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NU graduate student sues professor for revealing private details about alleged sexual assault in book By ALLYSON CHIU and MATTHEW CHOI

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A Northwestern graduate philosophy student filed a lawsuit Tuesday under the pseudonym Jane Doe against Communication Prof. Laura Kipnis and publishing house HarperCollins Publishers, LLC, following the April 4 release of Kipnis’ book, “Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus.” The book is a critique of Northwestern’s Title IX procedures told through Kipnis’ experiences with the process. Kipnis also goes indepth describing her interpretation of the cases of two students — Doe and an undergraduate student — who filed Title IX complaints against former Northwestern

philosophy Prof. Peter Ludlow, claiming he had sexually assaulted them in separate incidents. Doe is represented by attorneys Jennifer Salvatore and Julie Porter. She filed a complaint in March 2014 against Ludlow, alleging sexual assault. Following an unfulfilled request to retract the book, Doe filed suit against Kipnis and HarperCollins on four counts: public disclosure of private facts, false light invasion of privacy, defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit says Doe is suing for compensatory and punitive damages, which are not specified, and to grant further relief as the court sees just and proper. Doe deferred comment to Salvatore and Porter. A representative from

HarperCollins told The Daily in an email that the publishing house does not comment on pending litigation. Kipnis declined to comment following the lawsuit. In an email to The New York Times responding to a request for comment on the lawsuit, Kipnis said, “I’d like to comment, but I can’t.”

‘False and damaging statements’

The lawsuit claims Kipnis’ book contains inaccuracies, some of which allegedly misrepresent facts about Doe. The book also publicizes private facts about Doe’s life, the suit alleges. University spokesman Al Cubbage told The Daily that “Northwestern University is not a party to the lawsuit,” and that there is no University disciplinary action

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currently planned against Kipnis. Doe’s attorneys allege in the suit that Kipnis “gratuitously discloses private and embarrassing details” about Doe’s personal life in the book as a way to defend Ludlow and attempt to “reframe him as the victim of malicious female students and a Title IX process run amok.” “Our client was devastated and shocked to read the book,” Porter told The Daily. “This was a really painful chapter in her life to begin with, and she had moved through it the best that she could. … With

the publication of the book, not only was the whole story out there again, but the story was false in the way that it was presented.” The suit alleges that as a result of the book’s wide circulation, Kipnis and HarperCollins have “harmed” Doe’s reputation, career and education in addition to causing her to experience “economic and non-economic damages” such as mental anguish. According to the suit, Doe has had to delay her entry into the academic job market by “at least one

and possibly two academic years” as a result of “the firestorm of publicity and gossip” Kipnis’ book has generated in the field of philosophy academia. Porter told The Daily that Kipnis’ book misrepresents Doe as a “serial Title IX filer,” who “was out to get a certain professor and went to the lengths of making up a false narrative to make it happen.” The book’s portrayal of Doe is “absolutely not true,” Porter added. » See KIPNIS, page 6

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By KRISTINA KARISCH

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CHICAGO — Twin brothers Nadeem and Naeem Patel didn’t think attending a fouryear university was within their financial means when they applied to college as seniors at Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago. “(We) applied to a bunch of schools, but didn’t really get any financial aid,” Nadeem Patel said. “So we tried to look at other options. My mom went to community college, and she said we should look into it.” Th ey did, and ended up discovering a program called the Chicago Star Scholarship, which will provide them with transfer scholarships when they plan to attend Northwestern as juniors in the fall. The program allows high school graduates to enroll costfree at City Colleges of Chicago, earn an associate’s degree » See SCHOLARS, page 9

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Mother Jones senior reporter Shane Bauer spent four months undercover as a private prison guard at the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana to discover for himself the living and working conditions inside a private prison. “It was a really chaotic place,” Bauer told The Daily before speaking at an event Friday. “People were constantly trying to psych you out — it was a really complex web of power. It was very tense.” Bauer spoke to a group of about 70 students with Mother Jones editor in chief Clara Jeffery (Medill ’93) at the event, which was hosted by the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications in the McCormick

Foundation Center Forum. Former Medill Prof. Louise Kiernan, Medill graduate student Kara Voght and Medill junior Julia Jacobs, former editor in chief of The Daily Northwestern, asked Bauer questions on stage. Bauer is the 2017 recipient of the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism for his article “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard,” which was published in the July/August 2016 issue of Mother Jones. The Medill award highlights writers of prominent articles that “shed light on the causes, consequences and remedies of problems in American society,” according to the Medill website. It took 18 months to create the article: four months of reporting and 14 months of writing, editing and factchecking, Bauer said. He told The Daily that during his time undercover, he would identify and mentally “sketch out” possible scenes for his future article. » See BAUER, page 9

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Jewish students, local activists talk immigration By BILLY KOBIN

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Local students, clergy and activists gathered Sunday afternoon at an Evanston synagogue to discuss stories of immigration and ways to address the issue in the local community. About 50 people gathered outside Beth Emet Synagogue, 1224 Dempster St., to hear from speakers about ongoing immigration issues and policies in Evanston that aim to protect immigrants. Students from Beth Emet discussed a recent spring break trip to the U.S.-Mexico border and how the trip impacted them. Rabbi Andrea London said she joined a group of 15 high school students from Beth Emet on the trip to El Paso, Texas, where they stayed at Cristo Rey Lutheran Church. London said the church takes in and supports refugees and people without documentation. During the trip, students slept at the church, where they shared meals and stories with immigrants. “Every time we listened to those stories, our students listened with that kind of respect and love, that we are walking on the holy ground of people’s experiences,” London said. “We know all too well in our Jewish tradition about our own history of not always being received in our home countries … with dignity and respect.” Several students spoke during the event about the trip and their visit to a U.S. District Court in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The students attended sentencing hearings at the court and heard from

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immigrants who had been detained by border patrol agents. They also spoke with lawyers and border patrol agents. Antonio Gutierrez, an immigrant rights advocate and community organizer, spoke about his experiences as an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. Gutierrez said Evanston’s “welcoming city” ordinance is important but not perfect, pointing to exceptions that do not protect undocumented immigrants who are part of a local gang database. “There is uncertainty about how individuals are put into this gang database to begin with and how reliable that information is,” Gutierrez said. “What we do know and understand is that information is being referred to immigration (authorities) and puts individuals at risk of deportation and separation from our communities.” During the event, Illinois Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston) updated the crowd on the Illinois Trust Act. The bill, which passed the Illinois Senate earlier this month, would prevent state law enforcement agencies from assisting federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents without a warrant. It would also create protected areas for immigrants in schools, hospitals and courthouses, Gabel said. Gabel, who supports the bill, said it will likely be voted out of committee this week — setting up a potential vote in the Illinois House later this month. Gabel encouraged the crowd to contact legislators and work with other organizations that support immigrant rights. At the event, an Evanston Township High School student shared her experiences as a member of the school’s DREAMers Club. She said the The man was driving in the 2200 block of Lake Street when an officer pulled him over for using a cell phone while driving, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The officer also found the man to be driving with an invalid driver’s license, Dugan said. The man was ticketed for both driving while

