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advocate for many social issues, his music and activism primarily focuses on topics pertaining to race, Zimmermann said. Killer Mike encouraged audience members to foster relationships with people from different demographics. The interaction and mentorship among people of different races, classes, sexualities and religions will create unity and equality, he said. “Why aren’t we out fighting for the rights of all, like we should be?” Killer Mike said. “We are better as a species when we work together. In his presentation, Killer Mike
Faculty Senate voted Wednesday to uphold its decision to support the appointment of former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry as executive director of the Buffett Institute for Global Studies. The intention of the motion, which was to invalidate the Eikenberry vote, was to discuss parliamentary procedure rather than specifically Eikenberry, who, as of April 13, will no longer serve in the position. The motion set out to alter Faculty Senate’s decision on Eikenberry due to violations of “due process” at April’s meeting. “The discussion today was not about Eikenberry,” Law Prof. Charlotte Crane, a member of Faculty Senate’s executive committee, told The Daily. “It was only about whether the prior meeting was inappropriately conducted to make nothing that happened at the meeting have any effect, and I think we came to the right conclusion.” One of the major infractions detailed in the motion was that senators were not given sufficient time to review the agenda and necessary documents. April’s dossier was sent to senators two hours before Faculty Senate convened, violating the five-day time frame outlined in Faculty Senate bylaws.
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A coalition of 64 Illinois social services are suing Gov. Bruce Rauner and members of his administration for the more than $100 million Illinois owes agencies for work contracted by the state and left unpaid during the budget crisis. Pay Now Illinois, a collective of human and social services agencies and companies, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the Cook County Circuit Court. The suit claims Rauner and his staff have acted illegally by continuing to enforce the contracts with the organizations without paying them, and that his veto of appropriation bills in June 2015 was an illegal interference with their constitutional right to a legal correction for the issue. “This suit is about upholding a contract and paying your bills, basic good business practices,” said Pay Now coalition chair Andrea Durbin in a news release. “We are doing our part. We expect the state to do the same.” Lisabeth Weiner of Lisabeth Weiner Consultants, a consultant for Pay Now, said the social services in the suit have been operating without payment through their contracts for more than 300 days. Although the agencies have tried to come up with solutions to meet their obligations without payment through their contracts, Weiner said, the services involved are struggling to be able to pay staff, rent and other financial obligations — in some cases, laying off staff or closing their doors altogether. “How do you continue to work when you’re not being paid? Essentially these agencies have become accreditors to the state,” Weiner said. “They are getting their cake, because the social services are being fulfilled, and they’re eating it too, because they aren’t paying for it.” Rauner spokeswoman Catherine Kelly said in a statement that the lawsuit was just frustration with the state budget crisis. Efforts to give social services emergency funding, like the attempted last-minute addition to the higher education emergency funding bill, have not passed. “While we understand that frustration is driving many worthwhile organizations to seek solutions anywhere, including the courts, the only solution is for the General Assembly to pass a balanced, reform-oriented budget as soon » See LAWSUIT, page 9
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Killer Mike talks social issues By DARIA LENDERMAN
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Killer Mike wanted the audience of his Wednesday night talk to know him beyond his rapper persona. “My name is Mike and I rap,” he said. “I own a couple of barber shops. My wife runs my house, and I have four children to whom I am very dedicated to. I am basically your average middle-class dad.” Killer Mike, whose real name is Michael Render, spoke at Leverone Auditorium as part of the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series. The
rapper and activist urged more than 200 students in attendance Wednesday to take action against social, political and economic issues. He rose to fame through his work as part of Run the Jewels, a rap duo that he formed with rapper El-P. During this election cycle, he has campaigned for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Killer Mike was selected as a speaker because of the fame he gained through his socially conscious music and political outspokenness, said Ben Zimmermann, a Weinberg sophomore and CTSS co-chair. Although Killer Mike is an
Obama’s speechwriter speaks on campus By MARK DUANMU
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White House director of speechwriting Cody Keenan reflected on his personal experiences as President Barack Obama’s lead speechwriter and as a Northwestern alumnus at a speaker event Wednesday evening. “If someone told me in 1998, that in 10 years I would be a speechwriter for the first black president, I would never believe them,” Keenan said. Keenan (Weinberg ’02) addressed more than 60 students and faculty at this year’s Admiral Weber Lecture, an annual speaker series hosted by the political science department. After graduating from NU without a job, Keenan worked in Washington, D.C. for former Sen. Ted Kennedy before becoming a speechwriter. “I had never considered speechwriting at all; I got pulled into it, which was very lucky,” Keenan said. “Any successful person that says luck didn’t play into their success is lying to your face. But at the same time, I
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helped create my own lucky breaks by working hard and staying in politics.” Political science Prof. Sara Monoson, the department chair, introduced Keenan, and political science and sociology Prof. Anthony Chen moderated the hour-long Q&A session. The political science department invited Keenan because it thought his ties to NU would make him a particularly interesting speaker, Monoson said. “We reached out to Cody because we knew he’s a proud Northwestern alumni and of course a very accomplished person in politics,” Monoson told The Daily. “He’s very direct in communication, and his personality really comes through when he speaks.” The audience asked Keenan about a wide range of topics, including college advice, speechwriting tips and electoral politics. When asked about the current state of U.S. politics, Keenan expressed concern over some of the presidential candidates and increased polarization, but said he is ultimately
faithful in American democracy. “There’s a lot of demagoguery this election season,” Keenan said.
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Around Town Lack of budget affects local college By RENZO DOWNEY
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Oakton Community College is cutting costs and raising tuition amid the Illinois budget impasse despite the emergency higher education appropriations signed by Gov. Bruce Rauner on April 25. Oakton, which has campuses in Des Plaines and Skokie, is guaranteed to receive $1.4 million from the state, but the amount is much lower than the $4.5 million usually granted each ordinary fiscal year due to the ongoing Illinois budget crisis, college officials said. As a result, the college has decided to raise tuition by 10 percent for the upcoming academic year and, if it does not receive more funding from the state, may increase the raise to 20 percent, Oakton vice chair Bill Stafford said. “Quite honestly, that’s part of the difficulty in developing the budget,” said Oakton spokesman Paul Palian. “You want to be forthright and let students know what tuition is going to be in advance of the school year. … You’ve got to, for lack of a better word, hedge your bet.” Still, only 7 percent of Oakton’s funding comes from the state compared to southern Illinois colleges that receive up to 40 percent, Stafford said.
Police Blotter Evanston Hospital physician turns himself in after stealing $65,000 ultrasound machine
An Evanston physician turned himself in Monday to the Evanston Police Department for the theft of a $65,000 ultrasound machine. Vinay Rawlani was an employee at Evanston Hospital, 2650 Ridge Ave., where he stole the machine, EPD spokesman Perry Polinski said. After hospital security reported the theft to EPD on Feb. 18, hospital security and EPD detectives followed up with an investigation, in which Rawlani was a suspect, Polinski said.
Oakton benefits from Evanston’s property taxes, which help the college rely less on state funding, Palian said. He added that the college’s ability to support itself through other means may make it more attractive to prospective students. “In the district we operate in, we’re fortunate to have taxpayer support,” Palian said. “That’s the difference between us and public universities that are state supported and don’t necessarily have the local property tax base.” Oakton has also been getting by with the help of the Oakton Community College Educational Foundation, an organization that gives grants to Oakton students and that agreed to supply the school with $350,000 to cover students’ Monetary Award Program grants that have gone unfunded, Stafford said. Although the aid eased students’ financial hardships for the first semester, Stafford said it is off the table if the budget impasse continues because asking for the Educational Foundation’s help was strictly “a one-time request.” The college has also cut expenses, particularly in adult education, by reducing family literacy sites from three to one, cutting tutoring costs by 10 percent, decreasing professional development by 50 percent and lowering student-employee salaries by 20 percent, Stafford said. In addition, he said Oakton has decided to
eliminate 10 classes, leave less vital positions vacant, restrict travel and defer at least $1 million in capital purchases. Ninety percent of the state’s budget is currently being funded by court order and continuing appropriations, but the $3.6 billion that is not appropriated is affecting higher education and human resources, state Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston) said. Gabel, who is on a committee attempting to pass temporary emergency funding for human services, said higher education was addressed first because Chicago State University risked closing its doors if it did not receive funds by April 28, when the state legislature would have been out of session. A second bill for an additional $453 million toward higher education funding is currently going through the Senate. Gabel said the budget committee has begun to meet again, an improvement from last year when the committee did not meet at all. The proposed budget is due at the end of the month, but Stafford remained skeptical, saying he has seen little action to move forward. “There’s talk that they won’t pass a budget until next November’s election,” Stafford said. “I’ve heard things as drastic as that, so who knows.”
