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Report shows low D65 test scores 2016-2017 numbers reveal acievement gap By CATHERINE HENDERSON
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Evanston/Skokie District 65 school board members reviewed the 2017 Achievement and Accountability Report at a meeting Tuesday, expressing concern about the achievement gap and declining test scores. At the Joseph E. Hill Education Center, board members discussed the report, which demonstrates a district-wide downward trend in scores between 2016 and 2017. It also shows an achievement gap affecting students of color, students on free or reduced lunch and students on Individualized Education Programs — which provide services for students with learning disabilities — across four standardized tests. “It is sobering data,” board president Suni Kartha told The Daily. “We need to accelerate how we’re going to turn this around.”
Kartha said it is important for schools to set tangible goals to overcome the downward trends. She said the new work-plans format, introduced at the board meeting to help principals evaluate the year ahead, could help principals be more intentional about increasing test scores and closing the achievement gap. The report compiles data from four standardized tests: the Developmental Reading Assessment, the Illinois Snapshot of Early Literacy, the Measures of Academic Progress and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. Test scores increased from 2015 to 2016 but have decreased since. Though board members had seen the 2017 test scores before, District 65 officials synthesized the data from the 201617 school year into the report. Board member Sergio Hernandez said at the meeting that the decline may have resulted from a combination of changes in exam structure, technological difficulties and both national and local political challenges in 2017. He said a potential solution to the achievement gap could be » See SCORES, page 7
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Pat Savage-Williams speaks at meeting. The District 202 board unanimously voted to withdraw a controversial resolution.
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District 202 ends practice of limiting material sharing with public By NIKKI BAIM
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Evanston Township High School/District 202 school board members unanimously voted to withdraw
an “unnecessary” resolution at its Tuesday meeting that restricted them from sharing internal communications with the public. “It got ridiculous and time consuming,” board president Pat Savage-Williams told The Daily. “The resolution’s intent
and content was misrepresented in the press and in the public dialogue.” The controversial resolution, which board members passed 5-2 on Dec. 11, classified all written and email communication between board members and between members and the
board president or superintendent as confidential. Board members had to seek approval from the author of the email or document before it could be shared with the public. Only under “extraordinary » See POLICY, page 7
Kellogg centerpiece earns LEED platinum certification Global Hub joins Kresge Hall in securing top honor, but becomes first new building to reach standard By CAMERON PETERS
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The Kellogg Global Hub is now Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum-certified, according to a Thursday news release. Nor thwestern’s latest lakeshore glass monolith, completed December 2016, is the first new building on campus to receive the highest level of LEED certification. LEED certifications are awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council to evaluate and recognize environmentally friendly buildings for their sustainability and energy conservation. The Council reviews features such as water usage, indoor air quality and other sustainability factors to determine whether
a building deserves the certification. Though the LEED certification is a meaningful designation, senior director of facilities Dan McCrudden said the building’s LEED certification wasn’t the developers’ sole aim. “Part of the message that we’ve always sent is that we never bought platinum. We built the building the way we wanted to build it,” McCrudden said. “The fact that it became platinum only (shows) how well the University and Kellogg delivered on that.” The 415,000 square foot building, which houses the nationally-ranked Kellogg School of Management and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences economics program, joined the recently-renovated Kresge Centennial Hall as the second platinum-certified building on campus, and the first
new construction to receive that distinction. The Global Hub received a score of 85 out of 110 points for LEED standards. For a building to be platinum-certified, it must score at least 80 points. Kresge Centennial Hall, which was certified in September 2017, scored 86 points. The platinum certification is the highest level of classification. Vice president of facilities management John D’Angelo echoed McCrudden, saying the building was constructed primarily as a space for Kellogg and economics students. “The goal was to create a destination building for both business and economics,” D’Angelo said. “To create a really collaborative space for the students, as well as for the » See LEED, page 7
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Kellogg School of Management’s Global Hub, 2211 Campus Drive. The Global Hub was the second Northwestern building to receive a LEED Platinum certification.
