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Karl Eikenberry will no longer serve as executive director of the Buffett Institute, Provost Dan Linzer announced Thursday in an email to Buffett faculty. Northwestern announced last fall that Eikenberry was selected from a search committee to fill the new role of executive director of the Institute. Eikenberry, a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was set to begin the position in September. Students and and faculty, however, raised numerous concerns about his appointment. In a letter to The Daily, more than 40 faculty called for the University to rescind Eikenberry’s appointment. However, University President Morton
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INVESTIGATION REOPENED (From left) Weinberg junior Joji Syed and her running mate Weinberg sophomore Archit Baskaran debate SESP junior Christina Cilento and McCormick junior Macs Vinson during the Coalition of Colors-moderated debate on April 5.
Voting data was shared with Cilento, Vinson campaign By TYLER PAGER
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A member of Associated Student Government’s election commission leaked information twice about the voting margin to Christina Cilento and Macs Vinson’s campaign while polls were still open, election commissioner Lauren Thomas told The Daily on Thursday.
SESP sophomore Kevin Corkran, who was a member of the ASG election commission, told Cilento’s campaign at about noon on April 8, the second day of voting, the race was “extremely close.” Later that afternoon, about an hour before polls closed at 5 p.m., he told her campaign the voting margin was within five to 10 votes. Earlier Thursday, Cilento told The Daily her campaign received information about the voting margin only once, at about noon. Later Thursday night, however, she said
Corkran also told her campaign about the voting margin at about 4 p.m. As of Thursday night, Thomas said the election commission has reopened its investigation into the leaked voting information, a decision she said was based on information obtained by The Daily. Cilento, a SESP junior, and Vinson, a McCormick junior, beat Weinberg junior Joji Syed and Weinberg sophomore Archit » See VOTING, page 6
» See EIKENBERRY, page 6
Writer talks ‘Obama Doctrine’ Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg speaks at NU By DAVID FISHMAN
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Atlantic correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg spoke to about 150 students and community members Thursday night about “The Obama Doctrine,” his 19,000-word profile on President Obama’s foreign policies. “There is not an obvious overarching Obama doctrine,” Goldberg said. “That was one of the key challenges. When you think about presidents and their foreign policy doctrines … you can kind of fit those on a bumper sticker. But there is a problem when you’re looking at the management by a reluctant president, who is a mainly domestic policy president, in a multi-polar,
fractured world.” Goldberg, who previously worked for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, addressed a packed audience in the McCormick Foundation Center about his latest cover story, journalism and growing tension in Israeli-American relations. Sponsored in part by Hillel, the event focused on Goldberg’s Jewish background and his analysis of Middle East affairs. In his hour-long speech, Goldberg touched on what he described as Obama’s five foreign policy doctrines: avoiding military action, understanding limitations, redefining American indispensability and exceptionalism and working with a messy situation he inherited from the Bush administration. Goldberg told The Daily his unprecedented access to the president — five
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separate interviews over four months totaling roughly six hours of on-therecord time — allowed him to go beyond boilerplate speeches and political rhetoric. “He’s very easily bored,” Goldberg told The Daily, referring to the president. “If he starts tap tap tapping that pen, you’re dead. You’re just dead. … I had to ask some of the usual questions over the course of these interviews, but I wanted to go down a couple of levels to try to get at the way he constructs his thinking and the way he sees America’s role in the world.” Goldberg said the article, printed as The Atlantic’s April magazine cover story, caused a stir in the international community because of Obama’s candid » See GOLDBERG, page 6
UP receives four sexual assault reports in 9 days
University Police has received reports of four sexual assaults in the last nine days, though three reportedly occurred longer ago, Deputy Chief Daniel McAleer said. A female student told police on April 6 that she had been sexually assaulted early that morning in the 600 block of Garrett Place. Police are investigating, and the suspect is not a Northwestern student, McAleer said. UP received emails from campus security authorities on April 7, 9 and 13 about the three other sexual assaults, McAleer said. The woman involved in the April 7 report told a campus security authority that her assault took place on March 28, while the women in April 9 and 13 reports told the campus security authorities that their assaults took place on April 1, McAleer said.