Rawlani worked at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University’s plastic surgery program during the current school year, but he is no longer an employee, University spokesman Bob Rowley said. Rawlani brought himself to the station at 1:05 p.m. Monday and was charged with a Class 1 felony for a theft over $500, Polinski said. He appeared in Skokie Courthouse on Wednesday morning, where his bond was posted. He is scheduled to appear in court again June 10.
Goose Vodka on April 26 from the Jewel-Osco in south Evanston. He entered the store, 2485 Howard Street, with a woman at around 3:45 a.m., Polinski said. A loss prevention agent called EPD when he recognized the woman, who had shoplifted on previous occasions. Before police arrived, the man and woman fled. The woman left her items behind and the man took the three bottles of vodka with him without paying, Polinski said. Each bottle was valued at $29. The man was caught on store surveillance footage, but he has not yet been identified, Polinski added.
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On Campus Senate confirms one student life VP, rejects other By ERICA SNOW
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Associated Student Government confirmed one co-vice president for student life and rejected the nomination for the second co-vice president at Senate on Wednesday. SESP junior Anna DiStefano will succeed McCormick junior Wendy Roldan as vice president for student life. The nomination of SESP sophomore Sumaia Masoom failed to obtain the required twothirds majority necessary for confirmation, with a 19-10-0 vote. The selection committee, which accepts applications and conducts interviews for some vice presidential candidates, will reopen applications and present a candidate for the second co-vice president position, said chief of staff Isaac Rappoport, a Weinberg junior. The committee could renominate Masoom, he added. DiStefano, the social justice coalition senator, said she wanted to partner with Masoom since their leadership capabilities complemented each other’s. “I really, sincerely wanted Sumaia to be my co-VP and I’m sincerely disappointed that that didn’t happen in this room today,” DiStefano told The Daily after the meeting. “I would love to see her again as a candidate.” As stated in the ASG Code, the student life
Sarah Koenig of ‘Serial’ to speak at Northwestern in June
Journalist Sarah Koenig will speak next month at Northwestern as part of the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series, the group announced Wednesday. Koenig will “take the audience backstage” and share personal stories about audio storytelling, CTSS said in a news release. She will speak on June 2 at 7 p.m. in Ryan Family Auditorium. Koenig is a co-creator of the podcast “Serial,”
committee traditionally has only had one vice president. However, SESP freshman Ben Powell motioned to suspend the rules so he could introduce legislation to change the code, allowing for two vice presidential nominations to be considered. Each nomination was considered separately, a change from Powell’s original legislation, which would have voted to confirm the two simultaneously. Rappoport, the chair of the selection committee, said the two were seen as a pair with similar visions to improve student life. By splitting the responsibilities between two vice presidents, he said the executives could meet with more student groups and administrators. “One of the conversations that was had in the selection committee was about fit and about making sure that if we were to split this position, making sure that the two people that are there are compatible,” he said when addressing senators before the vote. “In the interviews and hearing from people who know both Sumaia and Anna, they felt they would work well together and have similar visions for the position.” Before the vote, some senators questioned Masoom’s ability to represent all students’ beliefs due to her activist background. Masoom said she was committed to talking with student groups and gauging student opinion so she would be able to represent the student body to administrators. Masoom said although she supported Northwestern Divest, she would be open to meet with other
groups like Wildcats for Israel because her role as a student representative would require her to engage with differing opinions. “When I take on this position, my personal opinions about any political issues should take a backseat to what the majority of the student body feels is necessary,” Masoom said before the vote. “I’m not here to advance my own personal agenda. If I wanted to advance my own personal agenda, I would probably stay outside of ASG. … I’m here to work and be a
mouthpiece for the student body.” Earlier in the meeting, Senate confirmed Weinberg junior Ashley Wood to replace Weinberg senior Riko Ohashi as vice president for academics. Senators also confirmed Weinberg freshman Anand LalTabak as the new vice president for sustainability, the position previously held by current ASG president Christina Cilento, a SESP junior.
which is produced in collaboration with WBEZ in Chicago and has been downloaded more than 175 million times. Koenig was also named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in 2015. Communication junior Sami Rose, CTSS co-chair, said she loved the podcast and students requested Koeing as a speaker because of the popularity of the program. “As someone who has ravenously consumed both seasons of ‘Serial,’ I’m so interested to know what went on, what we eventually heard,” Rose told The Daily. “It’s incredibly interesting to see behind something you think you know so well.”
“Serial” is a podcast that follows a non-fiction story told week by week through Koenig’s narration of her reporting. The podcast became popular in its first season with the story of Adnan Syed, who was convicted of killing his high school ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. In its second season, “Serial” followed the controversy surrounding Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a Taliban prisoner for nearly five years who was charged with leaving his military post. “Serial” producer Julie Snyder spoke Tuesday at the McCormick Foundation Center Forum and said Koenig was a “protagonist” in the first season
as she explained court documents and shared clips of interviews. Although not all students may have listened to the podcast, Rose said it will be interesting to learn the process behind long-form storytelling. “There are certain principles of storytelling that stretch across all mediums,” Rose said. “Even if you’re not necessarily interested in podcasting or ‘Serial’ itself, there are still things to be learned about how to create a narrative like this and how to effectively tell a story.”
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CHANGING GUARD ASG president and SESP junior Christina Cilento (left) swears in SESP junior Anna DiStefano as a co-vice president for student life at Wednesday’s Senate meeting.
