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BEATS WITH A MESSAGE Chicago rappers Saba (center) and Mick Jenkins (right) discuss their brand of sociallyconscious hip-hop with African American Studies Prof. Nitasha Sharma.
Rappers talk violence, hip-hop By Shane McKeon
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Two Chicago rappers answered questions about their brand of socially conscious hip-hop and broader issues of race and violence during a Q&A on Tuesday. Mick Jenkins and Saba answered questions from students at an event in Fisk Hall sponsored by Northwestern Community Development Corps,
Officer stops man from jumping off parking garage
An off-duty police officer stopped an Evanston resident Sunday from jumping from the top floor of a downtown parking garage, officials said. Ken Carter, a detective with the Evanston Police Department for 12 years, was leaving a downtown Evanston restaurant around 5 p.m. Sunday when a family member he was with saw a 22-year-old man standing on the ledge atop a parking garage, police said. Carter notified police headquarters of the incident and when officers arrived, they went to the
For Members Only and the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series moderated by African American Studies Prof. Nitasha Sharma. More than 150 students attended. The rappers discussed the term “Chiraq” and the extent to which rappers fetishize violence in the city. Jenkins said during high school he’d sometimes hear about friends of friends being killed, mostly in gangrelated incidents. “I don’t think it’s a misrepresentation,” he said. “I’ve been jumped, held top floor of the garage, officials said. Two on-duty officers spoke with the man, whom police said was distraught and would not get off the ledge willingly. The man — who was not a Northwestern student — threw his wallet and cellphone off the ledge at one point, police said. As the two officers tried to distract the man, Carter crawled on the garage’s ledge behind the subject and grabbed him, allowing officials to pull the 22-year-old to safety, authorities said. Officials transported the man to Evanston Hospital for treatment, police said. EPD lauded Carter for taking action to save the man. — Paige Leskin
at gunpoint, at knifepoint. I jumped other people. … I grew up in that, but I became a totally different person.” This past weekend, Sharma noted, 56 people were shot in the city. Saba said that hip-hop, like most art, reflects its creators and their life experiences. “It’s really easy to be anti-Chiraq, and opposed to the whole phrase,” he said. “But at the same time, I understand why it exists. Because it’s a » See Chicago, page 5
Northwestern intends to jointly publish a book about the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder trial with a former employee after dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit against her. The University announced Tuesday it settled and dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Nina Barrett (Medill ’87) who the University initially claimed illegally refused to return her manuscript and research materials. The upcoming book draws heavily on NU’s materials in the Leopold and Loeb collection. In the original lawsuit, which was filed in July, NU said it commissioned Barrett to write the book after she curated a successful exhibit about the two University of Chicago law students who killed a 14-year-old boy in Chicago. She began working at NU in 2006 as a writer in the library’s public relations department. In 2012, Barrett was awarded the Kaplan Institute’s Library Fellowship to complete the book. The lawsuit said the contract for the book would be between University Press and University Library. However, the lawsuit alleged
Barrett left NU in December 2013 without returning any of the research materials. An examination of her University-issued computer found she transferred files related to the project to a USB drive. The lawsuit claimed Barrett tried to prevent NU from obtaining the files. The lawsuit said Barrett’s acts were “willful, intentional, and purposeful,” and caused the University both monetary damages and “irreparable harm.” Charles Valente, Barrett’s lawyer, told The Daily in July his client had no liability. “The University is trying to bully a previously published author who received the library’s Kaplan Fellowship and seize her work product in violation of her rights under the fellowship,” Valente said. Barrett formally denied the allegations in September, saying NU’s copyright policy gives “copyright ownership and creative control” to the creator of the work. She did admit to restricting access to personal files on NU’s servers. Barrett now owns local bookstore Bookends & Beginnings, 1712 Sherman Ave. Valente and University spokesman Al Cubbage declined to comment further on the matter. tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu
Council approves subdivisions By Julia Jacobs
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City Council approved the final map for new Northwestern campus subdivisions Tuesday, portioning the land into smaller areas to speed up university construction projects in the section without landmark buildings. The two parcels of land east of Sheridan Road will be divided into six, with one subdivision free of any historic landmark buildings. Any major projects on the remaining five subdivisions that include a landmark building must go through the Evanston Preservation
Commission for approval. In an effort to maintain oversight of the land surrounding Sheridan Road, City Council sided with a staff recommendation that the Preservation Committee provide feedback on construction projects within 250 feet of the road within the subdivision without landmarks. This feedback will not be binding, rejecting a recommendation by the Preservation Commission to require projects on that land be approved by the committee. Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said the feedback from the committee will effectively protect the city’s interests in the land along Sheridan Road. The only opposition vote was from Ald. Judy Fiske (1st), who said upcoming
development in the area demanded greater decision-making power in the hands of the city and public in order to maintain the “historic thoroughfare.” Requiring approval from the Preservation Committee of construction on that land is a reasonable request, Fiske said. “It gives the public a process to go through that actually enhances transparency and enhances dialogue,” she said. “We need to reassure the community that we’re still taking the appearance of Sheridan Road as an important part of our shared community with Northwestern.” NU initially proposed the subdivisions » See Council, page 5
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READING RESOURCES Saturday’s Chinese Dragon Boat Festival Bilingual Storytime and Book Drive is the start of an annual tradition at Evanston Public Library. The upcoming event aims to bolster EPL’s Chinese-language book inventory for Evanston’s burgeoning Chinese population.
