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ALL IN Members of Northwestern’s Bridge Club play a game. The team is preparing for the 2016 Collegiate Bridge Team Championships, to be held in July.
Bridge Club heads to national championships By ALLYSON CHIU
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Members of Northwestern’s Bridge Club aren’t strangers to the stereotype. Every Sunday evening, these students meet at Norris University Center to face off in what’s colloquially known as “that card game for old people,” joked Weinberg freshman Kyle
Rockoff, one of the club’s members. For Rockoff, however, each practice provides a chance for him and the rest of the team to hone their skills in preparation for the 2016 Collegiate Bridge Team Championships. The two-day tournament is hosted by the American Contract Bridge League and will be held in July in Washington, D.C. The winning team will receive $20,000 in scholarship money, to be divided up evenly amongst the four members. This is the first time NU’s club has put
together a competitive team since its founding in the 1980s. Led by Rockoff, the four-person team consists of Communication sophomores Joey Lieberman and Di Xiao and McCormick fifth-year senior Ed Kim. Last month, the team qualified for the championships by ranking in the top four out of 17 universities and colleges nationwide. » See BRIDGE, page 6
Students expressed mixed feelings about University plans to mandate most groups admit all interested students, an effort to eliminate Northwestern’s culture of exclusivity by the end of next academic year. “Nepotism on this campus is definitely a problem,” said Chris Landy, a Communication and Bienen sophomore. “The admissions process … is a really flawed way of accepting someone into a group considering that Northwestern is an educational institution, not a corporation.” Brent Turner, executive director of Campus Life, said his office devised the goal last month after more than five years of discussion about the exclusive nature of » See OPEN GROUPS, page 6
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A nonpartisan Illinois citizens group submitted 65,000 pages of signatures to the Illinois State Board of Elections earlier this month for a petition calling for a constitutional amendment to change redistricting procedures in light of the coming November elections. Independent Maps — a statewide coalition composed of volunteers and state business, philanthropic, religious and political groups — collected and delivered more than
570,000 signatures to the election board’s Springfield office on May 6. The petitions call for an amendment to be placed on state ballots for a vote this November. The amendment would take the power of redrawing state legislative districts away from legislators and give it to an independent commission. Jim Bray, an Independent Maps spokesman, said the current method of redistricting in Illinois is “not healthy for representative democracy,” as it allows the political party in power to ensure district lines protect its legislators in elections. » See REDISTRICTING, page 5
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Interfraternity Council’s executive board will encourage “values-based recruitment” in addition to implementing an expanded education curriculum starting this fall, the board announced during a forum Monday evening organized in response to the banner controversy earlier this month. The forum drew 12 students to University Hall to discuss and critique IFC’s handling of campus sexual assault. IFC organized the event after criticism of banners it distributed to its chapters for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, which » See IFC, page 6
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OPEN FORUM Interfraternity Council president Will Altabef, a Communication junior, answers questions during a forum Monday evening. The IFC executive board hosted the event to discuss student concerns and ideas following the banner controversy.
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The settlement in a lawsuit between the Illinois Department of Corrections and a prisoner approved by a judge Friday will make changes to the state’s treatment of mentally-ill inmates. State prisoner Ashoor Rasho filed a suit against the head of the IDOC in 2007 and an agreement was reached between the two parties in December. According to a news release from the plaintiffs, the agreement requires the IDOC make changes to better treat the estimated 11,000 inmates in the state who have mental health issues, including hiring more than 300 additional mental health staff for group and one-on-one therapy. “Just because a person with mental illness is in prison doesn’t mean they lose their rights under the Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act,” Barry Taylor, an attorney with a legal advocacy organization that
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was co-counsel on the case, said in the release. “This agreement will ensure that people with serious mental illness will be given critical treatment they are entitled to under the law.” According to an IDOC news release, the agreement has led the department to Just because make several changes a person with to its current policies, mental illness including continuing construction on new is in prison residential treatment doesn’t mean facilities and limiting inmate’s time sepathey lose their an rated from the general rights under the prison population. Additionally, a Constitution ... mental health profesBarry Taylor, sional will consult on attorney disciplinary actions involving a mentally ill individual, and the IDOC has partnered with the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Illinois to train all staff in how to deal with
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someone who might have a mental illness. “While the Department does not admit liability regarding the allegations made in the suit, it does recognize that providing adequate care for offenders with mental illness will improve their quality of life and ultimately improve safety within its correctional facilities,” the news release stated. According to court documents, Ashoor Rasho suffers from a mental illness and has been imprisoned at Pontiac Correctional Center, where he says he was subjected to prolonged isolation. In these documents, Rasho contends that being in solitary confinement led to being “caught in a cycle that has worsened his illness,” and that he and other inmates were “forcibly and against their will given injections of medicine to sedate them and not treat them.” The suit was partially settled in 2013, but the IDOC was not able to fully craft a plan that would address the issues raised in the suit.
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Evanston police investigated a burglary report Sunday at an apartment in the 300 block of Callan Avenue. During the burglary, which likely happened between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Friday, a laptop valued at about $1500 was stolen and a TV was damaged, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. There were no signs of forced entry at the apartment, and the front door was found unlocked Friday, Dugan said. Dugan said the burglary was likely not reported until Sunday because the person whose laptop was stolen was not aware of the burglary until then.