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True altruism may not exist, which is perfectly fine BOB HAYES
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As Northwestern students, faculty and alumni register for the annual campus-wide service day, NU Gives Back, it is a particularly intriguing time to ponder the ideas of service and altruism. Even for those who lack the time or desire to participate in NU Gives Back or have never participated in a large-scale service program, selflessly assisting and serving others is a largely unavoidable part of our everyday lives. With each of us acting selflessly and receiving the gains of others’ selfless actions, I wonder what human characteristic or feeling truly causes us to act altruistically. It is certainly fulfilling and convenient to consider service projects or everyday benevolent actions as driven by an internal desire to help others, but I question the absence of selfish means within these ostensibly selfless actions. By most accounts, altruism is by definition unselfish, which would make “selfish altruism” an oxymoron. So, our question really
becomes whether true altruism exists. Commonly, an act of service or giving comes with the hope of future reciprocation — either consciously or subconsciously. One could reasonably argue that he or she does not act with this desire for reciprocation or that this motive does not apply to a number of altruistic actions, such as serving food to homeless citizens. However, reputable psychological theorists point out that we fail to realize even our own motives for certain actions. Reciprocation aside, even a nice, warm feeling of fulfillment counts as a selfish motive and one that virtually everyone enjoys as a byproduct of altruism. This selfish basis of action generally describes egoism, which closely relates to economic models of utility maximization — that every decision is the product of maximizing personal gain while minimizing cost. Georgetown University philosophy Prof. Judith Lichtenberg explored the possible contribution of egoism to altruism in a 2010 New York Times opinion column in which she says, “Even when we appear to act unselfishly, other reasons for our behavior often rear their heads: the prospect of a future favor, the boost to reputation, or simply the good feeling that comes from appearing to act unselfishly. As Kant and Freud
observed, people’s true motives may be hidden, even (or perhaps especially) from themselves.” Regardless of the level of truth of egoism, it is more relevant for us to consider whether the selfishness of our motivations for altruism even matter. Suppose egoism entirely guides altruism, meaning we devote our time to service for conscious or subconscious gain. For the receiving party, the motivation does not matter, only the product of the altruistic action does. A Habitat for Humanity beneficiary will ultimately end up just as well off regardless of the levels of selfishness of the builders’ motivations. For the giver, psychologists have found numerous benefits to altruism. Dr. Neel Burton wrote in Psychology Today, “In the short term, an altruistic act leaves us with an euphoric feeling, so-called ‘helpers’ high’. In the longer term, altruism is associated with better mental and physical health and greater longevity. Kinder people are happier, and happier people are kinder, setting up a virtuous circle of altruism.” These findings get complicated with regard to whether these associations are causal, but it is fair to consider whether these associations mean selfishness might actually be a positive element of giving and service. True selflessness
by definition provides no benefit to the actor at some level of cost. Thus, if the same action leads to the same benefit for the receiving party but at a greater benefit to the giver, maximizing selfish gain through “altruism” leads to the socially optimal level of net benefit. Selfish motivations make a one-sided altruistic transaction mutually beneficial. With regard to this complicated causal matrix, like most social science models, it is impossible to draw concrete conclusions. I think we can reasonably say true altruism may not exist, because actions — even those that are ostensibly selfless — have selfish motivations, both conscious and subconscious. And regardless of how selfish our actions are, selfishness in giving may logically benefit the giver while not harming the benefit to the receiver. Our altruism is, to some extent, selfish, but in the end, the product matters far more than the motivation. Bob Hayes is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at roberthayes2017@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.
#MoreThanMean’s powerful message must go further COLIN WANG
DAILY COLUMNIST
On April 25, Just Not Sports, a podcast dedicated to sports culture, uploaded a video entitled “#MoreThanMean – Women in Sports ‘Face’ Harassment.” Inspired by Jimmy Kimmel’s “Mean Tweets” segment, the video features sports reporters Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro sitting face-to-face with different men and listening as the men read aloud real tweets that were written and directed at the two reporters. In the week since “#MoreThanMean” was posted, it has caught the attention of several other sports news outlets, such as ESPN and Bleacher Report, and, as of May 4, the video had more than three million views on YouTube. The tweets read in the video start off as light banter, with the men reading retorts at the assertions the two reporters make in their articles. However, the tweets quickly devolve and their focus shifts away from article content. They
become personal attacks, calling Spain and DiCaro “bitch” and “c—.” They bring up and disavow DiCaro’s prior sexual assault. At their worst, they call for harm and death upon the two reporters; one tweet calls for DiCaro to get “hit in the head with a hockey puck and killed.” As the video goes on, the camera pans in on the faces of the men reading the tweets. These faces show apprehension, disgust and apology as the men struggle to read aloud such heinous comments. The video ends with the message, “We would not say it to their faces. So let’s not type it.” This message is admirable but not uncommon. It’s the digital age equivalent of other golden rules, like “treat others the way you want to be treated.” The video aimed to draw attention to the harassment female sports journalists frequently face. With millions of views on YouTube and countless shares on Facebook, there’s no doubt the original goal was accomplished. However, by limiting its goal to just raising awareness, “#MoreThanMean” has ignored the bigger problem, which is the need to empower women in sports journalism and those seeking a career in the field. For almost its entirety, “#MoreThanMean”
focuses on the men reading the tweets. The final message is targeted toward men and urges men to be responsible for the things they say online. Admittedly, this does make sense because men make up the majority of sport journalism readership in America. However, by focusing on men as the problem and solution for harassment of female sports journalists, “#MoreThanMean” has offered little recourse to women. In the few shots of Spain and DiCaro reacting to the men reading, they are shown doing little more than sitting stoically or holding back tears. The strategy for combating the harassment of women in sports journalism has to be twopronged: reducing the amount of harassment that women receive and empowering women to continue their work despite harassing comments. “#MoreThanMean” has begun to address the former issue but has done little regarding the latter. However, that defect could be easily changed. Female sports journalists should team up and continue to perpetuate Spain and DiCaro’s antiharassment message. “#MoreThanMean,” with its resonating imagery and its memorable hashtag, has the potential to become a much more powerful movement.
Everyone needs to stop telling ‘white lies’ ALEXI STOCKER
DAILY COLUMNIST
“Honesty,” Benjamin Franklin once said, “is the best policy.” American author Mark Twain amended this quotation decades later, writing, “Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it.” A contemporary rendition of this sentiment could probably best be expressed, “Honesty is the best policy — when it suits my short-term ends.” Dishonesty has become ubiquitous in our society; our politicians lie, our professional athletes lie and news anchors lie, too. We all know that lying, whether about having an extramarital affair, coming under fire in Iraq or receiving mysterious campaign contributions, is wrong. The truth gets out, and the consequences of lying are often worse than if we had just been forthright in the first place. Just ask President Bill Clinton or professional golfer Tiger Woods. Nonetheless, people keep on lying. We deride the biggest liars — take “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz, for example — yet the lies keep flowing forth, an unstoppable and seemingly endless stream of falsehoods, fabrications, distortions and outright dishonesties. Our society’s penchant for lying begins, I believe, with our acceptance and outright promotion of “white lies.” Dictionary.com defines a white lie as “a minor, polite, or harmless lie; fib.” The definition affixed to white lies identifies a serious problem in our society’s approach to the truth; dishonesty is completely acceptable if we can rationalize it. Lies
can be harmless if they’re trivial or unimportant in the grand scheme of things. Lies are good if they allow us to avoid offending somebody. White lies, no matter what we’re raised to believe, do little to prevent hurt feelings or avoid conflict. Children know, for example, that appearances matter in our society. They know, despite adults’ insistence that everybody is beautiful, some people are more attractive than others. Studies show that beauty matters. Attractiveness brings with it advantages, from greater likeability to easier success in politics and business. Ultimately, white lies do more harm than good. Telling unattractive friends and family members they’re handsome or beautiful doesn’t help them. Telling friends their performances were great when they stunk, their papers are brilliant when they’re not or their comments in class were “on point” when they just filled up dead air is a dangerous and destructive path. Lying to each other prevents critical reflection and spurs distrust and mutual suspicion. Honesty actually is the best policy. Being forthright about differences in physical attractiveness enables us to emphasize the fact that, although appearances do matter in our society, beauty does not define our worth. Being honest about appearances enables us to say something like, “Yes, you are an objectively unattractive man, and I love you for your intelligence, kindness, ingenuity, humor and adventurous spirit.” Honesty of that sort enables us to move above our society’s overvaluation of physical appearances. Lying reinforces the importance of good looks and leaves those of us with lesser natural endowments feeling devalued. Honesty also helps us grow through critical
reflection. I have played trombone since I was in fourth grade. Those first three years I was awful; I was truly and unequivocally terrible at playing trombone. Yet, after each performance, family members would eagerly tell me how well I’d done. It took me hearing a recording of myself playing to realize just how bad I was. Armed with that knowledge, I set out to improve, and I did. Looking back, I would have greatly appreciated honesty up front. To this day, I demand honesty from my peers on my writing and rhetorical arguing skills. Little white lies do nothing to help our peers; honest feedback is absolutely necessary for moving forward and developing our skills in any and all performance and professional fields. More importantly, people know when they’re being lied to. Even if we initially believe dishonest, albeit well-intentioned, feedback, reality eventually comes swooping in, revealing our friends’ and families’ white lies. I honestly prefer to hear I’m bad at something — trombone, tennis, what have you — from friends or family than to go into an audition or tryout swelled with false confidence, only to be let down. Not only does our dishonesty hurt our friends, it also leaves them feeling deceived. Going forward, let’s all try to live by Franklin’s words. Honesty really is the best policy, both for ourselves and for those we value most. Alexi Stocker is a Weinberg senior. He can be contacted at alexistocker2016@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.