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Rabbi Andrea London speaks at an event on Sunday. London and students from Beth Emet Synagogue hosted the event to discuss immigration and efforts to address the issue in Evanston.

club advocates for students without documentation and their families. The club has helped make ETHS a more welcoming place for undocumented students, the student said. She added the school board contributed to this welcoming atmosphere by voting in January to declare ETHS a “safe haven,” which means the school will not investigate a student or family

member’s immigration status unless required by a court order. “An immigration status doesn’t say anything about you as a person, and it doesn’t change who you are,” the student said. “It’s important not to reduce a human being to a label.”

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ON CAMPUS GE taps NU seniors’ work to prototype By KELLI NGUYEN

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A project created by seven McCormick seniors that more efficiently inspects airplane turbine engines has been selected to be prototyped by GE Aviation, the University announced earlier this month. McCormick senior John Harris, who worked on the team, and fellow McCormick seniors Zachary Fenske, Jonathan Hoffman, Elizabeth McTighe, Matthew O’Hagan, Jacob Schneider-Martin and Jay Welch worked to develop SearchEYE to streamline the turbine inspection process and remove the human element as part of their Capstone Design Project. Currently, engines are inspected using a borescope, a small camera attached to a wire, that is fed into the engine and manually maneuvered through it, said Harris said. The current inspection process is inefficient and can take anywhere from 6 to 8 hours to complete, he said. During the second half of the two-quarter Capstone course, the team found a competition with

similar objectives as their class assignment and decided to submit their work. Their design was selected out of 150 submissions worldwide to be prototyped by GE. The team worked with GE affiliates as clients for their Capstone project, though GE affiliates had no connection to the global competition, Hoffman said. The team spent five weeks ideating and came up with about 140 different ideas before settling on the solution they developed for their class project and later submitted to GE, he said. “I don’t think any of us had any real expectations besides it being a kick in the pants for us to really get an idea going,” Hoffman said. Due to a confidentiality agreement, details about the SearchEYE prototype cannot be released, Hoffman said. “It uses not-obscure technologies in obscure ways,” he said. Harris said even after the competition, the group continues to work on the project for its Capstone class. The team’s current work and the work being prototyped by GE are similar, but not the same. Hoffman and Harris both said one of the things

they enjoy most about the project as a whole is the autonomy they have over their design and the initial ambiguity of the problem statement. “We were very much our own bosses as to how we wanted to figure it out compared to most other projects,” Harris said. “We were able to lead our own design.” Joseph Holtgreive, an assistant dean in McCormick, said he is thrilled with the team’s achievement. The problem statement was rooted in a difficult field and aviation technology has not seen major innovations in the past few decades, he said. McCormick has been working toward building a more holistic engineering program, Holtgrieve said. The seven students and their achievement are an example of what “whole-brain engineering” looks like, he said. “It’s a great example of a recognition from industry of the unique qualities our students possess,” Holtgrieve said. “Not just the intellectual capacity to solve difficult problems, but also the ability to think in a more integrated fashion.” kellinguyen2019@u.northwestern.edu

Dillo party shutdowns, hospital transports, citations all decrease

Fifteen people were taken to the hospital for alcohol intoxication and other medical emergencies during Dillo Day this year, down from 28 the previous year, police said. Last year, the number increased from 2014, when 22 people were taken to the hospital. During the course of the day, 31 were calls were made to the police and fire departments, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. Of the 15 calls to the fire department, all resulted in transports — 13 of which were alcohol-related. Additionally, Evanston Police Department shut down only two parties this year, compared to 19 the previous year. None of the people involved were given

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Dillo Day 2017 featured artists Porches, D.R.A.M., Onnij & Ouyang, Little Simz, Gramatik and MGMT on the main stage on Saturday despite heavy rains earlier in the day. Food trucks and other festivities including a ball pit awaited students at Dillo Village. The band Prez Harris & Friends won Battle of the Bands, earning a spot on the main stage, but the act was canceled due to “severe weather conditions,” according to a Dillo Day Facebook post. Onnij & Ouyang won Battle of the DJs earlier this month. — Erica Snow

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From page 1 The lawsuit lists examples of what it calls “false and damaging statements,” including a claim Doe had previously filed a Title IX complaint before the one against Ludlow, a description of her as a “serial Title IX complainant” and an insinuation that she fabricated a sexual assault to seek revenge on Ludlow. Salvatore told The Daily that Doe’s Title IX complaint against Ludlow was the first she had ever filed. Kipnis’ claim is based on a Title IX complaint against a student where Doe served as a witness but was not the one who filed, Salvatore said.

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to covering philosophy,” members of the academic philosophy community have discussed “Unwanted Advances” and publicly identified Doe by her name. The lawsuit also states members of the academic and professional community have “opined online” that because of Kipnis’ book, Doe “will never get a job in her field.” “The world of philosophy academia is a pretty small one,” Porter told The Daily. “These people all know each other and are certainly all aware of this case. The narrative that Laura Kipnis spun and that HarperCollins published is one that makes our client, and was intended to make our client, look like a liar (and) look like someone who was manipulative and deceptive.”

