program through the class of 2020, according to the release. In addition, the emergency alumni relief fund — a set-aside amount of $200,000 — is also aimed at helping students with their loans. The School of Law will also guarantee summer funding of at least $8,000 for students who meet the criteria, which include completing at least 20 volunteer hours and being employed at a public interest or nonprofit organization for the summer.
“To our knowledge, we will now have the most generous summer public interest funding guarantee of any law school in the country,” Rodriguez said in the release. The money will also go toward travel support for School of Law students to attend off-campus job fairs, public interest job interviews and clerkship interviews, as well as funding for an increased hourly rate for research assistants and teaching assistant stipends.
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From page 1 Sanders supporter Michael Goldberg said. “When we can make connections to other local Bernie supporters is when developments grow,” Goldberg said. The office is the newest outreach center for Sanders, who recently won the New Hampshire primary and was within half a percent from candidate and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton in the Iowa Caucus. The office will reach out to the entire 9th Congressional District, including Evanston, Skokie, Arlington Heights and parts of north Chicago using posters, flyers and phone calls to sway opinions and rally North Shore residents to Sanders’ cause. Although Evanston is not the metropolitan city that many would expect to cover the region, its location is one of its greatest advantages, Sanders advocate and 9th District delegate Sharon Sanders said. Northwestern is of particular interest as the office and its volunteers will want to gain support from students, Sharon Sanders added.
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how much progress has been made between the African-American community and the University.” The celebrated sit-in began early on a Friday morning in 1968 and lasted 38 hours. A sevenhour negotiating session between black students and members of the administration concluded the demonstration, resulting in an agreement that addressed many of the students’ 15 demands. “The situation at Northwestern University has been positively resolved,” said James Turner (Weinberg ‘68), a then-sociology graduate student who had led the negotiation team, The Daily reported at the time. Sterling said another goal of the commemoration is to acknowledge the efforts of those who paved the way for the success that generations of students have had at NU and after graduation. “I actually hope to make a major focus of the commemoration activities in the different ways we interact with the University,” he said. “Despite the recent events surrounding the Black House, the experience that we’ve had with the administration has been productive, positive and progressive.” Plans to move Campus Inclusion and Community staff offices into the Black House Fall Quarter were met with student protests, prompting the University to cancel those reorganization plans. The takeover of the Bursar’s Office set the stage for a shift in how black students were treated on campus, Sterling said. Prior to the takeover, he said black students were not allowed to live on campus. African-American studies as a discipline evolved from this agreement, as did the creation of the Black House — things that are
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2016 “Evanston is a good location that many already come to, and it’s central to the district,” Sharon Sanders said. “We’d love to work with Northwestern and we’re looking to come and speak soon.” Throughout the town hall-style meeting that celWhen ebrated the opening we can make of the office, each visitor and volunconnections to teer introduced other local Bernie his or herself and explained why they supporters is when want to see Sen. developments Bernie Sanders sucgrow. ceed and ascend to the White House. Michael Goldberg, Several cited their Bernie Sanders desire for America supporter to return to being a “true democracy,” while others simply said they did not want to see any of the other candidates win the presidency. Volunteers ran through the agenda for the next
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still important many generations later, he said. NUBAA is currently in the process of accepting nominations and applications for alumni and current students to be on the task force for the 2018 event, Sterling said. In addition to the commemoration event, NUBAA is also planning to open archives about black students at NU spanning more than 150 years of history. “The archives’ mission is to research, organize, disseminate and publicize and archive the history of person of African descent who are either students, staff, faculty at NU from the beginning until today,” said Lauren Lowery (McCormick ‘89), former NUBAA vice president and chairwoman of the archives committee. Lowery said the hope is to store the archives in the Black House, but there is currently no planned location. NUBAA is in the process of meeting with NU administrators to solidify the best place for the archives, she said. During Lowery’s time on a diversity board committee from 2012 to 2013, she tried to do research on diversity best practices at research institutions like NU. When she went to the archives, she was given a small manila envelope of the research that had been done on black alumni at NU, she said. “NU’s archive must have hundreds of thousands of linear feet of archival work and he basically just gave me less than an inch suggesting this is all we’ve compiled,” Lowery said. University Archives automatically receives records from NU departments and offices, as well as from certain faculty members, said Clare Roccaforte, director of library public relations, marketing and communication at NU Library. However, that does not include materials from
three weeks, reinforcing that the hefty amount of work ahead of the campaigners can be accomplished with nearby residents giving their time and effort. Chicagoland resident and artist Diane Thodos suggested that an emphasis on gaining the trust of the youth in surrounding neighborhoods can have a significant impact on the Illinois primary. “It’s about the youth, their parents and their kids,” Thodos said. “The kids that young Bernie supporters will have will be a part of this movement. The next 30 days will affect the next 30 years.” By the end of the event, the room was filled with Bernie followers thrilled to start campaigning. The new office will grow advocation throughout the district and the state through its phone calls, Sharon Sanders said, adding it will stop at nothing to show the public what Bernie Sanders stands for. “We’re trying to get the message out,” Sharon Sanders said. “What’s happening to the country, and how we want to make people aware of the intentional killing off of the middle class and the common worker.”
