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Author discusses racism in Evanston By JULIA ESPARZA
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Exhibits to focus on media, journalism, communication
pushing us to think about really important topics from race to politics to growing up in everyday life in interesting and new ways,” Zimmermann told The Daily. As a black and female writer, Smith said she is a minority in Britain’s literary scene, which is dominated by
Even as the Evanston/Skokie District 65 School Board and Evanston City Council swore in historically diverse bodies on Monday, the author of a book criticizing Evanston’s history of racial segregation said there is still a lot of work to be done. Evanston native and Clemson University sociology Prof. Mary Barr, author of “Friends Disappear: The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston,” spoke about the legacy of racial segregation in housing and education in Evanston at an event Thursday hosted through the Evanston Literary Festival. Barr spoke at the Second Baptist Church, 1717 Benson Ave., to about 80 people in a conversation moderated by Northwestern sociology Prof. Al Hunter. As the sounds of gospel music drifted down from the floor above, Barr noted that the location of the event was particularly relevant. Second Baptist Church was the one of the first black churches in Evanston, established in 1882. “The date is important; it tells
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Northwestern University in Qatar is scheduled to open the country’s first digital museum in fall 2018, the museum’s director said at a presentation Thursday. The museum, called The Media Majlis, will focus on media, journalism and communication. Pamela ErskineLoftus, director of the museum, spoke about the museum’s planning process, purpose and upcoming exhibitions to about 15 people in Kresge Hall. The museum will be located at NU-Q on the ground floor of a new media and communication building, which was dedicated in early May. The museum will open its first exhibition to explore the portrayal of identity in film, animation and video games from the 1870s until today, Erskine-Loftus said during the presentation. “We have this idea of a 360-degree look at each particular subject,” Erskine-Loftus said. “If we really want to explore and discuss with audiences, not to audiences, then we have to realize that these stories we’re exploring are going to have an awful lot of different components to them.” From the beginning, the idea for the museum has been to integrate NU-Q with Qatari locals, Erskine-Loftus said. The museum’s design will involve interactive screens attached to a metal grid structure, she said. The screens will showcase students’ work and faculty members’ research from NU-Q, and some Evanston students’ work as well, ErskineLoftus said. The museum will also have » See QATAR, page 6
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Author Zadie Smith, best known for her novel “White Teeth,” speaks at Ryan Auditorium in Technological Institute. on Thursday. Smith discussed race and identity, as well as how it is reflected in her work.
Zadie Smith shares experiences Author discusses race, identity in her literary work at NU event By CATHERINE KIM
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Author Zadie Smith said she grew up searching for black actors on TV because there were so few. Though they mostly played a small range of characters such as maids, she said she loved
seeing them doing the best they could with their art. Smith discussed race, identity and her literary work during an event Thursday hosted by Contemporary Thought Speaker Series. Smith, who is well known for her novel “White Teeth,” which explores Britain’s relationship with people from formerly colonized countries, spoke at Ryan
Auditorium in Technological Institute in front of more than 150 people. Weinberg junior Ben Zimmermann, co-chair of CTTS, told The Daily he appreciates how Smith talked about important current topics through her writing. “She’s really the exact type of speaker we’re trying to bring because she’s
Smith College president talks fighting sexism By ELIZABETH BYRNE
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K athleen McCar tney, president of Smith College and former dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education, said women should combat sexism by supporting other women and ensuring their voices are heard during an event Thursday. McCartney spoke to about 100 students and faculty at the Allen Center. The event was organized by the Provost’s Advisory Council on Women Faculty, which is part of Northwestern’s Office of the Provost. The council was formed in November 2016 to
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support and enable success for women and those who identify as women on NU’s faculty. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, associate provost for faculty and co-chair of the advisory council, told The Daily that McCartney’s lecture included lessons that are important for both students and faculty. She said McCartney’s visit to NU is a step in the right direction for both the council and the University. “We’ve seen great progress at Northwestern regarding women faculty, and there’s much more work to do, but I’m encouraged because men and women are working together on these goals,” Chase-Lansdale said.
M c C a r t n e y ’s l e c t u re, “ Walls, Words, and Ways Forward — Creating Opportunity for Women Leaders,” examined gender stereotypes, restrictions put on women in leadership and possible ways to overcome these restrictions moving forward. McCartney said these restrictions and gender stereotypes are “omnipresent” and found to be based on cultural norms. One example McCartney discussed was the use of the word “bossy.” She said the term is used excessively to describe women, and when used too often can have a negative effect on women. “We internalize negative » See MCCARTNEY, page 6
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Smith College President Kathleen McCartney speaks at the Allen Center on Thursday. McCartney discussed women in leadership and how to overcome sexism.