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The Evanston Public Library will hold a reading and book drive Saturday to help provide reading materials for the growing Chinese community in the city. Saturday’s event, the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival Bilingual Storytime and Book Drive, is both a celebration of the Chinese holiday and a way to collect Chinese-language books, said Martha Meyer, an EPL assistant. Families can donate used books, as well as participate in crafts and readings to celebrate the festival. Wendy Cao, one of the event’s organizers, said the book drive was created to accommodate the recent influx of Chinese residents to the city. She said she has noticed an increase
in visiting Northwestern professors from China and generally more Chinese people living in Evanston coming to the library over the past few years. Cao said she hopes people will donate materials to help the elderly Chinese population in Evanston, who often spend much of their time in the United States looking after their grandchildren while the parents are at work. Meyer said there are many older Chinese people who come to EPL with their grandchildren, but they often do not have things to do. “They are here just to babysit for the children,” Meyer said, “I find babysitting for young children to be an isolating and somewhat daunting experience ... it’s hard work (and) it can get lonely.” The library currently also has a limited amount of Chinese-language materials, Meyer
said. “The grandparents came here, they don’t read any English,” Cao said. “We thought reading was very, very important, so how about we gather some Chinese books into the library so at least the grandparents can pick a few books to read to the kids when they were in the library?” Cao said she hopes some of the families who eventually return to China, particularly visiting professors at NU, will donate their secondhand books to the library, starting a yearly tradition of departing families leaving books to EPL that will eventually lead to a large inventory of Chinese-language books. Currently, there are no plans to circulate the collected Chinese books in the library for people to check out. Instead, the books will be available as reference-only, meaning EPL visitors can read them in the library but not take them home because entering Chineselanguage titles into the library’s English-based system is too difficult, Meyer said. Wei Guo, a volunteer at the event, said she hopes those who are not Chinese can also attend the event. “I hope everyone will understand Chinese culture more,” Guo said. “(They) can learn about Chinese customs … spend free time and become volunteers for these events.” Cao said she plans for the book drive to be an annual event, but added that EPL welcomes donations year-round. She also said she hopes this initiative will help foster a service culture for the Chinese community in Evanston. “One thing we were missing in China, missing from people, is how to serve others, how to make the community a better place,” Cao said.
Police Blotter Chicago man charged with aggravated assault A Chicago resident was arrested in connection with aggravated assault near the Chicago-Evanston border Friday evening, police said. A 26-year-old Chicago woman said she was in the 300 block of Howard Street when the man, 40, became aggressive and asked if she wanted a drink, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The 40-year-old then threw her to the ground, and when police arrived, the man went into a stance indicating that he was about to punch or kick a police officer, Dugan said. The man was charged with aggravated assault and a misdemeanor and additionally received an ordinance violation for possession of alcohol in a public place and for being a pedestrian under the influence of alcohol, police said. The woman, also a Chicago resident, did not wish to prosecute the man, Dugan added. The 40-year-old is scheduled to appear in court June 10.
Evanston man forcibly robbed An 18-year-old man was forcibly robbed of his phone and wallet near downtown Evanston just after midnight Monday, police said. Several people hit the 18-year-old, an Evanston resident, and took his property on the sidewalk near the intersection of Emerson Street and Asbury Avenue, Dugan said. His driver’s license and a debit card were inside his wallet when it was taken, and the group of people also took his iPhone, which was worth about $500, police said. — Julian Gerez
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Six years ago, three Northwestern students quit their jobs after graduation to pursue a startup in the music industry. Last week, Pandora Media, Inc. agreed to acquire their company, Next Big Sound, this summer. Next Big Sound is a data analysis company that focuses on the music industry. The company, launched in 2009, collects data and uses it to gain insights on a band’s popularity to help bands make smarter marketing and sales decisions, said co-founder Alex White (SESP ’08). White, Samir Rayani (McCormick ’09) and David Hoffman (Weinberg ’09) created the tool as part of their Entrepreneurship and New Venture Formation class, taught by Kellogg Prof. Troy Henikoff, in 2008. Their assignment was to write a business plan, but they took the idea a step beyond. “It was one of those classes where we would spend all of our time on it,” Rayani said. “It was one of those things where it became more than just a class for us.” Their original idea was to create something that would allow anyone to create their own record label and allow people to sign their own bands, similar to a fantasy sports platform for music, White said. However, they weren’t making money and weren’t satisfied with the product. After attending Techstars, an international program that provides funding and mentoring to entrepreneurs, in 2009, their focus changed from the discovery of music to a more analytics-based platform. “We were still pretty obsessed with figuring out how bands become famous,” Rayani said. “How do you go from playing in your garage to being famous?” They started by working with Sony Music
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made something valuable. It’s a win-win-win. Everybody wins.” The Pandora deal will not significantly change how Next Big Sound operates or interacts with customers but will increase the amount of data available to it. He hopes working with such a large music company will allow the startup to make a bigger impact on the music industry. “It’s always been our No. 1 most requested data source and a huge data spot for us,” he said. “It’s just the start of another chapter in Next Big Sound … I’m excited to get to work.” emilychin2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Support of the ACA imperative for Supreme Court sai folmsbee
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The Supreme Court of the United States is perhaps the strangest institution of the American system of checks and balances. Compared to the 100 senators and 435 voting members of the House of Representatives, the nine Supreme Court justices seem ludicrously powerful. These men and women are not elected but serve life-long appointments made by whomever happened to be president at the time. All this, and they hold the highest authority over the law in this country. And soon, their ruling on the Affordable Care Act, colloquially known as Obamacare, has the potential to collapse our health care system. Back in March, the Supreme Court heard arguments for the case of King v. Burwell. In it, the challengers argued about the subsidies, or tax credits, set up by the ACA to make health care insurance more affordable for low-income people. The real problem is that the ACA requires that all states create insurance exchanges, and if they did not the federal exchange would be made available to those state residents. The plaintiffs are from
Virginia, which was one state that did not set up its own exchanges. They argued it was outside IRS authority to make these credits available for both federal and state insurance exchanges. The Supreme Court is expected to release its decision by late June. This case is complex, confusing and seemingly unimportant, because it does not involve the major controversial overhauls of the health care system the ACA put in place, such as the individual mandate or guarantee of insurance for everyone. Instead, it focuses on what should be a very reasonable notion that insurance should be made affordable for low-income individuals. But this may still be too much for a conservative-leaning Supreme Court. When considering the potential consequences, it is important to remember the Supreme Court remains the only branch of government encouraged to remain apolitical. The president makes decisions based on both the electorate that got him there and the political success of his party, and congressional representatives have the interests of their constituents and their next campaign as priorities. But the Supreme Court is different. The justices make decisions based on their interpretation of the law, ultimately with respect to the U.S. Constitution. That means the court will prioritize the writing of the law over any of its ultimate effects.