A 42-year-old Chicago man was arrested Sunday morning after someone reported that he was asleep on the sidewalk in the 800 block of Foster Street. Police said the man appeared intoxicated and they had a warrant out for his arrest, so officers took him to the Evanston Police Department, where he urinated in the lockup room. Upon searching the man, officers found around 2.5 grams of marijuana in two separate bags. Dugan said the man was charged for possession of cannabis, public intoxication and urinating in a public building — all misdemeanors. The man’s court date is set for June 30.
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On Campus Former NU president, prof talk Obama foreign policy By SAM KREVLIN
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Former Northwestern president Henry Bienen said President Barack Obama hasn’t been assertive enough abroad, despite issuing many bold executive orders domestically. “Sometimes, force really matters,” said Bienen, a political scientist who was once dean of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. “He has used drones to go after individual terrorists and has used force selectively, but he hasn’t used enough force or used it wisely enough to have really controlled the outcome in any of these places.” Bienen and Political Science Prof. John Rielly, former president of the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, discussed Obama’s foreign policy during Monday’s Political Union event, “Conversations with the Presidents.” More than 30 students attended the event at the Buffett Institute, which focused mainly on Obama’s policies in the Middle East and North Africa. Rielly disagreed with Bienen’s assessment, praising Obama’s sanctions against Russia, warming relations with Cuba and authorizing the killing of Osama bin Laden. The two also had differing opinions on the Iran nuclear deal, the agreement the Obama administration struck with the Middle Eastern country last year aimed at preventing the country from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Although Rielly said the deal was
Weinberg professor gets $750,000 for dark matter research
Weinberg Prof. Kristian Hahn will receive $750,000 in government funds to research how to create dark matter, becoming one of 49 scientists in the United States to receive this funding.
one of Obama’s greatest achievements, Bienen said it will take time to ultimately conclude if it was the proper decision. Bienen added that he thought Obama was too focused on striking a deal with Iran and ignored human rights abuses, including the beating and jailing of Iranian dissidents. But Rielly countered that because of Obama’s leadership of the six involved nations, Iran may be prevented from acquiring a nuclear weapon, something that should not be taken lightly. On the topic of the Islamic State, however, Bienen and Rielly agreed that Obama underestimated its power. Rielly called the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, the most urgent threat for the president at the moment. “There is no question that in not committing American troops to combat ISIS, he has delayed the potential defeat of ISIS,” Rielly said. “This has had an enormous impact not only in the area, but on Europe with the refugees, which the Europeans have not successfully addressed.” Bienen also criticized Obama for initially likening the Islamic State to a “JV team” of extremists in January 2014. Political Union co-president David Gernon said helping students understand the complexities of international politics is central to the group’s mission. “A lot people take a simplistic view of foreign policy,” the Medill sophomore said. “Bienen and Rielly can provide the nuances in opinions.” Weinberg freshman Bryan Lee, who attended the event, said he appreciated hearing two varying Hahn is conducting his research at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, and is receiving funding from the U.S. Department of Energy through the 2016 Early Career Research Program, according to a news release. “The origin of dark matter is one of the most interesting questions in science,” Hahn said in the release. “The universe is filled with a vast ocean of matter we know almost nothing about.”
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TALKING LEGACY Former Northwestern president Henry Bienen (left) speaks at a Political Union event Monday. Bienen and Political Science Prof. John Rielly, former president of the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, discussed Obama’s foreign policy.
perspectives on Obama’s foreign policy decisions. Although Lee said he has criticized Obama for actions such as his decisions in Syria, he believes Obama has done well in foreign policy overall. “I think Obama has done the right amount,
considering under Bush we extended ourselves too much, and I feel some restraint was necessary after that,” Lee said.
Hahn intends to use the collider to smash protons together at extremely high speeds to create dark matter. With recent upgrades to the particle collider, Hahn and his team hope to achieve this goal. The Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program aims to aid U.S. scientists by providing exceptional researchers with support early in their careers, according to the release. The program is now in its seventh year.
“We invest in promising young researchers … to support lifelong discovery science to fuel the nation’s innovation system,” director of the DOE’s Office of Science Cherry Murray said in the release. “We are proud of the accomplishments these young scientists already have made and look forward to following their achievements in years to come.”