Because the three reports were obtained anonymously, police are unable to investigate them further, McAleer said. “It’s frustrating to get these reports and not be able to go after the offender but, nonetheless, it does help the community paint a better picture (of the prevalence of sexual assaults on campus),” McAleer said. Prior to April 6, UP had received four sexual assault reports in 2016. UP received no sexual assault reports last April, according to its online database. Erin Clark, the assistant director of the Center for Awareness, Response and Education, said a number of factors could have led to the increase in sexual assault reports. “It could indicate more awareness of resources or trust of police,” Clark said. “It could also indicate that people are in higher crises and more in need of police than before. It’s definitely concerning, whatever the reasons are.” — Jeremy Margolis
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Around Town Harley Clarke listed as ‘endangered’ Landmark Illinois aims to protect historic mansion The Harley Clarke Mansion was put on a list of “endangered” historic sites in the state, Landmark Illinois, a nonprofit which works to protect historic sites, announced Wednesday. The mansion, located at 2603 Sheridan Road, is city owned and housed the Evanston Arts Center until May of last year. Evanston officials have been looking for new uses for the property since 2011 after property maintenance costs became too high. The mansion was placed on the list along with 10 other sites by the nonprofit. City Council last discussed the future of the building in October 2015, when aldermen debated the possibilities of keeping, selling or demolishing the mansion. Council tabled discussion on the issue after alderman raised concerns over funding uncertainties due to the state budget impasse. City officials have no current plans for the property other than basic upkeep, said Marty Lyons, the city’s chief financial officer. Although aldermen have deferred discussion on the issue until there is a state budget in place, Lyons said the issue may come up in the
fall as aldermen decide next year’s city budget. “There’s nothing planned for 2016,” Lyons said. “Other than keeping (the mansion) safe and secure.” Despite the issue’s tabled status, Lyons said there is still a possibility that a nonprofit, We don’t corporation or private business comes want to create a forward with plans to buy and reno- list to just create vate the property, in a list. We want which case the counto be able to cil would revisit the do something mansion’s future. Landmarks Illinois about it! compiled the list of endangered sites in Bonnie McDonald, order to bring atten- Landmarks Illinois president tion to the issues affecting them, said the group’s president Bonnie McDonald. Most of the sites on the list were similarly owned by municipalities. “We don’t want to create a list to just create a list,” she said. “We want to be able to do something about it.” McDonald, who is based in Chicago and said she has attended community meetings regarding Harley Clarke, said many of the sites
on the list were similarly affected by the state budget impasse, and she hoped the listing of Harley Clarke and the other sites would lead to movement on the issue. Although city officials have tried to find other ways for the city to use the building and accepted requests from nonprofit and for-profit corporations, the possibility the mansion would be demolished still remains, said Steve Hagerty, who is the chair of the the Harley Clarke Citizens Committee, which was convened early last year to review options for the mansion’s future. “The fact of the matter is the community has to decide what to do with Harley Clarke,” he said. “The question is: What should we do about this mansion — this beautiful old mansion on the lake.” The possibility of a partnership between the city and a nonprofit is one option, Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th) said. Revelle said she wanted to keep the mansion standing but that any business plan for a city or privately-owned building would need to be able to be financially sustainable in order for the building to be maintained. As for demolition, she said, “It’s my leastpreferred option.”
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police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The Chicago man then allegedly pulled out a handgun and fired twice at the victim hitting him once in the left arm. The man who was shot was treated at St. Francis Hospital. The Chicago man was spotted by Evanston police officers on Monday in the 1900 block of Dempster Street, Dugan said. He was arrested and charged with one count of aggravated battery with a firearm, which is a felony.
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Police responded to reports of shots fired Wednesday night in central Evanston. The incident was reported at about 11 p.m. by an anonymous caller who reported hearing two to three shots in the 1800 block of Foster Street, Dugan said. Officers were dispatched to the area, but
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Spiritual leader talks mental health, compassion
Hindu monk Radhanath Swami says helping others can benefit oneself By SAM KREVLIN
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Radhanath Swami, a spiritual leader, author and social activist, discussed the intersection between mental health and expressing compassion at an event Thursday evening. More than 100 people attended the talk, hosted by six student groups and held in Lutkin Hall. Organizers picked Radhanath Swami, a Hindu monk, to provide an outsider’s perspective on the stresses of college life. The swami said helping others can benefit one’s mental health. “When the mind is connected to the heart, then the heart is satisfied,” he said. “If you have pain in your body but a peaceful mind, you can
still be happy. But if you are suffering mental anguish, even if your body is in perfect health, you can only suffer.” Material goods are nothing compared to the love one shares with others, Radhanath Swami said. He said in a past conversation with Mother Teresa, she told him greed — which she likened to hunger — is the world’s biggest problem. “Not the hunger of the belly — some food can satisfy that — but hunger of the heart,” he said. “Only love can satisfy the hunger of the heart.” The swami said his worldview comes from his childhood growing up in Chicago during the Civil Rights Movement and his internal struggles that led him to search for God. He ultimately ended up in India, where he met his guru and became a monk under the Hindu branch of Vaishnava, according to his website.
Shivangi Agarwal and Shivani Agarwal, postdoctoral fellows of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at the Feinberg School of Medicine who are twins, led the way in bringing the swami to Northwestern. Shivangi Agarwal, who has known Radhanath Swami since 2012, said the swami has influenced her life through his service work and selflessness in her home country of India. “His message has touched my heart,” Shivangi Agarwal said. “He holds a lot of value in my life. How he is inspiring youth and talking to universities inspires me. I see how people are being touched by his talks, and I feel like he has an incredible potential of making us transform.” Sandeep Bharadwaj, a third-year McCormick student graduating after this quarter, is the former president of Global Brigades, which helped organize the event.
He said he hopes the swami’s speech will help students cope with future stress.