But if there were a time the court should consider practical ramifications, it would be for this case. It is certainly intellectually honest and politically pure to limit their judgment to constitutional and legal arguments, but big cases have big impacts, and the ACA All the case represents the progress made biggest they have had in a while. Thirty-four in increasing states are currently at risk of losing their rates of subsidies, including insurance Illinois. and providing We cannot ignore the real-world implicaa more fair tions of losing these health care subsidies. Even if you oppose the ACA, the system may administration come to a halt. Obama or even government in general, you should still support the Supreme Court ruling against the plaintiffs. The alternative could be much, much worse. If the court rules against the subsidies provided by the ACA, all the progress made in increasing the rates of insurance and providing a more fair health care system may come to a halt. The subsidies are essential for low- and middle-income Americans to afford
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health insurance because some estimate the subsidies reduce their premium costs by about 75 percent. If these were not in place, about 8 million Americans would likely lose their ability to afford their insurance. This would sound the death knell for all insurance, because the system we have only works if everyone is paying into it. You can imagine that if the only ones buying insurance are the rich, elderly or already ill, then prices will necessarily have to skyrocket, not to mention the inherent risk of having more Americans uninsured. As young Americans, the ACA deserves our support. For one, it increased the age children can remain covered under their parents insurance up to 26. This is a huge boon to recent college graduates, allowing for a precious few years of coverage until they are able to secure individual insurance through a job. Although we may be young and healthy, our enrollment into some kind of health insurance is necessary to support the system as a whole. Eventually, all of us will be at the mercy of the American health care system, and ideally it will still be intact by the time we actually need it. Sai Folmsbee is a Feinberg graduate student. He can be reached at sai@fsm.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Expertise should The hardest 60 days for outweigh celebrity status international students MATT GATES
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Publicly voicing support for political and social causes is a popular endeavor for Northwestern students. Although support for these causes can be voiced through many mediums, social media makes it far easier for the common person to disseminate his or her views. But while an NU student has a limited base of friends or followers, a celebrity has the massive following across numerous mediums to reach large swaths of the population. It has become extremely common for celebrities to voice their views on social and political issues over social media and television. I do not oppose celebrities who advocate for causes, but celebrities should not be the first people from whom to take advice on matters of public interest. What gives entertainers, athletes or other public figures any special knowledge of these issues? Why not instead focus our attention on those with expertise — whether personal or professional — on the issue being discussed? When celebrities’ voices begin to advocate for causes I support, I question why no one listened to prior advocates for social change. According to Gallup polls, most Americans did not consistently support the idea that gay people are “born that way” or that they should be able to marry until the last few years. Yet people had been fighting for marriage equality for a long time — long enough that the issue first went to the Supreme Court in 1971. Perhaps the
massive wave of support for gay rights coming from the entertainment industry during the last decade played a role in this transformation of public opinion. One might argue that the effect celebrities have on public opinion is overstated. However, a study by an assistant professor at the Kellogg School of Management found Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of thenpresidential candidate Barack Obama may have given him 1 million votes over Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primary election. Perhaps this is why celebrities show up at each party’s national convention and candidates vie for celebrity endorsements. It is strange to think we would listen to celebrity endorsements when it comes to politics. Many people are cynical about being persuaded by celebrities who advertise a certain brand of clothes, cars or other goods. Shouldn’t we be even more opposed to the possibility of celebrity endorsements affecting decisions that help determine our nation’s future? Most people advocate looking at the price and features of a car before they make a decision rather than considering a celebrity endorsement. Shouldn’t we look at the costs and benefits of political and social outcomes rather than who supports them? Celebrities are not wrong to use their massive platforms to advance social and political causes. But perhaps we should not lend their views any more weight than anyone else’s, especially when there are people that are more or equally informed to look to. Matt Gates is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be reached at matthewgates2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Burak Sekerci
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Every year, American universities host about 820,000 international students. These students come to the United States hoping to find better opportunities for themselves and their future families — opportunities that often don’t exist in their home countries. They come here to live the American dream. However, after their first year here, international students often see their circumstances are not as secure as they thought. Post-graduation, these students have only 60 days to stay in America before their student visas expire. For U.S. colleges, it is graduation season, that time of year when parents watch their kids walk up to the podium, get their diplomas and start real adult life. But this time is bittersweet for some international students who can’t find jobs to sponsor them for new visas that allow them to stay after student visas expire 60 days following graduation. These 60 days become a race for the limited H-1B and OPT visas, which are given to only 155,000 people every year. These visas can only accommodate roughly 19 percent of international students who graduate each year. It is absurd the United States educates these students but does not use their education in its own companies. Because human capital is so important to production, denying almost 665,000 potential workers the right to remain in the United States and work for U.S. companies is crazy. The number of international students in American colleges rises every year. However, with current immigration laws, international students may not be willing to come to the
United States for school in the near future. This poses a problem for the United States because international students generate more than $24 billion in revenue each year, according to the Institute of International Education. This figure is especially significant considering many American schools provide scholarships to Americans while giving few scholarships to international students. Thus, international students create few net for U.S. colleges The visas only costs while bringing subaccommodate stantial revenue to the economy. Deterring roughly 19 international students percent of with harsh immigration laws would international cause a major outflow students... It of money from the is absurd the United States. According to a United States recent opinion piece educates these in Forbes, most international students in students but the United States are does not use STEM majors. They their education are America’s future engineers, scientists in its own and doctors. The U.S. companies. government should ease its restrictions on visas for foreigners following college graduation to improve the transition of international students into their careers. As a result, both international students and U.S. colleges can prosper.