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Be honest about the real NU freshman experience Graphic by KT Son
ALANA FARKAS
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“College is the best time of your life,” is a phrase frequently reiterated to incoming freshmen. I heard the saying repeatedly from parents, teachers and peers who had completed their first undergraduate year. Stereotypical college experiences, like those portrayed in movies and television shows, usually include scenarios in which students meet their best friends, find their soulmates, party any chance they get and graduate with clear future plans. The stereotypical “Northwestern experience,” however, is slightly different. The archetypal NU student is a superhuman. They take challenging classes while maintaining a high GPA, hold leadership positions in multiple clubs, participate in research or an internship on the side and still manage to have a vibrant social life. But stereotypes typically are inaccurate portrayals of reality, and it is important to emphasize to college freshmen that the college experience is much more complex. In my first few weeks of freshman year I met older students who seemed to have it all together. They idealized their experiences at NU. Some of them said they met their best friends here, some said they found their life passion and others talked mostly about the party scene. Rarely did I hear about people’s struggles. Nobody spoke about the difficult transition living away from home or complications that can arise from living with a roommate. Peer advisers talk about the difficulties of balancing school and leisure, but they don’t always mention the radical truth that most freshmen will be rejected from student groups or that freshmen may drop a few classes their first year. Reflecting back on my freshman year, I can say there were many differences between my experiences and the ones other people predicted I would have. The way we talk about freshman year, and college in general, should
not be sugarcoated. College is a wonderful, unique experience, and students should make an effort to accurately portray a realistic college experience that includes both the highs and the lows. In NU’s competitive environment, it is especially important that freshmen learn the truth about rejection. I came from a high school where signing up for clubs was voluntary and everyone was welcome. Similarly to my high school, NU students and faculty members enthusiastically encourage freshmen to sign up for clubs and student groups. After visiting the activities fair, I signed up for nine clubs. But it came as quite a shock to me that I not only had to go through an application and interview process
for these clubs, but that I was also rejected from the majority of them. Looking back at it now, the rejection served as a blessing in disguise because now I only participate in the activities I’m truly passionate about. Rejection usually happens because freshmen are inexperienced, and many students still sign up for clubs as sophomores. But freshmen should be initially warned about rejection so they are not too disappointed if it happens. Another aspect of freshman year that should be more clearly emphasized is the possibility that many of the people freshmen meet will most likely not remain their best friends. Equally, freshmen may feel for a while as though they don’t have any real friends
on campus. The reality is that most freshmen walk into a completely new environment when they enter NU. They leave the familiarity of home and the close relationships they have built with family and friends, and they come to a place where they may know nobody. This can be a daunting experience and many students dismiss lonely feelings because they do not want to show vulnerability. Even after the first month of school I heard so many freshmen say they met their best friends and they feel completely secure and at home at NU. Whether this is true or not, freshmen should be told that it usually takes more than a couple of months to form strong relationships. All this can be summed up as “The Duck Phenomenon.” “The Duck Phenomenon” claims that a student, on the surface seems to glide smoothly and effortlessly, but underneath the water where nobody sees, is frantically kicking its legs to try to stay afloat. The idea that NU students have everything together and successfully glide through college is a common representation of NU student life. But freshmen should know that even students who seem to have everything under control probably struggle in other ways. Many students deal with mental illness, physical illness, financial burden, learning disabilities, family issues and so much more. It is necessary for incoming students to know that they are not alone in their possible struggles. College may very well be the best time of a person’s life, but this does not in any way mean that every moment of college is easy or even enjoyable. College is so much more than academics and partying. The years students spend at NU will be a time of growth and maturity. Students will learn about themselves and their lives through both joy and pain. To naive freshmen, it is imperative to represent all sides of the college experience and let them experience the journey. Alana Farkas is a Weinberg freshman. She can be contacted alanafarkas2019@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.
Student groups should not have to open admissions JACOB ALTSTADT
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On Sunday, The Daily reported that the University plans to “require most student groups (to) adopt open admission policies” and would consider enforcing this new ban on applications by cutting funding and university recognition. Brent Turner stated in a quote included in the news release that the University’s goal was to “enrich the Northwestern community,” and he asked, “What better way to do that than creating access and removing all the barriers for students to get involved?” However, I can think of very few things that could be worse for the enrichment of this school than the removal of the application process for student groups. This policy is misguided and will only serve to impair the very student body it claims to aid. I understand the overarching goal of the new policy: to create an inclusive campus environment and to ensure that all students are given the chance to get involved. However, inclusivity can and should be accomplished in other fashions, and there are over 500 student groups at NU that range in interests, goals and level of involvement. I would put the chances of being rejected from or not being able to join any of the 500-plus groups at next to impossible. There is an organization for everyone. The University uses an application process for positions such as Peer Advisers and tour guides because these jobs require a specific type of
individual to effectively perform an essential task. Student-run organizations that use applications are no different. The application process ensures the most qualified and highest-skilled applicants receive the position. Closed admission allows the organization to screen unfit candidates and maintain an optimal level of talent, therefore leaving the entire organization better off. Many organizations derive their value from their selectivity. Being accepted into a club that holds itself to a high standard becomes a significant accomplishment. But, the new policy would inherently devalue being a member of an organization. By allowing anyone to join an organization the University would debase the entire reputation and caliber of a group and remove the significance of being accepted. Consequently, by banning applications school-wide, the University would cripple the entire worth of its extracurricular life. It is naive and immature to state that everyone should be able to join any club they want. There are a countless number of clubs in which accepting everyone without a preliminary screening process is not only unfeasible but also counterproductive. A consequential facet behind the motivation to contribute and work hard in a club is the sentiment that one had to earn their spot in the organization. If there are no barriers to enter a student group, students would undoubtedly join for the sake of joining and organizations would be saturated with unmotivated students who don’t value the group as much as they would have had they faced an application process. Requiring open admission creates an equality of results — rather than an equality of opportunity — that incentivizes laziness and
strips our campus of any semblance of motivation to innovate. Inequality of results is a fact of life. Increasing the number of students in an organization when that number is not needed would dilute the experience for every student, decrease the efficacy of the organization’s programming and projects and curb any motivation to perform at a high level. To be frank, in the real world when people apply to jobs and receive multiple “heartbreaking” rejections, as Hope Wallace, assistant director of Student Organizations and Activities, said in The Daily article, there is not a parent organization they can run to, complain to and ask for the rules to be changed. Rather than pity oneself when facing rejection, one should use the experience as inspiration for improvement and motivation for the next opportunity. Rejection is a part of life. Removing it from the college experience hinders the very emotional and intellectual growth necessary for a collegiate education and experience. Furthermore, the removal of rejection, with the goal of including everyone, would revert to a childish policy of participation medals rather than awarding membership based on merit. The University would foolishly conflate actual involvement with hollow membership and rejection with personal feelings. The irony of the situation is that students attend an institution that derives its elite stature from its exclusivity and continuously decreasing admission rates. Yet, the University’s extrinsic values would contradict its intrinsic ones: The sense of accomplishment felt from admission to one of the country’s most selective schools would not be felt in the student groups within the school itself. I wrote
about this in the fall — college students are already sheltered from opinions that may contradict their own for the sake of their emotional well-being, but now the University may also shelter them from rejection? I envision a dystopian future where students will graduate having never faced an ounce of adversity in their college career and fully expect the real world to coddle them in a parallel nature to that of their university. By eliminating the application process, the University only further pampers students. Turner was further quoted as saying he believes, “We’re being courageous,” by requiring open admission policies for student groups. But, I wonder whether he and the University have a skewed idea of what courage is. To me, courage is the will to take on challenges knowing full well that failure is a possible outcome. A policy that would inhibit any sort of adversity would create a situation in which courage is no longer possible, but where everyone is coddled into getting everything they want. If the University follows through with this policy, the extracurricular experience at NU will be worse off. Membership in organizations that use applications will lose its value, and the members themselves will lose motivation to put forward their best work. Worst of all, the University will provide an unrealistic outlook on life beyond college. Jacob Altstadt is a McCormick junior. He can be reached at jacobaltstadt2017@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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Rauner vetoes attempt to move forward in union negotiations
Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed a bill Monday that would have sent currently-stalled union negotiations to arbitration, saying the action would have robbed taxpayers of their voice in the process. The state General Assembly passed a similar bill that Rauner vetoed last fall. Both the current and earlier bill aimed to address the upcoming expiration of current contracts between the state and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31, the Illinois branch of a national public workers union. In January, Rauner asked the Illinois Public Labor Relations Board to decide if the negotiations had reached a level of impasse that would allow the governor to stop talks and enact his own contract terms. Although the decision is predicted to come out in July, the bill would have allowed both Rauner and AFSCME to refer the negotiations to an independent arbitrator, whereas the board’s members were appointed by the governor. “Governor Rauner doesn’t like (the bill) because it would require him to be moderate and seek compromise,” AFSCME Council 31 executive director Roberta Lynch said in a news release. “Given that power, the governor could impose his demands and leave state employees no choice but to strike. That’s exactly what Rauner as a candidate vowed to do.” City manager Wally Bobkiewicz told the Daily that although non-police and non-firefighter public employees are members of AFSCME Council
Redistricting From page 1
“There’s a conflict of interest for (legislators) because they’re drawing maps that will benefit them or punish the people that are not in power,” Bray said. “It means that they really are picking the voters they want to be in their districts (and) who will send them back to Springfield.” The constitutional amendment would create an independent 11-member commission, Bray said. Citizens would nominate themselves for seven positions, and the state auditor general would review the applicant pool to see which citizens are eligible to redraw districts before randomly picking the seven citizens from a final
Owner of Lao Sze Chuan chain pleads guilty to fraud, money laundering
“Taxpayers, through their elected officials, have an important, longstanding role in public labor negotiations,” Rauner said in a statement. “My action today defends taxpayers who are being denied their voice at the bargaining table.”
Tony Hu, the owner of Evanston’s Lao Sze Chuan, pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering and wire fraud charges in federal court Monday. Hu, a famous chef in the Chicago area, reached a plea deal with prosecutors to pay state officials about $1.087 million in back taxes, part of a larger concealment scheme of over $10 million, the Chicago Tribune reported. When customers paid for food in cash, Hu, whose real name is Hu Xiaojun, modified the sales records to conceal cash transactions and deposited the money into his personal bank account, according to court documents, which allowed him to escape paying state sales taxes for the Illinois Department of Internal Revenue. The guilty plea comes after Hu was brought to court Friday for hiding the cash receipts. Hu runs at least 13 restaurants throughout the country — including the Lao Sze Chuan chain — with most in the Chicago area but some in locations such as Nevada and Connecticut. Hu gained local fame for his involvement in business and politics throughout Chicago, having been on public commissions and sitting on multiple Asian-American business associations in the city. The Evanston restaurant, which is located at 1633 Orrington Ave., could not be reached for comment. According to his plea agreement, Hu faces as much as four years in prison under federal guidelines at his sentencing scheduled for Aug. 22.
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STANDSTILL CONTINUES Gov. Bruce Rauner gives a thumbs up after giving his first speech as governor on Monday Jan. 12, 2015, at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield. The governor vetoed a union negotiations bill Monday.