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From page 1 building relations. “It requires the slow building of bridges, of the taking down of walls,” Aslan said. “It’s inevitable, but it takes a while.” Rimsha Ganatra, vice president for public relations for McSA, said they had been planning the event since the end of Fall Quarter. The Weinberg junior said she was happy with how engaged the audience was throughout Aslan’s speech. “A lot of this (talk) was about meeting a Muslim, getting to know a Muslim, and that’s the point of this whole week as well: just getting Northwestern students to know Muslim students,” Ganatra said. University of Chicago graduate student Salwa Shameem traveled to Evanston to see Aslan, she said. “I’ve always wanted to hear him in person to articulate his thoughts on Islamophobia,” Shameem said. “I’m an American Muslim so it’s very important to me to educate other people on this issue as well.” matthewchoi2018@u.northwestern.edu
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CELEBRATING HISTORY The 50th anniversary of a sit-in at the Bursar’s Office by black students will take place in 2018. To commemorate the sit-in, the Northwestern University Black Alumni Association will host a series of events culminating in a large event in May of that year.
student groups and organizations, and alumni records only get to the library if the person was interested in donating them, Roccaforte said. The library works with the Office of Alumni Relations and Development to collect records from alumni, but most of them are received through relationship-building processes that come from face-to-face interactions, Roccaforte said. There is currently a proposal at the Office of the Provost from NUBAA about creating its archives with the library, Roccaforte said. The library is waiting for a response from the Office of the Provost before moving forward, she added. “We have a lot of expertise here, and we know that the archives that NUBAA wants are really important and valuable both to the campus community and to its historical documentation,” Roccaforte said. “One of our main jobs as librarians
is to preserve that history, so we would be happy to help. We can help save that legacy as long as someone gives us something to save, but no one has given us that history, yet.” NUBAA is currently working with historian and archivist Dino Robinson, who specializes in Evanston’s black history, to develop the archives. Robinson said the efforts are an ongoing process, with the first step of the archival process set to take place this summer, though he said it will not be finished anytime soon. “It’s not something that just happens overnight, but over the course of years,” Robinson said. “And this is only the first stage — just think about how old NU is and how many years of colored students have passed through this school without being able to leave their legacy behind.” fathma@u.northwestern.edu
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NU’s seniors facing final home dual By DAN WALDMAN
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The Wildcats wrap up the regular season this weekend with two opponents at or nearing the bottom of their respective conferences. And after a long season replete with devastating injuries and disappointing losses, Northwestern is in position to potentially triple its win total. The Cats (1-12, 0-8 Big Ten) will hold their senior night against Duke (5-8, 1-4 ACC) on Friday before packing up and going to Madison for a Big Ten regular-season finale against Wisconsin (3-7, 2-6) on Sunday. The Blue Devils currently sit in last place in the sixteam ACC, while the Badgers are only three spots ahead of last-place NU in the Big Ten. Interim coach Matt Storniolo hasn’t been able to celebrate a win with his team since Nov. 29, and after a long, winless stretch of nearly three months, the first-year coach said he is ready to taste victory again. “It would be really nice to end the season with a win here in a dual meet, or maybe even two,” Storniolo said. “The guys have been working their tails off, and individual success is nice, but it would be great to have a team success here at the end of the year.” Friday’s match against Duke will be the last time seniors Garrison White, Dominick Malone and Jameson Oster wrestle in a dual at Welsh-Ryan Arena. This has been an unusual season for the Cats’ seniors, who are accustomed to more winning seasons. NU is in the midst of its worst losing streak since 2003, and this season will be the first losing season the seniors will experience. However, the team’s three seniors are among the few wrestlers on the roster who are currently performing well in their matches. Both Malone and Oster are going into the weekend ranked No. 19 in their respective weight classes, and White is currently tied for 10th in the NCAA in tech falls, recording five. Malone is also seventh in the country in pins with eight, but the senior said his recent
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the other courts, so cheering and supporting your teammates who are also in third sets really helps and motivates you to play better,” Zieba said. All three opponents this weekend are familiar foes for NU. The Cats are 3-2 in the last five seasons against North Carolina State and have played Vanderbilt each of the last six years, with NU’s first win in that stretch coming last season. NU has played the University of Illinois at Chicago 18 times and has emerged victorious every time. The Wolfpack is currently on a five-match winning streak and feature No. 53 Nick Horton and No. 74 Simon Norenius at the top of their singles lineup, while the Commodores have won their last two matchups. Once again this weekend, the Cats’ ability to close out tight matches is likely to be tested. “They’re two rivals we’ve had close matches with in the past, so we’re looking to get two wins and it’s very doable,” Zieba said. benjaminapelbaum2019@u.northwestern.edu
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A LEG UP A Northwestern wrestler grabs an opponent’s leg. The Wildcats will host their final home dual of the season Friday against Duke.