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City environment board talks road construction By AMELIA LANGAS
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The Evanston Environment Board met Thursday to discuss an update on the North Shore Channel Habitat Project and a development in Isabella Woods. Wendy Pollock, co-chair of the board, said the North Shore Channel Habitat Project is funded by a $100,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Chi-Cal Rivers Fund. The project works in coordination with Friends of the Chicago River — an organization focused on revitalizing the Chicago River. The goal of the project is to create and enhance bird habitats in areas along the North Shore Channel such as the Ladd Arboretum, Twiggs Park and Harbert Park, she said. “We’ve been getting volunteers’ interest lined up and have people weeding and transplanting and getting very eager to do more,” she said. The city awarded the grant to the two-year project at the end of December and work began on the channel early this year, Pollock told The Daily. She said the project has been going “really well,” and the program has received support from the city and the community. Pollock said the project builds on past habitat
POLICE BLOTTER Evanston man arrested in connection with damage to multiple vehicles
An Evanston man was arrested Wednesday evening in connection with the damage of multiple vehicles and property in west Evanston. A man called the police after he was rear-ended in the parking lot of a McDonald’s in the 1900 block of Dempster Street, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. After the man was rear-ended, Dugan said, two teenagers jumped out of the vehicle and fled on foot. Their vehicle, a 1998 Honda, rolled into the wall of the McDonald’s, Dugan said. The wall was not damaged.
construction projects in Evanston such as the Clark Street Beach Bird Sanctuary, completed in October 2015. Maintaining such sites is important both to migratory birds and to humans, she said. “We hope we raise awareness and appreciation for the whole community for natural habitat,” she said. “Working on sites like this is also good for people’s connections with each other and building trust in the community.” Part of the project also involves repairing channel overlooks at parks that are “choked” with vegetation, Pollock said. On Thursday, the board also discussed a potential road development in Isabella Woods, in northwest Evanston. Evanston resident Joe Brennan said the property is leased to Evanston by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. He said the Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways asked the MWRD to build a road through the woods for a housing developer. Libby Hill, an Evanston resident and Perkins Woods steward — a position that involves maintaining the forest preserve — defended preserving the woodlands at the meeting. She said the MWRD is responsible for storm drainage in Cook County, and the woods help divert storm water. “The woods are important … because they support
Officers searching the area located a woman who said she was stopped at the intersection of Dempster Street and Dodge Avenue when the same vehicle rear-ended her, Dugan said. This was prior to the McDonald’s incident. Officers then located two individuals in the 1900 block of Dempster Street who matched the description the woman and man gave, Dugan said. One of the men was identified as the driver of the vehicle, which officers learned did not belong to him. The woman who owned the vehicle was located and stated she did not give the man permission to use her vehicle, nor did she know how he had her keys. The man was charged with misdemeanor criminal trespass to a vehicle, failure to stop after traffic
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Evanston Environment Board co-chairs Wendy Pollock (left) and Scott Osborne (middle) and board member Christopher Kucharczyk (right) sit at a meeting Thursday. The board discussed a bird habitat enhancement project and a potential road development.
wildlife of all sorts,” Hill told The Daily. “(Isabella Woods) in particular are important because they’re part of a corridor that goes along the North Shore Channel for wildlife.” Hill said she opposes the road development because the woodlands are “valuable” in keeping stormwater out of the city’s drainage and sewage
system. The board formally expressed its support for City Council’s decision to oppose construction of the road. The council will decide whether to act on the opposition at Monday’s meeting, Pollock said.
crash with property damage, driving without a valid license or insurance and two other charges.
Man arrested in connection with retail theft at Jewel-Osco
A Skokie man was arrested Wednesday evening in connection with retail theft at the Jewel-Osco in south Evanston. A security agent at the store told officers he saw the man put food and toiletries in a cart, then leave with the items without paying for them, Dugan said. The total value of the items is $132.84. The man was located and charged with misdemeanor retail theft. — Sophie Mann
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Club works to bring bees to campus By ALLY MAUCH
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Though many people fear the idea of bees, some Northwestern students are trying to bring more to campus. Bees for a Sustainable World, part of Engineers for a Sustainable World, is currently working with the University to bring beehives to campus before the end of the quarter, said Jared Colin, a member of the group. The group aims to change the public perception of bees, the McCormick freshman said. “(Bees) make people uncomfortable, and they scare people even though they are harmless,” Colin said. The club, founded by a group of nowsophomores in ESW, began in June 2016 and now has about 70 members, said McCormick sophomore Garrett Hiser, a founding member. Since then, BeeSW has been trying to get bees and begin beekeeping. “Our goal is essentially just to get bees on campus,” Hiser said. “We think it would be really cool because it shows this effort to be more sustainable.”