31, this bill would only affect state-level employees and negotiations. Despite criticisms of bias and inability to cooperate, Rauner defended his action to veto the bill as a defense against the union’s “unreasonable demands,” which he said the state could not afford. pool of 100. Bray said the chosen citizens would come from all areas of Illinois and from each political party. He said the remaining four positions would be selected by the four legislative leaders of the state General Assembly — the minority and majority leaders in both the State House of Representatives and State Senate. Once formed, he said the commission would hold public hearings throughout the state on the process of redrawing districts. “The amendment specifies a criteria that they have to follow to draw the maps so that (maps) aren’t intentionally partisan and (maps) protect minority voter rights,” Bray said. Bray said the commission would eventually
create drafts of district maps and have public hearings on the drafts. With the support of at least two Democrats and two Republicans on the commission, the commission would adopt a final map to present to the State House and Senate for approval.The acceptance from commission members of the two major political parties would ensure the final map has bipartisan support, Bray said. A lawsuit was filed in Cook County Circuit Court on Wednesday challenging the amendment proposal. Michael Kasper, general counsel for the Illinois Democratic Party, filed the lawsuit, which claims the proposal doesn’t follow the rules under which citizens can amend the state constitution.
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From page 1 Ranking was decided based on accumulated points from preliminary online matches. Ahead of NU are University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley. “I’m really excited,” Rockoff said. “I think it’s going to be fun, especially to play other teams live. It’ll be a fun dynamic to see other people our age playing and play the real duplicate style.” Duplicate bridge is the competitive tournament style of the game. Partners sit across from each other at tables, and hands — the set of cards played — are passed from table to table. The same hands are played by different pairs who are seated in the same position at other tables. The methods of play are compared between competing pairs to evaluate who played better. The club currently has about 10 members, with
TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2016 usually six to eight showing up for practices, said McCormick graduate student Kate Rutila, who has been in the club since her freshman year as an undergraduate at NU. Rutila said low membership is one of the club’s greatest struggles. Despite having recently received club sponsorship from NU’s Student Organizations and Activities getting enough young people interested in the game is difficult, Rockoff said. Bridge was played in homes and on college campuses, but the older generation of players who grew up with the game and want to teach youths are challenged by modern forms of entertainment, he added. This is something that seasoned players such as the club’s informal mentor, David Joyce, are trying to change. Joyce, a 74-year-old Kenilworth resident, has achieved a Life Master ranking in the realm of competitive bridge, which requires the accumulation of 300 master points –– points won in sanctioned tournaments. Joyce has played competitively since he was in
high school and said he is interested in encouraging younger people to play tournament bridge. “The tournament bridge world would absolutely welcome them because we don’t have as many young people that we used to,” he said. The challenge of drawing and maintaining interest is rooted in the complexity of the game, which requires players to understand the language of bidding and strategy, Joyce said. Bridge players have to be “bit by the (bridge) bug” and motivated to invest time into playing and studying the game, he added. Having a collegiate club is one way of increasing youth participation, Rutila said. “Bridge club is nothing like any student group I’ve ever been involved in,” Rutila said. “We’re just a bunch of people who want to have fun, spend time with friends and play a game that’s not just fun, but mentally challenging. There’s a lot of good to be had from playing bridge.”
Peer Educators, for example, works directly with the Center for Awareness, Response and Education and might not fall under the policy, said SHAPE’s executive director Molly Benedict. The nature of their work — sexual health education and sexual assault survivor advocacy — means the group has to be selective about accepting new members, Benedict said. “The fact of the matter is there are perpetrators on Northwestern’s campus,” the Weinberg junior said. “And SHAPE can’t have people who are perpetrators being presenters about issues of sexual health or sexual assault.” For Landy, who said the current application process had discouraged him from trying new groups, the policy will be a welcome change. “The intense admissions process really promotes a sense of entitlement, and entitlement riddles this campus,” he said. “People literally think that they are above others. We’re all students, we were all admitted to Northwestern.” davidpkfishman@u.northwestern.edu
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GROUPS GATHER Brent Turner, executive director of Campus Life, addresses group leaders at the Student Organization Symposium in the Louis Room at Norris University Center. Turner’s office recently announced plans to mandate most groups admit all interested students by the end of next academic year or risk losing resources from the University.