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to the Preservation Commission on Feb. 10. The commission passed the proposal last month after debate over the city’s role in university construction projects. The council also unanimously approved the Evanston Animal Shelter Association — a nonprofit previously called Saving Animals For Evanston — to begin running Evanston Animal Shelter, 2310 Oakton St., at the beginning of June after more than a year of city operation. Although the nonprofit organization will be allowed to start fundraising starting June 1, the city will continue funding shelter operations until October. EASA will then be required to independently raise $40,000 each year to keep the shelter running. If the nonprofit leaves the shelter, all of the money it raised will revert back to the city, a provision prompted after the previous nonprofit that ran the shelter — Community Animal Rescue Effort — departed with more than $1 million in donations. The city will also reimburse shelter volunteers about $3,500 total for their own purchases of supplies and payment of veterinary bills during the year the city ran the shelter. City Council also voted to provide both branches of Curt’s Cafe, a job- and life-training center for at-risk youth, with a $42,000 grant after postponing the vote due to concerns regarding equal opportunity for other Evanston businesses with similar workforce development goals. Ald. Brian Miller (9th), who raised concerns along with Ald. Delores Holmes (5th), said his goal was to establish a long-term vision for the $300,000 in the Economic Development Fund by creating a process for other businesses to receive grants. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz outlined a tentative plan for outreach to interested businesses starting this fall. “For me it was about creating a process that every interested party can come and be a part of,” Miller told The Daily. “I love Curt’s, it’s a great program. I just wanted to make sure that our city resources are being allocated in a great manner.” Each branch of Curt’s Cafe, 2922 Central St. and 1813 Dempster St., will receive $21,000 to provide students who complete job training with stipends.
Evanston warns residents of renewable energy solicitations
Following reports from several citizens, Evanston issued a warning Tuesday to residents about potentially misleading mail solicitations from an alternative electricity supplier. The city said residents had contacted them about receiving solicitations from power suppliers advertising an opportunity to switch from the city’s current plan to completely renewable energy. Evanston said the solicitations were misleading, as it already supplies participating residents and small businesses with 100 percent renewable energy. Homefield Energy has served as the city’s electricity supplier since April 2014, when the city signed a threeyear contract with Homefield called the Community Choice Electricity Aggregation program to provide citizens with renewable energy. Residents can opt in or out of the program at any time. “If residents are satisfied with the program, there is no need to take any action,” the city said in a news release. — Marissa Page
EPL plans events for North Shore civil rights movement anniversary
The Evanston Public Library announced Tuesday its plans to acknowledge the 50th anniversary of a civil rights movement on the North Shore with a panel discussion and book groups. The North Shore Summer Project, a community movement to address housing segregation on the North Shore and compel realtors to diversify neighborhoods, culminated in 1965 when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke against discriminatory housing practices to thousands of residents. On June 25, EPL will hold a panel discussion with experts on housing from the North Shore area. The library will also host three book clubs from mid-June to mid-July, which it said will focus on themes of civil rights, segregation and discrimination.
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reality.” Jenkins’ 2014 mixtape “The Waters” has been downloaded more than 85,000 times. Saba was featured on fellow Chicago rapper Chance the Rapper’s 2013 album “Acid Rap.” The rappers reflected on how they’re responding to incidents of police brutality that have reignited discussions of race relations nationwide. Despite the media’s newfound interest in the topic, Jenkins said these sort of events have been going on for a long time. “We’re seeing a surge of it out in the open because of technology, but there’s even more of it going on behind the scenes,” he said. “It’s stuff that’s been happening all my life.” Both Jenkins and Saba said they often have an easier time writing more socially-conscious verses because the content matter is so familiar to them. Much of the discussion focused on money in the music industry, specifically how the rappers balance staying true to socially-conscious hiphop and maintaining mainstream appeal. Jenkins noted that although artists like Trinidad James, of “All Gold Everything” fame, can break through with one smash hit, for more politicallydriven rappers, like himself, it takes longer. “Why is it that J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar and Big K.R.I.T. and myself and Saba, why do
we need to have three or four or five mixtapes before n—–s take notice?” he said. Sharma asked if white people who attend the rappers’ shows should say the N-word when singing along. Both said no. “I think it is forever Rarely do you disrespectful,” Jenkins said. “(But) you say have the chance that at the beginning of the show, it creto listen to ates a very different and hear the atmosphere.” people behind Weinberg sophomore Ben Levey, an the songs NCDC member who students listen to helped organize the event, told The Daily everyday. voices like Jenkin’s Ben Levey, and Saba’s aren’t often NCDC member heard on campus. “Events like this and conversations like this are valuable in that they’re unique,” he told The Daily. “Rarely do you have the chance to listen to and hear the people behind the songs students listen to everyday.” He said he hopes the event will prompt students will think more critically about Chicago and its hip-hop scene.