After “#MoreThanMean” gained publicity, Spain wrote a column in espnW entitled, “Grace under fire: Women in media shouldn’t have to ‘ignore’ abuse.” In it, she discussed her hope that public service announcements like “#MoreThanMean” will inspire parents and teachers to open up dialogues about misogyny and acceptance of a diversity of voices. As we work everyday toward a world free of meaningless harassment, we must recognize the importance of advancing potentially powerful movements. The “#MoreThanMean” video has grabbed the attention of more than three million people and cracked open the door for dialogue about the harassment of female sports journalists. That door should be kicked wide open and the movement expanded to further discourage harassment and empower women in the sports journalism field. Colin Wang is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be contacted at colinwang2018@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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Bienen student receives award for cello performance
Northwestern student aims to empower through professional burlesque By AMANDA SVACHULA
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It is the last performance of Northwestern’s 2016 Burlesque show and Alaura Hernandez is about to go onstage. But the Medill senior is dreading it — her hands are shaking and she’s breathing rapidly. The lights flare on and she slowly sticks her embellished glove through the curtain. The audience goes wild. “Before you perform is the worst feeling in the world,” Hernandez said. “But finally I’m just sitting there, saying to myself, ‘Breathe in and breathe out’ and ‘Savor this moment. This will never happen again.’ As soon as I open the curtain the audience is going crazy. I get this crazy rush where I can’t stop smiling.” This year’s NU Burlesque was the culmination of Hernandez’s performances at NU, where she has appeared in the show for the past four years and codirected it for the past three. In addition to performing at NU, Hernandez said she started performing in professional burlesque shows in Chicago during the spring of her freshman year because she loved how confident it made her feel. Performing once every two months at Vaudezilla Studios and other venues in Chicago, Hernandez has created a burlesque persona, “Diore DeLure,” whom she described as glamorous, refined and, most of all, empowering. Hernandez said as a burlesque star, she hopes to inspire women through her representation of a curvier body type not often portrayed in the media. “I know with everything I’m doing, I’m exposing them to a type of beauty that they don’t see everyday,” she said. “I’m a curvy girl, a giant, (over 6 feet tall) when I’m wearing heels. I’m very retro and I just try to be empowering.” Hernandez said she also hopes to embody other unconventional beauty types by possibly performing burlesque after she gets a preventative double mastectomy this summer. The surgery will reduce her chances of getting breast cancer, as she currently has a 50 percent risk. Although she will get reconstructive surgery after, Hernandez said she hopes to do a burlesque
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act before this happens. “I really hope to do a burlesque routine without boobs,” she said. “I think that would be really powerful (but it depends on my recovery process).” Vaudezilla producer and founder Red Hot Annie, who only provided her stage name, has known Hernandez since she first started freelancing at the company. She said it is relatively unique for college students to perform at the company. “She’s a professional,” Red Hot Annie said. “She’s ambitious and a beautiful performer with the potential to go places.” Her road to performance was sparked by her interest in vintage clothing and by her knack for synchronized swimming, Hernandez said. Hernandez competed as a synchronized swimmer for 10 years, mastering the art of body movement and choreography. She said she’s seen her skills fully translate over, and added that it has helped her with the elegance of certain movements. Though she had the movement skills and interests related to burlesque, when Hernandez was introduced to NU Burlesque by her friend, now Weinberg senior Lauren Hamilton, she said she was skeptical at first. “When I was a freshman, I was very insecure,” Hernandez added. “I had zero confidence in my body and didn’t think I was sexy at all. I didn’t think it was something I could do.” But the two freshmen decided to give it a try and went to the auditions for NU’s first burlesque show, not knowing exactly what to expect, Hamilton said. “They really communicated to us that burlesque is about feeling comfortable with your sexuality, gender, who you are and your body image,” Hamilton said. “So (Alaura and I decided that) if at any point we were uncomfortable, we’d drop.” The two stuck with the first show and the next year they were both asked to direct, which they’ve done for the rest of their time in college, Hamilton said. This first performance convinced Hernandez that she wanted to continue burlesque professionally. Hernandez, who was originally was concerned with her body’s appearance on stage, said that after performing for a while, that concern is now at the bottom of her list of worries onstage. “The more you do it, the more you forget you’re
getting naked,” she added. For Hernandez, balancing professional burlesque work with school work has definitely been a challenge, she said. Though she doesn’t perform as much as she likes, she added that she has recently been working on cultivating the brand of “Diore DeLure” offstage through social media and appearances. She has taken a few burlesque classes held by traveling performers at various venues in Chicago, which she explained has a huge burlesque scene. She also invested more money than usual in the last elaborate performance costume she created for an act called “Emerald Tease,” she said. Hernandez said she taught herself how to use a sewing machine for the costume, made a floor-length tulle skirt with detachable panels and transformed a white bra from Target by dyeing and embellishing it. “I love being a human disco ball,” Hernandez said. “I think it fits my character.” Hernandez added that for her character “Diore DeLure” she tends to style her hair herself using vintage techniques, and always does her own makeup — red lipstick and false lashes. Her acts, which include everything ranging from a “Jessica Rabbit” to a “Marie Antoinette” number, are often playful but always sultry, Hernandez said. In her tenure as a co-director of NU Burlesque, Hernandez aimed to help other performers find confidence in their own journeys into the burlesque world, Hamilton said. She emphasized Hernandez’s role in fostering a community of acceptance within NU Burlesque. “It’s a rarity to have someone perform and take it super seriously and also have them be super kind and open to sharing their art,” she said. “(Alaura is) super invested in teaching people burlesque.” Hernandez said she hopes to balance a normal career with a burlesque career in the future, as she will always have a passion for the art that has boosted her confidence and given her an outlet of expression. “One day when I’m 50 years old and I have a midlife crisis, I can be like, ‘You know what, I was a burlesque performer in college and out of college,’” she said. “By doing burlesque I can check one massive thing off my bucket list. I’m one step closer to dying without regrets.” amandasvachula2018@u.northwestern.edu
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NU alumna designs costumes fostered by big ideas
ART BOX festival brings performances to Lakefill
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By RACHEL HOLTZMAN
Alison Siple (Communication ‘98) graduated from Northwestern without ever taking a costume design class. Eighteen years later and with more than 70 productions across the U.S. in which she’s billed as the chief costume designer, Siple cannot recall how she jumped on that wagon in the first place. “My experience at Northwestern was mostly all scenic design,” Siple said. “Now I don’t do any scenery; I only do costumes. With costume design you can still have big ideas and you can execute them even in a little apartment.” Siple’s upcoming project, “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” is scheduled to open Monday at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Written by “A Raisin in the Sun” author Lorraine Hansberry, the play follows a man’s involvement in a political campaign and his disillusion with the world in which he lives. With the play set in 1964 New York, Siple said it was a fun challenge to research the time period and immerse herself in Greenwich Village’s thenculture. The production’s dramaturg, Jonathan Green, whose job focuses on contextual research of the play and playwright, said he collaborated with Siple and director Anne Kauffman to recreate the decade’s vibe as closely as possible, but to still incorporate modern nuances. “The play should certainly feel like it’s happening in 1964, but we didn’t want it to feel like a dated period piece,” Green said. “So in all of the designs you will see some subtle nods toward our current day, as well as the mid-1960s.” Although the two collaborated on the end result, Green and Siple did preliminary research separately. Siple said she conducted mostly visual research, looking up photographs of what the cultural trends of the time were, what the people looked like and even what emotions they exerted in the images. “I’m kind of a nerd,” she said. “I tend to start pretty abstractly when I’m designing pieces. I’m looking at photographs that give you a sense of the energy or texture of that time and place.”