NU Libraries receives grant to digitize historic folk music archive
Northwestern University Libraries received nearly $300,000 from a federal grant, which will be used to digitize, describe and make available online a historic folk music archive, the University announced Wednesday. According to a news release, the digitization of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Archive will be funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency that funds humanities programs in the U.S. The
Keith Emert, a McCormick sophomore and founding BeeSW member, said his involvement with beehives is helping him do his part for sustainability. Emert said he is excited about the potential of leaving a lasting legacy at NU through the start of the beekeeping project. Colin said bees are essential to the ecosystem, as they pollinate most crops and plants. According to the National Resources Defense Council, 90 percent of the world’s flowering plants and 30 percent of the world’s food crops depend on pollination by bees and other animals, such as bats and birds. Without bees, all of that goes away, which is a “pretty terrifying thought,” Colin said. “It’s a really good symbol of sustainability for Northwestern and a sign of student involvement,” Emert said. BeeSW has plans to order bees within the next few weeks, Hiser said, but is currently awaiting approval from the University. Hiser said the group’s biggest challenge now is finding a place to put the hives. The group has funding and support for the bees and their upkeep, but is working with NU facilities management to find a place suitable for beekeeping, he said.
Colin, who kept bees all throughout high school, said many urban beekeepers keep their hives on roofs to keep the bees in a safe place away from the public. The group is currently looking at the roof of Technological Institute as a good place for the beehives, he said, because it has space for future expansion and would be removed from the general student body. “Our next step is finding a place to put them that is not only out of everyone’s way, but that only the people in the beekeeping club have access to and that will be safe,” Colin said. Colin said another aspect of BeeSW is raising awareness about bees and removing “harmless” honeybees from being associated with wasps and hornets. He said bees on campus would help combat this public perception. Hiser said bringing bees to campus would be important for sustainability efforts. The beehives would boost the number of bees that are active in the ecosystem, he said. Colin said the group is looking to start with possibly one hive, or a few thousand bees. “One hive isn’t going to change the world, but it is doing our part,” Colin said. “It’s getting the ball moving and starting that initiative.”
archive –– which features more than 30,000 items, including photographs, audio and film recordings, brochures, buttons, posters, tickets and business records documenting the festival between 1957 to 1970 –– was acquired by NU’s Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections in 1974, the release said. The archive was compiled by the festival’s founder, Barry Olivier. Scott Krafft, curator of the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, said in the release that the archive will benefit the fields of history, American studies, music studies and performance, African American studies, digital humanities and political science. The festival archive will be made available for the public to view online, the release said. The
three-year project will require help from the staff of at least six different departments, the release said. NU’s libraries have previously digitized other collections, but the festival archive is one of the largest projects yet undertaken, Carolyn Caizzi, head of repository and digital curation at the libraries, said in the release. “The generous support of the grant will allow us to describe each piece of the archive, which is an extremely important aspect of the project to help facilitate the discovery and creation of new knowledge about a range of topics,” Caizzi said in the release. “We can’t wait to get started.”
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Reflecting on APIDA culture during heritage month SERI LEE
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I didn’t know Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Month existed until last year, during my senior year of high school. When I coincidentally came across a scholarship for Asian American high school seniors, I found out there existed an entire month — 31 whole days — to commemorate the struggles and celebrate the achievements of people like me. I felt a mixture of shock, comfort and confusion and wondered why I hadn’t know it existed before. APIDA Heritage Month celebrates the history, struggles and triumphs of the Asian Pacific Islander Desi population. In 1978, Congress passed a joint resolution that proclaimed the first week of May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week. In 1990, this week of observance expanded to a month. May was specifically chosen because it commemorates two significant events in Asian American history. On May 7, 1843, the first Japanese individuals immigrated to the United States, while May 10, 1869 marks the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, an expansionist project that ruthlessly exploited Chinese immigrants. Finally, Saigon, the capital city of South Vietnam, fell to North Vietnamese forces on April 30, 1975, though APIDA Heritage Month’s official U.S. government website fails to mention this fact. This marked the end of the Vietnam War but, more importantly, the end of U.S. imperialism in Vietnam.
As the history of APIDA Heritage Month reflects, the experiences of the APIDA community are often perceived as monolithic and reflect the experiences of a singular sub-group: East Asians. The two events that determined May as APIDA Heritage Month both concerned communities of East Asian descent. Too often, we exclude the experiences of other non-East Asian and Pacific Islander communities in our discourse of Asia/ Pacific America. The communities that make up the APIDA population are heterogeneous, and our experiences — similar in some ways yet still interconnected — are as well. Newspapers in the 1960s first perpetuated the model minority myth, reporting that Asian Americans had overcome discrimination and succeeded because of our work ethic. This reinforces racial hierarchies and pits communities of color against one another by contrasting Asian Americans with what people perceive to be the “problem” minorities, usually the black community. It also perpetuates the notion that the APIDA community is homogeneous, even though there are vast differences in median household income, access to quality schools and educational attainment among subgroups. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the APIDA median household income was $75,000 in 20132015. But the median household income for individuals of Indian, Filipino and Taiwanese descent spanned a range of $75,000 to $100,000, while Burmese, Bhutanese and the unspecified Micronesian median household income spanned a range of $30,000-$40,000. As these statistics have shown, the APIDA community is by no means monolithic, and the exclusion — whether unconscious
or conscious — of non-East Asian and Pacific Islander communities is detrimental. Even in the Northwestern community, we have issues with inclusivity when it comes to defining what exactly “Asian-interest,” “Asian American” and “Asian Pacific Islander Desi American” means. Some student organizations use any combination of these words in their mission statements, but the individuals that make up these groups are primarily of East Asian descent. For instance, Pi Alpha Phi is an “Asian American-interest fraternity.” But upon hearing the experiences of one of its members, I learned that it currently has no non-East Asian active members, which has been the case since its founding. The member said that upon visiting the University of Michigan chapter, he realized the NU chapter relatively lacked diversity. He said it has been difficult to find a more diverse group of members when “our current members have so little engagement with non-East Asian students.” In the words of one member of Sigma Psi Zeta, the sorority’s mission is “to promote awareness of all Asian cultures” and “to strive to reflect those values through inclusivity.” However, like many other “Asian-interest” groups, the sisterhood is also primarily of East Asian descent. I’m the Associated Student Government senator for the Asian Pacific American Coalition, and most of us are also ethnically East Asian. This discrepancy in mission statement and the ethnic membership of these organizations reveal a larger problem with Northwestern’s community, in that non-East Asian and Pacific Islander communities do not see themselves well represented. This year, my experience as a member of the
APIDA Heritage Month student planning committee helped me to not only acknowledge the challenges within the APIDA community but to also take immense pride in the many significant contributions we’ve made to society. Our struggles and triumphs often go unnoticed. How often in the media do we hear about anti-Asian violence, including hate crimes against Sikhs and other groups mistaken for Muslims after 9/11? How often, and to what extent, do our U.S. history classes cover U.S. settler colonialism in the Pacific Islands or American colonialism and imperialism in general? On the flipside, many people, myself included, can only name a handful of influential members in the APIDA community off the top of their head. We are invisible to the media, politicians and research institutes. But the fact of the matter is that we exist. APIDA Heritage Month is important to me because it is a time for the APIDA community to come together, empower one another and compel others to acknowledge our existence. This month, the student planning committee and many oncampus student organizations have planned numerous events to celebrate our various accomplishments, cultures and traditions. Let’s show up for each other and take pride in our existence. Seri Lee is a Weinberg freshman. She can be reached at serilee2020@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.
Faculty diversity essential to improving student inclusion TROY CLOSSON
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When Northwestern releases its demographic information for this incoming freshman class, I’m sure the class of 2021 will be touted as “one of the most diverse” groups of admitted students to date. And if that’s the case, it’d be good progress — clear steps in the right direction. However, solely increasing the number of students of color without devoting attention to other aspects of students’ experiences limits the potential impact. Diversity can often be thought of as measurements of raw numbers, a minimum threshold to cross or a box to be checked off. But diversity is often discussed without full attention to something that goes hand-in-hand: inclusion. While diversity relates only to representation, inclusion deals with the environment, atmosphere and culture of organizations and has the potential to more directly change experiences. By increasing the diversity of NU’s faculty and staff, the administration could greatly increase NU’s inclusiveness for students of color. Since arriving in the fall, navigating this campus’ lack of diversity and full inclusion has
presented challenges. And increasing the presence of non-white faculty in classrooms is just one of the steps University administrators could take to greatly improve minority students’ experiences. The Black Student Experience Task Force Report released in the fall revealed that black students’ satisfaction with their experience at NU was lower than that of every other racial and ethnic group. Of the students surveyed, 40 percent expressed dissatisfaction with the cultural competency and sensitivity of faculty, something that could be improved with a more diverse set of professors. During my time at NU, I’ve been taught by only a few professors of color — and nearly all of those have been in either foreign language or social sciences departments. Although I personally have regularly dealt with environments that had few non-white faculty members in schools I attended throughout my life, many of those obstacles have felt compounded on campus. At times, while discussing “black” issues like slavery or the Civil Rights Movement, I’ve felt pressured by professors to speak up or provide comment and clarification. Additionally, I’ve experienced challenges in reaching out to faculty due to the alienation I’ve felt in the classroom. These issues could change, however, if NU committed to increasing diversity within all majors and academic disciplines.
