The Daily Northwestern -- October 10, 2018

The Daily Northwestern Wednesday, October 10, 2018

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Contested ballots doom union effort Vote by non-tenure eligible faculty for union fails

By ALAN PEREZ and TROY CLOSSON daily senior staffers @_perezalan_

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Michelle Wolf during her set at Cahn Auditorium. Wolf spoke about feminism, Lake Michigan and abortion.

Comedian tackles white feminism About 500 students came to hear A&O fall speaker Michelle Wolf

By GABY ALFIERI

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Comedian Michelle Wolf left her crowd in laughter and shock on Tuesday, providing her take on issues ranging from the size of Lake Michigan to gender inequality.

For their fall speaker series, A&O Productions hosted Wolf on Tuesday evening. With over 500 students claiming tickets, the free event nearly filled the lower level of Cahn Auditorium.

Wolf made headlines earlier this year for her controversial speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, in

which she criticized President Donald Trump and his administration. In the months following, Wolf, who got her start on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” has seen a surge in success. This summer, Netflix aired a weekly topical series, “The Break with

Michelle Wolf.”

Isabella Soto, A&O co-chair and Medill senior, explained that Wolf ’s recent controversy made her an interesting speaker to bring to campus. Wolf ’s comedic style and outspokenness also appealed to the A&O » See WOLF, page 7

The bid to form a non-tenure eligible faculty union failed Tuesday after federal officials granted the University’s request to include 25 contested ballots in the final count.

A final tally completed by the National Labor Relations Board showed that of the 25, just two voted in favor of joining the Service Employees International Union, while 23 faculty members voted against.

The NLRB recently granted Northwestern’s request that the final tally consider the votes against objections by SEIU. The updated count, now 242 against and 231 in favor of unionization, is a win for the University, which strongly opposed the initial exclusion from the tally of faculty whose eligibility to vote was disputed. Provost Jonathan Holloway said in a news release that NU is “grateful” that the NLRB ensured “every voice was heard.”

“We appreciate that our faculty participated in the process and acknowledge how close the election was in the end,” he said.

The announcement ends a bitter dispute just over a year after NTE faculty filed a complaint with the NLRB accusing the University of unfair labor practices. Northwestern administrators had refused to bargain with the SEIU since federal officials certified the labor union as a representative of the non-tenured faculty in May 2017, arguing that the 25 votes were unreasonably excluded.

The faculty and administration had disagreed over which faculty members were eligible to vote. Last month, the agency overturned its previous decision using a 2002 administrative rule, determining that the election’s rules “unambiguously” included 18 of the 25 employees, and that the remaining seven “should be included in the unit on community-of-interest grounds.”

In response to the news Tuesday, an NTE faculty organizing committee said it would continue to “stand up for what we know is right.” » See UNION, page 7

NU nixes parade Worker killed after crane collapses Steel beam fell on two construction workers, one pronounced dead for student-led performances

By KRISTINA KARISCH

For second straight year, Homecoming Parade won’t occur

By DANIELLE SPITZ

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In an attempt to revitalize homecoming traditions, Wildcat Warm-Up will replace the Homecoming Parade instead featuring various performance groups at a Friday evening event.

President of Northwestern Alumni Association Samir Mayekar (Weinberg ’06, Kellogg ’13) said he noticed a declining interest in the parade. The new event will showcase student talent and will occur right before the pep rally on Friday, Mayekar said.

This is the second year in a row that the parade has not taken place after it was canceled last year due to construction on Sheridan Road.

“Because of the construction, we had to take a hiatus

from the parade, and what that sparked was assessing the parade itself as part of Homecoming,” Mayekar said.

“Like with most traditions you kind of have to always make sure you’re examining them and continually refreshing them.”

He said if Wildcat WarmUp is a success and receives positive feedback, this change could become permanent in years to come.

Alumna Amy Long (Weinberg ’93) said she never made it a point to attend the Homecoming Parade as a student even when it was on the schedule.

“When I was in school, we were so bad at sports that it wasn’t even something we really went to,” Long said.

“But it also seems like they’re doing so much to rev-up school spirit especially around sports, so it seems like a missed opportunity.”

Long said she’s most looking forward to going to her » See PARADE, page 7

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One construction worker was killed and another injured after a steel beam fell at a construction site in Evanston on Tuesday.

Construction workers were unloading steel beams from a truck at 8:25 a.m. for use in a nine-story apartment building on the 800 block of Emerson when the crane rigging failed, said Evanston Police spokesman Perry Polinski. Evanston Fire Department said in a news release the the column dropped from a height of approximately 30 feet before striking the workers.

The steel beam fell on two construction workers, aged 55 and 27, Polinski said. Both workers were rushed to Evanston Hospital.

The 55-year-old worker, identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office as David Bialas of Compton, Illinois, was pronounced dead upon arrival.

The 27-year-old man was pinned under the beam and extricated before being brought

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An Evanston Police Department officer at the 800 block of Emerson street. A crane set up on the site dropped a steel beam on two construction workers on Thursday.

to the hospital, where he underwent surgery. On Tuesday afternoon, he was reported to be in serious but stable condition.

Polinski said firefighters helped the crane operator get down from his post after the accident occurred, and that it was not immediately clear what caused the beam to fall. Officials

from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration have opened an investigation into the incident.

In a statement to various news outlets, OSHA spokeswoman Rhonda Burke said Bialas worked for Area Erectors Inc., a construction company with offices throughout Illinois.