This month, a container next to the fire pit on the Lakefill will be filled with music and art, as part of an initiative to bring accessible performance and visual art to non-artists at Northwestern. ART BOX, a one-month festival running through Finals Week, was launched by Arts Alliance on Wednesday. It brings together interdisciplinary kinds of art and puts them in a space that is more accessible to students outside the artistic communities, said Communication senior Joseph Entenman, who started the project. He said he proposed the project last fall, envisioning it as a way to get artists to engage with the larger NU community. “I’ve always felt a need for smaller-scale, lower-stakes, intimate performances and art installations,” Entenman said. “A big challenge
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At an upcoming performance of “Sonic Celluloid,” an audience will watch silent films while live musicians soundtrack them, experimenting with manipulations of the sounds of saxophones and other instruments. The project, which takes place Friday, is a collaboration between WNUR, Northwestern’s student-run radio station, and Block Cinema. It strives to showcase experimental music against the backdrop of silent films, said Bienen junior Wesley Levers, one of the musicians in the production. The name of the event reconciles the two parts of production — film and music — as celluloid is the material with which film strips are made and sonic refers to sounds, said Weinberg junior Evan Lee, a co-producer of WNUR’s rock show. He added that “Sonic Celluloid” has become a tradition after over a decade of the annual production, which strives to bring a different form of music to students at NU.
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IMAGINE THAT Diane Davis (Communication ‘00) and Chris Stack (right) perform a scene from the Goodman Theatre’s upcoming production of “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” featuring costumes designed by Alison Siple (Communication ‘98).
Diane Davis (Communication ‘00) joined the production of “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” as the main character’s wife, a struggling actress named Iris. Her costume transitions from a laidback jeans-and-barefoot look to a more posed dress-and-heels outfit, reflecting the character’s change in the play. Davis’ collaboration with Siple was “fantastic,” she said, as they were always on the same page in terms of styling Iris and making her costume complement the scene’s mood. “We had a really interesting conversation
about character and how that’s going to be expressed through the clothes,” Davis said. “I am in very good hands with this woman. She approaches (costume design) from the right perspective.” Siple said involvement in the NU student theater scene helped define her design aesthetic. As a board member of Wave Productions, she said building sets and overseeing all design ideas allowed her to brainstorm projects of her own and push past creative limitations. The transition from the student theater
environment to the professional world requires a lot of effort, she said, because working for venues like the Goodman Theatre is something only few people achieve early in their post-college careers. “A lot of what I learned at Northwestern, like hard work and the sort of imaginative skills that you steer into student theater when you don’t have a lot of money, have perpetually helped me,” she said. “(The transition) doesn’t happen quickly, so you have to have a certain tenacity.” agorakis@u.northwestern.edu
“The focus on experimental music is just a makes experimental music more accessible for continuation of the mission of the station at people who do not often listen to it, Levers said. large, especially the rock show,” Lee said. “In Art theory and practice Prof. Walter 2016, you have to ask Kitundu, a former artwhat the point of radio ist-in-residence at the is when you have SpoAlice Kaplan Institute tify and all this stuff, for the Humanities, so we try to focus on said he was excited playing this music you to get involved with With live film scoring there is may not really hear listhe event because it’s usually a wonderful mix of intening to the radio.” a natural extension of Similarly, Levers tention and happy accident that his work. interested in said this is one of create a singular experience of the“I’m the few times Bienen mind’s expansive a film for the viewers. students and other ability to make constudents are able to -Walter Kitundu, art theory and nections and discern explore this type of patterns,” he said. practice professor music. “With live film scorAlong with his ing there is usually long-time musical a wonderful mix of partner, Weinberg intention and happy accident that create a junior Ajay Nadig, Levers will be improsingular experience of vising, using computer processing to manipu- a film for the viewers.” late Nadig’s saxophone as a film plays in the In the past, Kitundu has scored theater and background, he said. The pairing with film dance works, as well as improvised scores to
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films in conjunction with Experimental Sound Studio, a Chicago-based organization that focuses on allowing artists to explore sound in different ways, he said. In addition to artists from NU, WNUR is bringing in outside groups, such as Zs, an experimental music group based in New York. WNUR’s production and technical director Brock Stuessi, a Bienen sophomore, said Zs is one of his favorite experimental artists, and “Sonic Celluloid” is one of the few opportunities to bring artists like this to campus. Stuessi said he joined WNUR his freshman year to meet like-minded music listening people on campus. He described the project as something special for him and music majors in general who may not get the exposure they desire to experimental music in their regular curriculum. “While Bienen does bring in a lot of musicians, it’s not experimental, and it’s not (always musicians) I look up to,” Stuessi said. “This gives us the opportunity to bring in someone who influences my musical life.”
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In a bookstore, each book is like its own universe and authors are like wizards who create these universes, said Nina Barrett, owner of Evanston bookstore Bookends & Beginnings. Two authors, Audrey Niffenegger (Graduate School ‘91) and Aleksandar Hemon (Graduate School ‘97), will speak at Bookends & Beginnings on Friday about the universes they’ve created in literature as part of the second annual Evanston Literary Festival which runs May 4 through 14. Niffenegger, who grew up in Evanston, and Hemon, who is from the former Yugoslavia but has lived in Chicago for many years, have both written novels that take place in Chicago and its northern suburbs. At the event, they will read from their works, discuss the significance of a book’s setting
of ownership – the largest portion of the Northwestern community felt comfortable on the Lakefill and spent the most time on it already,” he said. The festival is financially supported by the School of Communication Performing Arts Grant, the Office of Campus Life and the Associated Student Government’s Wild Ideas fund, Entenman said. Communication sophomore Simran Chadha led the Wild Ideas committee at the time when it chose to support ART BOX. The ASG committee thought Entenman’s proposal was truly the definition of a “wild idea,” Chadha said, because it fosters new artistic expression both in and out of the theater community. “One of the things we’re always thinking about is whether things are accessible to the whole student body or (more) niche,” Chadha said. “This really brings theater, dance, visual art and so many other kinds of mediums in the community front and center.” rachelholtzman2018@u.northwestern.edu
and respond to questions from the audience. Barrett said she thought it would be interesting to have the authors talk about the concept of setting in fiction and what happens when authors put a real place in fiction. This event is particularly special because a scene in Niffenegger’s novel “The Time Traveler’s Wife” takes place in the bookstore Bookman’s Alley, which used to occupy the same space Bookends & Beginnings now does, Barrett said. Niffenegger said she would often spend time in Bookman’s Alley as a graduate student at Northwestern, exploring the aisles, enjoying the atmosphere and talking to the bookstore’s staff. “The flavors or the vibes of these two places are quite different even though they do occupy the same space,” she said. “The old place was very meandering. It extended and extended; it was sort of like those dreams where you realize you have an extra room attached to your house.” Barrett said when she and her husband opened
Bookends & Beginnings about two years ago, they focused on distinguishing their bookshop from often sterile-feeling generic bookstores. “What we love about this space is how it’s still got the brick and the floors slope,” she said. “It’s oozing with unique character and once you’ve been here you know you’ve been somewhere special and unique.” This unique character and homey feel are what make the store a great place for speaker events, said Lynn Haller, a co-organizer of the Evanston Literary Festival. She added that being in the store is like being in a literary person’s living room talking about literature. Barrett said this event fits with the purpose of the Evanston Literary Festival to engage the community in literary conversation, highlight Evanston’s rich literary culture and give people the opportunity to be in the room with incredible writers. Hemon, whose book “The Making of Zombie Wars” debuted last May and came out in paperback
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In a cover of “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons, Bienen junior Wickliffe Simmons uses every possible sound he could make on his cello to recreate the harmonies, beats and subtle rushes in the song. This project, which started as a hobby Simmons did in his basement during high school, eventually led him to win the 2016 Yamaha Young Performing Artists competition in the strings division. He is among eight winners of the competition from across the country. Simmons’s prize for winning is a trip to the Music for All Summer Symposium in Muncie, Indiana, where he will have the opportunity to perform and participate in music workshops. He will perform Pampeana No. 2 by Alberto Ginastera at the symposium. Simmons said he submitted four videos for the competition: his cover of “Radioactive” as well as three classical pieces. He said going into the competition he wasn’t aiming to win; he was happy with his performances already. “If you do competitions, that’s really the feeling you should be aiming for,” he said. “You shouldn’t be aiming to win it, but you should be aiming to give the performance you’re happy with. Whether they give it to you is something you’re not in control of.” Bienen Prof. Hans Jensen, Simmons’s cello teacher, agreed with Simmons in saying that competitions are not about winning or losing, but about the experience. “If you lose 10 and win one, it means you’re doing good,” Jensen said. “People need to have lots of experiences like that. When you win, it gives you opportunities to perform; when you don’t win it gives you opportunities to prepare.” Simmons has been playing cello since he was 10 years old in his elementary school string orchestra. He then started taking private lessons and joined larger youth orchestras. As a senior in high school, Simmons set up a benefit concert for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, in which he chose pieces that were reflective of the different stages of grieving. He performed one of the pieces from the concert on National Public Radio and spoke about setting up his concert on one of the station’s talk shows. “It was one of those things that I thought, when
words fail, music will speak,” he said. Jensen said Simmons has a special ability to speak through his music. Simmons has been studying under Jensen full time for three years. “(Simmons) is a unique performer because he has so much personality when he performs,” Jensen said. “He speaks directly to the audience and it’s really captivating. He has a beautiful sense of sound and lots of color in his playing.” Jensen added that Simmons’s experiences at Northwestern have helped him mature as a student, which translates into his music. Simmons plays with the NU Cello Ensemble and in the NU Chamber Orchestra. Bienen sophomore Drake Driscoll, a friend of Simmons, complemented his natural talent. “He’s into a lot of different types of music which is really interesting because everyone in our studio is classically trained but he’s done his cover of ‘Radioactive,’” she said. “He’s really found his own niche and he fits it perfectly.” emilychin2018@u.northwestern.edu
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AWARD TOUR Bienen junior Wickliffe Simmons performs on his cello. He was recently named winner of the 2016 Yamaha Young Performing Artists competition in the strings division.