Kipnis’ Title IX experience

In an April 14 interview, Kipnis told The Daily that it “may be the case” her information was incorrect, but she had confirmed from two people that Doe had filed the complaint. One of the people was Ludlow, Kipnis said, who said Doe had told him she filed the complaint. Ludlow could not be reached for comment regarding Kipnis’ book and the subsequent lawsuit. Salvatore refuted any insinuation Doe fabricated the sexual assault. Salvatore told The Daily that Kipnis suggested Doe had decided to file a Title IX complaint long after the alleged assault took place as a form of revenge against Ludlow. She said in reality, Doe never wanted to talk about any interactions with Ludlow, but did so only after encouragement from the University’s Title IX office. Joan Slavin, Northwestern’s Title IX coordinator, deferred comment about the University’s Title IX process to Cubbage. The lawsuit also states the book includes information that makes Doe easily identifiable by including physical descriptions. Though Kipnis used a pseudonym, the lawsuit says “it was obvious to many who Kipnis was writing about.” In the April interview, Kipnis told The Daily that if the students in the book are identifiable, it was not a result of the book, as both of their cases had already been discussed publicly online. She also said she thinks Title IX processes should be transparent “in the same way that court cases are transparent” to keep the processes accountable. “With the names redacted, there’s no reason that the information shouldn’t be public,” Kipnis said. Cubbage said in a May 10 email statement that the Title IX process is led by the University’s “core value of fairness while based on guidance from the U.S. Department of Education as well as applicable federal and state laws.” “We act expeditiously, thoroughly and equitably as we maintain confidentiality, in order to fulfill justice for the alleged victims and respondents,” Cubbage said in the statement. According to the lawsuit, on social media and in various professional blogs, including blogs “devoted

The lawsuit is not the first interaction between Doe and Kipnis. Following Doe’s complaint against Ludlow, Kipnis wrote an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education criticizing the University’s ban on romantic and sexual relationships between faculty and students. Doe and another graduate student filed Title IX retaliation complaints in March 2015 in response to Kipnis’ article. According to copies of the complaints acquired by The Daily at the time, the graduate students filed the complaints against Kipnis stating her article created a hostile environment by giving an inaccurate and misleading description of the two students who had filed complaints against Ludlow. The retaliation complaints also said Kipnis’ article created a “chilling effect” that discouraged people from filing Title IX complaints in the future. In late Spring Quarter 2015, lawyers hired by the University found that Kipnis had not violated Title IX by writing the article. An ad hoc committee on academic freedom composed of four Northwestern professors presented a report to Faculty Senate on March 1 this year examining the separate cases of Kipnis and former bioethics Prof. Alice Dreger, who resigned following a confrontation with the administration over the publication of an article in an academic journal of which she was a guest editor. The report said the University had changed its Title IX policy following Kipnis’ case, stating the Title IX Office may close a case of alleged misconduct if the Title IX coordinator deems there is insufficient information following an initial inquiry into the report. The committee’s report states if this policy had been in place at the time of Kipnis’ case, “it is likely that no investigation would have taken place.” Though the report was presented to Faculty Senate, it was never voted on, nor did it ever receive Senate’s endorsement, Faculty Senate president Laurie Zoloth said in an email to The Daily at the time. Kipnis wrote in her book that the Chronicle essay was more than 5,000 words, but initially only seven were about Doe: “a former grad student he previously dated.” She wrote that the Chronicle later extended the sentence to qualify that they had previously dated according to Ludlow’s complaint. Kipnis also acknowledges that labeling Doe as a former student was inaccurate. In “Unwanted Advances,” Kipnis characterizes the Title IX complaint as an attack on her academic freedom. “It was trying to expand Title IX to apply to an essay, where I think most people thought that was in itself kind of scandalous because of its encroachments on academic freedom and free speech,” Kipnis told The Daily in April. According to the lawsuit, the basis of the Title IX complaint against Kipnis was that she had “misrepresented certain facts about (Doe’s) complaint and suggested that the complaint brought against Ludlow lacked merit.” One of the graduate students who filed a complaint against Kipnis requested the correction of what she said were factual inaccuracies, according to an email from the student to Kipnis obtained by The Daily. Kipnis responded to the email saying, “The facts in the piece were drawn from news reports and court documents, though as I made clear — and understand

you to be saying — some of those facts are in dispute.” According to a memorandum obtained by The Daily that had been added to Kipnis’ investigation file, Doe was hopeful that “maybe the article would be corrected, but was devastated when Kipnis refused.”

Kipnis begins own investigation

In the April interview, Kipnis told The Daily that she had little knowledge of how the Title IX process worked before the Title IX investigation was launched against her. Kipnis published another article in The Chronicle of Higher Education on May 29, 2015, titled “My Title IX Inquisition,” detailing her experience with the University’s Title IX process. Kipnis told The Daily she became “inundated” with emails from others who had gone through Title IX processes, piquing her interest to do research into Title IX investigations. Kipnis said she interviewed several parties of Title IX investigations and was contacted by Ludlow’s lawyer to be a faculty support person in his dismissal hearing. Before the University could issue a formal decision on Ludlow’s continued employment, Ludlow resigned and later moved to Mexico. In the book, Kipnis wrote that Ludlow had “pretty much lost everything.” As a result of the publicity about the charges against him, Ludlow lost a job offer at Rutgers University and two book contracts, becoming a “professional pariah,” she wrote. Following a Title IX investigation regarding the complaint against Ludlow filed by the then-undergraduate student, the University found Ludlow in violation of the school’s sexual misconduct policy and imposed several disciplinary sanctions and other corrective actions against him. Ludlow repeatedly denied the sexual assault allegations against him. He directly denies in Kipnis’ book the sexual acts he was accused of committing against Doe and the other student who filed a complaint against him. In April, Kipnis told The Daily she eventually met Ludlow in Mexico and interviewed him about his experiences, ultimately including his anecdotes in the book. Kipnis also cites several emails and text message conversations she obtained from Ludlow between him and the students in her book. The lawsuit alleges Kipnis’ book is a public disclosure of private facts, citing Kipnis’ use of “confidential University records” from the investigation of Doe’s Title IX complaint against Ludlow. Because Ludlow resigned, he never signed a confidentiality agreement with the University, Kipnis told The Daily in April. After his resignation, Ludlow gave Kipnis the files regarding his Title IX case, which she said gave an “in-depth” look at the processes he had been through. “He was free to pass on his information to anyone, any journalist or writer, and I was playing that role there,” Kipnis said. “So no, I don’t believe that I breached confidentiality because there was no confidentiality agreement.” The lawsuit states the information publicized in the book was “highly offensive to a reasonable person.”

between faculty and students. A quote featured on the cover says, “If this is feminism, it’s feminism hijacked by melodrama.” Kipnis argues the current mechanism barring student-professor relationships “infantilizes” students and plays to a “fairytale” trope of “endangered damsels” instead of independent women. “I absolutely believe there are sexual harassers on campus, and bona fide harassers should be fired,” Kipnis wrote. “Then there’s bona fide sexual hysteria, the fantasy that predators are lurking around every corner.” The lawsuit, however, alleges the book was written as a retaliation against Doe for filing the Title IX complaint against Kipnis. According to the lawsuit, Doe does not have a problem with Kipnis expressing critiques of the Title IX process, but claims the book makes false statements and includes “gratuitous private facts” about Doe’s personal life that she never wanted publicized. “Laura Kipnis was writing about Title IX and about her views on the process, and that is 100 percent fine,” said Porter, one of the lawyers representing Doe. “But when she chose to take our client’s life and intersperse that through her book … she had a responsibility to ensure what she was writing about was true. And in many respects, it wasn’t true.” Kipnis told The Daily in April that she wanted to balance the story by offering Ludlow’s perspective, which she said was underrepresented in the Title IX investigation. She said she hoped to add more nuance to the public record, which she said was unfairly biased toward the complainants. “The students’ account has been the official account,” Kipnis said. “History is written by the victors. They’ve been the victors in this.”