Engineers Without Borders, an engineering service organization, has always been open to all students, said president Jesse Vegas-Perkins. The group requires that prospective members submit an application and come in for an interview but admits everyone who completes those requirements. Although Vegas-Perkins said she supports the spirit of the new policy, it hasn’t been completely successful for her group in the past. “It was really hard to manage and also make meaningful connections with a lot of people and so for both of those reasons (new members) didn’t continue to come back,” the McCormick junior said. “They didn’t feel like they were really part of it — they were just another person who was assigned a task.” To some degree, Turner said, drop-offs are part of the process. He said the important part is that students get to try out an organization before deciding to disengage. Turner said some groups may be exempt from the new policy, a decision his office would make on a case-by-case basis. Sexual Health and Assault
From page 1 some students found hypocritical and in poor taste. The executive board responded to attendees’ questions and critiques, while also outlining new efforts the board is making. The board plans to encourage chapters to hold recruitment events that help members better understand potential new members’ values, Jacob Swan, a McCormick sophomore and IFC vice president for public relations, told The Daily after the forum. “The backbone of our recruitment has for a long time been Sunday Night Dinners,” said Swan, a former Daily staffer. “What we’re trying to do moving forward is vary the experiences that brothers of chapters, members of chapters and potential new members can interact in … just to make sure that the people that are going to our organizations reflect the values of our organizations.” The board also discussed more details of the fouryear sexual assault education program it announced earlier this month. The program educates IFC members on social issues, including sexual assault, and will expand its annual winter conference from only new members to older IFC members as well. SESP junior Sydney Selix told The Daily she attended the dialogue because she wanted to hear what IFC’s executive board had to say following the banner controversy. Selix said although the event was not well-attended and more conversations like this are needed, she appreciates the board’s “sincere efforts” to address sexual assault on campus. In the future, she said she hopes more IFC members attend similar events. “If you don’t care that your peers are sexually assaulting other women (or) you care but you’re not invested in that, then I urge you to become invested in ensuring that your brothers and your peers are decent human beings and aren’t sexualy assaulting people,” Selix said. Weinberg sophomore Kevin Pu, wellness chair for Delta Chi fraternity, said the dialogue allowed him to listen to the problems some students have with IFC. He said the discussion not only informed him as to what IFC planned to do but made him realize the actions he could take as an individual to change campus culture. Pu also noted IFC’s executive board is largely just “a role model” for its chapters, and individual chapters must take action. “It’s really about the rules we set for ourselves that really change the culture within our fraternity,” Pu told The Daily. “It’s about what we are willing and enthusiastic about doing ourselves.” IFC president Will Altabef, a Communication junior, said the board will use the information from the dialogue to improve its decisions going forward. “We are trying to work to incorporate other voices and get official resources involved from the school and from everyone else,” Altabef told The Daily. “This is a big undertaking, and we do want this to be an ongoing thing.”
Open Groups student organizations. The initiative, which applies to most groups that recruit through an application process, will end a “system of privilege and oppression” that has long existed in the University community, he said. Since news of the planned change broke Sunday, Turner said he had received four emails, evenly split between supporters and critics of the plan. Next month, he said his office plans to hold open dialogues aimed at gathering input from the community, and by Sept. 1 they will have devised more concrete details on implementation. Students reacted strongly to the news on social media — some favored the effort to increase inclusivity, while others said the policy would decrease member commitment and result in students using group participation to pad their resumes. Kathir Sundarraj, director of the Institute for Student Business Education Analytics sub-group, said he “hated” having to reject students, but opening groups to all would dilute the learning experience for which many sign up in the first place. On Wednesday, he said he plans to introduce an Associated Student Government resolution against the new policy. “People in the leadership of these organizations … don’t like the exclusive culture, but at the same time it’s hard for us to strike a balance,” Sundarraj said. “If we’re looking for real solutions, we need to work within the existing framework.” Sundarraj, a Weinberg junior, said if group leaders were transparent about their applicants, they could collectively ensure a more even distribution of membership. For example, he said he accepted about 9 percent of applicants to his sub-group this year, some of whom had signed up for another campus business organization. Had he known about their dual-membership, Sundarraj said he might have not accepted them.
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struggle. Coach Claire Pollard said she was a little bit shocked by how strong UNC’s doubles play was, as all three doubles courts fell behind 3-0 to start the match. The tide did not turn, and UNC ended up grabbing No. 1 doubles 6-3, and No. 2 doubles 6-0, to give the Tar Heels a 1-0 lead. However, the Cats came back fighting in singles. “In doubles, we were just completely outplayed,” Pollard said. “I was concerned that the match was going to be really quick, but I was
National News By getting into the news business, Facebook opened itself up to a new controversy
LOS ANGELES — To lure more users and advertising dollars, Facebook has increasingly assumed the role of a news organization by curating and publishing articles — and to great effect. Four in 10 U.S. adults now get their news from the social media giant. But with recent accusations that Facebook suppressed news from conservative-leaning outlets, the company is learning there are consequences to being everything to everyone. The allegations laid out in Gizmodo stories earlier this month, citing unnamed former Facebook contractors, expose one of the country’s leading corporate juggernauts to political inquiries it would much rather ignore. They also raise questions about how Facebook designs and applies its algorithms, something it’s loathe to answer in the face of competition. Last week, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee sent a letter to Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg asking him, among other things, to provide a full account of how the company operates its trending topics feed — a list of popular news stories, personalized to individual tastes, that appears in the upper right side of users’ Facebook pages. “Facebook must answer these serious allegations and hold those responsible to account if there has been political bias in the dissemination of trending news,” Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., chairman of the Commerce Committee, said in the letter. “Any attempt by a neutral and inclusive social media platform to censor or manipulate political discussion is an abuse of trust and
really proud with the way we responded and got off to a really good start in singles.” The Cats came out on a quest for survival when singles started, taking 3-of-6 first sets in singles matches. Chatt demolished her opponent 6-2, 6-0 to tie the score at 1-1. UNC responded with a counter-punch as junior Jillian Rooney went down 6-2, 6-2 at No. 5 singles. Sophomore Erin Larner played the No. 1 singles player in the country in Hayley Carter, and despite a competitive fight, Larner went down 7-5, 6-4 to give UNC a 3-1 lead. Every match after Larner’s went three sets, as the Wildcats and Tar Heels duked it out to stay alive.
Lipp kept NU’s dreams alive, winning 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 to push the score back to 3-2. After winning the second set, Rischbieth found herself in the third set with a chance to tie the score at 3-all. Ultimately, No. 6 singles player Ashley Dai found her calling and defeated Rischbieth 7-6, 3-6, 6-0, eliminating the Cats from the NCAA Tournament. Despite the loss, NU players said they were proud of their performance, as they had pushed a top-tier program to the near brink of elimination. “Competing with a team of that caliber, and being that close, showed that we can compete
with the top teams in the country,” Larner said. The Cats struggled against elite programs all year with their only win against a top-10 school coming against No. 10 Michigan at home. As the team looks forward to next season, the Cats are young and experienced. Their top two players, Larner and Lipp, will be juniors next year and already have significant experience against elite programs. “We return five or six starters. Maddie and Erin, what they’ve done at one and two, I think it’s exciting,” Pollard said.
inconsistent with the values of an open Internet.” Facebook holds itself up as a passive player in the media ecosystem, one that delivers articles, posts and videos to users based on the things they and their friends care about. People had always been involved in writing the largely secret software that defined “care.” But the launch of trending topics in 2014 pushed Facebook to increased human involvement in deciding what users would encounter. The former Facebook contractors told Gizmodo that they were instructed to select articles from preferred media sites such as the New York Times, Time and Variety and downplay rightleaning news sites, conservative topics or news about Republican Party leaders. In the wake of the allegations, some conservatives said they always suspected a bias on the part of the company and others said they never expected Facebook to be neutral. But plenty shamed Facebook for altering what the company had described as a level playing field that connects people to what matters to them most. “Facebook and social media have been championed as platforms without filters — places where news and information can reach citizens directly,” said Vincent Harris, a Republican media strategist and expert in digital campaigning. “Facebook has already made it nearly impossible for nonpaid content to reach a user’s feed and now they want to act as a news god? It’s a slippery slope.” Americans have gotten used to the idea that you go to certain news organizations for certain perspectives — say, Fox News for a conservative viewpoint or MSNBC for a liberal point of view. Facebook’s entry into the news business is worth watching, not only because of its massive reach, but also because it’s unclear what
responsibility it has to divulge political leanings — if indeed it has them. “There’s an issue with transparency,” said Kjerstin Thornson, an assistant professor at USC Annenberg’s School of Journalism. “They have a responsibility to tell us what kind of news provider they are. There is a skepticism around any news media. The difference is Facebook (isn’t) telling us what the news is. It’s trying to tell us what we’re talking about.” Facebook Vice President Tom Stocky refuted the allegations in a post last week, saying there were guidelines to ensure neutrality. “These guidelines do not permit the suppression of political perspectives,” Stocky said. “Nor do they permit the prioritization of one viewpoint over another or one news outlet over another.” Facebook isn’t the first online destination to run into challenges presenting news. Blogging service Medium, aggregation app Google News and many other platforms have also faced scrutiny over a lack of transparency. Stories appear on Google News based on computer-generated rankings, but humans help decide what sources are up for consideration. Many more fast-growing apps want to become news sources too, which experts say will spur an increasing number of allegations of bias. “All of these different platforms are going to produce their own special controversies for what it means to produce news,” Thornson said. “Each one gets tangled up in what’s their responsibility, what’s the ethics.” Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, has an editorial team that writes about the work of users, including chefs and night-sky photographers. Apple’s editorial team decides where things go in its News app, which
includes stories from the Wall Street Journal, Buzzfeed and other publications. Last year, Snapchat hired a reporter away from CNN to cover politics. The strategies of other companies, for now, are vastly different from Facebook, which maintains that it’s not actually producing any news content. But it carries more influence than anyone else with 1.5 billion users worldwide. About 36 percent of U.S. adults say Facebook is among several important ways that they access news, according to Pew Research Center data from last year. Among people ages 18 to 29, about 82 percent of Republican survey respondents and 81 percent of Democrats have a Facebook account, according to a Harvard University Institute of Politics report. Still, there’s debate about whether Facebook’s curation efforts make a difference. Facebook researchers have studied whether the company is succeeding in presenting multiple viewpoints to users, coming to the conclusion that the software that determines stories in the news feed was having less of an effect than people’s own choices about what to click on. But outsiders say Facebook is shirking its responsibility and could do far more to ensure neutrality. At the least, the company could admit that the team behind trending topics is acting as journalists. “Good on Facebook for highlighting (Black Lives Matter) into their news section,” Snapchat’s researcher and social media theorist Nathan Jurgenson said on Twitter. “Bad on them for pretending like that’s not journalism.”