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success doesn’t overshadow the emotions associated with his last match. “I guess it’s bitter-sweet, it’s kind of a cliche answer but it’s true,” Malone said. “Four years here goes by super quickly and it’s good and bad. I’m ready to move on but at the same time I’m going to really miss everybody.” The Cats are coming off of their 11thstraight loss, after losing to Nebraska last weekend 39-6. In the loss, Oster recorded the only points for the team, pinning his opponent
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by senior outfielder Megan Cooley, who hit .278 with 36 runs in 2015, and sophomore infielder Chloe Sharabba, who currently leads all Eagles in batting average, runs and hits after six games. Meanwhile, the Tar Heels boast one of the country’s best shortstops in senior Kristen Brown. Brown was an NFCA third-team AllAmerican last year after setting single-season school records with 24 home runs and 67 RBIs. As the Cats focus on making the defensive improvements needed this week to shut down both ACC offenses, sophomore catcher Sammy Nettling said she is excited about the upcoming competition. “Every conference is a little bit different,” Nettling said. “It’s great preparation and great competition for the offseason and for the Big Ten. That’s really what it’s all about.”
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in 3 minutes and 54 seconds. Since returning from his injury, Oster has excelled for NU and beat three out of his four opponents, including Nebraska’s then-No.19 wrestler Anthony Abidin in the 141-pound class. “It’s a little different feeling, it’s kind of weird how time has gone by,” Oster said. “It’s been a fast five years, but I have to put that behind me and just focus on my match.” Storniolo said he will be sad to see the seniors depart from NU, but has enjoyed watching the wrestlers develop in his time at NU. “Senior night is always a bitter-sweet thing,” Storniolo said. “It’s great to honor these guys and they definitely deserve it, but it sucks seeing them go. Each one of these guys has grown tremendously as a person, a wrestler and a student in their four or five years here.”
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Up 3-1 and embroiled in a trio of tight three-set matches nearly three hours after play began, Northwestern needed one more win to clinch a victory over Kentucky last Saturday. It’s a situation coach Arvid Swan has prepared his team for. He said he’s taught his players to stay focused on the task at hand during potentially long matches, rather than getting caught up on past mistakes or becoming intimidated by the comeback they need to mount. “The big thing for us is momentum in each set and whether you win or lose a set, the next set is basically like a new match,” Swan said. Swan’s team demonstrated that late-match toughness by winning all three third sets and securing a 6-1 win. That toughness will be tested again this weekend as No. 20 Wildcats (8-1) face their busiest weekend of the season thus far with a Friday match against No. 30 North Carolina State (9-2) followed by a doubleheader Sunday against No. 32 Vanderbilt (5-3) and University of Illinois at Chicago (3-3). Senior Fedor Baev was one of the players who won a three set match against Kentucky. He lost the first set in an excruciating 14-12 tiebreaker before coming back to win the next two sets 6-1, 7-6 (7-4). “I just try to focus on my game; if I win the second
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set I try to keep the same mentality and think about the things that were working for me when I was winning and bring that into the third set,” Baev said. “I try to get an early lead as quickly as I can.” Junior Konrad Zieba has played in three three-set matches this season. He agreed momentum and energy play big roles after players demonstrate they are evenly matched through two sets. Three-set matches can be on the court for extended periods of time after other matches have been completed, allowing the players whose matches are finished to cheer on their teammates. Zieba said his teammates’ energy has helped fuel him late in matches. “Third sets come off a lot of the momentum from » See MEN’S TENNIS, page 7
NU takes on duo of ACC foes By MELISSA HANIFF
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As Northwestern heads east to continue its season, it will break ground on a new tradition. The Cats (3-2) will face two ACC teams this weekend, North Carolina (2-4) and Boston College (3-3), playing both teams twice over the weekend series. While NU takes on the Tar Heels and Eagles, other Big Ten and ACC teams will battle it out at multiple ACC campuses across the East Coast in the first Big Ten/ACC Challenge. Coach Kate Drohan emphasized the importance of non-conference play for both the team and the Cats softball program overall. “Playing a really competitive nonconference schedule has been a staple of our program,” Drohan said. “We faced against both Tennessee and Oregon (last weekend) really good team speed and left handed hitters … for us to see that in our first weekend is key to making adjustments. Our team loves playing a very competitive schedule, that’s why they come here.” Drohan’s emphasis on non-conference scheduling is no joke — last season, the Cats had the sixth toughest non-conference strength of schedule in the nation. This year, 36 of the Cats’ 50 games are against non-Big Ten opponents that finished in the top-100 of the RPI in 2015. Both North Carolina and Boston College are anchored by strong pitching and will look to slow down a Cats team that set three school offensive records in its first weekend of play. Tar Heels’ junior Kendra Lynch pitched two shutouts last weekend, and went undefeated in 2015 with an ERA of 4.86 while appearing in 24 games. NU’s other ACC opponent, Boston College, will be led by sophomore Jessica Dreswick, who currently ranks third in the ACC with an ERA of 0.90 after appearing in six games.