OSHA and Area Erectors were not immediately available for comment.

Emerson Street between Maple and Sherman avenues is set to remain closed until noon Wednesday, according to a tweet from the city. karisch@u.northwestern.edu

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Council to vote on changes to housing ordinance

By SAMANTHA HANDLER

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Concerns that developers were too easily able to avoid adding affordable units to their buildings led a city committee to propose changes that would strengthen the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance.

The changes, discussed on monday by aldermen Administration and Public Works Committee meeting would potentially tighten requirements for affordable on-site units and provide more incentives for developers to have such units.

To comply with the current ordinance — implemented in January 2016 — developers can make 10 percent of units affordable, give a fee-in-lieu payment, suggest an alternative equivalent proposal or petition for a reduction of requirements.

The Inclusionary Housing Ordinance Subcommittee — created last October to amend the ordinance to more effectively require on-site affordable units — and city staff recommended council approval of the proposed changes, according to city documents.

The proposal suggests changes to multiple aspects of the ordinance including definitions of terms, requirements and the eligibility of households for affordable units.

The proposal comes after community members have expressed concerns that the existing ordinance has not yielded enough on-site affordable units from approved developments. A spate of proposed highrises in 2017 and early 2018 added fuel to the fire,

POLICE BLOTTER $1,000 of copper wire stolen

Evanston Police Department officers responded to a report of a burglary at 729 Howard St. in South Evanston on Monday.

An Evanston facilities supervisor reported the burglary in the vacant storefront when he discovered approximately $1,000 worth of copper wire removed from a utility box in the rear of the building,

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Housing and grants division administrator Sarah Flax speaks at a city meeting. On Monday, Flax presented proposed changes to the city’s Inclusionary Housing Ordinance.

and residents were particularly frustrated when aldermen approved the controversial Albion development on Sherman Avenue. The developers had elected to employ an alternative equivalent proposal, which included making less than 10 percent of the 273 units affordable.

Sue Loellbach, director of development at Connections for the Homeless, a nonprofit advocacy group, said she is “actually very happy” with much of the proposal to change the ordinance.

She added that both Connections for the

Homeless and Joining Forces for Affordable Housing, two local nonprofits that assist individuals with affordable housing needs, sent a letter to the council and subcommittee asking for changes to the proposal, but that overall the organizations were “very encouraged” by the suggestions.

“We’d like to see the possibility of making all of the units the same both on the inside and the outside,” Loellbach said at the meeting. “There is the risk of stigmatizing families that live in the lower priced units if they look different, if they’re smaller,

said Evanston Police spokesman Perry Polinski.

When EPD officers discovered the utility box, the lock had been broken, Polinski said.

debit cards, gift cards, liquor, bonds, jewelry and an iPad, the combined value of which is around $6,000.

The person who stole the items gained access to the first floor apartment by pushing an air conditioning unit up to the open window and climbing in, Polinski said.

The case is under investigation by Evanston Police officers.

$6,000 worth of items stolen in apartment break in

EPD responded to a report of a theft at on the 800 block of Asbury Avenue in central Evanston on Monday.

EFD officers reported theft of cash, credit and

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things like that.”

Housing and grants division administrator Sarah Flax said the subcommittee is “really trying to incentivize” on-site units. Flax said the proposal outlines only two circumstances that the ordinance would allow a fee-in-lieu payment: If the developer is not asking for any zoning changes or building allowances or if the developer is building condominiums.

The new ordinance also requires any development asking for allowances to have a minimum of 5 percent on-site affordable units and pay a fee-in-lieu for remaining units. The revisions also suggest increasing the fee-in-lieu payments to deter developers from choosing that option.

The changes additionally would give some structural and parking bonuses to developers that provide on-site affordable units. City zoning planner Melissa Klotz said at the meeting that the proposal will help give developers a better understanding of public benefits.

“The project will end up being essentially the same,” Klotz said, “it’s just that the developers know from the beginning this is the expectation.”

Flax also said the Housing and Homelessness Commission has been looking at additional sources of revenue for the Affordable Housing Fund. She said the commission discussed the proposed real estate transfer tax — which will be on the November ballot — as well as changing the demolition fee or a taxing some rental units.

Council will vote on whether to adopt changed ordinance at a meeting Oct. 30. samanthahandler2021@u.northwestern.edu

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2018

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Study finds most of us are ... average

By DAISY CONANT

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Northwestern researchers are challenging the norms of personality psychology with the development of new computational algorithms, finding at least four fluid personality “types”: average, reserved, role model and self-centered.

Personality has been a topic of psychological inquiry for centuries, yet psychologists continue to dispute the validity of set personality types.

While other research groups have attempted to find a connection between known personality traits and possible types, according to a University news release, co-director of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems Luis Amaral and his team piloted a new approach by analyzing one of the largest sets of data in the field.

“The scientific consensus was that there are no personality types,” said Martin Gerlach, a postdoctoral fellow in Amaral’s lab at NU and the lead author on the study. “After (Amaral) suggested this topic I realized immediately the types of analysis we could do and the types of conclusions we could draw by the data we have available would allow us to go one step further at least, and I saw an opportunity there.”

The study, published in Nature Human Behaviour, utilized a clustering algorithm to sift through over 1.5 million personality respondents from four separate questionnaires. Researchers plotted each response on a multi-dimensional plane, representing the five best established dimensions of personality traits: neuroticism, openness, extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness.