A critical response

Kipnis’ book has garnered positive reviews in the literary community, with a review from Publishers Weekly commending it as a “courageous, thoughtprovoking polemic.” In an April 5 review, New York Times book critic Jennifer Senior described the book as a “necessary” critique of campus culture, and wrote that Kipnis “never minimizes the devastating consequences of sexual violence.” “It is invigorating and irritating, astute and facile, rigorous and flippant, fair-minded and score-settling, practical and hyperbolic, and maybe a dozen other neurotically contradictory things,” Senior wrote. “(Few) people have taken on the excesses of university culture with the brio that Kipnis has. Her anger gives her argument the energy of a live cable.”

Writing a ‘counterhistory’

Kipnis told The Daily in April she felt there was a lot of “gender bias” in the Title IX process, which she characterized in her book as “kangaroo courts.” The book’s fourth chapter, titled “F*** Confidentiality,” criticizes Title IX investigations for being able to avoid accountability through claims of respecting pursuants’ confidentiality rights. The book was intended as a “counterhistory” to what was recorded when the University investigated the allegations against Ludlow, Kipnis told The Daily. She said Title IX officers are in effect public officials because they represent and enforce government policy, and that citizens have the right to question how policies are implemented. “Everyone on campus should be far more aware of how these decisions are being made and the secret judicial process that is taking place,” Kipnis said. In her book, Kipnis, who identifies as a feminist, also criticizes contemporary views common on college campuses concerning consent and sexual relations

Kipnis has also been interviewed and featured in The New Yorker, National Public Radio, Mother Jones and several other publications regarding her book. But on Northwestern’s campus, the book was met

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with criticism, many saying it inappropriately publicized students’ private sexual experiences. Professors and several students decried the book as one-sided and insufficiently researched. A letter signed by the majority of the Northwestern Philosophy Graduate Student Association and published in The Daily called the book “reckless, unfounded speculation.” On April 14, Philosophy Prof. Jennifer Lackey posted a public Facebook status, co-signed by philosophy department chair Prof. Sandy Goldberg, criticizing the book and its portrayal of Doe. “We want to make clear that we believe that the characterization of our student as portrayed in the book is grossly inaccurate,” the status said. “We stand by our student as a person of substantial character and high integrity, in addition to being an extraordinarily talented philosopher.” In a public Facebook comment to the status, Kipnis said all of the information in her book was “copiously documented” and based off of public records and copies of “some 2,000” text messages and emails between Ludlow and Doe. “There is indeed strong evidence for my assertions, which is why I decline to withdraw any of them,” Kipnis wrote. The lawsuit claims some of the information Kipnis possessed contradicted Ludlow’s narrative, but Kipnis

chose not to publish it. The suit also alleges neither Kipnis or HarperCollins ever sought to determine if the text messages were “authentic, complete, or presented in context.” In addition to Doe, Kipnis’ book refers to various people including Doe’s faculty adviser, a graduate student close to Doe and the then-undergraduate student who also filed a complaint against Ludlow. Although most identities are disguised with the use of pseudonyms, some said they felt they were easily identifiable based on information provided in the book. Slavin, NU’s Title IX coordinator, and Southern Connecticut State University philosophy Prof. Heidi Lockwood are mentioned by their real names. Some who are mentioned in the book said Kipnis did not reach out for comment before publication. The lawsuit states Kipnis and HarperCollins both did not reach out to Doe to fact check the book’s content or ask her for permission to publish the “highly personal, embarrassing and damaging information about her.” Kipnis told The Daily in April she did not reach out to those people because she was “pretty confident” that no one would have been willing to talk to her. However, Salvatore said she thought if Doe had known what was being written about her, she “absolutely” would have “wanted to correct the record.”

Porter told The Daily it was “irresponsible” and “reckless” for Kipnis to have assumed Doe would not have spoken with her while writing the book. “It’s unconscionable,” Porter said. Lockwood told The Daily she felt “deeply violated” by Kipnis’ book, which she said exposed intimate details she had not previously discussed publicly about an alleged instance of inappropriate contact by an adviser at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lockwood said she “absolutely” would have agreed to speak with Kipnis had she reached out. “Certainly there’s no legal obligation to reach out,” Lockwood said, “but there’s a professional obligation as a journalist and a writer, and there’s a moral obligation as somebody who’s discussing non-public information about an incident that obviously I’ve chosen not to discuss publicly.” Kipnis said in April the information she used came from documents given to her by Ludlow, and that the statements were on the record. “Their statements were part of the documents that I had access to,” she said. “It didn’t seem necessary for the purposes of the book to reconfirm those statements to me.”

Polemic, not journalism

Kipnis commented on Lackey’s Facebook status that the book was mostly her opinion.

“It’s a polemic, not journalism,” Kipnis wrote in the thread. “It’s based on reporting, and a close reading of the available documents, but the heart of the book is my interpretation of that material.” Porter told The Daily she and her client “reject” Kipnis’ defense that the book is a polemic. Doe, she said, was used by Kipnis “as a case study,” and the information about Doe’s relationship with Ludlow was presented “in a very singular light as if it were factually true.” “To call it a polemic doesn’t mean that there’s no responsibility for being factually truthful when you are citing facts as truth,” Porter said. Porter said Doe was “devastated and shocked” to read “Unwanted Advances,” as it not only made her relive a difficult period of her life, but also did so publicly. Now, Porter said, Doe finds herself needing to defend her reputation and faces uncertainty in her career prospects. “Filing a lawsuit was a step she had to take to defend herself and to set the record straight,” Porter said. allysonchiu2018@u.northwestern.edu matthewchoi2018@u.northwestern.edu

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ICE presence legitimized violent systems, admin response is myopic