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If you have pain in your body but a peaceful mind, you can still be happy. Radhanath Swami, Hindu monk
“We are pulled in several different directions with things we have to take care of, being academics, family and extracurriculars,” Bharadwaj said. “In order to reason out these worlds of wars that are pulling you out in different directions, you have to be able to have your own mind.” samkrevlin2019@u.northwestern.edu
New scholarship to aid community college transfers By KELLI NGUYEN
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A new scholarship will offer up to $50,000 in financial aid to City Colleges of Chicago students admitted as transfers to Northwestern, University President Morton Schapiro and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Thursday. The Chicago Star Scholars Program will provide two years of financial aid to students who enroll at NU after studying at one of seven Chicago community colleges. To qualify for the scholarship, students must meet NU admission requirements and enroll as full-time undergraduates.
“We’ve been trying to reach out to Chicago to attract more stuWhat we’re dents trying to do is (from) encourage students there, and this is who otherwise another wouldn’t consider way of doing that,” Northwestern to do so.. University Al Cubbage, spokesman University spokesman Al Cubbage said. “What we’re trying to do is encourage students who otherwise wouldn’t consider Northwestern to do so.” The Star Scholarship is capped at $50,000, but
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qualifying students still have the opportunity to receive additional financial assistance under the University’s need-based financial aid system, Cubbage said. There is no limit on how many students can receive the award, he added. Cubbage said the scholarship is part of a wider NU effort to increase its outreach to students from the Chicago area, particularly those who graduated from Chicago Public Schools. “Through this partnership and others, we hope to make it possible for more students from lowand middle-income families and who are first generation college students to attend Northwestern,” Schapiro said in a news release. CCC Chancellor Cheryl Hyman (Kellogg ‘06) said many city college students’ career paths require advanced degrees. Partnerships between
community colleges and institutions such as NU allow city college students to achieve their career goals while racking up less debt, Hyman said. “It signals to the world that city colleges and community colleges in general are not a last resort but a (good) first option,” Hyman said. “That’s a stereotype that community colleges have had to unfairly deal with, and I think institutions like Northwestern partnering with them signals that that’s not true.” NU was among three institutions to join the Chicago Star Partnership on Thursday, which now totals 15 university partners, including the University of Chicago, DePaul University and Loyola University Chicago. kellinguyen2019@u.northwestern.edu
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There is no one Judaism, there is no one Zionism ADAM CHANES
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This essay is part of The Spectrum, a weekly forum in our Opinion section for marginalized voices to share their perspectives. To submit a piece for The Spectrum or discuss story ideas, please email spectrum@dailynorthwestern.com. Unshackle NU and Northwestern Divest inappropriately provided wholesale definitions of Jewish and Zionist identities in their letter to North by Northwestern last quarter. By asserting that Judaism is “a religious identity” and that Zionism is merely a “political identity,” the two campaigns inexcusably lay a claim on the identities of others. They cannot accept that Judaism is not always “religious.” They do not appreciate that a Zionist identity is, for many like myself, an entirely religious experience deeply rooted in Torah thought and practice, a way I serve God. And they don’t allow a Zionist like me to fight Israeli racism and express solidarity against institutional anti-blackness. When the Second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 CE, my Israelite ancestors, who suddenly faced an exiled, landless existence, began a two-millenia enterprise of self-examination, resulting in definitive heterogeneity. We continue to define Judaism in deliberately disparate ways. Likewise, the dominant Zionist ideologies were
always political — Labor, Revisionist, and others. Other important manifestations, however, by no means necessitated the creation of a political state. Are these voices to be automatically excluded because Zionism is a dirty word that represents only oppression — not a false representation — but nothing else? The letter points selectively towards Jewish Voice for Peace and Neturei Karta as Jewish groups that oppose conflating Zionism and Judaism. Unshackle NU and NU Divest insinuate that these groups and “countless others” have exclusive license to define Judaism and Zionism for the rest of the Jewish people. The deep Jewish tradition of “mahloket,” creative disagreement in Torah study, insists that no one Jewish group can legitimately define either “identity” for everyone else. The two campaigns denounce the State of Israel’s engagement in that very act of “defining for everyone else.” But they themselves do just that by designating only two Jewish organizations to learn from. My beliefs also defy categorical statements about either identity. My experience of Judaism is Torahinfused, “religious,” but certainly not just that: I’ve been attending secular Yiddish theater since early childhood and have participated in Jewish sports leagues. Many secular American Jews, and “hiloni” (secular) Israelis too, take umbrage at those calling their Jewish identities “religious,” yet they feel very Jewish. It is no coincidence that the debate over how and whether to define the state’s “Jewish character” is the reason Israel has no constitution. The Zionism I identify with most is a religious identity. My religious practice, minute-to-minute, is predicated on an active orientation toward a land of eternal sanctity, “Eretz Yisrael.” My religiosity is Zionist. Every time I finish eating grain-based