According to the release, the algorithm first revealed around 16 personality clusters. Amaral and his team imposed additional constraints, narrowing the clusters down to four.

Psychology Prof. William Revelle and co-author of the study, has been a skeptic of personality types for over 50 years. However,

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Northwestern researchers sifted through over 1.5 million personality respondents from four separate questionnaires to come up with four personality types. “Average” types were the most common, characterized by people showing higher levels of stress and extraversion and low levels of openness to change.

after witnessing the computational steps his colleagues took, he said he was convinced the findings were valid.

“What they did — and I’ve been working with big data for a long time — was convincingly show me with their algorithms you could reliably find these ‘lumps in the batter,’ these increases in density,” Revelle said. According to the article in Nature and Human Behaviour, the “lumps in the batter” were then classified: average, reserved, role model and self-centered.

According to the study, “average” types were the most common, characterized by people showing higher levels of stress and extraversion and low levels of openness to change. “Reserved” types are emotionally stable but not open to change or particularly extraverted. “Role-model” types are known as good leaders, dependable and receptive to new ideas. “Self-centered” types are

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extremely extraverted but lack openness, agreeableness and and conscientiousness..

Revelle and Gerlach both said the study takes a relatively new approach to analyzing big data, and they hope readers will appreciate their methods and replicate them throughout the field.

Gerlach said he also looks forward to seeing whether personality can reveal more about a person than their character traits, such as their ability to succeed at work, find happiness in marriage or shift personality altogether as they age.

“What we do find is that people can, in principle, be anywhere — so you can have any combination of personality traits, and what we find is that this is not completely random, and we want to figure out why,” Gerlach said. daisyconant2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Vicente Fox Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox Quesada grew up at Rancho San Cristobal in Guanajuato, a communal land, where the only difference between him and his childhood friends was the opportunities he had. He always remembers from his childhood that one of the harms that can be avoided is poverty.

He studied Business Administration at the Universidad Iberoamericana, and later received a Top Management Diploma from the Harvard Business School.

In 1964 he joined the Coca-Cola Company in Mexico and started from the bottom; through his perseverance he became President of the company for Mexico and Latin America. He served as President of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. He was the first candidate from an opposition party to be elected president. Nowadays, he is actively involved in encouraging leadership and creating opportunities for disadvantaged people through his organization, Centro Fox.

Perspectives and Challenges in US-Mexico Relationships Tuesday, October 16, 2018

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Checking items off your bucket list boosts self-worth CASSIDY JACKSON

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The beginning of this past summer, I sank into a state of intense self-deprecation. My freshman year was full of self-neglect and completely lacking self-care all because… I got swept into Northwestern’s “AND is in our DNA” mentality. I went from having a plethora of hobbies namely journaling, poetry and running to dropping all of them to keep up with all the classes and clubs I took on. Basically, my life was a loop: classes, clubs, homework, sleep and repeat.

It didn’t hit me until freshman year ended.

Within a week being back home, I had broken down. What’s supposed to be a relaxation period was instead a rude awakening. As I sat on the couch binging on “New Girl” reruns, I thought to myself there has to be something better to do. But the thing is I truly had no clue to spend my excessive amount of freetime. I was frozen.

In that moment, it hit me how in the process

of running back and forth across campus to clubs and classes, I had lost Cassidy. So, at that second, I set an intention. I decisively brought reading, poetry, journaling and running back into my repertoire. All of those hobbies, I still loved, but it felt time to progress to achieve something new. I knew just bringing back those hobbies would only restore to old Cassidy, but I wanted a new Cassidy.

Writing had been a hobby of mine since I could hold a pencil; running entered the picture in middle school; I’d been a bookworm since I learned how to read. Realizing all of these things, I realized it had been years since I mastered a new skill, but it wasn’t like I was lacking in options. I had an intense list of skills and experiences I wanted to hone in from mastering French to riding a unicycle, but that’s the thing.

It was a list that I never worked to materialize.

So, that very day, I committed to learning one skill in the remainder of 2018: skateboarding.

Since I can remember, I’ve dreamed of being a skater girl. I partly credit this dream to my first girl crush, Avril Lavigne and her revolutionary “Sk8er Boi” track. And I credit the rest of this fantasy to growing up blocks away from a skate park. Standing on the sidelines, I watched

beautiful skateboards glide back and forth, flip under the rider’s feet, and speed across the pavement. To then 10-year-old me, these seemingly “normal” moves were magical. But instead of pursuing my skateboarding dream, I became a metaphorical benchwarmer, watching from the sidelines but never playing.

Eight years later, I was a freshman plopped on Northwestern’s campus. And oh my, there’s so many self-proclaimed skaters on this campus to where fall and spring quarter, it’s practically impossible to go a day without passing one… or witnessing a tragic accident. Last year, I saw four near-death skateboard accidents, including one where someone hit his head on the curb. It may have been a sign from God that pursuing skateboarding wasn’t a good idea, but… I refused to take it that way.

Instead, this past summer, I went out to Dick’s Sporting Goods and invested $65 in a poppin’ board. It has a rad sunset design, and its name is Frank. But anyway the final three weeks of summer, I committed to skateboarding… and was partly successful. My neighbourhood lacks sidewalks, and despite my passion for skateboarding, I refused to kill myself in the process.