On May 16, 2017, Northwestern University Prof. Beth Redbird invited a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement public relations representative on campus as a guest speaker to their sociology course Social Inequality: Race, Class and Power. Despite concerns raised by students, Prof. Redbird and the administration still provided a platform to the ICE representative and thus legitimized its state-sanctioned power. Due to Northwestern’s commitment to be a sanctuary campus and the inherent danger of the presence of ICE, we as the Coalition of Students for Immigrant Justice did what was necessary to prioritize the safety of our immigrant community through our demands and actions. We condemn Professor Redbird’s reckless decision to escort and invite an ICE representative to this campus, despite student concerns, and are appalled by University President Morton Schapiro and Provost Dan Linzer’s statement of support that further legitimizes this platform. The University statement ignores the trauma of undocumented and racialized peoples and the perpetuation of

violence hidden behind the harmful rhetoric of “academic freedom of speech.” Moreover, President Schapiro has continually emphasized his support for undocumented immigrants and safe spaces, but this statement reveals a grave lack of commitment to these sentiments. Under the current U.S. administration, this lack of recognition is unacceptable. ICE is an organization entrenched in violence. About “380,000 to 442,000 people are detained every year” and “over 60 percent of people are held in privately-run immigration detention facilities.” The welcoming of an ICE representative to an institution that claims support for its undocumented students and to the sanctuary city of Evanston is more harmful than edifying. ICE should not have “free expression” in the classroom, when it has free — and profitable — expression of institutionalized racism in detention centers across the country. In response to the Muslim ban, President Schapiro addressed in a statement to the community that “knowledge knows no borders.” Yet, the presence of ICE in Tuesday’s class and subsequent administrative support only re-enacted the violence of the border in the classroom. The University failed to see how pedagogy is entangled with systems of violence, previously exposed by student activists who have successfully campaigned for the divestment from corporations complicit in apartheid and for the investment of academic programs in ethnic

studies. As such, “free expression” and “point of dialogue” obscure the reality that those targeted by ICE are silenced and often detained and deported without due process. The University, in its fierce and uncompromising protection of the “free expression” of ICE, legitimized state-sanctioned violence and, in so doing, undermined the well-being of students, faculty and staff who have been violated by the surveillance and deportation of their families and loved ones. “Academic freedom of speech” must never take precedence when it is quite literally a matter of life and death for undocumented peoples, such that providing a platform only normalize its violent state apparatus. The University cannot disguise violence as pedagogy, when pedagogy cannot protect us from violence. Therefore, the protest against the presence of ICE was not academic “censorship,” which casually ignores the violence that can be inflicted in the classroom, but a disruption prompted by the silencing of our voices. The University failed on its promise following the November elections of “providing support and reassurance” to those threatened with deportation. Consequently, the demonstrators acted on their responsibility to the community for the protection of all undocumented community members when the University fell short on its promises. As students, we value academic spaces to

learning dissenting views, but cannot compromise the safety of our community members. The myopic rhetoric of “academic freedom” and “hearing the other side” effectively offers up the humanity of undocumented migrants as a valid topic of debate. Regardless of arresting power, the presence of the ICE representative and University support were irresponsible and dangerous to those who are undocumented on this campus and in the Evanston area. Instead, Northwestern University should have stood by its commitment to sanctuary campus values. We cannot stress enough that students in Prof. Redbird’s class were not given the appropriate tools to critically engage in conversations about immigration and much less to engage in a conversation with a representative of a state apparatus, such as ICE. Prof. Redbird should have found an alternative way to teach their students about immigration without legitimizing and giving a platform to an organization which has brutally torn apart undocumented communities. More than ever, the role of the academic institution is to safeguard spaces for learning both literally and intellectually. We strive to be a campus that provides academic freedom without compromising the personal safety of undocumented community members. — Coalition of Students for Immigrant Justice

Physical wellness at NU needs further conversation TROY CLOSSON

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In my high school, students often seemed to be hyperfocused on college admissions, constantly finding ways to cram as many higher-level classes as possible into their schedules while also fitting in way too many extracurricular activities, clubs and sports. Everyone seemed to be doing it all and there was a lot of pressure to do so. Coming to Northwestern, that hasn’t necessarily changed. Throughout my high school, however, conversations about mental health and well-being rarely occurred. While students might have brought up the fact that they were stressed or going through mental health-related challenges, conversations often ended there and discussions about ways to change that culture hardly took place. Similarly in my family — and within many black communities I’ve been a part of — mental health has been an under-discussed subject. Despite the fact that studies have shown that African Americans are more likely to report having serious psychological

distress than whites, black young adults are less likely to seek out mental health services. Personally, I’ve also experienced challenges in reaching out for assistance with mental health because doing so can often come with negative perceptions within black communities. And even though this campus’ atmosphere surrounding mental health has at times felt similar to that of my high school, in many ways I’ve noticed how much more open this environment has been in discussing it. Although NU’s culture can often normalize stress, de-prioritize sleep and push mental health aside, mental health is at least addressed and brought up much more often than in previous environments I’ve been in, and initiatives exist to both raise discussion and access to services. Yet while mental health is often discussed more at NU than in communities I’ve been in, something less commonly addressed but just as important to college students’ experiences is physical well-being and its associated challenges. College students may face many potential food and nutrition-related challenges, especially during their first years. Next year, as the University begins requiring first-year students to sign up for an “Open Access” meal plan — basically just a

variation of the unlimited plan — some students may have much more consistent and regular access to both healthy and unhealthy food when arriving on campus. But conversations about how to deal with this, in terms of nutrition, moderation, exercise and other aspects of physical wellness aren’t emphasized. While concepts like the “freshman fifteen” are often brushed over in discussions about the transition to college, real and structured conversations about physical wellness have rarely occurred since I arrived on campus. And despite the fact that mental health conversations can often feel prioritized over those about physical wellness, both issues can often go hand-in-hand. College students can feel pressure to have the “perfect” body and become consumed with concern about their appearances or clothing, something that involves both physical and mental health. Similarly, students may feel they have less time for attention to personal wellness because of NU’s “AND is in our DNA” culture. Despite the fact that both physical and mental wellness can be relevant concerns on campus and impacted by various identities students hold, the conversation often only leans in one direction. None of this is to say that mental health should take a backseat to physical wellness or that

conversations about mental health should stop. Coming from communities that rarely discussed or brought up mental health, however, I’ve noticed how despite various issues, mental health is at least addressed much more readily, in a way that physical wellness just isn’t. As my first year at NU comes to a close, I’ve started to reflect on my experiences on campus much more. Because of how readily conversations about mental health take place on campus, I’ve become more aware of stigma surrounding mental health in black communities I’m part of in my home state. But at the same time, I believe changing conversations — or even just starting conversations — surrounding physical wellness is essential to bettering students’ experiences as a whole, and giving it an equal platform to mental health on campus could greatly improve overall well-being.