foods — a simple Clif Bar — I say an ancient liturgical passage that thanks God for agricultural sustenance and the precious land of our ancestors. This blessing, which was not written by Theodor Herzl or Ariel Sharon, continues by asking God for mercy upon the land and the ancient Temple, and that God should bring Jews up to the land — but not without compassion. The intersection between food, geography and sanctity shows that the Jewish yearning for an ancestral homeland — Zionism — is a part of every bite, embedded in the ritual minutiae. And it’s not just a yearning. To serve God fully, there are agricultural commandments I feel obligated to fulfill — they require living in Israel. The ancient Hebrew texts, particularly blessings of justice and ingathering exiles, require me to direct as much intention to ending anti-Black oppression and the Israeli military occupation as to a return to the land of Israel. When saying “May our eyes behold Your (God’s) return to Zion in mercy” in all three daily prayer services, another Jewish obligation, my intention is a thirst for the land, but one that must reflect God’s merciful side. I pray to realize the “natural morality” Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook — the spiritual father of Religious Zionism — dwelled upon. My teacher, the late Rabbi Menachem Froman, was a controversial and seemingly contradictory peace activist (he was a settler leader who opposed military occupation). He denounced the common, perverse Religious Zionist approach to the land of Israel, a racist approach that turns deep desire into ideology that conquers rather than integrates. The land does not belong to us, Froman said — we belong to the land, and the land belongs to God. Of course, it would be unjust to claim the nonexistence of legal land-ownership or to wield divine
“ownership” as an excuse to settle anywhere, as Religious Zionist settlers have done. Such claims ignore decades of illegal Israeli theft of Palestinian land and acts of ethnic cleansing in 1948. Rabbi Froman teaches that to live in God’s land, Jews must act with utmost sensitivity and love toward the Other, the human being, the infinite “image of God” in our midst, for they too — Palestinian tears, family, culture, humanity — belong to God’s land. We cannot reverse history. But secular and religious Jews and Zionists must look at history and recognize that there was a Palestinian Nakba, a catastrophic reality that did not end in 1948 and that the Jewish “aliyah” (ascent) to Palestine should not have happened at the cost of displacing 750,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes. One of God’s many names in Judaism is “Shalom,” which means “peace.” To put an end to the desecration of God’s name, Israelis and Palestinians must learn to love one another today. But that can only happen in parallel with Jewish Israeli efforts — yes, even religiously-inspired efforts — to end the racism, the suffering, the occupation, the erasure of land and history. From within Jewish secularism and religiosity can come Zionism, and from within Zionism a love of peace and a hatred of oppression can exist. Just as Judaism constantly develops, Zionism can and must take a courageous step outside of its own historic ugliness. Adam Chanes is a Weinberg freshman. He can be contacted at adamchanes2019@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
U.S. women’s soccer equal pay issue a matter of respect SARA HALLORAN
DAILY COLUMNIST
Recently, five high-profile players on the United States Women’s National Team filed a federal wage complaint against their employer, U.S. Soccer. The document alleged the winners of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup had been compensated unfairly compared to their male counterparts. The women’s team’s struggle for six or seven figures may not seem relatable to the millions of women fighting for a living wage. However, the manner in which the USWNT has been treated, not only by U.S. Soccer, but by the many male soccer fans who have denounced their fight, is demonstrative of a pattern of disrespect for women’s accomplishments. Even at Northwestern, the gap in interest between men’s and women’s sports is apparent. Like many Americans, I discovered women’s soccer at the Women’s World Cup last summer. I was wholly impressed by the skill and energy with which they played, and the charisma they radiated. Only twice — Landon Donovan’s goal against Algeria in 2010 and John Brooks’ winner against Ghana in 2014 — has the men’s team inspired in me the level of excitement I felt while watching the women’s final against Japan. I started following the National Women’s Soccer League , the women’s professional league in the U.S., which I hadn’t even known existed. Yet never in my year of watching women’s soccer have I seen from any U.S. teams the plodding, weak play that many male fans insist makes women’s soccer inferior. The truth — the horrible, horrible truth — is that women’s soccer is fun to watch. And yet U.S. Soccer refuses to correctly market its world champions and their league. Many male
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soccer fans, including Donovan, have turned to the argument that the pay scale should reflect the revenue that the players bring in. Despite U.S. Soccer’s best efforts, this line of reasoning fails. The women’s team is projected to bring in $5.2 million next year; the USMNT is expected to lose $1M. Additionally, interest in women’s soccer has started to spread. The gap in attendance numbers for friendlies between men’s and women’s has slimmed, and tickets for a June women’s game against World Cup Finals foes Japan sold out in 10 minutes. Unfortunately, the gender disparity is not limited to U.S. Soccer. FIFA gave the USMNT $9 million
after getting knocked out in the 2014 World Cup’s Round of 16, whereas the USWNT received $2 million for winning the entire World Cup. Other federations are even worse, providing salaries barely eclipsing minimum wage. As a result, women’s soccer worldwide is still underdeveloped: There are only about 20 teams that can keep a match with the USWNT competitive. In fact, the issue transcends soccer, visible with the difference between NU’s men’s and women’s basketball teams. Our women’s team is just as good as our men’s — arguably, they’ve been better over the last few years. Still, attendance numbers between the two are nowhere near comparable, and the
problem hasn’t been helped by NU’s reluctance to provide equal transport for students to weekday women’s games compared to men’s. Only when institutions learn to respect women’s sports will the public follow, and another step will be made toward annihilating sexism. Sara Halloran is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at sarahalloran2018@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern. com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