So, I came back to school with maybe seven

skateboarding attempts under my belt, and so, the cover of nightfall quickly became my best friend. The night has hid my single fall and the multiple times I’ve had to adjust the direction of the board by hopping off, picking it up and shifting it. But despite the roughness of learning to skateboard, it’s one of those things that, not to be cliche, makes me feel alive.

Since I was 10, I’ve had this dream of riding a skateboard, but because of fear or laziness, I let it sit on the back burner for half my life. As people, we do this a lot. We set life goals and have dreams for skills we wish we had in our back pocket but fail to execute. Personally, I’m still in the process of sifting through activities and figuring out how I want to answer “What do you like to do in your spare time?” but I’m figuring it out. And skateboarding has been added to that list.

their ability and commitment to the job during the internship receive a full-time return offer.

However, this recruiting timeline seems to have changed recently: in a recent chat with a current student, I was surprised to learn that junior internship recruiting now begins in the spring of sophomore year. Effectively, students now need to interview for a position, which starts in 15 months, that may or may not turn into a full-time position, which then starts in another 12 months.

This is an almost comical proposition to those working in different industries, but the logic is simple and well understood: every year, talentobsessed investment banks have been competing for “top-tier candidates” by recruiting earlier than their competitors. There were already signs back when I was in college — I recall having heard whispers of invitation-only events and networking chats with fraternity alums in the hallways of my macroeconomics class.

Even without referencing game theory (thank you, NU), it’s not difficult to see why this recruiting

race creates a mutually inferior outcome for both recruiters and universities. But my sympathy is really reserved for the students. I find it hard to believe that a 19-year-old with a few intro level classes under his belt would have the knowledge and maturity to be fully convinced of his career choice (at that age, I didn’t). But peer pressure gets the better of him, and so he sits in his dorm room and studies how to do discounted cash flow analysis instead of reading Machiavelli and write dozens of emails to guys like myself — with the slim hope that someone will eventually pick up the phone for him.

This practice also hurts the socioeconomic diversity of Wall Street’s young, incoming analysts. Students who have attended prestigious prep schools or have friends and family working in the industry will have the upper hand in access to closed door mixers and interviewing tips. And the disparity in social capital continues to widen, as private equity and hedge funds then recruit from this self-selecting pool of investment banking analysts.

In business or law school recruiting, universities forbid this practice from recruiters to give students more time to explore their career options. Generally, recruiters must go through a single standardized schedule mandated by the University and are not allowed to give “exploding offers” which candidates must accept by a certain date ahead of the mandated schedule. Recruiters that violate this policy may be uninvited to the campus in the following year’s recruiting cycle. The policy is not perfect, but it does force recruiting firms to play on the same field.

The solution appears to be pretty simple: University administrators should consider creating a similar policy for undergraduate students. Realistically, it would work best if universities were to form a consortium and enforce the policy collectively. So, who would want to be the first to lead and set the example in this race? I certainly hope my alma mater would.

Cassidy Jackson is a Medill sophomore. She can be contacted at cassidyjackson2021@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, 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.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

No student should be forced to choose a career path by sophomore year

I graduated from Northwestern in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and started my career in investment banking. Over the past seven years, I have met with and mentored dozens of students seeking similar career paths. I am incredibly appreciative of the strong foundation that NU’s liberal arts education has provided for my career, and I believe mentoring students is how I give back to my alma mater.

The beaten path of breaking into the investment banking industry starts with a junior year internship. Recruiting begins in winter of junior year, which means that students should decide on their career paths by then, attend information sessions and mixers throughout the winter, ace interviews and secure a spot by spring. Those who have proven

— Richard Bae Gong, Weinberg ’11

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2018

Vertigo celebrates the idea of home in production

By DANNY VESURAI

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Among cheers, laughter and howls, Communication senior Chris Lanham delivered his stand up routine clad in black high heels. As one of eight participants at Friday’s “Bring it Home to You” art event, Lanham delivered a sketch narrative based on his experience with his sexuality.

During his performance, Lanham veered away from a typical routine, instead choosing to weave together stories about his upbringing in a religious home, his coming out process and the eventual acceptance from his family. After sharing such personal details, Lanham said he felt like his performance was a “whirlwind.”

“I feel relieved, released, happy that I got to share that with people,” he said. “Something happened in this room that was really beautiful. It was ephemeral. It reminded me of home in a lot of ways.”

“Bring it Home to You,” hosted by theater board Vertigo Productions at Shanley Pavilion, provided artists with an opportunity to showcase what home meant to them. Participants had a mere 24 hours to produce and submit art once they got a prompt that was related to home — a constraint event co-producer and Vertigo publicity chair Susie McCollum said “heightened” material.

“When there’s a time crunch, what can be created is incredibly exciting and compelling,

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artistically and personally, to be watching,” the Communication sophomore said. “The fact that it was done under such short time — everyone understands that kind of time pressure.”

Lanham said the time constraint challenged him to accelerate his writing process — he worried less about the quality of his jokes, instead using word associations to brainstorm material.

Since most stand-up comics typically refine their material over time by testing it out on audiences, he said he felt more nervous than normal about his entirely new set of jokes.

As participants entered Shanley, they picked up plates and got macaroni and cheese from two artists roleplaying as grandparents inviting people into their “home.” Audience members then wrote what reminded them of home on Post-it notes — phrases like “long drives,” “ghosts” and “Morton Shapiro” — which they placed on Shanley’s support beams.