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out theater or seeking out a small-scale concert or a student art display in the Dittmar to come and see what students on campus are doing and can do, and to participate in (that dialogue).” Arts Alliance finance director Andrew Restieri, a Communication sophomore, said the theater board sees it as a natural extension of its mission, supporting arts talent on campus and making it accessible to all students. “People are often intimidated by theatrical performance spaces and feel they’re inaccessible, and that’s everything Arts Alliance is trying to reject,” Restieri said. “It puts art in a less conventional performance space, but does so in a way that makes it increasingly accessible and also makes opportunities for artists accessible.” Originally, ART BOX was going to be located in four different spots on campus to try to create as much traffic as possible, Entenman said. After speaking with Norris University Center administrators, Entenman decided it made more sense to try out one location on the Lakefill first, rather than four different boxes. “The Lakefill felt the most unified in terms
Bienen student receives award for cello performance
WNUR, Block Cinema partner for music, film project By SOPHIE MANN
of presenting artwork in general is that the concert halls and theater spaces and galleries aren’t anywhere near the centers of traffic on campus.” ART BOX will be home to a variety of performances and exhibits over the course of this month, Entenman said. The planned events include staged readings of plays and musicals, afternoon concerts, open-mic performances and art exhibits, with some days featuring more than one event. The box also includes full sound and lighting capabilities for artists to work with. Entenman said in some cases the organizers will work as collaborators to develop pieces with the artists. He added he has reached out to some actors on behalf of directors doing a reading series, but that most acts will be determined on a case-by-case basis. ART BOX is also about starting to redefine what accessible theater should mean to students on campus. “The trick is the invitation,” Entenman said. “What I’m trying to do with ART BOX is invite more people who … wouldn’t consider seeking
this week, said discussing his writing with readers is always rewarding. “Talking to readers about a book I’ve written completes the experience of writing a book,” Hemon said. “The book doesn’t really exist until it reaches the readers, and to get feedback from the readers is one of the best parts of the process.” Niffenegger said she is excited to sit down and chat with Hemon as well as her readers. She said she hopes she can help them pay more attention to the element of place in the books they read or write. “It’s not so much that I hope to send them home armed with facts,” Niffenegger said. “If they’re writers, perhaps they’ll be thinking about their own practice, how they go about including places in their work. If they’re readers, I’m hoping it’ll make them more attentive when they’re reading in terms of where the settings are and how the settings are (impacting) the characters in the book.” kelleyczajka2019@u.northwestern.edu
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also stressed the importance of change. Education, politics, economics and community interactions all act as areas for widespread societal change to occur, he said. Killer Mike discussed a variety of topics relating to his personal life and society including socioeconomic differences, interracial relations and homophobia. He said his knowledge of these issues stems from his own life experiences.
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From page 1 elect me, I will build a wall’ or ‘I’ll make college free,’ and that’s what makes people cynical about politics — when these candidates get elected and their promises aren’t kept.” Keenan acknowledged that there has been unprecedented gridlock over the past eight years, but highlighted that the Obama administration
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as possible,” Kelly said in the statement. Mary Ellen Poole, the executive director of Housing Options in Evanston, a nonprofit supporting
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“I learned about homophobia because I said something homophobic to (my friend) and he told me how much it hurt him,” Killer Mike said. “I learned about sexism because I have two daughters that don’t let me forget that sexism exists. What I have found is that often times the personal thoughts that I thought I had, aren’t even my f—— thoughts, they’re just some dumb s— I heard an adult say.” Killer Mike’s musical career gave him the foundation to begin his career as an activist, Zimmermann said. Since becoming famous,
Killer Mike has used his status as a major hiphop artist to speak about current issues, he added. “There is an extra importance and intrigue when you have someone like Killer Mike talking about these issues,” said Communication sophomore Jonas Weitzman, who attended Killer Mike’s talk. “The issues are inherently important, but getting someone like this to talk about them makes it easy to listen to.”
covered 20 million more people with health care, saved the auto industry and helped the American economy recover from recession. McCormick freshman Arturo Brant said he was surprised to learn Keenan had graduated without a job. Brant said it made him realize many successful people have humble beginnings and work hard to earn their success, which he said motivates him. Keenan also gave some insight on his
relationship with the president, who he has worked closely with for more than eight years. “I work for a guy who believes he can convince anyone with a rational mind that his policies will work,” Keenan said. “I’ll tell him, ‘Your 90th speech on Obamacare won’t change anyone’s opinion,” and he’ll just say, ‘I don’t care, I want to do a huge policy speech on it anyways.’”
adults with mental illness, said although her organization was not one of the services involved in filing the lawsuit, Housing Options has been gravely impacted by the budget crisis. Housing Options currently has two contracts with the state government, neither of which have
been honored, she said. She said neither of the contracts had been paid since December, and that the state had continually said it would pay them until two weeks ago when the organization was informed it would not receive the funding. Every month moving forward without the state paying its contracts, the nonprofit loses $25,000 a month, Poole said. For organizations like Housing Options, which works on affordable housing and case management for people with chronic mental illnesses, the lack of funding by the state means the organization is less able to support the people in need of their services. “These are real human lives, not just numbers on a page,” Poole said. “Every number you read is a human life that is impacted, a very sick individual that has nowhere else to go. It’s really heartbreaking.” Because of uncertainty for public funding in the future, services are looking to private support to remain open and provide services for people in need. Poole said organizations’ futures are up to the community to continue to keep their doors open. “People are dying because of a lack of social services already, and that hasn’t changed anything,” she said. “This is a wakeup call that we cannot depend on the state to help fund our agencies.”