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AROUND TOWN Good Neighbor Fund donations center on youth By JULIA ESPARZA
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City manager Wally Bobkiewicz told The Daily on Tuesday that Evanston has received Northwestern’s 2017 Good Neighbor Fund donation, which can now be directed toward implementing youthcentered initiatives. Roughly two-thirds of this year’s donation has been allocated to supporting youth initiatives in the community through park and facility improvements, job training programs and the Youth and Young Adult division. Part of a five-year agreement, NU’s $1 million donation in 2017 marked the third year of annual giving. Each year the mayor chooses to put the money toward community projects agreed upon by both city and university officials. After planning with Evanston’s city manager, Mayor Steve Hagerty said he met with University president Morton Schapiro to discuss this year’s designations. Hagerty said officials choose projects they are unable to fund through the city budget. They often focus on issues affecting youth in Evanston, Hagerty said. “Youth are the future of Evanston and investing in them will ultimately help our community,” Hagerty said. The Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services controls many of this year’s projects, including $325,000 worth of Fleetwood-Jourdain
POLICE BLOTTER Man arrested in downtown Evanston, charged with child endangerment Police arrested a 46-year-old man and charged him with child endangerment in Evanston on Saturday. Police were alerted of an infant left in a parked car that was not running near the Whole Foods in downtown Evanston, Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan
Community Center improvements and a $100,000 plan to renovate the Harbert Park basketball court. The department’s director Lawrence Hemingway said these facilities were “not in good shape.” Hemingway’s department submitted proposals to the city at the beginning of the 2017 for these improvements in hopes of providing safe and clean facilities and support youth development, he said. Hemingway’s department is also in charge of the $100,000 directed toward supporting the city’s Youth and Young Adult Division, which he said helps atrisk youth “overcome barriers that they might face across the spectrum,” including housing, employment and education. Within that division, an additional $160,000 has been designated to strengthening job training programs for at-risk youth. “It is important that young people have access to gainful employment because it not only gives them life skills they can carry with them ... but also because employment is a deterrent to violence,” he said. Former mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and Schapiro — who created the Good Neighbor Fund agreement together — allocated last year’s $1 million to Evanston’s at-risk youth programs as well, in addition to police camera implementation and the Sheridan Road construction project. Hagerty said last year’s funds helped address crime in Evanston and he claimed that there has not been any youth- or gang-related homicides in the city in 2017. “We are making a coordinated effort to ensure Evanston remains a safe community,” Hagerty said. Glew said. Police were on the scene for about 10 minutes before the father showed up claiming he was away from the car for only a “few minutes.” The child is 1 year old. The temperature outside at the time was 12 degrees, Glew said. Police arrested the father on the scene and charged him with one count of child endangerment.
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Northwestern has transferred the annual $1 million from the Good Neighbor Fund to the city of Evanston. This year’s designation for that money centers around youth initiatives.
“The money Tisdahl put into programs are paying dividends.” Other destinations for this year’s Good Neighbor Fund allocation include $220,000 to the Evanston Fire Department for paramedic services, $70,000 to Evanston Public Library for a full-time social worker and $25,000 for a beautification project at the CTA Union/Pacific viaduct. Schapiro said in an email to The Daily that this year’s allocations were “excellent choices.” “One of Northwestern’s key assets is our location
in Evanston, a vibrant and thriving community where many of our faculty and staff live,” Schapiro said. “Our partnerships with the City of Evanston and Evanston schools continue to grow, and this contribution demonstrates our commitment to our hometown.” Hagerty said he did not discuss with Schapiro in any official capacity extending the fund past the initial five years. The fund is set to expire in 2020.
The owner of a home on the 1700 block of Mulford Street in south Evanston reported a burglary on Friday. The 74-year-old Evanston woman told police she left her house at 3:15 p.m. and returned at 4 p.m. to find her house broken into, Glew said. She said drawers were open, and she discovered multiple jewelry items were missing. No one was home at the time of the burglary. A neighbor approached police on the scene and
reported that he saw a suspicious person on the 1600 block of Mulford Street around 2 p.m., Glew said. The neighbor said a man came to her door claiming to be a repairman. Police are unsure if there is a connection between the two incidents. Glew said the repairman narrative is similar to past reports of residential burglaries, but police have no suspects.
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Nobel laureate launches skincare line By ALANE LIM
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Nobel-Prize-winning chemist Prof. Fraser Stoddart is part of a team selling cosmetics based on nanotechnology. PanaceaNano, a nanotechnology company co-founded by Stoddart and Dr. Youssry Botros launched a line of anti-aging skincare products under the brand NOBLE in December. NOBLE features the company’s patented technology, organic nano-cubes, biodegradable materials that release active ingredients onto skin over time. Stoddart said the nano-cubes are based on a discovery made in his lab several years ago. Lab members found they could join up doughnut-shaped, sugar-based molecules, he said, forming nanosized boxes that are held together in vast arrays. “You have a situation where the property of this very, very much-extended entity is very, very different from one of the walls of the boxes (which are made of the sugar-based molecules),” Stoddart said. Stoddart added that the sugar-based molecules have been used for decades in personal care and other industries. The walls of the boxes can be broken down gradually, such as when they are exposed to the low levels of moisture on the skin, Stoddart added, so the nano-cubes can release their contents over time. It would take longer for a cosmetic ingredient stored in one of the deeper boxes to get out, he said. Botros, who is CEO of PanaceaNano, said time release is the key advantage of organic nanocubes. The nano-cubes in NOBLE contain several active ingredients like vitamins and are designed to release those ingredients at specified rates with molecular precision, he said. “That makes sure that you always have a fresh, continuous supply of active agents,” Botros said. Nicole Auger, a New Hampshire resident who received NOBLE skincare products in a giveaway, said she was interested in NOBLE because it was