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National News 5 more candidates for president, and 5 reasons U.S. may not notice WASHINGTON — Presidential announcement mania is coming. Look fast or you’ll miss it. Five more candidates — four Republicans and one Democrat — are expected to formally announce their presidential intentions between now and June 4. The twitterverse will hum, a poll may spike a notch or two and for an instant, cable channels will feature warm, fuzzy pictures of someone’s humble hometown. And the public will shrug. Already, six Republicans and two Democrats have announced and found any momentum was fleeting. The upcoming batch of Republican announcements includes: Rick Santorum, the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and 2012 Iowa caucus winner, on Wednesday; former New York Gov. George Pataki on Thursday; Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on June 1; former Texas Gov. Rick Perry on June 4. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is expected to announce on Saturday his bid for the Democratic nomination. Here are the pitfalls they face: — Their poll positions may not change. “They may see a blip, but voters aren’t paying attention yet,” said Andrew Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Former business executive Carly Fiorina had less than 1 percent in an April Fox News poll, declared her candidacy May 4, and is now — The hometown glow may not last. “Most of us are still drawn to the real or imagined stability and solid values,” wrote Larry Sabato and Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Santorum plans to announce near his boyhood home in Cabot, Pa., and Perry’s due to speak in Dallas. Chances are people will quickly forget — former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee announced in Hope, Ark., on May 5, and went from 9 percent in the April Fox poll to 10 percent after his speech. — You shouldn’t go home again. Graham plans an announcement in his home state, but a lot of South Carolina Republicans are cool to his conciliatory ways. Graham didn’t even attend the party’s candidate forum in his state on May 9. O’Malley, who plans a rally in downtown Baltimore, has faced questions about his 1999-2007 tenure as mayor, when his toughon-crime policies often alienated black voters. — Don’t get boxed in. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas announced his candidacy at Liberty University in Virginia in March, stressing his devotion to Christian principles. While that could help him among influential Christian right voters in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucus, it also could brand him as overly
beholden to that constituency, not a traditional recipe for nationwide success. — Will you still remember me tomorrow? The five hopefuls are barely known outside their home states and could engage in a media demolition derby. As soon as one’s done, another steps in. Santorum’s announcement is scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday, but the next day, bam, Pataki’s up. Forty-eight hours later, O’Malley. And so on. More ominously, lurking just behind this group are bigger names who have signaled they’ll have something to say in June, such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Not to mention former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, and Donald Trump, a man who knows how to get attention. Get ready in June, he told an Iowa Republican dinner May 16, for an announcement that’s “going to surprise a lot of people.” — David Lightman (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)
Federal appeals court refuses to lift order halting Obama immigration program WASHINGTON — The Obama administration suffered another immigration setback Tuesday, as a divided federal appeals court declined to lift a injunction imposed by a Texasbased trial judge. The 2-1 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals means President Barack Obama’s executive action deferring deportation of certain immigrants will remain stalled in court for the foreseeable future. It also could force officials to make some tough legal and political choices. “The public interest favors maintenance of the injunction,” Judge Jerry E. Smith stated in the appellate court’s 42-page majority opinion. The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program stopped deportation proceedings against certain immigrants who had arrived illegally in the United States before age 16. A 2014 expansion added more immigrants, including parents of U.S. citizens. Taken together, the actions could shield more than 4 million immigrants from deportation. Critics call the program an amnesty and say it exceeds the president’s authority. Supporters say it simply exercises prosecutorial discretion and argue that the challengers lack the legal standing to be in court. In February, addressing a challenge brought by Texas and 25 other states, a Brownsville, Texas-based federal judge appointed by President George W. Bush issued a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking the expanded deferred-deportation program announced last year.
In the decision issued Tuesday, the appellate court agreed with Texas that the deferred action policy known as DAPA imposed a serious burden on the state, and that Texas and the other states challenging the policy had a substantial likelihood of ultimately winning their legal case. “DAPA modifies substantive rights and interests, conferring lawful presence on 500,000 illegal aliens in Texas (forcing) the state to choose between spending millions of dollars to subsidize driver’s licenses and changing its law,” Smith wrote. Smith pointedly added that “although prosecutorial discretion is broad, it is not unfettered.” Smith was appointed to the appellate court by President Ronald Reagan. Judge Jennifer Elrod, who sided with Smith, was appointed by President George W. Bush. Judge Stephen A. Higginson dissented and sided with Obama, the president who appointed him. “I would hold that the underlying issue presented to us — the order in which non-citizens without documentation must be removed from the United States — must be decided, presently is being decided, and always has been decided, by the federal political branches,” Higginson wrote. The Obama administration now must decide whether to ask the entire 5th Circuit to review the case or to seek review by the conservativedominated Supreme Court, or to take some other step. Marielena Hincapie, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, urged the Justice Department to “continue its efforts to get this injunction lifted by bringing the matter before the Supreme Court without delay.” A request that the Supreme Court lift the injunction, and thereby let the Obama immigration policy take effect while the full appeal runs its course, would first go to Justice Antonin Scalia, who oversees the 5th Circuit. On such a big issue, Scalia would likely refer the matter to the other eight justices for a decision. Any decision could push the issue into the 2016 presidential campaign spotlight. A renewed immigration debate could prove particularly sticky for Republican presidential contenders Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, who is expected to soon declare his presidential candidacy. Both have tried to walk a fine line between pushing for stronger border security while backing legal status to nearly 11 million people who are already in the country illegally. Immigration rights groups were disappointed with the court ruling but expressed confidence that ultimately the executive actions would be upheld. “We always knew that the fight for immigration reform was not going to be easy and that there would be bumps along the way. But the president’s immigration action stands on the right side of history,” said Rocio Saenz,
international executive vice president for the Service Employees International Union International. A District of Columbia-based appellate court has heard oral arguments in a separate but related challenge to the Obama immigration policy but has not yet rendered a decision. — Michael Doyle and Franco Ordonez (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)