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NU Sex Week hosts panel about racial fetishism By FATHMA RAHMAN
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To Asian American Studies Prof. Ji-Yeon Yuh, stereotyping is a form of dehumanization. Yuh spoke about sexual stereotypes and racial fetishism of non-white woman Thursday night as part of a Northwestern Sex Week panel. AnthroSexual pology graduate stufetishization is dent Ashley Agbasoga and African American not a byproduct Studies Prof. Alexanof racial der Weheliye led the discussion along with difference, but Yuh in front of about 60 racial difference students. is established The term “fetish” was first used in West through sexual Africa by the Portufetishization. guese to describe gold and religious objects Alexander at the beginning of the Weheliye, slave trade and African African American colonization, Weheliye Studies professor said. For this reason, he said “racial” fetishism is a misnomer because the concept has always been racialized. Weheliye also talked about America’s role in racial fetishism historically — from systemic rape of slaves during the late 18th and early 19th century to today’s pop culture controversies such as Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” music video and Kim Kardashian’s Paper Magazine cover. “Sexual fetishization is not a byproduct of racial difference, but racial difference is established through sexual fetishization,” Weheliye said. Yuh highlighted the contradicting stereotypes surrounding Asian American women who are depicted as “exotically degraded human (beings)” as well as “submissive, docile, ‘Leave It to Beaver’ kind of (women).” Yuh said the existence of these stereotypes not only privileges men but endangers an individual’s humanity. One audience member asked about the
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SEX AND STEREOTYPES Asian American Studies Prof. Ji-Yeon Yuh, Anthropology Ph. D. student Ashley Agbasoga and African American Studies Prof. Alexander Weheliye speak at Northwestern Sex Week’s panel discussion about racial fetishism Thursday night. The event had about 60 students in attendance.
difference between having a “type” and a fetish. Yuh said a fetish implies a lack of respect for the real person behind the racial, gender or sexual identity. Contrastly, a “type” could be simply when someone finds black hair and brown eyes “more beautiful than any other” type. The event also featured questions posted on the Facebook event page, including what to do if one’s sexual preference falls into a stereotype
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From page 1 Baskaran by 81 votes out of the 4,060 votes cast. News of the leak comes just more than 24 hours after Cilento and Vinson were sworn into their new positions as president and executive vice president at ASG Senate on Wednesday night. Cilento said she initially omitted the information about receiving a second update at 4 p.m. because she was overwhelmed by negative social media posts about her and Vinson and the divisive election cycle. “I was really personally worried and felt people were against us,” Cilento told The Daily. “I had a freakout and didn’t want people to hate us even more. I should have been up front about that from the beginning.” Corkran, who was a senator representing Students for Ecological and Environmental Development, resigned from ASG on Thursday. As a member of the election commission, Corkran was one of seven students in ASG who oversaw the elections. “It was a complete lapse of my judgement and definitely does not reflect the other members of the commission,” Corkran told The Daily in a statement. Thomas said Corkran lied to her, only admitting to telling Cilento’s campaign the vote was “extremely close” at about noon. Referring to Cilento and Vinson’s campaign, Thomas said, “They omitted information from me,” as the campaign initially said it only received information from Corkran once, at about noon
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quotes and harsh criticism of some world leaders. He told The Daily he came away satisfied with the article, but added that with more space (the article was initially 26,000 words) he would have liked to elaborate on the Iran Nuclear Deal — a 2015 agreement reached by the Obama administration which limits Iran’s ability to construct bombs.
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was awesome,” Allen said. “Penn State is obviously going to be better, we’re going to face a better arm in a weekend starter, but we have to take that same mentality.” For the Cats, senior Reed Mason (2-2, 4.05 ERA) is Friday’s probable starter, followed by sophomore Dan Kubiuk (0-3, 5.46) on Saturday. As of Thursday night, Sunday’s starter had not been announced. The continual re-integration of senior Joe Schindler (1-0, 3.38 ERA), who returned from suspension last week, will also aid the rotation. Schindler worked in and out of trouble during the
FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2016 on Friday. Cilento said the information Corkran gave them was unsolicited. “I’m sorry to the student body for not being totally upfront,” she told The Daily. “I don’t honestly think there would have been a large change in the results. Our outreach strategy was always to go hard on both days of voting.” In multiple social media posts and messages obtained by The Daily, students urged others to vote for Cilento and Vinson, saying the voting margin was narrow. “Our strategy the entire time was to express the fact that we knew the vote was pretty close from the beginning because it was so contentious,” Cilento said. “We had to tell people it was close to mobilize people.” Thomas said Syed and Baskaran were leading by about 200 votes in the first few hours polls were open. When Thomas woke up the next morning at about 9 a.m., she said the margin was shrinking. Thomas said she told her election commission at about 11 a.m. on April 8 that Syed and Baskaran were leading by about 100 votes. At about 4 p.m., she said she told them it was “pretty close” with about five or 10 votes between the two tickets. Thomas said she is allowed to share that information with her commission but members of the commission are prohibited from sharing it with others. Thomas alerted Syed on Wednesday — about an hour before Cilento and Vinson were set to take the oath and assume their positions — that information was leaked during the campaign, according to an email obtained by The Daily.