During the event, the audience witnessed plays and songs, roaring with laughter at times but was also stunned by raw emotion at others.

“I cried — just Chris talking about growing up in a religious home in the closet and the emotional impact everything had,” said Chloe Fourté, a Communication senior and Vertigo co-music chair. “I related to that.”

Vertigo began planning “Bring it Home to You” last spring quarter, looking to host an accessible, low-key event that wouldn’t require a lot of commitment from artists and audience members,

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Chris Lanham at Bring It Home to You. Lanham performed a standup comedy act in which he discussed his sexuality and his coming out experience.

McCollum said.

McCollum said they chose “home” as the central theme because it would be fresh in people’s minds as the academic year started. More than that, McCollum said it would be something everyone could understand and relate to.

“This is a night people won’t forget they came to,” McCollum said. “It was one of those times where everyone breathed, sat back, ate mac and cheese and was with each other.” dvesurai@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern’s Homecoming won’t include a parade this year (sad!), but there are still plenty of events this week to get in the spirit.

If you missed Monday’s Purplepalooza or Tuesday’s food truck festival, you missed out.

But apart from events hosted by schools and groups on campus, the University still has a lot more planned:

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Events for students • Thursday, all day: Free giveaways at the rock • Friday, 1:45 p.m.: President Morton Schapiro and this year’s Northwestern Alumni Medal recipients will be speaking at the President’s Alumni Panel in the McCorEvanston, mick Auditorium.ILPanel speakers will include Fortune 500 CEO Louis Simpson (Weinberg ’58), Smithsonian museum director Johnnetta Cole (Weinberg ’59, Winberg ’67), New York Times bestselling author Douglas Conant (Weinberg ’73, Kellogg ‘76), and Warner Bros. Pictures executive Courtney Armstrong (McCormick ’93, School of Law ’96).

• Friday, 5:30 p.m.: Wildcat Warm-Up on the Deering Meadow to replace the Homecoming Parade. The warm-up will feature Boomshaka, Soul4Real A Capella, THUNK A Capella, Northwestern Bhangra, and Fusion Dance Company performances to get students pumped for the annual pep rally. The Wildcat Marching Band will be playing at the pep rally and free food will be provided.

Events for alumni • Thursday, all day: Free giveaways at the rock • Friday, noon: Alumni are invited to join professors and the current and emeritus faculty at an informal buffet lunch.

• Friday, 1:30 p.m.: Kids ages 5-12 can play games and interact with student-athletes.

• Friday, 3:30 p.m.: Undergraduate schools and campus organizations will be hosting a number of art and academic events. Bienen’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble is hosting an open rehearsal in Pick Staiger Hall, and McCormick is inviting alumni and their families to create and decorate their personalized gear to show off their purple pride.

• Friday, 8 p.m. and later: Alumni can choose between stargazing at the Dearborn Observatory, toasting marshmallows at a S’mores bonfire on the lakefill or an all-class after-party on the Deering meadow. amyli2021@u.northwestern.edu

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2018

Updated Fountain Square popular with residents

Space intended for community downtown features an open plaza, veterans’ memorial and fountain

By SUZY VASQUEZ

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An open plaza area, interactive fountain and a war memorial take center stage in the newly-completed Fountain Square in downtown Evanston, increasing outdoor seating and event space in the city.

Lara Biggs, Evanston’s engineering and capital planning bureau chief, said her goal was to make Fountain Square a more welcoming place where people could sit and socialize, reflect on the memorial and attend town events.

“As long as there’s been Evanston, there’s been a Fountain Square,” Biggs said. “The improvements for Fountain Square really opened up the plaza, and it also made the veterans memorial a real focal point.”

The previous fountain, which was installed in 1976, had built up a number of maintenance issues, and the size of the fountain took up most of the usable space within the plaza, Biggs said.

The project was approved in March 2017

by City Council, and took over a year to complete. However, despite the intrusiveness of the project, most businesses were able to stay open during construction, Biggs said.

“One of the great things about this project

is (that) the business community surrounding the plaza and in the downtown area have been so good to work with,” Biggs said. “They have really come to the table and been supportive of the project, and the city is really grateful for that.”

Peggy Thordarson has worked in the downtown Evanston area for 20 years, and said she feels the space is more open and accommodating now.

“The feel of it is different, I like it more than the way it was before,” Thordarson said. “I like that the water is more accessible, especially with little kids and stuff like that. It just feels a lot more open for the community, and it’s easier to stop and sit and eat lunch.”

Biggs said that when the fountain is turned off, the plaza can provide a space for city events and veteran ceremonies.

This past summer, Fountain Square was the location of exercise classes, dance recitals, the Kits, Cats and Kids Block Party, as well as the free 10-week concert series, Thursday Night Live.

Downtown Evanston executive director Annie Coakley said she is looking forward to more community events being hosted at Fountain Square.

City officials are currently discussing plans to have other major celebrations, such as Oktoberfest and the Holiday Tree Lighting, take

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Fountain Square, located at the Sherman/Orrington Ave. block between Grove and Davis St., features a wide open space and a memorial for war veterans. The fountain was completed this summer after a year of renovations.

place in Fountain Square.