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based on nanotechnology. “With the technology, you know that you’re getting long-lasting nutrients in the ingredients, so they’re not absorbing into your skin immediately and flooding your body,” Auger said. Botros said the company decided to enter the cosmetics industry after researching different markets, but stressed that the nano-cubes also had potential in other industries, like food and pharmaceuticals. Anti-aging eye cream, anti-wrinkle repair night cream and skin rejuvenation serum are the products currently offered, ranging in price from $249 to $524. PanaceaNano is also developing other technologies in addition to nano-cubes, Botros added. The company’s website lists multiple areas of research and development, including flexible batteries and
solar cells. Stoddart said the nano-cubes were not closely connected to his Nobel Prize research, though his lab had done some related work with the nano-cubes’ sugar-based building blocks. In 2016, Stoddart was part of a team that won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines,” according to The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Still, Stoddart said, the nano-cube discovery was “serendipitous” because they didn’t predict that the sugar-based molecules would form extended structures. “We had not anticipated it,” Stoddart said. “It was just — there it was. And you know, when we saw it, it was mind-blowing.” alane.lim@u.northwestern.edu
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Greek life members should explain why they stay ARIEL SHEFFEY
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably well aware that it’s rush week. Walk past the sorority quad, and you’ll see hundreds of Northwestern women — mostly freshmen — undergoing recruitment. Standing outside in the freezing cold, they await entry into the various houses, attempting to channel every aspect of their inner beings into the ten-minute conversations they’re about to have with the “sisters” who will determine their fates. In the time that passed after my own shortlived sorority rush experience, my opinions on social Greek life became much more defined. During recruitment, Greek life was merely a system that I didn’t understand, a bizarre organization comprised of girls who scream-sing scary chants at you as you walk through their doors. But after I dropped out of rush and, weeks later, witnessed
the sexual assault allegations against fraternity members that filled the brunt of last year’s winter quarter, my question became — and still is — why does social Greek life continue to exist? Greek chapters within the Panhellenic Association and Interfraternity Council arguably encounter more criticism than any other student organization on campus. An institution founded on racism, classism, heteronormativity and toxic masculinity, Greek life has certainly come a long way, but there is no doubting that those features are still ever-present. And, as Alex Schwartz wrote in a recent column, the benefits of the tight-knit community that social Greek life claims to provide are by no means exclusive to the Greek system — they can easily be found in a number of other student groups that face far fewer controversies and misdemeanors. In fact, even the supposed benefits of Greek life carry hypocritical inconsistencies. Sororities preach community and sisterhood while predicating their membership process upon blatant superficiality. Fraternities preach brotherhood while subjecting their pledges to hazing processes that are at times just strange but, at other times, and as shown by
recent cases covered on national news, life-threatening. Both preach philanthropy while collectively spending significant sums of money each year on unnecessarily extravagant formals, in addition to charging their members incredibly costly dues. And, most importantly, both preach an end to sexual harassment and rape culture while continuing to host and/or populate sweaty basement frat parties, despite their undeniable association with sexual assault. This is not to say that most members of social Greek life are bad, or that most chapters are bad, or that there have not been commendable efforts to repair this system that is painfully antediluvian. Nor is it to say that the values of brotherhood, sisterhood and philanthropy that these chapters preach have gone unachieved. But doesn’t there eventually come a time, as there does with most broken systems, to call it quits? When do we declare that the harms produced by PHA/IFC affiliated Greek life cut too deep? When do we admit that it simply does not make sense to perpetuate this outdated system? Columns in The Daily invoking heavy criticism towards Greek life have been prevalent and
incessant throughout the past months. But, only one has been written recently in its defense. That makes no sense to me. Thousands of Northwestern students are currently affiliated with PHA and IFC chapters — which means that thousands of Northwestern students have likely read, heard and internalized these arguments, but did not feel compelled to publicly defend their affiliation. Why is that? To those of you in social Greek life, I implore you: do so. Defend your affiliation so that the rest of us don’t feel like we’re shouting into an empty void. Explain to us why you can’t maintain the positive values of Greek life, like friendship and philanthropy, without being associated with a national organization that perpetuates such a vast plethora of toxic externalities. Because I don’t get it, and I know I’m not alone.
past” of the 1970s when nurse-patient sexual relations were common in rehabilitation centers. I am eager to support ways that our queer student organization can help foster understanding about such marginalized sexual experiences. Apparently, our medical school’s administration disagreed in this case. Feinberg administrators feared Peace’s essay might tarnish the Northwestern Medicine corporate “brand,” according to Peace’s accounts of emails from Feinberg Prof. Katie Watson, who was Atrium’s founding editor. Administrators therefore ordered that the entire essay be removed from Northwestern’s website. Even worse, according to Watson, they demanded that the dean’s office and public relations staff could veto future editorial choices “perceived to conflict with other institutional interests.” I do not think administrators directly intended to suppress scholarship about the sexuality of disabled people, but their actions nevertheless had that effect by caring more about sanitizing a corporate brand image than defending academic freedom. For more than a year, Dreger petitioned the university administration, including former Provost Daniel Linzer directly, to admit its mistake and develop more concrete policies protecting academic freedom. After little success, Dreger resigned in August 2015. “I no longer work at a university that fearlessly defends academic freedom in the face of criticism, controversy, and calls for censorship,” she wrote in her resignation letter. This lack of robust academic freedom protections should concern members of the NU community of all political orientations.