by The Editorial Board on April 3 in support of the District 65 school funding referendum. There, the authors pointed out the fact that 40 percent of the students in the district come from low-income families and have their educations and futures in jeopardy. Classism is an issue that deserves more attention than it’s gotten, for the same reason that sexism and racism deserve attention. People are not just born with different skin colors and sexes, they are born into different social classes. Just as with race and gender, class differences do not simply dissolve through time. A single group of people can maintain economic power for hundreds of years. At Northwestern, all students may have access to courses and faculty, but the job search will favor those from wealthy families because of their

connections, ability to pay for job-related activities and exposure to specific careers. People from lower classes at Northwestern cannot have their own voice in the media because they are expected to work harder to realize their dreams. However, students with enough family connections can simply reach out to a friend who works at a firm or corporation and secure their position. This advantage is serious, unfair and acts also along the lines of race and gender. However, classism is usually left out of the picture when we talk about equal opportunity: We are living in a society that blatantly discriminates against those with less wealth or social connections with the so-called “upper class.” Therefore, classism deserves the same public attention that sexism and racism receive on campus because it can have similar impact on a

person’s future. To deliver the same recognition to those who come from low-income households, we need to continue a dialogue on these pages, around campus and throughout the city. The most important thing in tackling classism is to arouse public attention. In order to stop the public reluctance in acknowledging classism as a harmful social phenomenon, the media on campus should bring its spotlight to the individual struggles of students from lower-income social classes against inequalities in academia and the job market, and thus urge the University and the Northwestern community to reallocate more resources for these students to compensate for their economic disadvantage.

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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and then transfer to a partner four-year school. The Patel brothers — who graduated from Harry S. Truman College this spring — were part of the 120-student inaugural class of Star Scholars, which began in fall 2015. They were among 25 other Star Scholars honored at a luncheon on May 12 with $5,000 scholarships and commendation from Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. All 25 will continue at a Chicago Star Partnership college or university to earn bachelor’s degrees in computer science, finance, mathematics or economics. Northwestern announced its partnership with the program in April 2016, pledging to “offer annual scholarships of up to $50,000 to City Colleges of Chicago students who are admitted as undergraduate students and transfer to Northwestern,” according to an April 2016 news release. “Nothing gives us as a city greater pride, than to see young men and women who hold up … a very important value,” Emanuel said at the May 12 luncheon. “That value is that the ability for you to pursue your dream isn’t whether your parents can afford your education, it’s whether you’ve worked hard for your education. … Work is how you get ahead.” Additionally, five of the 25 students were

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writing. She said his work shows journalism is not something that can be taught in a classroom. “He has a lot of experience to put behind what he does, which makes it hard for young journalists like this to learn, because it’s not like you learn the things that he has done in school,” Morton said. Morton said she left the event recognizing the amount of support and teamwork it takes to contribute to an article like Bauer’s. Medill Prof. Patti Wolter told The Daily that she organized Friday’s talk to introduce students to the reporting and publishing processes of important investigative pieces. She said the event shows how many people helped produce Bauer’s piece. “Big stories like this don’t happen because of one person,” Wolter told The Daily. “It takes a team of people, and I wanted to have this conversation with students about the commitment that this investigation entailed.” elizabethbyrne2020@u.northwestern.edu

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selected to participate in a summer internship at CME Group — a financial market company — or a clearing firm that partners with the group. Emanuel was joined at the luncheon by City Colleges of Chicago Chancellor Juan Salgado, University of Illinois at Chicago Chancellor Michael Amiridis and CME Group CEO Terry Duffy. “We are proud to support the Mayor’s Chicago Star Scholarship and the opportunities it provides for our city’s hard working and high-achieving (Chicago Public Schools) graduates,” Duffy said in a news release preceding the luncheon. “The program is testament to the strength of not only our city’s schools, but our talented students — and investing to enable them to continue their education today will only increase the vitality of our future business community tomorrow.” Both of the Patel brothers said that if all goes well, they plan on majoring in computer engineering and computer science, and hope to attend medical school down the line. Nadeem Patel said the highly ranked programs at Northwestern appealed to him and his brother. “You know you’re going to be in an environment where they’re going to push you,” Nadeem Patel said. “You’re surrounded by other students who work just as hard.”

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SpoonFest hosts vendors from Chicago, Evanston Annual event celebrates release of Spoon NU’s magazine, aims to expose students to area cuisine By ALLY MAUCH

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Despite the rainy weather Friday, many students swapped a dining hall for the food trucks and vendors on Deering Meadow for SpoonFest. SpoonFest, an annual event hosted by Northwestern’s chapter of Spoon University, celebrated the release of the food publication’s print magazine. Medill sophomore Dani Grava said because Spoon University’s NU chapter only made one magazine this year, the group wanted to host smaller events throughout the week leading up to Friday’s event. Events earlier in the week included a yoga class, a

sushi-making class and a screening of the movie “Chef ” with discounted grilled cheeses from Evanston restaurant Cheesie’s Pub and Grub. “Because this is our biggest issue, we decided to amp up the hype for SpoonFest, and we thought it would be a good way to get the word out (about SpoonFest),” said Grava, marketing director of Spoon University’s NU chapter. Vendors included Evanston restaurants DB3 Donuts, La Cocinita and Tomate Fresh Kitchen. Students could also choose from Chicago vendors like Da Lobsta and Jeni’s Ice Cream. Some of the vendors — such as Gotta B Crepes — also have booths at the local Evanston farmers market. Medill freshman Stella Kleynerman, a member of Spoon University’s NU chapter, said she

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“You get to experience all the different restaurants that Evanston and Chicago have to offer without actually commuting anywhere,”

Kleynerman said. “There’s a lot of variety to choose from.” Lauren Goldstein, the NU chapter’s director of partnerships and special projects, said the group came up with the event as a way to bring the NU community together. Goldstein, who was part of the marketing team that started SpoonFest two years ago, said she also wanted to give students the opportunity to experience food that they might not always have access to. “Chicago, Evanston and the North Shore in general have an awesome food scene,” Goldstein said. “I thought it was sad that Northwestern students didn’t really venture outside the walkable restaurants from campus.” allysonmauch2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Syrian-American musician discusses global events By ZOE MILLER