“We have this beautiful improved area in the center of Downtown, and we will make sure it’s maintained by not just keeping it clean, but by promoting the event and programming

portion of it as well,” Coakley said. “It’s much more inviting, the lighting is great and it’s just a million times better.” susanavazquez2022@u.northwestern.edu

Climate plan approval delayed pending final revisions Vote delayed until Nov. 13 to provide group members additional time to review public comments

By ALEX WONG

the daily northwestern @alexalwwong

The Mayor’s Climate Action Resilience Plan Working Group on Tuesday delayed a vote to approve its sustainability plan because final revisions have yet to be completed.

Members delayed the vote until Nov. 13 in order to have more time to review public comments submitted in September about the Climate Action and Resilience Plan, which they began reviewing Oct. 2, co-chair Lauren Marquez-Viso said.

“I was hesitant to rush things just because I know this is so important,” Marquez-Viso said at the meeting. “I really think data is important,

and we need to look at the numbers and understand the figures. We also need to make sure we’re communicating a cohesive story to the community and make sure it’s been refined as much as possible.”

The group aims to have a final product that is more accessible and clearer for the public, member Jerri Garl said. She added that they will respond to every public comment submitted in a separate document that will be provided in addition to the finalized plan.

The plan has two components: climate action and resiliency.

Outlined within are city-wide greenhouse gas reduction targets, which set out to achieve carbon neutrality in Evanston by 2050, with a 50 percent reduction goal for 2025 and an 80 percent goal for 2035. To meet those goals, the plan suggests

methods like waste reduction and renewable energy development.

Members discussed the ambiguity of 2050 goals for specific parts of the plan, like the aim to reduce building energy consumption by an undetermined amount. Members were wary of setting arbitrary numbers for those 2050 goals, Marquez-Viso said, because they will inevitably have to be adapted.

Kumar Jensen, Evanston’s sustainability coordinator, floated the option to remove all targets for specific goals and focus on accurate measurements of progress.

“So much is going to change between now and 2050,” Jensen said. “It might be more useful to just make sure we’re measuring and evaluating progress effectively than saying exactly what the reduction is going to be for that time.”

The group has also added a glossary of terms

and a personalized “My Climate Action Plan” for individual use.

The finalized plan will be sent to the Human Services Committee for approval in December or January and will reach City Council for a vote at the following meeting, Jensen said.

Because of the city’s projected $7.4 million deficit in the 2019 budget, group members are uncertain the plan will be approved by the city.

They want to emphasize to the cost of inaction in the face of climate change, Garl said.

“I really hope City Council will support it and understand the cost avoidance in implementing this plan,” Garl said. “We will be paying for the costs of climate change, and this plan an attempt to help fight against that.” alexwong2022@u.northwestern.edu

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selection committee.

“Because of what happened at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and a lot of the conversations that were happening after, and because of the the fact that she’s a woman who uses her experiences in her comedy, we felt she would be very refreshing,” said Soto, a former Daily columnist.

Beginning her set with jokes about Lake Michigan, Wolf later delved into more serious topics like abortion. And she was quick to address audience members who might have taken issue with jokes about the subject.

“This is going to be an abortion joke. Put on your hats and just get on board now. It’s kind of long,” Wolf said. “I’d rather talk about my abortion than hear about your gluten allergy. I mean, just order already.”

While Wolf was outspoken about her feminist views, she was quick to joke about aspects of feminism with which she disagrees. Toward the beginning of her set, she criticized many feminists’ emphasis on body positivity.

Wolf, for example, said she appreciates people who call her ugly because if they still know who she is, that means she must be a “pretty good comedian.”

Critiquing white feminism, Wolf also explained that oppression toward white women is not the same as oppression toward people of color and other minorities.

“For the longest time, we couldn’t vote and have bank accounts, but we had nice houses,” Wolf said.

“It was a very air-conditioned oppression.”

Casey Wells, a Weinberg freshman, said he enjoyed Wolf ’s comedic talent and her ability to address political issues without being mean-spirited.

Wells said he has seen Wolf on television, and he appreciated the chance to see her live.

“I really like stand-up comedy, so I was very excited that Michelle Wolf was coming to campus,” Wells said. “I knew her from “The Daily Show” and a little bit from her show, so it was really cool that she was here for us to see and that it was free for students.”

Wolf ended her set by addressing those who are perhaps less supportive of her comedy. Referencing recent backlash, she said she takes no issue with her crude humor.

“I think I’m vulgar,” Wolf said. “And I hope that every single one of you and your daughters in the future are too.”

class party Friday night and the football game the following day.

Other Homecoming events for alumni include a Ryan Fieldhouse open house on Friday and the Alumni Rally before Saturday’s game.

Like Long, Sarah Morganstern (Communication ’93) said she’s far more interested in spending time with her classmates than attending the

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University’s planned events. Morganstern said she tries to come back to campus every five years with a group of friends.

“The parade is loud, and you don’t really get an opportunity to socialize with people,” she said. “It doesn’t really facilitate catching up with friends.”

While Homecoming events may not have sparked alumni interest in the past, Mayekar said he is hopeful that this year’s changes will be wellreceived. Although the parade being canceled last year was not intentional, he said it opened

the door for dialogue on how to modernize the tradition.