Economics Prof. Larry Christiano said the documents were late because senators were given less than a week’s notice regarding Associated Student Government’s plan to vote on an Eikenberry resolution during its meeting after Faculty Senate. Christiano said he wanted to inform ASG with the faculty’s stance on the matter. “A lot of the documents that were distributed didn’t exist until the day of the meeting or the day before,” Christiano said. “We were very concerned that students were going to vote on this, that they might be under the impression that a lot of faculty opposed this promotion.” French and Italian Prof. Michal Ginsburg said if any senators were concerned about students’ misconceptions, they should have shared their opinions directly with ASG rather than rushing Faculty Senate to vote on the matter. “This was simply an attempt to pressure the students in order to make them vote the way you want and you could have done it on your own,” Ginsburg said. Wednesday’s motion, introduced by English Prof. Barbara Newman, also detailed violations to Robert’s Rules of Order, a set of guidelines for conducting meetings and making group decisions. According to the motion, discussions on Eikenberry continued against Robert’s Rules procedure. In addition, Faculty Senate failed to establish a quorum — the minimum amount of senators required to be present to make a decision — before tallying the final vote. “The point about the quorum, all of us are equally responsible for paying attention to whether there’s a quorum or not,” Crane said. “If you doubt that there’s a quorum, and there’s a vote, it’s on each and every one of us.” Religious studies Prof. Laurie Zoloth, the Faculty Senate vice president, said it is important for Faculty Senate to take responsibility for its mistakes and that it is every senator’s job to ensure Faculty Senate meetings follow procedure. Art theory and practice Prof. Inigo ManglanoOvalle said the mistakes of April’s meetings should serve as a learning opportunity for Faculty Senate. “This is a teaching moment; you know sometimes we’re the students and sometimes the administration should be the students — that’s why we’re here,” Mangallo-Ovalle said. “Our only students are not the ones who sit in classrooms.”
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THIS WEEKEND IN MUSIC
MAY 6 - 8
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Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, $22/16 Jeffrey Siegel, piano
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, $6/4 She-e Wu, director
Keyboard Conversations: Musical Pictures, 7:30 p.m. Visually inspired masterpieces by Sibelius and Rachmaninoff, as well as Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
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Percussion Ensemble, 3 p.m.
John Thorne, flute, 7:30 p.m. Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall, $8/5 Kay Kim, piano; Jennifer Gunn, flute
Thaviu-Isaak Endowed Piano Scholarship Competition, 3 p.m. Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall, free
This annual competition features Northwestern piano students nominated by Bienen School piano faculty.
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From page 12 more difficult with the loss of her mother. Ultimately, she found a way to integrate the two. “It was mortifying,” Barnett said. “It was a really tough time. I came back and used tennis as a vehicle to channel whatever emotions I was feeling. It was probably more confusion than anything. Everything I was feeling … came out on the court.” Since Jennifer Barnett died before school started, Nigel Barnett said he was especially grateful to have his daughter home with the family. When she returned to school, she found continued support from her teammates. “(Alicia) was there, she saw it all happen,” he said. “At least she was home for that period. …
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2016 Tennis was an escape. Coming here, away from all the memories was good. Having all her teammates was good.” Pollard noted the struggle Alicia Barnett goes through every day. The coach sees the court as a “sacred place” for all her players and saw Alicia Barnett use it as an escape. Barnett said she noticed her performance slip a little due to the struggle to separate her personal life from her tennis life. “My sophomore year, I had a bit of a breakthrough in my mental game,” she said. “I felt confident and sure of myself. I definitely had an American confidence feel rather than my English pissy-ness. Last year set me back a little bit. It was hard to keep my personal life from the tennis court, but I’ve grown in that sense.” Barnett competed hard, using her pain as a
motivator for her performance. Playing at No. 1 singles for the first time in her career added some pressure, but nevertheless she fought her way to a winning record overall. In her final year, she stepped back onto the No. 3 singles court to close out the season. The senior notched her second-best conference record at 9-2. Although the season did not end as planned with a Big Ten title, her teammates said they still want to succeed for her during the postseason. “It has been a real privilege to play doubles with her the last part of this year,” junior Brooke Rischbieth said. “She has been a great leader on our team.” This season has been a whirlwind for Barnett, but she said the finality of this season did not sink in until Senior Day against Michigan. After the
match ended, she did her best to hold back tears during interviews. When she got to the locker room, she broke down. Some of her greatest college memories happened in the Combe Tennis Center, including a Big Ten Championship and NCAA victories. With her collegiate tennis career wrapping up, Barnett plans on competing at the professional level. She will be heading home to compete in tournaments around the United Kingdom. She said she hopes to one day compete in a Grand Slam tournament. “Graduating now, I know what kind of person I am,” Alicia Barnett said. “Tennis has really helped me develop that. It’s given me a lot of opportunities to improve myself as a person.”
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Although the game did not end as hoped, Drohan said the play from Letourneau and the Cats’ defense remained gritty and tough through all seven frames.
“We came back well, and I thought Amy was tough,” Drohan said. “But there were moments of the game where we could’ve taken control and we didn’t.” NU will look toward its weekend series at Purdue (27-24, 8-12) to get back on track and hit the coveted .500 mark — a feat that can only be completed if the Cats sweep the Boilermakers.
controls will be imperative for the team to come away with a win and will help NU manage the game’s tempo. “It’s win a draw control, win the game,” Weisse said. “It’s really important especially if the ball comes out of your stick — keeping possession and just holding it — because when we have the possession they can’t score.” In the Cats’ last game against Michigan the team was coming off of a tough overtime loss to then-No.16 Penn. Prior to defeating the Wolverines, NU had dropped three of its previous four games, including two losses in overtime. Fredericks said the team has to use the same fire it had after its loss to the Quakers again on Thursday. “Last time we played our Penn game before Michigan so we kind of had a fire lit under us coming from that game,” Fredericks said. “We just need to keep that chip on our shoulder and know that we’ve done absolutely nothing this season — everyone besides the people in our locker room expect very little from us. There is no complacency here.”
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We came back well, and I thought Amy was tough. But there were moments of the game where we could’ve taken control and we didn’t.
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FILLER HOUSE Andrea Filler prepares to throw out a runner. The senior infielder recorded 2 RBIs in the loss to DePaul on Wednesday.