Historically, many social justice causes, including gay rights, have relied on principles of free speech. For instance, in 1985, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a court decision requiring public universities to recognize gay student organizations. The court decision ruled that Texas A&M University violated the First Amendment by refusing to recognize a gay student group that the university administration had called “morally repulsive.” In other words, the simple existence of some gay campus groups in the late 1980s and later rested on the basic principle of free speech. The modern debate about free speech on American college campuses has shifted, often centering on liberals’ objections to controversial conservative speakers. But even now, attacks on campus free speech come from across the political spectrum, including from the right. For instance, within the past two years, Tennessee successfully passed a law prohibiting state funds from being used to “promote the use of gender neutral pronouns,” and Arizona and Wisconsin lawmakers attempted to prevent public universities from teaching courses on social justice and racism. “Conservatives, liberals, and libertarians should all be able to agree that consistent, principled defenses of free speech norms are indispensable at institutions of higher education, and that their absence is most damaging to marginalized students,” The Atlantic columnist Conor Friedersdorf eloquently argued. “Uniting against illiberalism on the right and left is the best course.” For these reasons, we should all be concerned why our school made the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s list of 10 worst colleges
for free speech in 2016. Our new Provost, Jonathan Holloway, has a unique opportunity to help restore Northwestern’s reputation and affirm our commitment to academic freedom. As Holloway argued while at Yale, this commitment should be made “not as a special exception for unpopular or controversial ideas but for them especially.” But to realize this goal, concrete policies are needed. First, Holloway should implement a university-wide policy barring administrators and public relations staff from controlling the content of faculty-run or student-run publications, as a February 2017 Faculty Senate committee report recommended. Second, institutional diversity statements should be amended to explicitly include viewpoint diversity, as Associated Student Government argued in a March 2017 senate resolution. And third, Northwestern should adopt the 2015 University of Chicago statement about guiding principles for academic freedom policies, which has been adopted by dozens of universities including Princeton University, Purdue University, and all 26 campuses of University of Wisconsin. These protections are needed to both facilitate rigorous academic debate and advance our institutional goals of diversity and inclusion. Controversies about publishing scholarship on sexuality demonstrate this point well, as Dreger will further discuss at next week’s event.
Ariel Sheffey is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at arielsheffey2020@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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Historian of science and intersex patient rights advocate Alice Dreger will speak on Jan. 24 in Lutkin Hall for her first public talk at Northwestern since resigning from our medical school’s faculty in 2015. As president of Northwestern’s Queer Pride Graduate Student Association, I invited her to discuss challenges in publishing controversial ideas about sexuality. On modern college campuses, supporting free speech can often be viewed as a conservative position and contrary to diversity and inclusion goals. But Dreger’s experiences flip this narrative and illustrate how free speech policies are vital to advancing diversity and understanding marginalized sexualities. For instance, the scandal that led to Dreger’s resignation focused on the censorship of a 2014 essay that the author, anthropologist William Peace, had written to counter stereotypes of paralyzed people as asexual. Dreger had guestedited his essay for Atrium, a bioethics journal edited by Feinberg faculty. After being paralyzed at age 18, Peace feared he might never have sex, he wrote. His aching question — “Can I have sex?” — went unanswered by medical professionals until one night in 1978 when one of his nurses gave him consensual oral sex and he orgasmed. The essay recounted a forgotten medical history, but also clarified Peace was “not suggesting we return to our primitive
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Push back against religious exclusivism LEO SAINATI
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A few weeks ago, I had dinner with a staff member from a prominent campus Christian organization. After an amicable first few minutes, I was told after a few questions that because I was Jewish, I couldn’t have a real connection with God and would be unable to gain entry to heaven, ending up in hell. After dinner, we both went our separate ways and lived our own lives, yet her words still echo in my ears. Having someone look me in the eyes and tell me that what I have believed all my life, has given me an accepting community and has greatly contributed to who I am today was inauthentic and fallacious undoubtedly made an impact. Regardless of whether I seriously internalized what she said, important concerns were raised about the basis for this woman’s exclusionist rhetoric. A survey from LifeWay Research found that 84 percent of Evangelicals believe that “hell is a place of eternal judgment, where God sends all people who do not personally trust in Jesus Christ.” Additionally, 54 percent of Americans say that “only those who trust in Jesus Christ alone receive eternal salvation.” Yet a Pew Research Center survey found that “a majority of
all American Christians (52%) think that at least some non-Christian faiths can lead to eternal life.” At least within Christianity, there is obvious divide between denominations as to what can lead to salvation. As a Jew, I was admittedly not too upset by learning I would tragically not gain access to heaven, as I’d never believed that was where I was destined in the first place. What stood out to me, however, was how this woman’s idea of salvation was rooted in religious exclusivism. Religious exclusivism, of course, is not uniquely Evangelical Christian — it’s unfortunately also found in other major religions. Many Buddhists, for example, believe that those who do not follow the teachings of Buddha will be bound to an endless cycle of pain and suffer suffering through reincarnations. Many Jews believe that they are God’s “chosen people,” seeing themselves as points of emulation for others. Perhaps Islam serves as an exemplar of avoiding religious exclusivism, as it confers the status of dhimmi to other monotheistic religions, making sure not to infringe on their practice. I acknowledge that these are generalizations and fail to account for much of the discrepancies and variances that occur across something as broad as religion. I in no way intend to speak for or about all religions. These views are additionally drawn from these religion’s theoretical, and not necessarily practical, groundings, yet at least certain belief groups are apodictically influenced
by exclusivism. And exclusivism is common to groups beyond religion, whether it’s a musical ensemble, fraternity/sorority or university. Yet, many religions beliefs become concerning when they often lead from exclusivity to incompatibility. Religions don’t stand in contradiction to each other as much as their followers make it seem, and there’s no reason that any should be irreconcilable as different interpretations on the shared belief in a higher power. Religious exclusivism is unproductive, especially for campus religious organizations who seek to provide a home for all denominations and beliefs. Religion can be incredibly useful and gratifying for many, and the denominations that practice exclusivity and incompatibility don’t necessarily take away from that, but they do pose problematic concerns. What are the implications of exclusivism on our everyday lives and how do we cope with those who believe that the fundamental basis for so many of our morals and values is false and will condemn us to eternal suffering? These are questions I am still grappling with, but after being told I was going to hell, are much more real ones. Leo Sainati is a SESP freshman. He can be contacted at leosainati2021@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, 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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Alum scales peaks to raise cancer research money By CAITLIN CHEN
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The weather looked great 13,000 feet up. Alexander Pancoe (Weinberg ’09) and his mountaineering group, expecting to reach the summit of Antarctica’s Mount Vinson the next day, had brought enough freeze-dried food to last a couple of days. Suddenly, a storm blew in, and with the 60 mph winds, the temperature dropped to minus 50 degrees. The mountaineering group was trapped for four days, forced to survive off a cache they had found of smoked salmon and salami from the ’90s. “I left my iPad down at low camp, and then we were stuck there for four days,” Pancoe said. “I literally started rereading text messages on my phone. … Like, it drives you insane.”
Four days later, the group reached the top, where Pancoe posed with the three flags he always carries with him on climbs — one for Northwestern, one for Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and one for the Chicago Cubs. Vinson is one of the seven mountains in the Explorers Grand Slam, which Pancoe plans to complete to raise money for Lurie’s. The challenge will require him to climb the highest mountains on each of the seven continents and ski the North and South Poles. Now 31, Pancoe, grandson of NU donors Arthur and Gladys Pancoe, was a rising Weinberg sophomore when he was first diagnosed with a brain tumor. After months of headaches that consistently grew in intensity, occasionally resulting in temporary paralysis, his mother eventually forced him to get an MRI at Children’s Memorial Hospital, which is now called Lurie Children’s Hospital.
When the scans arrived, they showed a growth on his cerebellum. Dr. Tadanori Tomita, the head of pediatric neurosurgery at Lurie’s, removed the tumor, which turned out to be benign. “(After the surgery), joking, he was saying ‘I’ll pay you back, doc,’” Tomita said. “Now, he is.” Just over a year ago, Pancoe, who now works in Chicago, successfully summited Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest mountains on their respective continents. Soon after, he decided to try to complete the Explorers Grand Slam. Pancoe pays for the trips and training out of pocket, so the $320,000 he has raised so far through social media, his website and friends and family is entirely going to pediatric brain tumor research. He said he hopes to eventually raise $1 million in donations for Tomita’s research by May 2019. “At first, to be frank, I thought it was crazy,” said
C.J. Bacher (Communication ’08, ’09), Pancoe’s best friend and a former NU quarterback. “I think it’s an incredibly deadly endeavour. I was actually trying to encourage him not to embark on the Seven Summits deal, but the amount of work that he’s put into it has really changed my mind. He’s taken it incredibly seriously.” Pancoe said he takes a statistical approach to his training. He spends around two hours each day in the gym, wearing a garment that records and uploads his heart rate and other stats to his trainers on the East Coast. He also spends an hour or two each day climbing about 500 flights of stairs in his apartment building. “I never thought I was physical, and then I pushed harder than I’ve ever done,” Pancoe said. “No one thought I could do this, including me, and now I’m there.” caitlinchen2021@u.northwestern.edu
City considers options as streetlight provider may close By RYAN WANGMAN
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The future of Evanston’s unique Tallmadge streetlights looks dimmer after their sole supplier announced in December that its plant will likely close this year. Union Metal, based in Canton, Ohio, sent a letter to Canton’s city council in December stating that it may lay off approximately 339 employees at the plant in the coming months, according to council documents. Hearing that the plant was going out of business caught the city by surprise, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said.
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it was not her best outing. “I would say like a 7 or 8 out of 10,” Filby said. “I definitely made some mistakes and things I need to work on, but I felt pretty good as a whole.” Sophomore foil Alexandra Banin and freshman sabre Jacqueline Hua also finished undefeated. Sophomore epee Pauline Hamilton performed very well in California and finished the Invitational with a record of 7-1. “Pauline also had a really good day,” Moss said. “She only dropped one bout to somebody who was All-American at NCAAs and it was by one touch in overtime.” NU is now 20-3 on the season, the best start to
Prior to the news, Bobkiewicz said the city had been in discussions with Union Metal to buy more lights, but Evanston is now trying to consider new options going forward. Possibilities include purchasing the mold used to make the lights or working with a different company to fabricate a new mold, he said. “Our preference is to pursue options with the existing company,” Bobkiewicz said. “If those aren’t fruitful, then we’ll still need Tallmadge lights, so we’ll have to pursue other ways to do that.” The iconic lights were designed in the 1930s by an Evanston architect named Thomas Tallmadge, said Kris Hartzell, Evanston History Center’s director of facilities, visitor services and collections. She said they were designed specifically for Evanston — with oak leaves, once abundant in a campaign since the 2014-15 season. Despite the Cats’ great start, they are not finished improving. One thing Moss said he wants to see the team improve upon is making mid-bout adjustments when they get frustrated. Curzon said the team’s chemistry and support throughout the long competition was a highlight of the weekend, as it has been a focus for the team throughout the season. “We had learned a lot in the fall about how our energy needs to be consistent and how we really need to support everyone, even if one individual is not doing well,” Curzon said. “I think that is exactly what happened this weekend.” peterwarren2021@u.northwestern.edu
Evanston, etched into the lights’ collars, and a wave pattern on the bases to represent Lake Michigan. Hartzell, who has lived in Evanston her entire life, said the way the lights are designed is very “residential” and fits with the nature of the city, as they are not overly bright or commercial. She added that they contribute to Evanston’s distinctiveness as a community. “This is something that belongs to us,” Hartzell said. “It’s something that was created by an Evanstonian, designed in keeping with Evanston. That’s a great part of the appeal is that it is unique to us.” Hartzell said that though the lights belong to everyone in the city and warrant community-wide feedback, not all the opinions have been positive. Some residents don’t like the way the lights are designed, saying they’re not bright enough,
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over the Boilermakers: versatility. “I feel like our ability to slow down the game, but also be able to keep up with fastpaced games ... puts it more to our advantage, because they’re more of a strictly fast team,” Hamilton said. “When you get those sort of teams riled up, they tend to make mistakes.” In order to get Purdue off its game, Hamilton said the Cats have to use their size to their advantage. According to Kunaiyi-Akpanah, the Boilermakers have skilled players, but what they have in skill they lack in size. NU has a better rebounding margin than Purdue this
Hartzell said. But Bobkiewicz said that at a recent community meeting to discuss the city’s Streetlight Master Plan, he heard “loud and clear” from residents that they want to see Tallmadge lights in the city’s future. An assessment of existing city infrastructure published in October estimated that about 4,200 of 6,700 city-operated lighting units are Tallmadge streetlights. “It’s tradition,” Bobkiewicz said. “You’d be hard pressed in many communities around America that they would have a named design of a streetlight that is associated with their community. Of the many things that make Evanston, Evanston, Tallmadge streetlights are one of them.” ryanw@u.northwestern.edu season; the Cats out-rebound opponents by 3.5 rebounds per game, while Purdue outrebounds its opponents by less than one board per game. As Thursday approaches, Kunaiyi-Akpanah said she feels the game against Purdue could turn the season around. “Purdue is a tough team, they’ve got a lot of good players, but I think we can definitely go over there and have a break-out performance,” Kunaiyi-Akpanah said. “We haven’t really had a huge game this season yet. I think this could be one of the games where we find ourselves and be that team people expect us to be.” cassidyjackson2021@u.northwestern.edu
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Medill alumnus wins reporting trip with New York Times columnist
Northwestern alumnus Tyler Pager (Medill ’17), a former editor-in-chief of The Daily Northwestern, won a reporting trip abroad through New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof ’s win-a-trip contest. Pager graduated in 2017 as valedictorian of the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. While at Northwestern, he worked for The Boston Globe, Politico and USA Today. He has also been published in several national outlets and contributed to a Chicago Tribune project that became a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Pager now attends Oxford University and is pursuing his a graduate degree in comparative social policy. Kristof announced Pager would be his travel companion in a column published Friday. Though specific details about the trip remain undecided, Pager said he knows he will travel abroad with Kristof to report on issues like poverty and social justice. Pager said he applied to have the opportunity to do in-depth reporting about important topics. “It’s a chance to work alongside one of the most accomplished journalists, report on issues and dive deeper into issues that don’t receive the media coverage that they deserve,” Pager told The Daily. “I’m just thrilled about this opportunity.” Pager met Kristof in 2014 while covering Kristof ’s book tour for The Daily. Pager said Kristof ’s reporting style of focusing on “neglected” issues has influenced his own work.
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hiring a director of black student achievement. “It would demonstrate that it’s a commitment that we make as a district, similar to having our director of English Language Services,” Hernandez said. “But it shouldn’t be something done in isolation.” The board also investigated negative results from the Illinois Snapshot of Early Literacy — given to kindergarteners — and Developmental Reading Assessment, given to students in kindergarten through third grade. Hernandez said the district should provide a more “holistic” picture of students than standardized tests can provide, especially for kindergarteners. Kartha said parents are concerned about low Illinois Snapshot of Early Literacy results, regarding
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Medill Prof. Charles Whitaker, who has known Pager since he participated in the Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute in 2012, said Pager’s talent as journalist helped him get the opportunity. “He’s one of those young journalists to watch,” Whitaker said. “You see those really special and rare talents every now and then, and you recognize that this is someone who has a bright future. I think that’s apparent from the moment you meet him.” — Alexis White
their children’s “kindergarten readiness,” but the term is a misnomer. “(ISEL) is a very narrow model,” Kartha said. “There are a lot of other factors going into kindergarten. … It creates a lot of anxiety to tell parents that their kids are not kindergarten ready, when … they’re just not reading ready.” At the meeting, Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th), founder of the Organization for Positive Action and Leadership, said she was frustrated the district had failed to address the achievement gap. “I am starting to lose hope for the district given the long span of the achievement gap,” Fleming said. “It looks like now we are on the downward spiral.” Kartha said that the board would take action about the achievement gap next Monday on Jan. 22. catherinehenderson2021@u.northwestern.edu
circumstances” could the communications be shared with a specified third party. Savage-Williams defined extraordinary circumstances as a situation where “someone’s life is endangered” or “someone is extremely unstable,” but said the board has not dealt with anything like that. Board member Jonathan Baum, who voted against the initial proposal, told The Daily the withdrawal was “a good decision.” “I’m going to remain committed to transparency, and I don’t think there is a conflict between transparency and maintaining trust with your board colleagues,” Baum said. Baum said he brought the resolution to the attention of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, who then expressed interest in taking the resolution on as a legal challenge. The ACLU then sent an email to the school board on Tuesday afternoon, a copy of which was obtained by The Daily, urging board members to revoke or amend the confidentiality policy. The email states that the resolution “diminishes government transparency and raises serious constitutional issues” and includes mandatory language that “may have a chilling effect on the speech of members.” Savage-Williams said at the meeting the board’s withdrawal was unrelated to the email from ACLU. The resolution was criticized by board
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From page 1 educators and the researchers that use that building. To take advantage of one of the things that’s uniquely Northwestern in our position on the lake and create incredible views.” In particular, energy efficiency is prioritized in the Global Hub, McCrudden said. Triple-glazed windows and automated shades help to protect from both heat loss and overheating. “Heating and cooling are really the biggest energy (drains) for most buildings,” said Stephanie Folk, sustainability communications manager for sustainNU. “In Kellogg they put in a geothermal system that’s harnessing energy from the ground and essentially moving heat rather than generating it.” The Kellogg Global Hub is one of about a
members and Evanston residents for infringing upon their First Amendment right to free speech and violating the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. Savage-Williams said during the meeting the purpose of the resolution was “simply for the board to recognize its obligations pursuant to each board member’s oath of office.” She added that the language in the resolution was the same as in the board’s policies, oath of office and code of conduct. “The resolution does not violate the law,” she said. “The resolution contained absolutely no penalties for noncompliance; the resolution is aspirational rather than obligatory.” Board members began drafting the confidentiality resolution in November after Baum shared a memo written to the board by Superintendent Eric Witherspoon. The memo responded to an incident where ETHS confiscated a September issue of the student newspaper that contained stories about marijuana. Some board members felt Baum violated the code of conduct by forwarding the emails through his personal account. Patricia Maunsell, who motioned for the withdrawal, said the board needs to move on and focus on the students. “I do encourage us all to go back to those commitments and make sure we live up to them on behalf of our students,” she said. nikkibaim2020@u.northwestern.edu dozen Northwestern buildings to receive a LEED certification on the University’s Chicago and Evanston campuses, said D’Angelo. He added that the new 560 Lincoln is also in the process of undergoing LEED certification. According to McCrudden, the Kellogg Global Hub is also one of the largest in the country in terms of LED use, with a total of 6,500 LED lights. Beyond its reduced environmental impact, William Garrett, Kellogg’s chief operating officer, said its impact on the school itself cannot be understated. “We are ... one of the pre-eminent business schools in the world,” Garrett said. “When you come to this building, you feel like it. Reputationally, it sends a signal.” johnpeters2021@u.northwestern.edu
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Wrestling No. 18 Nebraska at No. 20 NU, 7 p.m. Friday
We’ve got to figure out a way here in these last 12 league games to find some consistent play and put ourselves in a — Chris Collins, coach position to win.
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Reeling Wildcats look for upset against Ohio State By JOSEPH WILKINSON
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Northwestern is looking for answers. The Wildcats were supposed to be good. They opened the season ranked No. 19 in the country. They returned their five leading scorers from last year’s NCAA Tournament team, which won 24 games, the most in program history. But NU has struggled mightily thus far and lost three games by 20 or more points. The Cats are 2-4 in the Big Ten and sit in 11th place. Against Indiana on Sunday, their leading scorers had 9 points each. But coach Chris Collins hasn’t given up hope yet. “I love these guys,” Collins said. “They’ve been so good for us, and they’ve done so much for our program as we’ve built. We’ve got to figure out a way here in these last 12 league games to find some consistent play and put ourselves in a position to win basketball games again.” Wednesday, the Cats will take on Ohio State in Allstate Arena. Before the season, many would have expected that NU (11-8, 2-4 Big Ten) would represent the ranked team in the matchup. But instead, it’s the No. 22 Buckeyes (15-4, 6-0) with a number beside their name. The visitors roll in having won 10 of their past 11 games, including an 80-64 beatdown of No. 9
No. 22 Ohio State vs. Northwestern Rosemont, Illinois 8 p.m. Wednesday
Michigan State two weeks ago. Breakout star Keita Bates-Diop has led the Buckeyes’ surprising season. The junior redshirted last season when he missed the last 18 games with a stress fracture in his leg. In 2017-18, however, Bates-Diop has made a case for himself as Big Ten Player of the Year, leading the conference with 20.3 points per game and adding 8.8 rebounds per game too, good for third in the Big Ten. Bates-Diop added to his game while sitting out with the injury. Always a capable inside scorer, he’s now a bona fide threat from beyond the arc, shooting 41 percent from 3-point range this season after shooting only 32 percent from deep two years ago. “It’s probably unrealistic to expect this type of offensive efficiency to continue for him, even as great of a player as he is,” Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann told reporters Tuesday. “He’s gonna get everybody’s best shot given what he’s done up to this point, whether that’s going to come with physical play or teams scheming against him.” For the Cats, rangy junior forward Vic Law will likely draw the individual
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Vic Law goes up for a layup. The junior forward may be tasked with guarding the Big Ten’s leading scorer against Ohio State on Wednesday.