In the email, Thomas told Syed the commission discovered “around when polls closed” that Corkran had told Cilento “several hours earlier that the election was close.” Thomas said Corkran was kicked off the commission and the commission’s initial investigation found Cilento and Vinson “had done nothing wrong.” “There’s no way to prove if it had any effect and so we went forward with releasing the results,” Thomas told The Daily. Syed said she was caught off guard by Thomas’ email and said her campaign had no inside information about the voting margin throughout the polling period. “It’s unfortunate that we’re dealing with this almost a week later,” Syed said. “What we look forward to is a quick, fair and just resolution to all of this so that ASG can move forward and adequately represent the student body this upcoming year.” Former ASG President Noah Star, a Weinberg senior, deferred comment to Thomas. The only people who had access to voting data during the election are Thomas and Joe Lattal, an administrator in the Campus Life office who manages the website used for voting. Brent Turner, executive director of Campus Life and one of ASG’s advisers, said ASG elections are a studentrun process. “Associated Student Government has their own codes and guidelines,” he said. “Administrators are here to support and advise and serve as advocates for all students.”
“He has this quality that we, in journalism, admire that I think frustrates his staff,” Goldberg told The Daily. “Which is that he’s unusually willing to do public analysis of his beliefs… while they’re going on. In other words, he’s in the balcony watching the presidency unfold, but he is the presidency.” Weinberg senior Jonathan Kamel, who helped organize the event, said bringing “the most prominent Jewish-American journalist at this moment”
to campus falls squarely in line with Hillel’s mission — engaging students in discussion about Jewish culture. “He’s so vocal on issues that American Jews care about, and he seems to have this uncanny tap into the American-Jewish psyche,” Kamel said. “He seems to understand the fears, anxieties, hopes, dreams of American Jews.”
sixth inning Wednesday, allowing men to reach first and second before retiring the next three batters and preserving the Cats’ lead. With a series of possible low-scoring pitcher’s duels looming, the hosts desperately need a statement series victory to move up in the conference standings, where they currently sit 12th out of 13 teams and 1.5 games behind Ohio State and Rutgers who are tied for 10th. “If there’s a time, this is the time we’ve got to make a run,” Allen said. “We’re playing our best baseball that we’ve played all year, so hopefully we can string a couple more together.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Schapiro and Linzer wrote another letter in support of Eikenberry, and Faculty Senate passed a resolution backing the appointment. A resolution calling on the University to rescind Eikenberry’s appointment was introduced to Associated Student Government Senate, but had not yet been voted on. “Over the past several months, together with Ambassador Eikenberry, we continued to assess the conditions required for an executive director to achieve the desired change, and agreed that several are not yet in place,” Linzer wrote in the email. Political science and legal studies Prof. Jacqueline Stevens, who helped organize the faculty letter opposing Eikenberry’s appointment in February, said the former ambassador was not an appropriate candidate for the job considering his advocacy for using humanities and social sciences research to advance U.S. soft power overseas and his lack of academic qualifications, including the fact he does not have a Ph.D. If the administration renews the search for a candidate, Stevens told The Daily she and her colleagues will push for a “more transparent and consultative process” than was used the first time around. Weinberg senior Neha Reddy, who helped author the ASG resolution, said she hopes more faculty voices — and perhaps student perspectives — will be incorporated going forward. The ASG resolution, which was postponed at the April 7 meeting, has been dropped, and the forum scheduled for Wednesday night to inform students about Eikenberry’s appointment has been cancelled, Reddy said. “(Thursday) morning was such a big shock,” Reddy said. “Really great news, but still a lot of questions. I’m not sure we’ll ever know why Eikenberry is no longer the head of Buffett.” Linzer and Eikenberry did not respond to requests for a comment. tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu juliajacobs2018@u.northwestern.edu
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And yet, even with opponent-specific motivation and a desire for a Big Ten championship driving them forward, the seniors will have to juggle a number of emotions as the regular season winds to a close. “I’ve been playing for 14 years,” Kumar said. “It’s hard to think that this could be my last few matches in tennis.” But both Kumar and Baev are ready to make the most of the limited time left. And although the team will look to win on behalf of its seniors, it still has its eye on the road ahead,
Swan said. With the weekend’s matchups giving the team a chance to further prove its dominance, the Cats are prepared to couple the seniors’ send-off with what they hope will be a traditional, resume-boosting victory. “It’s been an amazing four years for Fed and I,” Kumar said. “It’s exciting that it’s such a big match, these last two matches, so we have a lot to play for still. We have a lot of our goals still on the table and we want to make sure that this isn’t our last home match — that we can potentially host — but it’s definitely exciting for our last regular season match.” garrettjochnau2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Despite freezing temperatures, driving rain and rescheduled games, the Wildcats are making themselves quite comfortable at home in April. Northwestern’s weekend series with Nebraska (25-14, 6-5 Big Ten) marks its third straight weekend at home as part of a four-week span where the Cats (16-20, 7-4) play 13-of-15 games at Sharon J. Drysdale Field. “We love playing on our field; we love playing in front of our fans,” coach Kate Drohan said. “The playing surface has been outstanding. It’s really a special place.” The lengthy homestand began April 1 against Minnesota in NU’s first home game of the season. The Cats followed the three-game series against the Golden Gophers with another against Iowa. Michigan State will come to town next weekend and NU will play its final home game April 27 against local rival Loyola. After a non-conference schedule that involved five trips to warm weather destinations such as California and Florida, the Cats have not traveled as frequently. NU has not, and will not, leave Illinois for about a monthlong period; its only road games during this stretch came in a doubleheader Wednesday against the Fighting Illini. The favorable schedule has also coincided with better results. NU struggled against a non-conference slate littered with high-quality opponents, finishing one California tournament 0-5 and playing poorly in others. Since returning to Evanston, however, the Cats have begun to reverse their fortunes. The series sweep of Iowa contributed to a six-game winning streak, NU’s longest of the season. The Cats didn’t win more than two in a row during non-conference play. Four games under .500 with 14 regular season contests to play, NU faces an uphill battle
to return to the 64-team NCAA Tournament despite an RPI of 49. That number is buoyed by the Cats’ challenging non-conference schedule, which included seven games against ranked teams. Drohan said after the Iowa series that “at this point in our season, every game is important,” and she added this week that “having this stretch at home has really added to keeping the momentum going.” NU’s schedule is somewhat peculiar in that its 13 home games all come in a relatively condensed stretch; the Cats will close the regular season with seven more games away from home. However, such a scheduling arrangement has some precedent. In 2013, NU went 8-4 in a stretch of 12 straight games played at home. Additionally in the Big Ten, Indiana also faces a similar schedule this year, playing 18 games in a 20-game stretch at home and not crossing state lines for over a month. Even with the run at home, the Cats’ schedule hasn’t gone off without a hitch. Poor weather forced a schedule tweak against Minnesota, and a game against Iowa was postponed because the field was too cold. Even when the weather cooperated enough to play, NU dealt with bitter cold and drizzle. None of that has bothered senior outfielder Fran Strub, who has hit .455 with six extra-base hits in 11 Big Ten games. Six of those games have been at home. “It’s a lot of fun and it came at a great point in our season when we’re starting to turn things around,” Strub said. “We love playing at home and sticking to our usual routine. We love playing in front of our fans at home. We’re excited to continue doing that.” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Wildcats prepared to host USC in rematch of near 2015 upset By DAN WALDMAN
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The Wi l d c a t s opened last year’s season against an unranked USC team, in what should have been an easy win for then-No. 5 Northwestern. But the Trojans had other plans. USC took the Cats into overtime when then-freshman midfielder Selena Lasota sealed the game for NU in what would have been a massive upset. Now undefeated, USC has its chance for revenge. The No. 12 Cats (6-6, 1-1 Big Ten) host the No. 6 Trojans (13-0, 7-0 Mountain Pacific) on Friday in a rematch of last year’s season opener. NU is in the midst of a two-game winning streak after taking down Michigan and then-No.5 Notre Dame last week. The Trojans will look to end the Cats’ recent string of success with its combination of both the nation’s highest scoring offense and stingiest defense. Coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said last week’s win over the Fighting Irish was a huge momentum boost for the team, but NU has to focus all of its attention on USC for Friday.
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When Northwestern throws the first pitch of its series opener against Penn State on Friday afternoon, the forecast will call for sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-50s. As the series progresses into the weekend, those temperatures are projected to rise into the 60s. Riding a two-game winning streak for the first time since February, the Wildcats (9-24, 2-7 Big Ten) hope the warmer weather will coincide with a much-needed continuation of their hot streak on the field. “I’m really excited for this stretch coming up,” freshman second baseman Willie Bourbon said after Wednesday’s win. “That’ll be awesome to get to play in front of our home crowd, hopefully get some nicer weather — it’s been kind of chilly. I think, right here, we’re going to make a run.” NU has won back-to-back games against teams with winning records: first an 11-3 domination of Nebraska (22-11, 7-2) on Sunday and then a 5-1 decision over Bradley (15-11, 1-1 Missouri Valley) on Wednesday. Excellent pitching has proven the storyline of the modest streak, as the team used five pitchers against the Cornhuskers and then nine against the Braves while
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allowing just 4 total runs. In order to extend the win streak to a season-high three, the Cats will have to top yet another squad with a winning record, Penn State (19-14, 5-4), who has three meetings at Miller Park this weekend. The Nittany Lions will make their first visit to Evanston since 2011 boasting an impressive streak of their own — winning 10 of their last 12 games culminated by an 8-1 rout of Bucknell on Wednesday. Penn State is likely to start a pair of stellar pitchers — senior Nick Hedge (4-1, 2.10 ERA), who has not allowed a run in 10 combined innings over his last two starts, and freshman Justin Hagenman (4-1, 2.25 ERA) — in two of the three games. They will pose a significantly tougher challenge for NU than did Bradley’s starter, Ben Olson (1-3, 5.40 ERA), but coach Spencer Allen said he hopes his team will approach this weekend’s contests the same as they did Wednesday. “I just told the guys that whatever we did mentally preparation-wise, we’ve got to repeat that, because it » See BASEBALL, page 6
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“Obviously that win was exciting but we’re just kind of focusing in on this next game,” Amonte Hiller said. “Our next game is our most important game and we really have to take it one game at a time. Obviously this USC team has had a lot of success and is obviously very well coached.” When the Cats last played USC, the Trojans took an early 7-0 lead before NU finally scored with a little over 3 minutes remaining in the first half. But the Cats outscored USC 8-4 in the second half to send the game into overtime, when Lasota took care of business. However, NU hasn’t had the same success in overtime this season. The Cats have lost both of their overtime games to then-No.4 North Carolina and then-No.16 Penn. Despite sophomore attacker Shelby Fredericks dominating draw controls this season, NU has been unable to score on the first possession of overtime. “With the overtime, it’s just a mentality thing,” Amonte Hiller said. “You want to come out strong and really get that first draw control. That’s obviously the most important thing.” Prior to last week, Lasota had been held scoreless in her previous two games against Maryland and Penn but rebounded against Michigan. The sophomore started the game off scoring 5 goals in the first half, and added another goal before the end
of the game, en route to a 20-4 victory. Lasota continued her dominance against Notre Dame, racking up another 5 goals to finish the week with 11 total. “It was just natural,” Lasota said. “Our offense played extremely well (against Michigan). Christina Esposito got 3 goals and Kaleigh (Craig) 3. I think we all contributed and I got lucky a few times on offense.” Along with Lasota’s recent dominance, Craig, a senior midfielder, has been commanding on both sides of the ball. Last week the Big Ten named Craig the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week after she forced 5 turnovers. Craig also leads all scorers on the team with 27 goals. After last week’s pair of wins, Craig said she has been playing with a new sense of intensity and fire in her game. “After the losses that we’ve had I’ve just kind of been fed up with playing nice,” Craig said. “I guess the ride is a great chance to get the ball back, so we’ve been working really hard on that. I’ve just been wanting to play mean.” Craig said the team is not concerned with the possibility of going to overtime again with the Trojans, but rather wants to prevent that situation from potentially occurring. “We’ve been preparing to come out strong so we don’t have to get in that situation,” Craig said. “We’ve been able to do that the past couple games — come out really hard — and it’s put us in a good position.” danielwaldman2019@u.northwestern.edu
Wildcats excited for Senior Day By GARRETT JOCHNAU
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For the Wildcats, the upcoming weekend against Michigan and Michigan State represents what might be the final opportunity of the season to perform before a home crowd. But for two players in particular — seniors Mihir Kumar and Fedor Baev — the homestand will be even more sentimental. After four years of playing at Northwestern, the veteran duo will look to exit with a bang. With Sunday’s match officially Senior Day, both Kumar and Baev
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will command a heavy spotlight. “It’s for sure going to be special,” Baev said. “I’ve had four fantastic years here … and getting a win would obviously be incredible. … It will certainly be sad seeing this time of my life come to an end,
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FEDOR-AL REGULATIONS Fedor Baev prepares to smash a forehand. Baev, along with fellow senior Mihir Kumar, will be celebrating their careers this weekend on Senior Day.
but hopefully it won’t be the last match we play (at home).” If No. 15 NU (21-2, 7-0 Big Ten) retains its top-16 ranking, it will have the opportunity to host its first- and second-round NCAA Tournament matchups. But even one loss could doom the Cats’ chances of doing so, making every remaining game monumentally important. No. 21 Michigan (17-4, 6-1) — who NU draws on Friday — will be the first test of the weekend. The Wolverines sit a game behind NU in the Big Ten standings and boast an impressive resume that features a win over now-No. 24 Tulsa. “(Coach Arvid Swan) is from Michigan,” Baev said. “It’s a big rival of ours. We’d love to beat them as absolutely bad as we can, so if we can achieve that, it’d be a great start to Senior Weekend.” And although the duel against a ranked Michigan team certainly appears more imposing on paper than Sunday’s battle with a bottom-feeding Spartans squad (1014, 0-7), Swan and his players maintain that, in conference play, every matchup is a challenge. Still, for the seniors, Michigan State is more than just another Big Ten opponent. In April of 2013, when Kumar and Baev were freshmen, the team was upset by the Spartans 5-2, with Kumar losing both his doubles and singles matches. Three years later, the loss is still in the back of his mind. “I remember (my) freshman year, we got thrashed by Michigan State, so there’s always motivation,” Kumar said. “To be able to come back, make amends for that, would be awesome.” » See MEN’S TENNIS, page 6