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Boston College vs. Northwestern Chapel Hill, North Carolina 9:30 a.m. Saturday
While the pitching they’ll face will pose a challenge, the Cats displayed a penchant for turning runners on base into runs en route to 49 team RBIs in NU’s first weekend. Senior second baseman Brianna LeBeau has been clutch in RBI situations to start the season, hitting 3-for-4 with five RBIs in pinch-hit situations, and Drohan
said she hopes the rest of the team can follow her lead with big hits in high leverage moments. And although the Cats recognize the talent they will be facing on the mound, Drohan said her squad is focused on making opposing pitchers work hard for outs. “Really the key is quality at-bats and making the pitchers work,” Drohan said. “It’s about looking for your pitch, controlling the situation. Often times you win games by getting key hits but also by advancing runners with good quality outs and making the pitcher work.” At the plate, the Eagles will be led » See SOFTBALL, page 7
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TAKING A LEAD Andrea Filler waits on base. The senior shortstop hit a team-leading three home runs in Northwestern’s first five games last weekend.
Men’s Golf
Cats head south for Puerto Rico Classic By TYLER VANDERMOLEN
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Northwestern will be trading snow and gray skies for sunshine and the heat of competition this weekend. After spending most of the winter fine tuning their games indoors, the Wildcats’ traditional trip to the Puerto Rico Classic has long been a highlight of the team’s spring season. The Feb. 21 to 23 tournament in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, has historically featured several of collegiate golf ’s elite programs, including perennial powers from the SEC and ACC. Coach David Inglis said he knows his team will have its work cut out for it at the Rio Mar Country Club’s difficult River Course in its first stroke play event of the season. “Not only is the field in this event always very competitive, but this is one of those tournaments where you know you’re going to be tested by the conditions,” Inglis said. “It’s a tough course and the wind is always blowing, which is a good test for us after being inside all winter.” NU will carry some momentum into the event after a strong secondplace finish at the Big Ten Match Play Championships last weekend, and several members of the team said they believe the confidence gained from that performance is likely to carry over to Puerto Rico. Senior Josh Jamieson said beating several of their Big Ten rivals has the team in a good place mentally. “I think everyone on the team was feeling really good about their individual games after last week,” he said. “That’s something that will hopefully
bode well for us going forward.” Jamieson also said the Cats will be bolstered by the return of sophomore standout Dylan Wu, who missed the Big Ten Match Play while representing NU at the Northern Trust Open Collegiate This is one Showcase in California. of those Wu an d tournaments Jamieson where you will be joined by senior know you’re Andrew going to be Whalen, tested by the freshman Pete Griffith conditions. and f reshm an Lu ke David Inglis, Men’s golf coach Miller in this week’s lineup. Freshman Ryan Lumsden will also travel with the team and compete as an individual. Although the Cats’ focus is squarely on their upcoming tournament, the trip also allows them to enjoy some of the off-course amenities the island has to offer. With only 18 holes scheduled for each of the event’s three days rather than the 36 that many tournaments require, there is ample time in the afternoons for the team to enjoy the beach and get a brief reprieve from the Chicago winter. “We joke that golf is kind of secondary on this trip,” Jamieson said. “Of course that isn’t true, but this is one that everyone has circled on their calendars because it’s a chance to get in the sun, get some great food, and it’s really just an awesome time.”
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