“The University has a pretty deep commitment to Homecoming and making sure it’s a positive event for everyone involved,” Mayekar said. “So whatever we can do to make sure that we’re welcoming everyone back to campus and the students and alumni feel like they’re being celebrated is a positive thing.” daniellespitz2022@u.northwestern.edu

UNION

From page 1 “We are disappointed that Northwestern University administrators chose to hide behind tricky legal tactics and the highly-politicized Trump labor board, rather than work with us to make campus a better place to learn and work,” the group said in a statement distributed

by SEIU. Economics Prof. Mark Witte and McCormick senior lecturer Nick Marchuk both believed SEIU’s method of unionization contributed to the final vote against. The labor union, Marchuk said, didn’t involve all nontenure eligible faculty in discussions, resulting in a complicated voting effort.

“In being very secretive, a number of people who didn’t hear from them and didn’t feel like they sat down out with us, made their case and heard our concerns — that got those people against them,” Witte added.

As non-tenure eligible faculty from some Northwestern schools — like the Kellogg School of Management — weren’t included in the vote, Witte said a different approach to deciding who to represent could’ve led to a better outcome for SEIU. He added it “would not surprise” him if many non-tenure eligible faculty who didn’t support SEIU still were interested in some form of union representation. Marchuk echoed that sentiment, adding that this experience would be remembered in the future.

“We now know the benefits of a union and we’re better prepared to select a union if we try to do it again. I don’t think it would necessarily be the SEIU because we are now aware of other unions that are more faculty and academicoriented,” Marchuk said. closson@u.northwestern.edu aperez@u.northwestern.edu

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Early goal not enough as the Wildcats tie the Blue Demons

By AVI VARGHESE

the daily northwestern @avi_vrghs

Northwestern (4-5-4, 0-3-2 Big Ten) played to a 1-1 draw against crosstown rival DePaul (4-6-2, 1-2-1 Big East) at Martin Stadium on Tuesday.

Both the Wildcats and the Blue Demons entered the contest looking to end winless streaks of six and four games, respectively.

The match started off with a bang as sophomore defender Garrett Opperman headed the ball in off a cross from sophomore midfielder Tommy Katsiyiannis in the seventh minute.

After the goal, NU shifted to a defensive approach, giving DePaul time to test the Cats’ back line. The Blue Demons took control of the first half, passing around their midfield and back line before sending balls over the top.

Their efforts culminated in a goal off the head of Blue Demons’ forward Jack Richards off a long cross from midfielder Harry Hilling in the 32nd minute. By the end of the half, DePaul had taken 10 shots to NU’s three, five of them by midfielder Zach El-Shafei.

The second half began with a steady back-and-forth between the Cats and Blue Demons.

Midway through the half, DePaul defender Max De Bruijne went down

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with a head injury, prompting a fiery response from the Blue Demon bench.

Yellow cards were issued to DePaul head coach Mark Plotkin and one of his assistant coaches.

After taking a hard landing on a 50-50 ball in the Blue Demons’ box, junior forward Ty Seager was forced to sub out and did not return to the contest.

As the half wore on, the Cats managed to maintain steady possession, spending the vast majority of the time in DePaul’s half of the pitch. Despite a near goal by Richards in the 88th minute that forced a diving save from sophomore goalkeeper Miha Miskovic, the match went to overtime.

“We changed the system a little bit just because we were getting exploited on our flanks,” Opperman said. “I thought we did a lot better job of keeping the ball and pinning them in their own half, so that allowed us to get a lot more chances on the other side and keep them away from our goal.”

The tactical changes clearly worked.

While the Blue Demons outshot the Cats 10-3 in the first half, NU turned

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the tables on DePaul in the second half, outshooting them 10-3.

“They had the first move, opened us up a little bit, and we had the second move to kind of put them under pressure for the rest of the game,” coach Tim Lenahan said. “I think from there on, other than the occasional venture forward, I think the game was really ours.”

The first period of overtime started off with tense play by both teams. Midway through the period, Miskovic was forced to run several yards out of the box to dispossess El-Shafei, who was on a breakaway.

The second period saw the Cats maintain solid passing around the box, but they failed to connect inside and create opportunities.

In the final seconds, freshman defender Julian Zighelboim crossed the ball into the six-yard box, where it was knocked out of Blue Demon goalkeeper Drew Nuelle’s hands by Opperman.

Junior forward Mac Mazzola deflected the ball into goal to cheers from the crowd, but referee Peter Dhima called a foul on Opperman, negating the goal.

“We came out and pushed as hard as we could in the second half, didn’t find one,” Katsiyiannis said. “We gotta find a way to put one in there, especially when we’re getting chances.” avivarghese2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Don’t judge facility spending yet Finishing plagues NU BEN POPE

DAILY COLUMNIST

If you believe Northwestern was inherently and automatically misguided when deciding to spent $380 million on new athletic facilities — $270 million to build the Ryan Fieldhouse and Walter Athletics Center, and $110 million to renovate Welsh-Ryan Arena — then this column isn’t for you.

No matter the fact that the reality of private donorship dictates that the donors, not exactly the University and most certainly not the student body, decide what projects they will contribute money toward. If you are opposed to all substantial investment in athletic facilities — and there is a definite argument to be made for that case — then feel free to pass judgement at this very minute on the worthiness of the Fieldhouse and the Welsh-Ryan renovations.

But if you fall in the range of “I support” to “I’m uncertain about” the usage of that $380 million, but feel that the Wildcats’ rough start to the 2018 football season — 2-3 overall and 0-3 at home — proves building the Fieldhouse was a mistake, I urge you to wait a few years before

making up your mind.