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Northwestern’s season ended with a bang this weekend at the Dr. Keeler Invitational as the Wildcats did well across the board, especially seniors Elena Barham and Camille Blackman. The weekend in Naperville, Illinois, proved fruitful for the Cats, with four runners finishing in the top 25 in the 5,000 meter event and Barham placing second overall in the 10,000 meter event, nine spots better than her 11th place finish last year. At the San Francisco Distance Carnival at the beginning of the season, Barham set a personal record in the 10,000 meter event, and this weekend she broke that record. The three-time Academic All-Big Ten member cut 11 seconds off her 10,000 meter time, finishing at 35 minutes and 41.78 seconds and capping off her career on an especially high note. Coach ‘A Havahla Haynes said the 10,000 meter event is difficult to manage physically and mentally because of its length and that this was mentally one of Barham’s best 10,000 meter races of her career. On top of Barham’s success, Blackman came in fifth overall in the 5,000 meter event, the fastest of all the Cats participating in that event. Blackman, also a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree, said she only had a month and a half to train for this race coming off an injury. Even after her top-5 performance, Blackman said she was disappointed in how her career came to a close this weekend. “I wasn’t too happy with my time, but I was proud of all the work I put in such a short amount of time,” Blackman said. Throughout the season, Barnes and
Blackman have set the tone for the other runners, Haynes said. Blackman said she felt she set a good example for the team’s more junior runners with her training after her injury, even though she didn’t achieve her goal this weekend of qualifying for the NCAA PrelimiI wasn’t too naries next happy with my weekend. Additime, but I was tionally, proud of all the Blackman said work I put in although such a short the seniors amount of time. weren’t required to Camille Blackman, run in the senior indoor and outdoor seasons, they worked hard for themselves and the rest of the team looked up to them. “All of us seniors put our full heart and body into attaining our goals,” Blackman said. “In that way, I think we really embodied how to perform well on the team and the values our coach wants us to have.” Even Haynes said the team fell short of its pre-outdoor season goal of qualifying this weekend. However, she said she was proud of the teamwork the Cats displayed and fostered throughout the competitive season and is looking ahead to next fall. “I think (the seniors) being on the ground as consistent as they’ve ever been has set up the rest of the classes for what consistency is and what tenacity is,” Haynes said. “That’s what we need going into the cross country season after break.”
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Northwestern has officially reached rock bottom. The visitors, California (29-18, 11-13 Pac-12), completed a sweep of the Wildcats (13-38, 5-16 Big Ten) with a 15-0 victory Monday, as NU tied a program record for most losses in a season. The Golden Bears outscored the Cats 59-5 over the course of the 4-game series and outhit them 64-20. “It doesn’t matter if we had four or five more wins, the bottom line is we’ve got to get a lot better,” coach Spencer Allen said. “We’re not where we want to be and … I wouldn’t feel better if we had 20 wins and we didn’t tie the record.” The previous record of 38 losses was held solely by the 1992 squad, which finished 18-38. More recently, NU had lost 36 games in 2012 and 2015, which had been the secondhighest total coming into this season. Monday also concluded the Cats’ home schedule, which they finished 5-14. The only opponents NU defeated in the newly-renovated
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but went just 1-for-12 during the first three games of the series. Following a 2-for-4 performance in Monday’s finale, the Glenview, Illinois, native said he’s enjoyed his four years in Evanston but is ready for whatever’s next. “It’s a little sad looking back that I won’t be playing any more baseball games as a Wildcat,” Jones said. “It is what it is. … It hasn’t really hit me yet but I’ll always have a lot of lifelong friends and memories, so it was a great experience for me.” NU will travel to New Jersey as it wraps up the 2016 season against Rutgers. Even if the Cats sweep the Scarlet Knights and finish the year 16-38, the .296 winning percentage will be the program’s worst since 1970. Pitcher Jake Stolley, who was also honored at Senior Day festivities, said he was disappointed at the outcome of the final home series of his career. However, he said that won’t stop him from competing in the upcoming season finale. “Just try to end the season on a high note,” Stolley said. “I know Rutgers’ coach said they’re battling for a potential (Big Ten) Tournament spot … so they’ll come out to fight and we just have to match the intensity.” maxgelman2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Sophomore Alex Chatt said the Wildcats put everything they had out on the court. But ultimately that wasn’t enough as Northwestern came up short in its NCAA match against North Carolina on Saturday. After defeating Ole Miss in a triumphant 4-0 win Friday, NU went up against No. 3 UNC (31-2, 14-0), a top-tier program that lost the national championship match to UCLA just two years ago. “This was one of the best matches we’ve played all season, and unfortunately it just had to be the last match of the season,” Chatt said. “It will motivate us for summer and next year.”
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NU started the weekend against an Ole Miss team it hadn’t faced since 2000, giving the Cats an unknown opponent in the first round. However, NU played a clean match, putting wins on the board quickly. The Cats kicked off tournament play with efficient wins at No. 1 and
2 doubles. The pairs of Chatt and sophomore Maddie Lipp and that of senior Alicia Barnett and junior Brooke Rischbieth grabbed matches to get the ball rolling, giving NU a 1-0 lead. The doubles momentum easily transitioned into singles. NU snatched the first set in 5-of-6 singles matches. Chatt dominated her match 6-4, 6-1 to give the Cats a 2-0 lead. Both Barnett and Rischbieth fought tight matches in the first set, as they both won 7-6. However, both came out stronger in the second set, winning 6-4 and 6-3, respectively. Rischbieth clinched the 4-0 victory at No. 6 singles, setting NU up for a matchup with the Tar Heels. Against UNC, doubles was a » See WOMEN’S TENNIS, page 7
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NO MORE CHATTER Alex Chatt lunges forward to return the ball. The sophomore won her singles match against North Carolina but couldn’t carry the team to victory.