Tech news site Re/code acquired by Vox Media Fast-growing digital media company Vox Media has acquired tech blog Re/code. Vox, which also owns news sites the Verge, Polygon and Eater, made the announcement Tuesday. It said Re/code, founded by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, would continue to publish at Recode.net and across other platforms; Re/code is also known for its Code conferences, which bring together some of the top names in Silicon Valley for multiday events. “We have found a home for Re/code at a rapidly growing digital media company whose culture of quality journalism meshes closely with our own,” Mossberg said in a statement. “This is by far the best fit for the future of Re/code and the Code conferences.” Swisher added that the combination would “give us access to the new tools and talent we need and want to make Re/code stronger and better.” Re/code was previously owned by Revere Digital. A purchase price was not disclosed. Vox said that Re/code would benefit from its infrastructure and resources across production, marketing, communications, distribution, advertising and creative services, and would eventually adopt Chorus, Vox Media’s platform. Its coverage areas will complement those of the Verge, which publishes consumer tech news and culture stories, by focusing on tech business news and analysis, Vox said. Vox said Re/code’s tech and business conference division would continue to grow and that it would “explore ways to apply Re/code’s leadership in this space” to its other media brands. “Kara, Walt, and the Re/code team embody this same exceptional digital-first approach to journalism, continuing to set the highest bar for tech business coverage,” Vox Media Chief Executive Jim Bankoff said. Re/code launched last year after Swisher and Mossberg left their previous tech news site, AllThingsD. Vox Media has seven media brands that collectively reach 160 million people monthly: Vox. com, the Verge, SB Nation, Polygon, Eater, Racked and Curbed. — Andrea Chang (Los Angeles Times/TNS)
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Chris Collins receives contract extension after first two seasons
Coach Chris Collins has agreed to a contract extension after his end-of-year meeting with athletic director Jim Phillips. The Chicago Tribune broke the news around 9 a.m. Tuesday morning and the team confirmed it via Twitter a few hours later. “I was never worried about (an extension),”
Across Campuses College students with nowhere to go CHICAGO — This month, with a mix of anxiety and exhilaration, college students across the country took their final exams, and then packed their bags for home. It’s a little different for undergraduates Malachi Hoye and Caprice Manny. They don’t have homes to return to — at least not in the traditional sense. Hoye and Manny are among the estimated 56,000 college students nationwide who are considered homeless. Such young people are a somewhat broadly defined population that experts say is underreported and expected to grow. But efforts to accommodate homeless college students are relatively new and fragmented. Schools, the federal government, a fledgling national organization and a pilot project by a Chicago nonprofit — are among those trying to solve a complicated challenge. “I don’t have any trust fund anywhere. I don’t have any backup money,” Manny, 21, said in an apartment where the nonprofit, La Casa Norte, placed her in March. “I don’t have anything from any outside sources. It literally is just me. So, if I don’t get my crap together, I am just going to be out there.” Manny, who finished her second year at Truman College this month, for years had bounced from the homes of sisters, grandparents and friends, as well as a couple of long-term housing centers, after leaving her mother’s home in 2011. She called the rent-free living program “a
Collins told the Tribune. “I want to be here for the long haul and build a program.” The school did not disclose the length of the extension, but according to the Tribune, Collins said he will stay for the “foreseeable future.” The financial terms of the extension were also not made available. Collins’ original contract was reported to be a seven-year, $10 million deal, according to CBS Sports. In his two years since taking over as coach from Bill Carmody, Collins has led the Wildcats to a 29-36 record. Collins’ two completed recruiting classes averaged a ranking of 56th in the country, up from 79th in Carmody’s final two years at the helm. — Max Gelman
blessing” that let her focus on 12 credit hours of classes, which met Monday through Thursday at Truman, and juggle jobs at Starbucks, Walgreens and Bath & Body Works. Before a federal student aid law enacted in 2009 gave financial aid administrators a specific definition of homelessness, it was difficult for colleges and universities to identify and track homeless students, said Cyekeia Lee, director of higher education initiatives at the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth. In recent years, however, that once-invisible population has come into focus. For the 2013-14 school year, the most recent data available, 56,224 students were classified as homeless, according to federal financial aid records. A year earlier, the number was 60,000. Homelessness on campuses carries nearly the same definition as it does anywhere else. It generally covers students living in temporary, unstable situations, including friends’ or relatives’ homes, cars, shelters, parks, abandoned buildings, motels or bus and train stations. One factor contributing to homelessness on campuses is low-income high school students’ “laser focus” on going to college, said Shenay Bridges, assistant dean of students and community resources at DePaul University. They obtain enough financial aid to cover tuition, books and a few related costs, but fail to consider remaining expenses, including housing, she said. “I think people get their heads focused on one plan, and when that plan doesn’t work out, they find themselves scrambling,” said Bridges, adding that the students lack fallback financial support. “Then they’re accumulating some debt, and it
Babies understand differences early on, NU research finds
Babies can understand basic relationships before they can talk, according to a new Northwestern study. The study tested babies’ analogical ability, or the ability to see basic relationships between objects, ideas and events. Researchers found that infants are capable of understanding sameness and difference between two things. “This suggests that a skill key to human intelligence is present very early in human development, snowballs.” Hoye, 20, left his mother’s home in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood at 16 after another in a series of arguments with her, he said. Since then, he has stayed at friends’ homes, shelters, a hospital, apartments, a Columbia College Chicago dormitory and on the streets. In March, he and his older brother began living rent-free at El Rescate, an independent living center in Humboldt Park run by the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. Hoye said he wants to inspire his brother and disprove “my mother’s voice in my head telling me you’re not going to be (anything).” Still, there are challenges. Hoye, who is finishing his second year at Columbia, has about $9,000 in debt, he said. That debt was a major factor in his decision to leave school for now, said Hoye, who plans on paying down debt, finding an apartment and re-enrolling in college after he stabilizes his finances. Until now he has managed to stay in school through federal grants, scholarships, state food aid and a job at a Dunkin’ Donuts, Hoye said. “Ain’t nobody else out here doing anything for me and my brother,” he said. “If I don’t do it, I will be pushing a cart at the expressway, trying to look for change.” Advocates for the homeless are pressing for changes to help students like Hoye and Manny. Federal proposals include charging in-state tuition to homeless and foster youths, giving them priority for federal work-study programs, finding housing for them during school breaks and requiring the Government Accountability Office to make recommendations on improving the educational performance of homeless students.
and that language skills are not necessary for learning abstract relations,” lead researcher Alissa Ferry said in a news release. To conduct the study, researchers showed 7-month-old infants pairs of items that were either the same or different until the amount of time they looked at the pairs declined. They found that the babies looked longer at pairs that were different, even when they were composed of new objects. “It appears that relational learning is something that humans, even very young humans, are much better at than other primates,” said psychology Prof. Dedre Gentner, a co-author of the study, in the release. — Madeline Fox
It also would help if every university and college created a single point of contact, a clearinghouse of services for homeless students that would make college easier to navigate, Lee said. The National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth is expanding a network of colleges that have specific programs to help homeless students, Lee said. About 350 schools in four states have single points of contact, Lee said; 150 other schools in at least nine states are receiving training in best practices to support homeless students, she added. For Manny and Hoye, college has been a way to move to a more stable life with a better shot at success, even when they were unsure how they would get to college. They downplay the precariousness of their lives. To handle their hectic schedules, they say time management and an extensive knowledge of public transportation are key. If Hoye can get back to school by paying down his debt and finding stable housing, he said he would continue studying music business and hopes to break into that field as an R&B singer and producer. Manny said she always has enjoyed writing and is planning to major in English after she completes her studies at Truman and enrolls at a four-year institution. But she is unsure where her major will lead. Other than that, she said, she feels pretty settled. “I’m not looking to make a lot of money,” Manny said. “I’m really just looking to be comfortable and have a life that I’m proud of and happy with.” — Ted Gregory (Chicago Tribune/TNS)
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NU-Qatar basketball team finds unity on the court By alex lederman
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The diversity on the court is unmistakable. There are Qatari, Lebanese, Bulgarian, Indian, Filipino and Jordanian citizens — and that’s only on one team. It doesn’t take 20-20 vision to notice. The uniforms aren’t uniform. Some of the girls could fit right in with any American basketball team. Others wear long sleeve shirts under their jerseys, pants and a hijab. On the basketball courts of Education City, respect is most important. Players can express themselves however they feel most comfortable. It doesn’t matter what an athlete has to wear to play basketball — she’ll do it. Love of the game comes first. For Northwestern University in Qatar, that love has translated to success. The Wildcats have won two Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) Basketball League titles in three years, including this season. “We always have a talk at the beginning of the year,” Emily Wilson, manager for community relations at NU-Q and coach of the women’s basketball team, said, “and we say ‘There’s a lot of diversity on this team, but when you walk into this practice, you’re a team. You’re a family. You work together.’” Even as the newest addition to the intercollegiate league, joining in 2009-10, NU-Q’s women’s basketball team has immediately become the team to beat, finishing in the top three each season. “Northwestern University in Qatar has been breaking new ground in many areas of academics and research,” University President Morton Schapiro said in an email to The Daily, “so it’s also very encouraging to see the success of the Wildcat women’s basketball program there. College sports provide a unifying experience for both those who participate and for those who attend games and follow the teams. It’s exciting to see that happening on our campus in Doha as well as here in Evanston.” But the journey to the top has been distinct from Evanston. The team faces unique cultural barriers, encounters and triumphs unmatched in America. The pride the Cats bring to their campus, however, rings familiar. The culture of college sports in Qatar is different than in America. The HBKU Basketball League is not the NCAA. After all, there are only nine schools in Education City — a relatively new endeavor of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. “It doesn’t compare to the Big Ten,” Wilson said, “but we take it so seriously. The same reason people like sports in the U.S. is the reason people like sports here. More than the differences, the sameness of it is cool.” Since 1998, eight international
universities and 2,500 students have been invited to Education City — a 3,000 acre plot of land — as part of a grand strategy for the country, NU-Q Dean Everette E. Dennis said. The goal, Dennis said, is to promote economic, social, human and environmental development through education and to promote Qatar on the world stage. With a strong education system in place, Qatar hopes to instill an advanced economy when its oil runs out. Sports are integral to becoming a larger part of the global community. Because Qatar sits on the third largest reserve of natural gas in the world, it can afford to bring high profile sporting events to the country — including, to much controversy, the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Naturally, intercollegiate athletics have followed the simultaneous import of Western education and increasing prominence of sports. Although soccer is the most common sport in the country, basketball has become surprisingly popular. After all, it’s too hot for about half the year to play sports outdoors. The HBKU Basketball League features five schools: NU-Q, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Texas A&M University at Qatar and Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Each team plays the others twice in the regular season. After going undefeated and winning the league two years ago, NU struggled last season and placed third. The Cats couldn’t bounce back from the loss of the graduated senior class, including star and 2013 Most Valuable Player Dana Atrach. But this season, Atrach returned as a coach. She joined Wilson and a roster composed almost entirely of returning players to lead NU back to victory. “Having two coaches is so much better than one because you can split them up and really give them individual time and focus,” Wilson said. A key difference between Qatari and American basketball is experience. Unlike in America where athletes are scouted from middle school, a significant chunk of NU-Q’s roster had never played basketball before coming to the school. That’s why the team starts with basics each season — serious basics. Before moving onto anything more advanced, the Cats work on the fundamentals: dribbling, passing and shooting. “Some of the things we really needed to work on were coming together and learning what it actually means to play basketball in terms of like strategy and what the sport meant,” Atrach said, “Teamwork more than anything helped them pull through any rough patches.” After starting out 7-0, NU dropped a heartbreaking 1-point loss to Cornell in double overtime in the final game of the regular season. But it made the Cats even hungrier. Having already faced the Big Red, the Cats devised a winning strategy, working on their defense down low and making sure not to foul out.
Source: Emily Wilson
COMING TOGETHER The NU-Qatar women’s basketball team huddles up during a game. The squad has a heavy emphasis on teaching teamwork and fundamentals to its often inexperienced players.