Regardless of all the talk about the advantages that a massive indoor practice field, a newfangled weightlifting gym and closer connectivity to the rest of campus will provide the football team, the truth is that the Fieldhouse is almost entirely about recruiting.

A few hours spent in this brandnew, high-tech Lake Michigan pantheon will not magically elevate the talent, fitness and work ethic of the players on this current NU team.

It won’t magically improve future players either — but it will attract more talented, athletic players.

The Cats have historically ranked closer to the bottom than the top of the Big Ten in average recruiting ranking, despite producing on-field results of a significantly higher caliber. That’s partially because of high academic eligibility restrictions, but not entirely — Stanford’s annual recruiting class, for example, ranked in 247Sports’ top 25 every year between 2014 and 2017, while NU never ranked higher than 47th.

However, that’s starting to change. Hunter Johnson, a former five-star quarterback commit to Clemson, transferred to Evanston in June, which happened to be right as the Fieldhouse was being completed.

And NU’s 2019 football recruiting

Daily file photo by Ben Pope

The Northwestern football team practices in the new Ryan Fieldhouse this past April.

The Wildcats have started the season with a 2-3 record.

class, while incomplete, currently ranks 48th in the country — on track to be its best class since 2014.

The effect of a new-and-improved facility is already having even more of an impact on men’s basketball recruiting.

The team just landed the highestrated recruit in program history last week in four-star forward Robbie Beran (who, in turn, committed just one day after another soughtafter recruit, center Jared Jones). I don’t know how much of an impact getting to play in a sparkling new Welsh-Ryan had on their respective decisions, but I’d guess it was a significant one.

This coming winter is likely to be another down season for men’s basketball, which must rebuild after graduating both starting guards from a year ago. If things go poorly, student interest will wane and the investment in the renovated arena will surely be ridiculed, just as the Fieldhouse has been due to the football team’s rough start to the fall.

Yet the two new facilities were never going to have an immediate impact on the Cats’ perennially unpredictable and often mediocre teams, and any expectation that such short-term failures portend their pointlessness is simply incorrect.

Even if football goes 4-8 and men’s basketball goes 12-19 or the like, there’s no reason to consider that $380 million wasted.

It may well be that the Fieldhouse wasn’t worth the cost and WelshRyan wasn’t worth transforming.

It may also be that it was well worth it.

Just please wait until recruits have had time to take in the architectural splendor, chosen NU as a result, worked their way up into starting roles and taken over the reins on the Cats’ athletic fate before coming to a conclusion one way or another.

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again against DePaul

By PETER WARREN

daily senior staffer @thepeterwarren

When sophomore defender Garrett Opperman’s header floated past Drew Nuelle and hit the bottom netting of the south-end goal less than seven minutes into Tuesday’s 1-1 draw with DePaul, it looked as if Northwestern’s fortunes may have been changing.

The goal — the Wildcats’ 11th of the 2018 campaign — snapped an almost 332-minute goalless streak that stretched back 13 days to NU’s loss against thenNo. 2 Indiana. And while they had not scored against Penn State on Saturday, the Cats had attempted a season-high 17 shots, seven of them on frame.

For a team that entered Tuesday’s contest third-to-last in the country in shots per game and fourth-to-last in shots on target per game, the early lead gave NU the chance to procure an early advantage.

But the Cats could not use Opperman’s second goal of the season to take control of the contest. In the final 38 minutes of the first half, the Blue Demons fired 10 shots — the most the team has attempted in a first half this year — and earned four corners as they equalized the match 31 minutes in when DePaul’s Jack Richards headed in a cross from Harry Hilling.

In the second half, NU attacked with much more energy. The Cats took 10 shots of their own compared to DePaul’s three, won five corners and earned a bevy of chances, including a breakaway opportunity from junior forward Ty Seager in the 75th minute.

In overtime, opportunities presented themselves, but there were not as many as in the second half. NU did earn a corner but could not achieve a shot in the first extra period. The Cats played some dangerous balls in the second extra 10 minutes, with Mattias Tomasino having a header saved off the line, but could not score again.

The failure to put the ball in the back of the net has plagued NU all season.

“While we were lucky to get out of the first half 1-1, we were a little unlucky to walk away from the game with draw,” Lenahan said.

Part of it can be attributed to injuries. Freshman forward Jose Del Valle was injured less than 25 minutes into the first game of the season and has played in only six games this season.

Del Valle played 85 minutes against the Nittany Lions on Saturday, but did not see the field Tuesday. In addition, Seager left the game with under 14 minutes left in the second half with an injury.

The Cats are also playing some stout defenses. NU has attempted fewer than five shots in five games and four of them have been against teams ranked in the top-36 in the country in goals against average.

But the Cats are not firing shots past weaker defenses either. NU has only 103 shots on the season compared to 193 for opponents, and many times, the Cats are significantly outshot. NU attempted more shots than its opponents four times this season, and three of those games have resulted in ties. The Cats have attempted more corners only twice.

Goals and corners do not fully encompass the success and failure of an offense — there is a lot that these basic stats do not encompass. But in the seven games since its last victory against Missouri Kansas City on September 9, NU has taken 57 shots and scored just three times for a scoring rate of 0.43 goals per game, which would be the worst in the country.

After accumulating double-digit shots only once for the first 11 games, the Cats have taken 17 in each of its last two games. NU’s offense is starting to take shots, but now it has to start converting them.

Avi Varghese contributed reporting. peterwarren2021@u.northwestern.edu