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Wildcats fall on walk-off, losses keep piling up
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CHICAGO — The Wildcats are hurtling toward record-breaking levels of futility. Through 44 games, Northwestern’s 34 losses are already tied for sixth-most in program history; its .227 winning percentage, if drawn out to the end of the season, would be the worst mark since 1970. With 10 regular-season games left on the schedule and competent opponents in California and Rutgers left to face, it is entirely within the realm of possibility that the Cats will set a new school record for losses, surpassing the mark of 38 established back in 1992. Unfortunately for NU, the dark ugly cloud of losing continued to hang over its collective head Wednesday night. Under the bright lights of Curtis Granderson Stadium and with the Willis Tower looming large beyond left-center field, the Cats (10-34, 2-16 Big Ten) fell to their crosstown rival Illinois-Chicago (20-23, 11-7 Horizon) in walk-off fashion 5-4. “It’s not where we’d like to be,” coach Spencer Allen said, “but like I’ve told the coaches, and some of the returning players, if this is rock bottom then I’m OK with that.” In his first season at the helm of the Cats, Allen said he knew it would take time to build the team into a contender, but never expected the losses to pile up so quickly. After all, NU started off the season 4-4 through its first two series in February. Since then, however, its record is 6-30. Regardless, the players have continued to go about their business. Junior outfielder Joe Hoscheit said despite the team’s consistent inconsistencies, the players are happy with where they’re at. “At this point in the season, we’re just trying to have fun and win some games,” Hoscheit said. “Hopefully that can start this weekend against Purdue … and regardless of the previous outcomes, it’s not going to affect our mindset for the rest of the year.” Wednesday’s loss to the Flames featured little
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Alicia Barnett battles life’s matches on the court By MIKE MARUT
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Tennis runs among the Barnett children. Jessica played, James played, Alicia plays and Sophie played. At a Northwestern women’s tennis match, you can hear many of the players talk to themselves, scream at themselves, yell “Mine!” One person you won’t hear very often, however, is Alicia Barnett, the team’s lone senior. She has always been a silent player. Throughout her time under coach Claire Pollard, Barnett earned herself 154 regular season wins on the singles and doubles courts. Despite her success on the court, Barnett’s coaches describe her as “too nice.” Her father said she even befriends most of her opponents and rivals and always has since growing up in England. That attitude has earned her a reputation as the team’s confidant. Barnett likes to note that this is the tightest-knit team she has been on in her four years, and that she knows the ins and outs of all her teammates. Her teammates said they feel the same and find her to be among their best friends. “She just has a really great attitude and makes everyone feel like a superstar even though she’s the real superstar,” said sophomore Erin Larner, one of Barnett’s doubles partners. “She has everyone’s best interest at heart. … For me, she’s a role model and she gives me someone older to look up to.” Her former doubles partner
Veronica Corning (Weinberg ‘14) also saw how her attitude affected the team in a positive way. “She always brought out the best in others, no matter who was having a bad day,” Corning said. “She was always able to pick me up, I’m really grateful for that and owe her for it.” Because of her nice demeanor on the court, Barnett lacks some killer instinct. Pollard jokes about having limited success at coaching that aggression into Barnett’s game. “I like to call her ‘affectionately ditsy,’” Pollard joked. “She’s a bright girl; she’s just so damn nice. You can’t be nice in tennis, and I think she’s gradually coming to terms with that, a little more of an assassin’s mentality, a little more of a killer instinct.” Barnett has competed since she was seven years old, and her father, Nigel Barnett, said he found tennis to be a way to teach intangibles that can play a part off the court. “It reflects life,” he said. “There’s nowhere to hide in tennis. It’s gladiatorial, one-on-one. You can’t say, ‘It’s my teammate who let me down,’ it’s yourself. She’s grown a huge amount over the years. … Tennis is a fantastic thing to making mature (people) and being disciplined.” Lorraine Ristic, Alicia Barnett’s first coach, helped start her on the tennis path and coached her until she was 16. Ristic coached all the Barnett children in tennis and said she saw each of them grow, mature and improve — but especially Alicia Barnett. Ristic noted how good Alicia Barnett was as a 13- and 14-year-old and how hard she worked to never miss a ball.
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In a contest where Northwestern held the lead for five innings, an unsettling seventh inning dashed the team’s hopes of bringing home a win against a Chicago rival. The Wildcats (22-25, 12-8 Big Ten) dropped a close one to DePaul (24-24, 13-3 Big East) in a game that had high significance for NU’s postseason hopes. Although the game remained close, with the Cats limiting DePaul to only 2 hits through seven frames, the Blue Demons scored 4 runs in the last two innings to earn the win, 4-3. Senior shortstop Andrea Filler said the mistakes made toward the end of the contest really held the team back from closing out the game. “We took care of the things we needed to take care of on defense,” Filler said. “But down the stretch when we really needed to make the plays, we had some mistakes. We had some errors that we shouldn’t be making at this point in the season, so it’s tough.” The game began with a five-inning stretch in which NU remained on top 1-0 off of an RBI to left-center field from senior pitcher Amy Letourneau. In the bottom of the sixth, the Blue Demons tied the game on a single, and then managed to score another run off of a Wildcat error during an attempt at a double play. Coach Kate Drohan said the team’s ability to control the first five innings showed its defensive prowess, and the
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Cats will be looking to focus on finishing games in their weekend series against Purdue. “We made a couple of mistakes that hurt us, but I think we just got a little tight out here, we’ve gotta stay loose and we’ve gotta play our softball,” Drohan said. In the top of the seventh, freshman third baseman Morgan Nelson singled to left field after a 10-pitch at-bat. Nelson’s single was followed by a 2-run homer from Filler, who smashed a fly ball into left field that just barely managed to go over the fence. The dinger was Filler’s team-leading 15th home run of the year and brought the score to 3-2 heading into the bottom of the seventh inning. But the last inning would prove to be costly for NU. Following a pitch hit back to Letourneau, the Cats scrambled to get the lead runner out, but the ensuing throw to senior catcher Caylor Arnold was too high, allowing DePaul to score the tying run. After the Cats then intentionally walked the next batter to load the bases, a sacrifice fly to left field brought home another Blue Demon, bringing the score to 4-3 and giving DePaul the walk-off win. » See SOFTBALL, page 10
Barnett came to the Wildcats as the sole freshman and will be graduating as the sole senior in her class. In that time, Barnett has fought for two Big Ten titles and in numerous NCAA Tournament matches – competing as deep as the Round of 16 her freshman year. In that time, she has grown as a player, advancing up NU’s singles courts to No. 1 last year before settling at No. 3 for her senior year. Her greatest success came at the No. 3 spot as a sophomore. That year, Alicia Barnett did not lose a Big Ten match during the regular season. Part of that was a change in attitude. Being from England, Alicia Barnett describes herself as pessimistic, but she has slowly changed that to be more positive. “She’s got all-court game,” Pollard said. “She’s learned to dig deep to get more out of herself and fight some of the, what I call, ‘British tendencies’ because as a British nation we can be a little pessimistic, a little cynical. … She’s learned, what I think, are some of the great things Americans have: confidence, a little swag, almost verging on the arrogant which are important qualities to perform at a high level.” Going into her junior year, Barnett suffered a heartbreaking loss off the court. Early in her college career, her mother developed terminal cancer. Doctors gave her mother 12 months to live, but she pushed it to 14. In September 2014, Barnett’s mother passed away. Barnett found the balance between her tennis life and personal life even
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Cats face must-win scenario By DAN WALDMAN
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The Big Ten Tournament will be played in its entirety in Evanston this weekend, so for Northwestern, it’s win or go back to your dorm. The No. 3-seed Wildcats (8-8, 3-2 Big Ten) will take on sixth-seeded Michigan (6-11, 0-5) in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament in a must-win game for NU. The team has to finish the regular season and
No. 6 Michigan vs. No. 3 Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 1:30 p.m. Thursday
Big Ten Tournament with a combined record of at least .500 to qualify for the NCAA Tournament. The Cats last played the Wolverines in early April, recording a commanding 20-4 win — the largest victory of margin for the team this season. But coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said her squad is not going to rest on
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OUT OF CONTROL Shelby Fredericks gains possession of a drawl control. The sophomore leads the team with 95 draw controls on the season.
its laurels heading into Thursday’s matchup. “We understand the situation is do or die for both teams — for us and for them,” Amonte Hiller said. “Nobody is going to roll over, we are going to have to fight and play our best and we’re expecting their best in a close game. We know that we are going to have to scratch and claw for every opportunity we are going to get.” Thursday will not be the first time NU faces the pressure of a must-win scenario. Last week the team dominated Ohio State in a 22-13 blowout. Had the Cats lost to the Buckeyes, the team would have had to win the entire Big Ten Tournament to qualify for the NCAA Tournament. Sophomore attacker Shelby Fredericks, who leads the team in draw controls, said the team has faced pressure to win throughout the season because of the team’s remarkably difficult schedule. “For the past few games we’ve been playing with our season on the line and hoping to get to .500,” Fredericks said. “We’ve shown that we thrive under pressure and this is a great opportunity to show the adversity we’ve faced this season, and how much fire it has given us and how pissed off we are.” Despite Fredericks scoring 3 goals last week against Ohio State, the sophomore only recorded 1 draw control. Sophomore standout Selena Lasota took over for Fredericks at the draw circle and won 6 draw controls in her place. Freshman goalkeeper Mallory Weisse said the best way for the team to alleviate the pressure on the defense is to control the draws against Michigan on Thursday. She said draw » See LACROSSE, page 10