With the necessary adjustments made, NU team won the rematch against Cornell in the title game and claimed the championship. “To have all your hard work pay off is one of the best feelings in the world,” senior captain Maha Al-Ansari said. There are only about 278,000 Qatari citizens. But with such a large reserve of natural gas, that’s not enough to fully capitalize on the business opportunities the land creates. As a result, around 88 percent of the population in Qatar of more than 2 million is international, not Qatari. Likewise, only 40 percent of the 200 students at NU-Q are Qatari, with the rest coming from 30 different countries, Dennis said. As the student body parallels the larger society, the women’s basketball team parallels the student body. The team of 12 includes players of six nationalities. “On the court, nationality and culture — none of that matters,” Al-Ansari said. “But you’re not only a team on the court, you’re a team off the court. I learned a lot from the different cultures of my teammates.” And as a group, the Cats have overcome gender barriers female athletes face in the Middle East. In general, the university system has created more opportunities for women in sports. “Before, for women and girls in Qatar and the Middle East generally, playing sports of any kind was really not done,” Dennis said. “Physical exercise was not encouraged and sports activities were, if not completely discouraged, definitely not encouraged.” Al-Ansari agreed. “A lot of people in Qatar, especially Qataris, think that female participation in sports — it’s a bit of a taboo topic,” she said. “Not because of anything, but
Source: Emily Wilson
WINNING LINEUP The 2014-15 NU-Qatar team poses for a team photo. The Wildcats defeated Cornell in the championship game to win this year’s league title.
because — when the audience is male and we’re wearing shorts, and then Islam comes into play, and some people think it’s not okay.” While teaching at NU-Q from 2010-13, Geoff Harkness, currently an assistant professor at Morningside College, conducted a study called “Out of Bounds: Cultural Barriers to Female Sports Participation in Qatar.” He found a number of hurdles to female participation in sports in Qatar, even with government encouragement. These include cultural pressures, societal expectations, reputational worries for families and religious concerns. In his research, Harkness observed that the women least likely to participate in sports were Qatari. International female athletes in Qatar were far more common, meaning even if sports served as a melting pot of different cultures, Qatari women were less exposed to this engagement. Nonetheless, Harkness said he does think sports are a contributing catalyst to greater gender equality. “Sports is one place where you’re seeing women defying the old way of things,” Harkness said, “Education is another. Universities give legitimacy to the sports. It might not be acceptable for women to play sports on the local basketball court down the street or join the local sport, but if they’re doing it for school, their parents might be OK with that.” And Harkness’ findings from a few years ago on Qatari women might already be outdated. Whereas Al-Ansari was the only Qatari player on the team last season, there were four this year, Wilson said. “I’ve seen a change in the Qatari community around me,” Al-Ansari said. “With a lot of other schools in Qatar, girls aren’t as lucky because they don’t really get the opportunities that we get in international schools.” On top of that, Qatari students make up a large bloc of the support the team gets at games, Wilson said. The events serve as major social gatherings for the small student body, particularly locals in the largely commuter school. There’s no systematic gender segregation in Qatar like in neighboring Saudi Arabia, nor is there enforcement of religious norms regarding gender. Qatar may be a relatively conservative society, but veiling and attire in general depend on personal preferences, and no religious police monitors clothing, said Henri Lauzière, a history professor at NU in Evanston studying the modern Middle East and North Africa. Harkness, who followed his study on female sports participation in Qatar with similar research in Iraq, specified that the Middle East is not a monoculture, as did Al-Ansari. “I feel like there’s this Western notion that females in Qatar are oppressed and they’re not allowed to participate in sports,” Al-Ansari said. “That’s not true. But being in a university definitely makes it more okay to participate in sports. It makes it
easier to do so as a Qatari female.” The NU-Qatar women’s basketball team huddles up during a game. The squad has a heavy emphasis on teaching teamwork and fundamentals to its often inexperienced players. Source: Emily Wilson The NU-Qatar women’s basketball team huddles up during a game. The squad has a heavy emphasis on teaching teamwork and fundamentals to its often inexperienced players. The HBKU Basketball League might not be the Big Ten, but the NU-Q women’s basketball players sure are Wildcats. “We’re very much attached to the bigger Wildcat identity,” Al-Ansari said. “We take a lot of pride in being all one Wildcat family.” And the Evanston campus has recognized their achievement, too. Schapiro sent the team a plaque after they won the league. The similarities to America don’t end there. One of the reasons sports are being encouraged in Qatar, Wilson said, is that, similar to the U.S., there’s fear of a looming health crisis. More and more, people are overweight and inactive. The government push for increased sports is in part to increase general wellness, she said. Wilson said her main priority is to give students an outlet to be healthy and active. At the more local level, though, comes the Wildcat pride. “It’s so interesting to see how you can take the spirit of a school,” Wilson said, “and how you can make people a part of something from so far away.” And just like in Evanston, much of the learning comes outside the classroom. “I learned more from my collegiate experience on the basketball team than I did in any other club, organization, or class that I took,” Al-Ansari said. “I learned so much about teamwork, and how to work with other people to achieve a certain goal.” The love for the team shows in the players not wanting to give it up. Just as Atrach stayed on to coach after graduating, AlAnsari will now remain as a coach. The challenge ahead won’t be easy. Next season eerily resembles two years ago when many of the key players graduated. This time the Cats hope to bounce back stronger — by starting with the basics. Al-Ansari said when the team struggled, it started at too high a level for the team’s new members, many of whom had little experience with basketball. Now the rebuild will be done right. But, junior captain Jemina Legaspi said, the experience is more important than winning. “NU-Q’s women’s basketball team is like my family,” Legaspi said. “It’s one of the best experiences I’ve ever had.” alexanderlederman2017@u.northwestern.edu