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Syrian-American musician Omar Offendum performed at Evanston Township High School on Friday and discussed how he uses music to comment on current global events. Offendum uses rap that combines Syrian and American culture to make songs with social and political commentary. The event was coordinated by the South Asian Middle Eastern Alliance — an organization started by ETHS students — and the Middle East and North African studies program at Northwestern. Offendum said he raps in Arabic to spread a positive perception of Middle Eastern language and culture. He added that understanding people’s “basic humanity” is ever more important in a time when

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From page 12 considered one of the best young golfers in the world. But Fitzpatrick’s departure left a gaping hole in NU’s golf program. The team lost its best player and had to replace him with someone expected to be a reserve. The team struggled that year but has steadily improved ever since, and Inglis said the program is finally getting over the “bump in the road” that Fitzpatrick’s departure left. Fitzpatrick, for his part, still tours professionally with a Northwestern bag, which stands out on tour. “I’ve got a lot of friends that are still at Northwestern, so it’s a little bit for them,” Fitzpatrick said. “It’s not something you see regularly, and I thought it was the move and it’s gotten a lot of exposure.” Conor Richardson was a sophomore at Cardinal Newman when Inglis became an assistant. When he was deciding where to play in college, Inglis recruited him to NU, but Richardson eventually chose to play at the University of Florida. “I really didn’t want to go too far north because of the weather,” he said. “The only school

“fake news” seems to be the norm. “Without beginning to understand each other’s culture and languages a little bit more deeply and with a similar nuance ... we’re never going to be able to really solve these pressing issues that face us,” Offendum said. Offendum’s music comments on current issues like climate change, social media and the Syrian civil war. One song, for example, encourages listeners not to despair in the face of global conflict and climate change. Offendum said studying Arabic in the current political climate was a “revolutionary act.” “When you take it upon yourself to start studying a language like Arabic in a time when people are working very hard to demonize this culture and this language, that … in itself is very much a revolutionary act and … a responsibility,“ he said. The musician also incorporates American cultural

references into his work. Some of his songs include translations of Arabic poetry into English or English poetry into Arabic. One song, for example, features a translation of The Damascene Poem by Nizar Qabbani, a 20th-century Syrian poet, as well as original lyrics by Offendum. “I can tell you first-hand that (Arabic) is one of the deepest, richest, most beautiful languages on earth,” Offendum said. “I hope that what you hear tonight, my own version of it, blending it with the hip-hop culture that I know and love, can maybe start to tickle some of that fancy for you and maybe get you a little more curious.” ETHS teacher Anita Thawani Bucio told The Daily the SAME Alliance at ETHS was started two years ago in response to students’ experiences of racism at school. “(It was) started by students who were seeking a safe space because they were encountering a lot of

racism in the school and outside of school,” Bucio said. Northwestern’s MENA program reached out to Bucio and SAME Alliance to ask if they wanted to host an event with Offendum. Brian Edwards, MENA’s director, told The Daily he proposed the event because Offendum was already visiting Northwestern. “We have often done other partnerships,” Edwards said. “I said, ‘Do you want to do something, because we might be able to bring (Offendum) over here,’ and (Bucio said) yes.” Offendum told The Daily that he struggled with writing about Syria while living in the United States. “I’m from this place that people don’t really know enough about and so I try my best to speak to that truthfully,” he said.

I was really considering in the north was Northwestern, just because of Inglis.” Because of a redshirt season, Richardson had the chance to transfer and play immediately after his fourth year at Florida. He chose to reunite with his former high school coach in Evanston last year. Richardson said after his career ended that he does not regret transferring, and was happy to have the chance to play for Inglis again. Goss, who oversees both the men’s and women’s golf programs in his new role, said what jumps out about Inglis is the passion he shows for the sport. He said when he originally considered hiring him, he reached out to Brogden, Tulsa’s longtime coach. “Bill just adamantly said David was the best he’d ever had,” Goss said. “Not the best player — he was close to the best player they’d ever had as well — but he was best at the details and being a leader and the way he organized, how hard he worked, the way he treated his teammates, all of those things.” Inglis said when he recruits potential players, he tries to sell them on what he says is a “unique” experience: getting to play golf at a high-level university, while still having the resources he and Goss bring to the table. Goss’ experience coaching Donald, who was a four-time All-American for the Cats, also plays into the recruiting pitch, Inglis said. And since

Goss and Inglis were both promoted in 2014, Inglis said playing for them is like having “two head coaches.” Junior Dylan Wu, who was NU’s top player for much of the most recent season, said Inglis’ experience as a player makes him a successful coach. “He has that player mentality,” Wu said. “He was just such a high level player that even when he’s walking with me on the golf course he’s always putting himself in the mind of the player. He’s the best person for me to walk with on the golf course because he knows my game, he knows what I need to do, he knows what things not to say, he just says all the right things.” Though he didn’t spend much time working directly with Inglis, Fitzpatrick said he was impressed with Inglis’ coaching style. “What’s so good about David is he can be very firm. He’ll tell you what you need to do but at the same time, he’s also helping you fully in what you need to do,” Fitzpatrick said. “He’ll tell you how it is, and to use a phrase we use in England, he’ll call a spade a spade.”

the final round of the NCAA Regionals. NU finished second in April’s Big Ten Championships to Illinois, which won its third consecutive conference crown. “It’s not lost on us that Illinois has had so much success and they’re our big rival,” Inglis said. “Our guys are motivated by that, they’re sick of getting beat. They’re going to put the time in, they’re going to put the extra effort in and make sure they’re doing everything they can to close that gap.” Earlier this year, Inglis was named the head coach of Team Europe for June’s Arnold Palmer Cup, which pits top American and European golfers against each other. Goss said it was a huge honor and a metric of the respect Inglis has earned in the golf community. There could be other offers, but Inglis said he wants to stay and build something at Northwestern. “This is a place where I want to be,” Inglis said. “This is a place where we can achieve at the highest level, and we can do it while still pursuing academics at the highest level. The quality of the guys we have on our team is incredible. For me, this is a place where it’s just such a dynamic and exciting place to work. You’re working with the best kids in the country.”