assignment on Bates-Diop whenever NU plays its man-to-man defense. That defense, however, has been more of an alternate strategy for the Cats recently, as they’ve usually gone to a hybrid 2-3/3-2 zone in large parts of each of the past two games. “It gives us an opportunity, I thought,
with our length,” Collins said. “You’ve got to mix your coverages. … It’s been a good defense for us. Our guys believe in it. It allows us to kind of get on the boards and maximize the potential of some of the lineups we’re playing.” Ohio State averages over 6 points per game more than NU and allows the
same amount of points per game on the defensive end. So, if the Cats hope to pull the upset and shut down possibly the best player in the conference, they’ll need to step up on both ends of the court. josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu
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NU looks for big win at Purdue Cats go unbeaten at By CASSIDY JACKSON
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Northwestern is a third of the way into its Big Ten schedule and sitting at a pivotal crossroads. The Wildcats (9-10, 2-3 Big Ten) have had an uneven season, but Thursday’s game at Purdue (12-7, 3-2) is what several players called an opportunity for NU to turn its
Northwestern vs. Purdue
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year around. Junior forward Pallas KunaiyiAkpanah said NU’s record does not demonstrate the work the team has been putting in on a daily basis, so the Cats are looking to prove themselves going into West Lafayette. “Our record doesn’t reflect how
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Jordan Hamilton does a shot fake. The freshman scored a career-high 22 points in the Wildcats’ victory over Wisconsin.
much we really want to be a great team,” Kunaiyi-Akpanah said. “It’s not a winning record. As of now, we’re just taking it day by day and playing hard every game. … I feel like we’re underrated, so I think we just need to show that we’re some tough competition.” Though the record isn’t what NU would hope for, coach Joe McKeown is not discouraged and said he sees potential in his team. McKeown also acknowledged that NU has faced multiple unexpected roadblocks with injuries to starting guards Jordan Hamilton, a freshman, and Lydia Rohde, a senior. After missing three games, Hamilton is now back in the lineup and scored a career-high 22 points in Rohde’s absence to lead the team in a win over Wisconsin. “Our biggest thing is just trying to get better every day, practicing with a purpose,” McKeown said. “I feel like our attitude is great. Our energy’s great. I really like this team.” After coming off a successful nonconference season, the Cats have had mixed results during Big Ten play. NU, however, is coming into the game off a high note after the Wisconsin win. The Boilermakers also come into the game hot, having earned a big win against then-No. 18 Iowa last weekend. Though the Cats and Purdue have comparable conference records, Hamilton said NU has an advantage » See BASKETBALL, page 6
weekend invitational By PETER WARREN
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After more than two months of not fencing in a collegiate competition, Northwestern did not appear to skip a beat in its return to action. The Wildcats went undefeated at Sunday’s Western Invitational in Palo Alto, California, marking the second time NU went undefeated at a tournament this season. The Cats were victorious over Air Force, Caltech, Florida, Incarnate Word, Stanford, UC San Diego and Vassar. NU’s victories included 27-0 sweeps of Florida and Caltech and an 18-9 win over the host Cardinal in its first matchup of the day. “We started the day really, really fast with Stanford, who was one of our big competitors,” junior sabre Maddy Curzon said. “We came out super strong.” Air Force, which NU had previously beaten 16-11 in November, gave the Cats their biggest challenge of the day. Coach Zach Moss said the performance of the epee squad in this matchup proved crucial in securing a NU victory. The epee team went 6-3 in its nine bouts with the Falcons, while the foil squad went 5-4 and sabre went 4-5. “Epee did a really nice job in that match in particular of making sure they got enough victories to offset the foil and sabre squads where Air Force is a lot stronger,” Moss said.
During the Air Force matchup, senior sabre Emine Yücel faced off against Leanne Singleton-Comfort, who finished tied for third at the 2016 NCAA championship. Yücel upset the former AllAmerican in a win that proved vital to the team’s success. Moss said the bout was the best of the whole day. “She took calculated risks,” Moss said. “She didn’t try to do more than she was capable of and made sure that she used her
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We started the day really, really fast with Stanford, who was one of our big competitors. We came out super strong. Maddy Curzon, junior sabre
strengths and her opponent’s weaknesses.” Freshman foil Sarah Filby led Cats with a perfect 9-0 record against Air Force, Stanford and UCSD, the teams with the strongest foil squads. Moss said he was impressed with Filby’s performance, especially for only her second college competition. Filby said she was happy with her performance but felt » See FENCING, page 6