As professors can serve not only as instructors, but also resources and advisers for students, creating a more representative faculty could provide students of color with strengthened support systems. In the Black Student Experience Task Force Report, over 50 percent of surveyed students also expressed dissatisfaction with the “extent to which curriculum and course offerings (at NU) reflect the lives, perceptions and contributions of people from marginalized backgrounds.” Increasing faculty diversity could additionally provide platforms for different perspectives and viewpoints, helping move course curriculums away from being highly Eurocentric to more representative of diverse backgrounds. And perhaps most importantly, it could increase the satisfaction of students of color not only within the classroom, but also in their overall experience on campus. Faculty diversity isn’t an obstacle specific to NU; many predominantly white institutions at all levels of education struggle with establishing a diverse, representative faculty. Many highly ranked universities seek candidates with the highest degree level. Black and Latinx populations, however, are underrepresented among Ph.D. holders, limiting the number of potential candidates. Yet, by truly focusing and making proactive efforts to increase the number of professors of color, re-evaluate hiring and tenure processes, provide ongoing diversity
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training and work to deconstruct obstacles to the employment of non-white professors, NU could begin to address its lack of diverse faculty — ultimately improving the experiences of students of color. Of course, even faculty of color can face exclusion, alienation and isolation. But while I can’t speak for the specific experiences of faculty, as a black student on campus, I believe increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of professors at NU could help make the campus environment more inclusive and create a greater sense of belonging for marginalized students. As more marginalized students gain greater access to higher education and enroll here, increased diversity would unquestionably help members of the student body feel more represented on campus. But to truly improve current and future students’ experiences, more attention should similarly be devoted to creating inclusive environments — and providing diverse faculty is an enormous part of that.
Troy Closson is a Medill freshman. He can be contacted at troyclosson@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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From page 1 white men. She said she uses writing as her form of art to express herself and reflect on her racial identity. Smith said she is excited to work in the United States as a black woman because she found “more space” as a writer compared to when she was in the United Kingdom. If it were not for her Cambridge background, which gave her access to the British literary world, Smith said “White Teeth”
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From page 1 a publication and a website to enhance audience engagement, she said. Erin Libby, manager of the NU-Q Support Office in Evanston, organized Erskine-Loftus’ presentation as the final event of an annual, weeklong visit of NU-Q students and faculty to the Evanston campus. “(The visit) is a way to get information to the Evanston community about the things we’re working on in Qatar,” Libby told The Daily. “Some students here are kind of familiar with the Qatar campus, but some hardly know anything about it, so this week is a good way to integrate the two campuses.” NU-Q is located in Education City, which is on the outskirts of Doha, Qatar. Five other American universities have campuses in
FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2017 might not have been so widely circulated. She said she hopes for change in Britain for greater representation. “To black, British women, part of me wants to say get out of Britain,” Smith said. “It’s painful for black, British women who wonder when their time will come. From a black, British person’s perspective, it feels exciting (in the United States).” For those aspiring to become writers, Smith advised them to read more “vertically” — exploring more historical and traditional work. Smith, who also teaches English at New York University, Education City. Everette Dennis, dean of NU-Q and a member of the visiting group, told The Daily that technology can bring the museum’s exhibits to foreign audiences and make them accessible to students all over the word. “There is a story to be told about the media,” Dennis told The Daily. “The crises in the Middle East have become a staple of journalism, but they are often not well understood and (are) stereotyped.” Erskine-Loftus said the exhibition is meant to be a classroom, workshop and “inspiring space.” “It’s not a passive space; people don’t just come to look,” she told The Daily. “We want people to question us, to challenge us. The museum allows us to engage with everyone else in Qatar in a way no other university in Education City does.” kristineliao2020@u.northwestern.edu
said her students are experts of contemporary literature but often neglect writings from the past. It is an advantage to be knowledgeable about classic literature and writing, as most current work is a reflection of the past, she said. During a Q&A session on Thursday, Smith was asked why her race and identity dominated the evening’s discussion. As a black and female writer, Smith said, her work is an expression of herself. Medill senior and former Daily columnist Carson Brown, who attended the event, said she admires how Smith uses her writing to express
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From page 1 us that black people were a vital force in building this community from the very beginning,” Barr said. While writing her book, Barr said it was important to start at the beginning of the history of social rights in Evanston. Barr said she learned about the fight for racial equality and integration, especially in regard to public schools during her research. Barr said while growing up, she didn’t realize Evanston was as segregated as it actually was. She said it’s “strange” to think of the civil rights movement in a city like Evanston, as much of what history recounts are the stories of inequality in the South. “Evanston was no less segregated than any city in the South,” Barr said. “There were separate schools, hospitals, churches, YMCAs.” Evanston resident Tracey Wallace said during the open discussion portion of the event that the city suffers from “drive-by diversity” — Evanston appears diverse from the outside, but still struggles with racial divides. Barr said when she was young, many of her black friends struggled to survive while she and her white friends didn’t need to worry about “burying siblings or paying for funerals.” Barr began researching the issue of racial
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The Media Majlis director Pamela Erskine-Loftus speaks about Northwestern University in Qatar’s new museum in Kresge Hall on Thursday. Erskine-Loftus discussed the museum’s planning process, purpose and upcoming exhibitions.
cultural stereotypes about our own identities,” McCartney said. “We breathe in the ‘smog’ of sexism. For this reason, we need to call out negative tropes about women for our children and for ourselves.” Amy Sanchez (SESP ’15), who is a research study coordinator at the NU Institute for Policy Research, attended the event and told The Daily she supports the council that brought McCartney to NU and its mission to amplify women and women-identified voices. “Sexism continues to be real and it’s something that deserves a lot of intentional focus and discussion, and (Northwestern) is not immune from these issues,” Sanchez said.
history and life. Brown also said she agrees with Smith about how one’s identity cannot be separated from their work. “I, as a black woman, cannot separate myself from my art,” Brown told The Daily. “We live in a world where blackness and womanness is important, and it is seen and it is something that you will be identified by, no matter what you do and what you try to do, and it does influence your art. But it doesn’t make it more or less, it just is.” catherinekim2020@u.northwestern.edu disparity after she found a photograph of her and several friends from when she was younger. Of her seven black friends in the photo, she learned that only two now have a stable income and secure housing. Four of them had died before they turned 40 years old, she said. “Close interracial friendships were made, but those don’t negate the huge racial disparities in housing, education and work,” Barr said. She said geographic segregation made it difficult for children to make friends of different races because they lived far from each other. Barr said the wards closer to Lake Michigan are historically white, while wards in west Evanston are historically black. Because of the rising price of housing in Evanston, Barr said, black families are often unable to continue live in the city. Dorothy Headd, an Evanston resident and crossing guard at a District 65 elementary school, said she has noticed that even today, white and black children don’t play together. However, she said she believes there is still hope for the future. “We have to learn how to communicate,” Headd told The Daily. “Maybe there is something that can bind us together that is greater than the differences that keep us apart.” juliainesesparza2020@u.northwestern.edu McCartney said it is impossible to live in the current cultural environment and not internalize some of the negative biases that exist. She said if someone ever has a strong negative feeling toward a stranger, it is probably because they are being affected by the negative biases. During a Q&A session with the audience, McCartney said respect toward women in academia has increased over the years, but she still witnesses gender discrimination. “It is certainly the case that women have made tremendous progress in all sectors, including academia,” McCartney said. “So much has changed for the better, but we still have a long way to go.” elizabethbyrne2020@u.northwestern.edu
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Strong fi rst inning propels Wildcats past Purdue Purdue
By EVAN AUGERI
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It’s not often that one inning of a softball game wholly determines its outcome. But on Thursday morning in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament, No. 8 seed Northwestern scored all six of its own runs in an explosive first inning, leading to a 6-1 defeat of No. 9 seed Purdue. After the Boilermakers (20-36, 9-14 Big Ten) took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first off a solo home run, the Wildcats (25-28, 10-13) responded by getting on base however necessary, squeezing singles between infielders and reaching on errors. A string of hits with runners in scoring position knocked in NU’s final five runs and broke the game open. “I felt our team was a little sleepy that first inning,” coach Kate Drohan said on Big Ten Network. “Kaley was throwing a lot of pitches, she was getting strikeouts but then she gave up the home run, so I said, ‘Okay guys, let’s wake up’.” Junior centerfielder Sabrina Rabin manufactured her own run to lead off the inning. She slapped a single up the middle, stole second and third on the same play and came in to score on junior shortstop Marissa Panko’s fielder’s choice. Then, junior catcher Sammy Nettling hit a two-run triple, senior left fielder Anna Petersen singled in Nettling and sophomore Kenzie Ellis homered to straightaway left for two more,
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capping off the firestorm. In the circle, sophomore Kaley Winegarner took charge for the Cats. The Boilermakers’ lineup was no match for Winegarner, who went the distance, allowed only two hits and matched her career high with eight strikeouts. Winegarner told BTN that the offense’s firstinning output helped her compose herself after a rocky start. “It increases the confidence of me going out there,” she said. “All I want to do is keep the lead, and I know that my team’s behind me every step of the way.” The outing gave Winegarner, who has emerged as the team’s clear ace in the season’s late going, three complete game wins in the Cats’ last four contests alone. She also surpassed the 100-inning mark and lowered her ERA to 2.85. Drohan told BTN that Winegarner’s resilience and her command of her off-speed pitch made the difference. “Her ability to throw the changeup on any count has been huge for us,” Drohan said. “I thought she pitched really tough today. I thought there were some innings where she didn’t have her best stuff, but she really battled through it.” information about the money they borrow to pay for higher education. Biss has called the legislation a “student loan bill of rights.” Biss, who is running for governor, voiced his support for the bill in a tweet on Wednesday afternoon: “Higher education shouldn’t saddle students with crushing debt bc of confusing small print & that’s why this bill is an important first step.” In a video posted on his website, Biss called the issue of student loan debt an “absolute catastrophe.” “People are coming out of college with such a debt burden that their whole life choices
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Marissa Panko (left) completes a double play. The junior infielder helped spark the Wildcats’ offense against Purdue in the Big Ten Tournament.
With the victory, NU advances to the second stage of the tournament and will face the No. 1 seed, Minnesota, on Friday. The Golden Gophers won the Big Ten regular season title
with a 22-1 conference record and swept the Cats in a regular season series.
afterwards are completely determined by what enables them to pay down that debt,” Biss said in the video. Collection agencies for student debt need to be held accountable for their actions and need to follow certain basic guidelines, Biss said in the video. He said the federal government is not doing its job when it comes to handling student debt. The topic of student debt has increased in national conversations recently, as in April when secretary of education Betsy DeVos withdrew student loan protections put in place by the Obama
administration. Those protections required the government’s Federal Student Aid office to do more to help borrowers manage, or even discharge, their debt. “The fact that the student loan industry sent high-powered lobbyists to Springfield to fight against these practical, commonsense protections for middle- and low-income families tells me that we’re on the right track with this legislation,” Biss said in a news release.
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TOURNEY CHARGE
Cats hope revamped offensive look leads to NCAA success By BEN POPE
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In early March, Northwestern traveled to Long Island for a twogame weekend, its first after the ultimately regular season-ending injury of star attacker Selena Lasota. This weekend, the No. 11 Wildcats (10-9, 4-2 Big Ten) will be back on the island for another Friday game against Albany (12-5) and, hopefully, another Sunday game, too — the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament, hosted by No. 4 Stony Brook (18-1). The evolution of NU’s offense in the two months between New York visits, as it has learned to adjust and make up for Lasota’s absence, is giving the team belief that it can earn a different fate this trip. “Once Selena was out, we hit a little bump trying to move people around in different spots,” senior attacker Christina Esposito said. “Now, we have a core group that’s been playing together for a while, and … we’ve found our niches and our strengths within the offenses that we run.” To describe that early March weekend as a “bump” for the Cats is an understatement. Barring Lasota, who had previously scored eight times in the first four games of the
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No. 11 Northwestern vs. Albany Stony Brook, New York 6 p.m. Friday
season, NU tallied only eight goals as a team in the two games combined — first a 5-3 loss to No. 9 Syracuse, then a 13-5 loss to Stony Brook. The time since, however, has uncovered a number of new contributors in the lineup. Sophomore attacker Liza Elder, who didn’t score once in the first six games, has tallied 14 times since. Junior attacker Nicole Beardsley — a lefty like Lasota, who scored twice in the first six games — has also recorded 14 since. Even freshman attacker Megan Kinna, who sported just eight prior career goals, made a huge play in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals last week, intercepting a pass and rushing in to score the late game-winning goal against No. 6 Penn State. “We have a lot of different players that can do a lot of different things and we’re all good at different things, so it makes a really unique team and good teamwork on the field,” Kinna said. “This weekend, we’ve got to just keep on doing us.” The Cats’ first-round opponent, Albany, rolled to a 12-5 record this season but beat only one ranked opponent along the way, despite giving both Syracuse and Stony Brook much closer games than NU
did. Though Friday’s matchup will be only the second-ever meeting between the two schools, old connections still run between the Cats and Great Danes. Albany coach John Battaglino formerly worked on the same Syracuse staff as Lisa Miller, who coached NU leader Kelly Amonte Hiller in high school — a fact that Amonte Hiller said helped her to get to know Battaglino. “I have a lot of respect for … John,” Amonte Hiller said. “He does a great job with them. I know they’re very scrappy, very tough, very fundamentally sound.” An NU win Friday would advance the team to a second-round game Sunday against the winner of Stony Brook and Bryant’s first-round game, potentially giving the Cats an opportunity to avenge the beating they took in that ill-fated March trip. The difference could be the door-die mentality that the team, even without Lasota’s scoring punch, has fostered down the stretch of the season. “The good thing for us is that we’ve had that mindset for a little bit now so we don’t have too many nerves or over-emotions,” Esposito said. “We just need to make sure we’re calm and focused for the next couple games.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern. edu
MEN’S TENNIS
Cats face uphill battle NU seeks elusive NCAA wins in tournament opener Seniors look to end frustrating season with tourney victories By SOPHIE MANN
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After sneaking into the NCAA Tournament, Northwestern will take on No. 18 Mississippi State in Atlanta in its 19th-straight tournament appearance. The Wildcats (14-11, 9-2 Big Ten) enter the final stretch of the season after a challenging campaign. In a rough non-conference slate, NU dropped eight matches before conference play began; the Cats have also not managed a win against a ranked team. Though matches with teams like then-No. 10 Duke and then-No. 9 Vanderbilt were close, competition against top foes wasn’t always so pretty for the Cats. No. 2 Ohio State swept NU in an ugly matchup the weekend before No. 10 Michigan sent the Cats to a second consecutive loss for the only time in conference play. NU recovered against Michigan State, topping the Spartans to close the regular season and again in the Cats’ Big Ten Tournament opener. The team lost in the semifinals against the Wolverines, something coach Claire Pollard said wasn’t something the team liked or was used to. Junior Erin Larner added that after narrowly missing the finals, NU has a renewed hunger going into this weekend. “We had an okay Big Ten Tournament,” Larner said. “We’re just going to continue to take confidence from being right there with those top-10 teams and go into the Mississippi State match with a little bit of hunger. We definitely still want that good win this season.” The Bulldogs (15-8, 7-6) may sport a similar record to the Cats, but they come from one of the strongest tennis conferences in the country — 10 of the top 25 teams in the nation hail from the SEC. The Big Ten, comparatively, has
Northwestern vs. No. 18 Mississippi State Atlanta, Georgia 10 a.m. Saturday
just two top-25 teams. Additionally, unlike NU, Mississippi State boasts wins against four top-25 teams. The Bulldogs took down No. 24 Tennessee twice during the season, including a dominant 4-1 win in the SEC Tournament. Because the Cats have not beaten a ranked team all season, Mississippi State presents a lofty challenge. Despite the potential obstacle, Pollard said the team hasn’t been preparing differently than it would for any other team. “The girls don’t know much about (Mississippi State); I don’t know much about them,” Pollard said. “We can only take care of ourselves and we can only control ourselves. We spend enough time on another team, but much more emphasis and thought on what ourselves can do.” If the Cats can pull it out this weekend, they will move on to play the winner of the Alabama State-Georgia Tech match. NU would likely be heavy underdogs against No. 8 Georgia Tech should the Cats win their opener. Senior Brooke Rischbieth echoed Pollard’s statement, emphasizing how excited the team is to play in the tournament and show what they have after a tough season. She said neither she nor the team will go down meekly, and the Cats will need to fight to knock off the Bulldogs. “We’re just taking it as another opportunity to play some really good tennis,” Rischbieth said. “There’s a crazy statistic about how many of the top 20 or 10 teams are in the SEC. They’re playing against the best, so it’ll be really exciting and good to see how we measure up.” sophiemann2018@u.northwestern.edu
By GARRETT JOCHNAU
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In 2016, Northwestern fell just one set short of a trip to the NCAA Tournament’s main site. Against Stanford in the second round, thenjunior Konrad Zieba lost a third-set thriller, giving the Cardinal a 4-3 win and capping a historic, albeit unfulfilling, season. With one final shot to qualify for the main site, the Wildcats’ seniors — who will lead the team Friday in its opening match against Utah State — are prepared to not let another opportunity slip through their fingers. “There’s always a little bit of a sense of urgency with us,” senior Strong Kirchheimer said. “We haven’t made the main site in my four years. That’s always in the back of everyone’s head.” The 2017 campaign has been rocky, with an early-season slump derailing NU’s hopes of outperforming its record-breaking 2016 season. The Cats racked up an additional three Big Ten losses, and were recently sent packing in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament. For a team that was expected to build upon prior success and take the NCAA by storm, NU enters the NCAAs with plenty to prove. Accordingly, it will also carry a fairly large chip on its shoulder, Kirchheimer said. Even amid a disappointing run, the Cats claim the talent and experience to contend. Kirchheimer headlines a starstudded senior class, with Zieba and four-time All Big Ten player Sam Shropshire looking to close their collegiate careers with a first-ever trip to the tournament in Athens, Georgia. “I definitely think we’re close,” Zieba said. “We really set the
Utah State vs. No. 21 Northwestern Berkeley, California 12 p.m. Friday
standards high for ourselves. We’ve come close, we just haven’t been there yet.” The road to Athens is hardly clear, though. Utah State enters the first-round matchup as an underdog against No. 21 NU, but carries plenty of momentum with 15 wins in its last 16 contests. Though the teams have never faced off, coach Arvid Swan said he’s been impressed with what he has seen this season from the Aggies. Awaiting the victor in the secondround is the winner of Tennessee Tech and No. 8 California, which is serving as host for the opening rounds. Against challenging odds, the Cats will likely need to leave it all on the court. Kirchheimer said the seniors will operate with a bit of urgency, and
Swan said the entire team is feeling the pressure to send its veterans out with a bang. “They’ve done so much for our program,” Swan said. “We want to be at the main site; that’s been a goal all year and I know it’s been a goal for our seniors, so there is definitely a sense of urgency.” But the seniors won’t let the elevated stakes ruin their perspective. After four historic years in Evanston, the acclaimed trio knows a deep run in the NCAA Tournament will only bolster their impressive resumes. And with the clock ticking on their careers, Zieba said they’ll also appreciate the final chance to represent NU and play on a team. “We’re thinking about it a little differently, trying to enjoy the moment,” he said. “You know, be competitive but at the same time enjoy it. If we keep that perspective, I think we’ll do well.” jochnau@u.northwestern.edu
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Konrad Zieba finishes his serve. The senior hopes to extend his and his fellow seniors’ career in the NCAA Tournament this weekend.