Inglis’ team has steadily improved since he took over. This season, the Cats hovered near the top of the leaderboard many times, but never managed to finish on top and collapsed late in

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In spring 2010, all David Inglis wanted was to be a college golf coach. Instead, he found himself working at Bear Lakes Country Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. “Just basically racking bags, cleaning clubs picking the range, parking cars in valet,” Inglis said. “It was just entry level, outside operations stuff.” Inglis knew he needed some coaching experience on his resume to have a shot at a college job, so he started working at Cardinal Newman High School in West Palm Beach. Late that summer, he missed out on an assistant coaching job at Ohio State. Frustrated, he started to accept that he might have to work at the country club for at least another year. But another position opened. Northwestern assistant Steve Bailey had left for another job, and NU head coach Pat Goss needed a replacement. Inglis told Jess Daley, who had played golf for the Wildcats and was a member at Bear Lakes, that he was interested in the open position. Daley called Goss to speak on Inglis’ behalf. Just three weeks after Inglis officially started coaching at Cardinal Newman, Goss offered Inglis the position. Growing up in Edinburgh, Scotland, Inglis played both soccer — football, in his words — and golf. With guidance from his dad, Inglis often took to the links. “He was my first coach,” Inglis said. “He was the guy that kind of taught me how

to hold it, how to swing it and would take me out golfing every night in the summer. I owe a lot to him. … He was a big catalyst in helping me develop my love for the game as well.” As Inglis got older, he started to focus solely on golf. He won the Scottish under-16 championship and made it on the Scottish national team. But he knew the best opportunities to continue his career would be in college in the United States. Inglis eventually committed to Tulsa, and spent four years on the team under coach Bill Brogden. After a successful college career, Inglis turned pro. But his professional career was short-lived. Inglis knew he wanted to pursue a career in golf, so he shifted his focus to finding a coaching job. He took the job at the country club, but it would still be five years before he got the call from Goss. Goss said when he interviewed Inglis in 2010, he was impressed with his passion for the game. “For me, that’s always been the number one (criterion) in hiring what was then an assistant coaching position,” Goss said. “It’s a lot of hours, it’s some odd hours and it’s not something you can be doing as a job or because you had a pretty nice experience in college golf. It has to be something you’re really passionate about, and that was very evident.” Once at NU, his work caught the eye of other college coaches, and Inglis said he had multiple offers to coach at other schools. When Goss was promoted to director of golf and player development, the head coaching position opened. “The impetus for me to promote David to head coach was just simply because I didn’t want him to leave,” Goss said. “I thought he was doing such an amazing job and knew that he had earned a lot of respect from fellow coaches across the country and we needed to make this job better for

David to ultimately stay.” On Sept. 15, 2014, Inglis was named head coach. In 2012, while still an assistant coach, Inglis recruited Matt Fitzpatrick, who was the No. 11 amateur in the world when he signed his letter of intent to play at NU. “We knew we were getting a great player, one of the best players in college golf that following year as a freshman,” Inglis said. “You get pretty excited about that.” Because they were pursuing Fitzpatrick, Goss and Inglis passed on a number of talented golfers for that class. Getting Fitzpatrick was a major coup for the program, and he is perhaps the best golfer to wear the purple and white since Luke Donald, who was a four-time All-American when he graduated in 2001 and was the No. 1 ranked professional at several times in his career. The summer before he arrived in Evanston, Fitzpatrick won the U.S. Amateur, further proving he was one of the best young golfers in the world. By the time September rolled around, Fitzpatrick was the No. 1 amateur in the world. When he got to campus, there was only one problem: Fitzpatrick was, quite simply, too good. “When I was in school, I loved every minute of it,” Fitzpatrick said. “I made some great friends, I loved being there but I think what happened was when I signed, we didn’t expect any of the things that happened that summer to happen, and things just sort of opened up and I couldn’t really turn them down. It was important for me to take advantage of those opportunities.” After just one quarter, Fitzpatrick left school to pursue his golf career. He went on to finish tied for seventh at the 2016 Masters, and is » See INGLIS, page 11

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NU sweeps Rutgers, secures Big Ten Tournament spot By JOSEPH WILKINSON

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Northwestern had several avenues to reach the Big Ten Tournament. But amid the results of several teams’ games and myriad qualification scenarios, the easiest was for the Wildcats to win their own contests. They did just that by taking three straight from Rutgers in dominant fashion to clinch the program’s first tournament spot since 2010. Though over half the conference qualifies for the tournament, NU (2428, 13-11 Big Ten) hadn’t seen postseason baseball in seven years. Last year, the team posted the school record for losses. “It was not easy,” coach Spencer Allen said. “We’ve had some tough days, and all the credit goes to these 30 guys. It’s awesome. These guys are feeling good going into it.” On the final weekend of the regular season, the Cats were led by their seniors on the mound, as Cooper Wetherbee and Josh Davis combined to pitch 14 innings while not allowing an earned run. The veterans came through at the plate as well, with senior outfielder Matt Hopfner leading the way, going 6-for13 with nine RBIs on the weekend. “The key was just being patient and waiting for good pitches,” Hopfner said.

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Jake Schieber awaits a pitch. The senior outfielder and the Wildcats secured their first berth in the Big Ten Tournament in seven years with a sweep of Rutgers.

“Previous weekends I’ve gotten ahead of myself and been impatient at the plate, but this weekend I was seeing pitches and choosing the right ones to swing at.” Hopfner had six RBIs in the opener

alone as NU stormed to a 14-0 victory Thursday. Junior catcher Jack Claeys got things started with a solo home run in the second inning, and the Cats never looked back. Rutgers struggled at the plate again

in the first game Friday, as freshman pitcher Hank Christie allowed five hits in 7 innings. Freshman infielder Alex Erro had a two-run single in the second, and Hopfner added his own in the seventh for a 4-0 win for the

tournament-bound hosts. “The pitching was the key for us,” Allen said. “We did a great job attacking the zone. We got some big hits from guys too, and it was fun because it was the seniors. I’ve been a part of a lot of senior days, and they don’t always go like that.” The second half of the doubleheader Friday was much closer, as Rutgers cut the deficit to 5-4 in the ninth and had two runners on base. Senior pitcher Pete Hofman came up clutch, striking out the final batter and setting off the senior day celebration. At the plate, NU got big contributions from the Rutgers defense, as successive runs scored in the sixth inning on a wild pitch and balk before junior infielder Connor Lind ripped a single that put the Cats up 5-1. The sweep kept NU in seventh in the conference standings, setting up a matchup with No. 2 seed Michigan on Wednesday. NU was swept by the Wolverines in 2016, but this year’s team is a sharp turnaround from last year’s. “We’re really happy to lock down that tournament spot,” Wetherbee said. “Being the team to go after such a long drought, that’s a goal we set for ourselves at the beginning of the year. Just pushing towards that and achieving that, and thinking about what’s next after that is a big step for the program.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu