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NU Law grad faces Judiciary hearing Controversy over ‘blue slip’ follows appellate nominee By MADDIE BURAKOFF
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An ambulance on the 800 block of Davis Street. Police resolved without injury an incident when a woman was standing on the top of the Sherman Plaza Parking garage Friday.
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Woman hospitalized after standing near building edge for hours By RYAN WANGMAN & JULIA ESPARZA
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A woman was taken to Skokie Hospital Friday afternoon after she stood close to
Campus choir director wins Grammy; alum also honored
Bienen Prof. Donald Nally, Northwestern’s director of choral organizations, received his first Grammy win Sunday for his choir’s performance of Gavin Bryars’ “The Fifth Century,” a collaboration between his chamber choir The Crossing and chamber ensemble PRISM Quartet. Nally won over four other choral groups in the best choral performance category. This is his second Grammy nomination in two years. Last year, Nally was nominated in the same category for The Crossing’s performance of Thomas Lloyd’s “Bonhoeffer,” but lost to Krzysztof Penderecki’s “Penderecki Conducts Penderecki, Volume 1.” “The Fifth Century,” commissioned by Nally in 2013 and composed by Bryars, is a series of movements based on theologian Thomas Traherne’s writings about eternity, Nally said.
the edge of a parking garage in downtown Evanston for several hours, police said. The incident shut down streets in parts of downtown Evanston and was resolved shortly before 4 p.m., EPD Cmdr. Ryan Glew said.
Though he didn’t attend the ceremony, Nally told The Daily he was “thrilled” by the result and spent the next hour calling and emailing people involved in “The Fifth Century” who played a role in its formation. Most importantly, Nally said, he is grateful that the award will raise more awareness for The Crossing and its musical pursuits. “It doesn’t affect (The Crossing’s) mission at all, it just probably affects our ability to put that mission into play because it does attract attention and puts you on an even bigger national stage,” Nally said. “The excitement for me is having a greater reach for pieces that I really believe in.” In addition to Nally, Nashville Symphony Orchestra music director Giancarlo Guerrero (Bienen ’92) also received a Grammy for his direction of Jennifer Higdon’s “All Things Majestic.” Guerrero won for best classical compendium. Both awards were announced Sunday afternoon before the televised 60th Grammy Awards ceremony, hosted at Madison Square Garden in New York City. — Madeleine Fernando
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Earlier in the day, EPD received a call from the Glenview Police Department that there was a woman who they feared was a danger to herself and whose cell phone had been tracked to the 1600 block of Orrington Avenue in
downtown Evanston, Glew said. He said police, off of a “hunch,” checked security cameras and spotted the woman at the top of the parking garage located across from the CTA » See INCIDENT, page 6
Northwestern alumnus Michael Brennan (School of Law ’89) faced a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday after being nominated for a federal court position by President Donald Trump. Brennan, currently a partner at a Milwaukee law firm, was nominated for an empty seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which covers Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. The seat has been vacant since 2010 — though former President Barack Obama nominated Victoria Nourse for the position in July 2010, her hearing was halted by the Republican-headed committee at the time. Some committee members
highlighted Brennan’s extensive experience as a lawyer and his “exemplary resume” — including his NU Law degree. “Mr. Brennan comes to the committee today with bipartisan support and an impressive legal career, including experience in both the public and private sectors,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the committee’s chairman, during the hearing. Even before the questioning began, though, Brennan’s hearing was fraught with controversy regarding the “blue slip” protocol of the Judiciary Committee. In a century-old protocol, both senators from a nominee’s home state receive blue slips allowing them to express or withhold approval for the nomination. Though not an official rule, the tradition has generally been upheld that if both blue slips are not returned with a positive response, the nominee would not receive a hearing. In Brennan’s case, while Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) » See BRENNAN, page 6
City set to review housing program
Financial assistance for landlords headlines special Council meeting By RYAN WANGMAN
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City manager Wally Bobkiewicz at a meeting. Bobkiewicz said aldermen will discuss affordable housing at Monday’s City Council meeting.
A pilot program to provide financial assistance for landlords to repair and improve low-income rental units will headline the affordable housing discussion at a special City Council meeting on Monday. The program, which would be open to landlords committed to rent to households earning 60 percent of the average median income, would be funded with $200,000 of the currently uncommitted $800,000 in the city’s affordable housing fund, according to city documents. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said he » See HOUSING, page 6
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AROUND TOWN Police mentoring program kicks off second year By WILSON CHAPMAN
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The Officer and Gentlemen Academy, a program that connects Evanston boys with police officer mentors, kicked off its second year at an event on Saturday. The program provides middle school boys with a role model, said Adam Howard, an Evanston police officer and a program mentor. The Evanston Police Department partnered with Evanston/Skokie School District 65 to create the program in 2017. The event, hosted by EPD and Curt’s Cafe at the Gibbs-Morrison Cultural Center, featured mentors as speakers and introduced this year’s program participants. Howard founded the program “to inspire young men to reach their full potential.” Howard said he felt compelled to create the program because of his lack of strong male role models growing up. “Growing up, I was surrounded by crack dealers and pimps — those were my role models,” Howard said. “Positive male role models can teach you the right way. I learned the wrong way.” Howard said the 12-week program includes a variety of activities and lessons designed to help students learn etiquette and social skills. The program also included fun events, Howard said. Last year, Howard said participants learned how
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to tie ties, met Evanston business owners, went to Six Flags and attended a formal dinner with women from the Evanston area who gave feedback on their
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arrived to the house. He said his sister, a 60-yearold Evanston resident, began “kneeing him, hitting him, and slapping him in the face,” Glew said. The man was not able to call the police until the woman fled the scene at 11:39 a.m. on Jan. 22. Police were unable to find her for the next two days, according to the arrest report. Police arrested the woman on Wednesday at 10:50 p.m. at her home. Police charged the woman with one count of domestic battery.
Woman charged with domestic battery
Police charged a woman with domestic battery Wednesday in connection with an incident that occurred Jan. 22. A man called police to the 1800 block of Sherman Avenue soon after his sister assaulted him, Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said. The man, a resident of Cary, Illinois, said he went to check on his mother who had recently fallen. The 56-year-old man told officers his mother lives with his sister in Evanston. The man said an altercation ensued when he
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manners. The program will expand to 16 kids from last year’s 12 and will include two previous graduates of
Setting the record straight
A story in Friday’s paper with the headline “LEED-platinum house completed” incorrectly stated the location of Nathan Kipnis’s office. It is located in Evanston. It also incorrectly stated the LEED certification status of the house, located at 1426 Mulford St., in the headline, caption and body of the story. The LEED certification is pending. Additionally,
the program as assistants to the mentors, said Mario Miller, an officer and program mentor The program will include three four-week semesters, focusing on financial literacy, the criminal justice system, and federal and state law. During the program, the mentees will meet with local businessmen and law enforcement officials, Miller said. “We want to give these young men something so that they can create what they need to be successful for the rest of their lives,” Miller said. During the presentation, the announcers presented the boys who will be going through the program this year. Participants attend Nichols Middle School and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Literary and Fine Arts School. Academy mentor Ken Carter, an EPD detective, said the Academy’s focus on training boys to be gentlemen is particularly important. He said although he had a lack of positive role models in the beginning of his life, once he “began spending time with positive men, men who looked like me,” he became much more confident and gained “the skills I needed for later in life.” “We must work together to have difficult conversations, to have discussions about gangs, to make sure we provide a safe environment for these young men, and make sure we put them on the right path for life,” Carter said. wilsonchapman2021@u.northwestern.edu
the story incorrectly stated which program Nathan Kipnis’s company is involved in. The program is AIA’s 2030 commitment. Lastly, the story incorrectly stated how many firms signed on to the commitment. There are 400 firms who have signed on. A story in Friday’s paper with the headline “Schakowsky talks economic equality, job opportunities” misstated Max Rowe’s position in Northwestern Political Union. He is copresident of the organization. The Daily regrets the errors.
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ON CAMPUS Panelists take aim at gerrymandering By EMILY CHAIET
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The current problem with gerrymandering — the manipulation of district boundaries to favor a political party in an election — is the worst it has been in modern history, said Ruth Greenwood of the Campaign Legal Center during a panel on campus Sunday. “Parties have found new ways to manipulate the lines to their advantage,” Greenwood said. “People in power don’t want to give up their power so it’s really tough to make change.” Greenwood is representing the affected voters in the Wisconsin and North Carolina gerrymandering cases pending before the Supreme Court. She sat on a panel to discuss gerrymandering’s effect on upcoming elections, along with Alden Loury, director of research and evaluation at the Chicago Metropolitan Planning Council; Andy Kang, legal director at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago; and Clinton Anderson, a 2016 Democratic candidate for the Wisconsin State Assembly. The panel, which focused on problems with gerrymandering and how these problems will affect upcoming elections, was moderated by Illinois political reform activist Cynthia Canary and Cliff Kelley, a WVON talk radio host and political commentator. The event, held in Lutkin Hall, was co-sponsored by the Democratic Party of Evanston and Northwestern College Democrats. “(The issue with gerrymandering is) everyone’s future, but it’s especially going to impact students as they go forward because these decisions are probably not going to be implemented until the next four years,” Democratic Party of Evanston board president Ginny Darakjian said. “Everyone needs to know about it as soon as possible and participate in preparing appropriate redistricting plans.” The panelists discussed a current Supreme Court case, in which Wisconsin Democrats challenged legislature redistricting drawn by the state’s Republican leaders. While the Supreme Court has said
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gerrymandering is illegal, they are not sure how alleged cases can be proven, Greenwood said. Anderson said that politicians use “packing” and “cracking” tactics to keep their party in power. In Wisconsin, Democrats are “packed” into districts in order to increase Republican power in Congress, whereas “cracking” is used when heavily Democratic populations are included in districts with a Republican majority in order to dilute Democratic voting power. “Wisconsin used to be the beacon of clean government, but right now … it is definitely not the case,” Anderson said. “I’m almost jealous of the Illinois government at this point.” However, Kang said gerrymandering has also affected voters in Illinois, as places like Chinatown in Chicago struggle to achieve racial equality in elections due to gerrymandering. He added that
it is easier for Republicans to gerrymander in Illinois because Democratic voters are concentrated in Chicago. College Democrats co-president Alex Neumann said he was excited to attend a political panel that brought gerrymandering issues into the spotlight. He said he was interested to learn about the likelihood that court cases like Greenwood’s will pass. “Most of us are Democrats or Republicans first before we are gerrymandering advocates,” the Weinberg sophomore said. “People tend to focus on broader kinds of more partisan things like Trump or electing candidates, and so gerrymandering is probably the issue that people don’t think of as much, but is probably impacting all of those the most.” emilychaiet2020@u.northwestern.edu
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City should ditch Divvy, invest in dockless bike-share RACHEL HOLTZMAN
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Evanston’s relationship with bikes is constantly evolving. Last week, the Evanston renewed a 12-month contract with Divvy Bikes, which launched 10 Evanston stations in late 2016. During the next year, City Council will collect data on the bike stations, the revenue brought in and possible relocation of stations. With two stations on Northwestern’s campus, Divvy and the bike-share industry are now connected with the University. Yet on a campus where biking to class and around town is popular, there hasn’t been much student support for these programs. The numbers are bleak: According to data collected by the University, during the 2016-2017 school year, 640 unique riders took 821 trips and racked up a total of 1,619 miles, averaging less than two miles per trip. Due to an expensive membership price of $99 a year and a limited station radius, Divvy bikes are not fulfilling their true potential. Meanwhile, data hasn’t been released on user demographics, but with stations concentrated in downtown Evanston,
it is likely that not all residents have equal access to the bikes. In other suburbs, such as Oak Park, the experiment has already failed and the contract expired.
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If Evanston is going to adapt to its residents’ transportation needs and set trends for innovation, dockless bikeshare would be a logical fit.
Enter Ofo, a dockless bike-share company in contract talks for a pilot program with NU. Across the country, from Washington to Dallas, dockless bike-share is changing the face of transportation as we know it. The idea is simple and affordable: Riders download a GPS app to unlock a bike, pay $1 per hour and can park wherever they choose by locking the bike’s back wheels. With this new technology, Evanston would be remiss not to allow all residents to get in on the dockless bike-share
revolution. Before the concept of bike-share, Evanston began modernizing its streets and its infrastructure, earning praise for its efforts to reduce car traffic. As a result, bus lines, the Metra and the El are more accessible than ever before. But the number of bikers has increased, too, and Evanston has had to change its face to meet those demands — the bike lane on Sheridan Road being the clearest example. The infrastructure and demand are already here, but Evanston needs to implement new programs that complement its changing streets. Then there’s the matter of economic access. Dockless bike-share doesn’t just cut down on carbon emissions or fulfill the needs of hobby bikers; it actively erases transportation deserts, narrowing gaps in access to jobs, food, pharmacies and opportunities. Because the bikes can be unlocked and relocked anywhere within city limits, those without access to trains and buses can get around to previously inaccessible destinations at a fraction of the cost. Beyond Evanston, the Chicagoland area could learn from the examples of cities like Seattle, where despite the occasional parking issue, dockless bike-share has become a big part of city life. And at the end of the day, while bike-share companies are looking to make a profit, they’re
ultimately finding ways to improve the communities in which they set up. Critics have complained about the “ugliness” of bikes on streets and the danger of stolen bikes, but bike-share companies often have employees on the ground to redistribute bikes, park them appropriately and deal with any damages. If Evanston is going to adapt to its residents’ transportation needs and set trends for innovation, dockless bike-share would be a logical fit. It puts more bikes in the hands of people than ever before and does a better job of connecting outlying wards in the city to each other, as well as easing the borders between campus and downtown. The conditions are already there for success within our city infrastructure. Now, it’s in the hands of the University and Evanston to do more than talk about signing contracts with dockless bike-share startups — they must move forward to solve the problems Divvy just couldn’t fix. Rachel Holtzman is a Medill senior. She can be contacted at rachelholtzman2018@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.
Below justice facade, our juvenile corrections system fails JACK HUME
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The prosecutors handling January 16th’s Kentucky school shooting case that left two students dead and more than a dozen injured announced last Thursday that they planned on filing a motion to move the suspect to criminal — colloquially “adult” — court. There, the 15-year-old suspect will lose many of the protections — including sentencing restrictions — afforded to him as a juvenile. What happens next is a situation primed for great injustice. In a 2014 report published by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Protection and the National Center for Juvenile Justice, conditions in many parts of the juvenile justice system are bleak. To begin, there’s no single national process that guides how juveniles are tried for crimes — that decision is left to the states, and many have yet to change the language found in legislation from the 1950s and 1960s, when distinctions between “juvenile justice” and “criminal
justice” were first established. That language has often been expanded, but rarely overhauled. In response to the boom in juvenile violent crime during the late 1980s and 1990s, many states adopted transfer laws that made it easier for juvenile offenders to be moved to criminal court. Behind this decision was the belief that some crimes are beyond the scope of juvenile courts, as some offenders stand little 9chance of rehabilitation. Take, for example, Kansas — where children as young as 10 can be tried in adult court for any crime they commit. Even as violent crime committed by juveniles has decreased, states are hesitant to make changes to the late 20th-century’s transfer laws. This trepidation has resulted in as many as 137,000 juvenile transfers into criminal court. The experiences of juveniles in correctional facilities of all types — including detention centers, camps, etc. — are often leaden with serious lapses. In a 2003 survey conducted by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Protection, a majority of juveniles placed in a facility report some sort of violence or theft against them, with the highest percentages among children aged 10. Likewise, in 2012, 1 in 10 childhood offenders
reported “sexual victimization” within facilities, 80 percent of which was considered “staff misconduct.” Additionally, many juvenile offenders enter correctional facilities with past traumas: according to the Office, 30 percent report some form of prior abuse, and 70 percent report “serious trauma” in their past. For many offenders, the justice system is a tunnel from the frying pan to the fire. We value justice for a reason. Society could not function without it. But lasting, legitimate justice cannot be confused with the immediate gratification of the swift, superficial responses that immediately follow. The suspect in Kentucky will, with time, disappear from the public eye. If we remember anything at all, we’ll remember with satisfaction that justice appeared to have been done. The shooter will, after all, be prosecuted to the fullest extent. That limited understanding highlights a serious disparity between the appearance and execution of justice in our country’s legal system. For many of us, whose degrees of separation from the high school in Kentucky or other sites of tragedy make our involvement akin to that of spectators, the theatrics of the heavy hand of justice can seem reassuring.
Media should abandon ‘apocalyptic’ portrayal JACKSON ELLIOTT
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Many American journalists and writers — from Charles Blow to Maureen Dowd — have spent the last two years essentially prophesying that Donald Trump’s presidency would prove apocalyptic for the United States. When stocks dipped after the election, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote that “we are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight.” In another column, he predicted that the aftermath of Trump’s presidency “may well be apocalyptic” in the long run. Such sentiments were not restricted to the media. When Trump won the presidential race, protesters reacted emotionally — and at times violently — to the news. In a characteristic quote, one interviewee told KGW News, “I feel like we’re doomed.” During Trump’s first 100 days, studies have shown that broadcast news coverage of Trump was overwhelmingly negative. Yet, after a year under what some media personalities have referred to as “the Trump regime,” the supposed end of the world has proven somewhat underwhelming. The “global recession with no end in sight” has failed to appear — in fact, the GDP has continued to rise in the past year. Whatever
power the “Trump regime” possesses couldn’t stop Women’s Marches throughout the United States. Nor has the administration done anything about the virtually constant negative press coverage except accuse the media of bias. Although tensions with North Korea have increased under the “regime,” it seems doubtful to me that nuclear Doomsday will ensue because Trump told Kim Jong-un his nuclear button was “much bigger (and) more powerful” than Kim’s.
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The ‘global recession with no end in sight’ has failed to appear — in fact, the GDP has continued to rise in the past year.
Seeing that their predictions have so far proven less accurate than they may have wished, many American journalists have continued to look for more hidden signs that the apocalypse is here. Some writers used their seemingly newfound expertise as psychologists to call into question Trump’s mental fitness for office. To me, most of these insinuations seem to be getting a little desperate. If Trump has issues with his mental fitness
that make him clearly too dangerous and unpredictable to govern, a person with obviously destructive deficiencies has succeeded in business, reality television and politics. If Trump is Putin’s puppet or quasi-puppet, he has done a miserable job of helping advance Russia’s interests. One of his first acts in office was to fire 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian government airfield — despite Syria’s position as an ally of Russia. Since then, Trump has accused Russia of violating sanctions of North Korea, and approved new sanctions on Russia, although he hasn’t fully implemented and imposed them yet. It seems to me that “unbalanced” is a word that might describe Trump’s coverage more than it describes Trump himself. Over the past year, some in the media have seemed to view themselves as prophets of the apocalypse. Ultimately, this only draws more and more people into panic and partisanship. But judging from some columnists’ predictive record, even when Trump leaves office, it seems likely that we’ll still be waiting for this supposed Doomsday to actually occur. Jackson Elliott is a Medill sophomore. He can be contacted at jacksonelliott2020@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.
What is often overlooked is what happens after the public moves on. Rather than consider the multitude of variables behind juvenile offenses, we often deal with disconcerting terms like “child murderer” by using phrases like “tried as an adult” to convince us justice will be done. We just won’t stick around for the hard part. But for those affected, there’s no choice but to stay. I cannot imagine the weight of anger, despair and exhaustion that plagues the parents who suffered loss last week, nor can I envision the terrors the children in the school must have felt and will continue to feel in the future. Yet I also cannot imagine what drives a 15-year-old child to open fire on their peers or how our system’s answer to such a travesty can be so flawed. That myriad cannot be shrunken into words or flattened into a column. The situation — every part of it — deserves a lasting and fair response. I just don’t think this is it.
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Active Minds gallery to address mental health By ALEXIS WHITE
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NU Active Minds has begun collecting submissions for a new art show in Norris University Center, which will showcase work from students expressing their states of mental health. Caroline Gaglio, the group’s special events co-chair, said NU Active Minds — a mental health advocacy, awareness and education group — collected physical submissions Sunday in Norris and will continue to accept submissions until Feb. 4 via email. Gaglio said all forms of art will be accepted and displayed. She said current submissions range from paintings to sculptures or poems.
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You might be able to identify in a piece of art feelings you might feel but you might not have been able to articulate or physically express. Brooke Strodder, Weinberg junior
“There are a lot of people out there that struggle with mental health and find a healthy outlet through art,” the Weinberg junior said.
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thinks the program will be the main action coming out of Monday’s meeting. Council members want to move forward in addressing affordable housing, but Bobkiewicz said there are many different ways to attempt to solve the issue. “There are, like (on) many issues, those in the community that are very tuned into this,” Bobkiewicz said. “For those individuals, hopefully they recognize that the Council really has been grappling with (affordable housing) in a way over the last few months (unlike any) other issue facing the city.”
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Davis station. About 1:20 p.m., police responded to the public parking garage as the woman was reportedly standing near the edge of the 10-story parking structure, Glew told the Daily. Police worked to resolve the incident for approximately two hours. Glew said there was no risk to the public and Metra and CTA train schedules were not interrupted. The area re-opened to traffic and pedestrians. The incident resulted in street closures around the downtown area, including in the area between Benson Avenue and Davis Street and the Davis CTA station, and the 1500 block of Sherman Avenue, according to multiple EPD tweets. The incident did not involve the Metra or CTA
“So I kind of want to make that known and make mental health not so much a shameful thing but something that can be celebrated.” Gaglio said the show will begin its run Feb. 5, and there will be a public reception in Norris on Feb. 12. She said the exhibition is in the NU Galleria in Norris to make it accessible to as many students as possible. Weinberg junior Brooke Strodder, a member of NU Active Minds’ special events committee, said the show will help students look at mental illness in a more personal way. She said mental illnesses are often discussed in clinical terms, but art can evoke different emotions. “You might connect with (the art),” Strodder said. “You might be able to identify in a piece of art feelings you might feel but you might not have been able to articulate or physically express.” Gaglio said she used to work in an art gallery with an art therapy program and saw its positive impacts. One artist who submitted work to NU Active Minds, Mac Lim, said she went to art therapy for more than three years. Lim created a mixed-media piece with black and red acrylic paint and shards of mirror pasted into a frame. The Weinberg freshman said her work represents what it’s like to experience anxiety because the piece itself is “disorienting.” She said art has helped her express herself. “People have outlets for things they do to express their feelings because sometimes words just aren’t enough,” Lim said.
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returned a positive blue slip, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) declined to return hers. However, Grassley decided to proceed with the hearing, leading to heavy criticism from Democratic members of the committee. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) pointed out that since the protocol was created in 1917, a Democratic chairman has never continued with a hearing of a Democratic nominee over the objections of a Republican senator. In the former consideration of the same seat, Nourse, Obama’s nominee, had failed to receive a positive blue slip from Johnson, and as a result never received a hearing and eventually withdrew her nomination. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) added that he found the choice to proceed with Brennan’s hearing to be a “particularly egregious” case of the Republican majority tearing down the “valuable” blue slip tradition. “I think it’s a very bad move for the Senate. I think it’s a very bad move for bipartisanship,”
alexiswhite2021@u.northwestern.edu Also up for action is a potential zoning change that would allow the rental of existing accessory dwelling units — secondary houses or apartments built on the same lots as bigger, primary homes — to people who are not related to the families living in primary dwelling units. Currently, accessory dwelling units can only be rented by family members and caregivers. Bobkiewicz said council members want to discuss how this zoning change would look. Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said at an October city meeting that rules regulating the renting and capacity of accessory dwelling units prevent the development of a “safe space” by assuming issues will arise if the restrictions aren’t followed.
“These are regulations that assume that just because you are in this category, there’s a problem,” Wilson said. “But I think the actual problems themselves already have ordinances. We have an ordinance about being too loud, we have an ordinance about keeping the property up.” Monday’s meeting agenda also includes an affordable housing work plan, which Bobkiewicz said comes from council’s previous discussions about affordable housing and serves as a “guiding document” for all the city’s current related projects. Some of those topics are on the agenda for Monday, he said, but not all of them. The city’s extended look at affordable housing comes after recently approved
trains or stations, according to an EPD tweet. Some buses were rerouted due to the police presence. The parking garage is one of several owned by the city. In January 2017, Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) asked city staff to explore security measures for these buildings after multiple incidences of individuals throwing objects from the top of the garages and several suicides. A previous proposal suggested installing a chain-link fence around the perimeter of the garage, but aldermen doubted it would mitigate the issue and no money was allocated towards its construction. Colin Boyle contributed reporting. ryanw@u.northwestern.edu juliainesesparza2020@u.northwestern.edu Whitehouse said. “And it continues to raise the question of, ‘What’s the big deal that makes everybody so desperate to jam judges through that in this case … they’re even willing to destroy the blue slip process?’” Over the course of the hearing, Brennan faced questions from committee members on topics from the consideration of precedents in court decisions to potential changes to sentencing in light of the opioid crisis in the U.S. He expressed his stance as an originalist with regard to the U.S. Constitution, and his commitment to making sure in a busy court that “justice delayed is not justice denied.” When questioned by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) about whether implicit racial bias existed in the judicial system, though, Brennan replied that he was not familiar enough with the data to express a position. “You’re a judge in the United States of America and you have not looked at issues of race in sentencing and the criminal justice system?” Booker replied. “I find this astonishing.” madelineburakoff2020@u.northwestern.edu developments in Evanston have led local community leaders to call for more affordable units. The Albion Residential development, approved in November, is one of three covered developments approved by City Council since the inclusionary housing ordinance went into effect in January 2016. “We have to be honest with each other and we have to be honest as a community,” Wilson said in October. “If the affordable housing is a priority, if diversity is a priority and if breaking through some of these segregation barriers are a priority, we have to start doing things differently.” ryanw@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 8 start of the first quarter. Sophomore forward Abi Scheid said frustration began to cloud the team’s play as Michigan began getting basket after basket while the Cats struggled to score. “At Maryland, we all had the mindset going in that this is such a winnable game,” Scheid said. “We did (come in with that same mindset) for what coach said 25 minutes of the game, and once we started missing our shots and
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offensive struggles. But the adjustment wasn’t enough to fix the Wildcats’ offense, which managed only 59 points in a loss to No. 16 Michigan on Sunday. Hamilton made her first three of the day, which gave NU (9-14, 2-7 Big Ten) an early 5-2 lead against the Wolverines (19-4, 8-2). But she didn’t make any of the next 11 shots she took, and the Cats failed to match the Wolverines’ firepower in their 80-59 loss. Coach Joe McKeown said one of the most aggressive and technically sound defenses in the conference prevented Hamilton and NU from finding a rhythm. “We got to go possession by possession instead
they started making them we just got down on ourselves.” The Cats shot 39.7 percent compared to their 51 percent against Maryland. Freshman guard Jordan Hamilton struggled mightily, making only one out of her 11 shots. Yet key contributions were made by sophomore forward Bryana Hopkins and junior forward Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah. Kunaiyi-Akpanah had 11, and Hopkins scored 10 more. Overall, Scheid said the week provided the team with a high and a low. With their game of trying to make it up when you’re down nine in one play,” he said. “And we’re a young team, so that’s a stamp we have to get rid of.” After going 1-for-8 in the first half, Hamilton missed all three of her attempts in the second, including two 3-pointers from the spot where she practiced during halftime with assistant coach Tasha Pointer giving feedback from across the court. “Thumb,” Pointer shouted from the bench as she watched the freshman guard struggle during shootaround and the second half. But like Hamilton’s fingers in her 3-point outing Sunday, NU’s entire offense seemed out of place as it finished with just 59 points on 39.7 percent shooting. After scoring 23 points in the first quarter of
against Maryland, Scheid said the team was able to prove themselves to their conference despite the loss, while the Michigan loss serves as a lesson. “It (was) our chance to show a message to the Big Ten, and I think coming into this game that’s what we wanted to do,” Scheid said. “I think against Maryland we definitely did that. We lost by 3. This is just a minor setback for a major comeback.” cassidyjackson2021@u.northwestern.edu their near-upset of No. 14 Maryland on Thursday, the Cats scored just 13 in the first ten minutes against the Wolverines. They made two of their first three shots against Michigan, including Hamilton’s 3-pointer that gave NU its only lead, but the Cats followed with nine consecutive misses and were held scoreless for five minutes. “Once we started missing our shots and they started making them we got down on ourselves,” sophomore forward Abi Scheid said. “We can’t let that happen.” McKeown said his team’s most consistent success comes on the fastbreak, but the Cats couldn’t earn those opportunities against an experienced Michigan team. Also, with the junior forward Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah being double-teamed throughout the game, he said there was an added
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an otherwise disappointing season. “There’s no room for more slip-ups,” Collins said. “We know there’s a lot of ball left, we know all the goals we had are still attainable. We’ve got to play really well, we’ve got to string wins together, but I’m proud of the group for fighting out some of the things we were going through early in the season.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu burden for Hamilton and Lindsey Pulliam to score on the perimeter. But the freshmen guards combined to shoot just 17 percent from beyond the arc, and McKeown said the Wolverines disrupted their flow and prevented anyone from turning the momentum of the game around. The Cats are a team that has to win games in the 50s and 60s, he said, and the inability for anyone to provide a spark like Michigan guard Katelynn Flaherty, who finished with 27 points, kept the game uncompetitive in the second half. “When you’re not making shots, just mentally it starts to wear on you,” he said. “We’re going to have nights where we makes eight, nine or ten threes. It just wasn’t today.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu
Spectrum Theatre Company leads activism teach-in By ADRIAN WAN
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Members of Spectrum Theatre Company shed light on how to engage in activism campaigns and tackle identity-based discrimination at a Sunday event. About 15 students gathered in Harris Hall to attend “Not Your Mother’s Activism,” which consisted of a presentation, facilitated dialogue and role-playing game. Each 30-minute session focused on different themes related to activism in hope of “activating changes in dialogue” on underrepresented identities, said Alex Milinazzo, Spectrum’s co-director of special events. The Communication senior said the event’s name was meant to not only attract attention, but also to express its mission of encouraging students to become
“active advocates” instead of only voicing their support for other activists. Spectrum’s artistic director Andrea CañizaresFernandez told attendees activism encompasses a wide range of practices with the aim of creating social change. In addition to traditional means like marches and protests, people can “express their collective feelings“ through tweeting and even drawing graffiti, she said. The Communication senior added that roles in organizing activism campaigns should be assigned based on each individual’s identity to maximize impacts. For example, white males are usually placed as a “highly-visible group” at the front of a march, since their voices could generate greater momentum while their safety is guaranteed, she said. “If you tend to have more social power … you will be placed at the front,” Cañizares-Fernandez said.
“Because even if you say something controversial, you won’t be as negatively affected.” After completing a march or protest, participants should also undergo a “debrief ” process, CañizaresFernandez said. Individuals can reflect on issues like whether they feel “safe” when voicing their concerns or whether they have abused their privileges without addressing the needs from the marginalized groups. Milinazzo said while the Sunday event and the group’s “sociopolitical” shows share the common goal of motivating dialogue and action, the event is not merely a “supplement” to the regular shows. “Accessibility … is definitely something we are thinking of (in) this event versus the shows,” Milinazzo said. “Theater doesn’t always reach a wider audience than the theater community, so we organized events outside theater to attract people … and we realize that engaging the broader community requires different
avenues.” Communication sophomore Mia Lennon, Spectrum’s technical manager, said she appreciated Spectrum’s efforts to “bring activism from big cities like Chicago to campus.” Allowing students to interject expressions that create discomfort, such as discrimination against one’s ethnicity and sexual orientation, is important for the Northwestern community, she said. “I came from a place where everyone has this similar background and similar upbringing, so it was kind of overwhelming to meet so many different people with so many different preconceived notions they brought to the table,” Lennon said. “Something that is important to do when having a conversation with someone is to embrace what they are … and we should challenge the idea but not the person.” limingwan2021@u.northwestern.edu
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With one individual match remaining, Northwestern trailed Minnesota 18-14. Then Ryan Deakin stepped up to the mat. Deakin needed to win by 10 points to give the No. 20 Wildcats (8-2, 3-2 Big Ten) a win over the
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Ryan Deakin grapples with an opponent. The redshirt freshman came up with a matchwinning pin against Minnesota on Sunday.
No. 14 Golden Gophers, and to do so he would need to get as many bonus points as possible. Within three minutes the bout was over. Deakin had pinned his opponent. The pin, which is scored as a fall and counts as six points for the team, edged NU to a 20-18 win. Minnesota was the highest-ranked opponent the Cats have defeated in nearly seven years. “The only thing I said to Ryan before his match was, ‘Don’t try to wrestle the whole match at once,’” coach Matt
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Storniolo said. “We had enough confidence in Ryan that if he just went out there with a workmanlike attitude and wrestled the match like we knew he could that the rest of it was going to take care of itself.” The last time NU beat Minnesota was in the 1996 season, and Storniolo said the performance Sunday reflects the program’s trajectory. “I am extremely proud of the team and the way we were able to find a way to win this match, “ Storniolo said. “It was a true team performance, and this was the grittier wrestling that we needed to see to put this in the right column.” A redshirt freshman, Deakin is ranked No. 5 in the 149-pound weight class. In his first year in team competition, Deakin has stood out for the Cats all year, racking up a perfect 10-0 dual record. He said that the team win was “awesome” and that the win indicates NU’s potential. “We are finally starting to turn some heads,” Deakin said. “People are finally starting to realize that we are a great program. … (The win) is a great thing to build off of, but it is not something to be satisfied over.” Deakin wasn’t the only one to pull off an impressive victory Sunday. Sebastian
Rivera, a redshirt freshman ranked No. 10 for the 125-pound weight class, also dominated his match, picking up his 20th win of the season with a major decision. Junior Conan Jennings shut out his opponent with an 11-0 win in the heavyweight division. He said that high of a score is uncommon for such a high weight class. “I got out there and got the takedown three seconds in, and after that I just broke him,” Jennings said. “(That score) reflects complete and utter dominance in the match.” The Cats also got wins from senior Mitch Silga and junior Johnny Sebastian. Sebastian, sitting in at No. 18 in his 174-pound weight division, picked up his fifth consecutive conference win. With three dominant wins, a series of other encouraging performances and close losses, Storniolo said his team deserves to be in the conversation with some of the top teams in the nation. “We’re happy to have this win today and I think it shows the direction that this program is going in,” Storniolo said. “It is a testament to the kids on the team, the staff and them buying in and realizing that we are a tough team and compete with the best in the country.” alisonalbelda2021@u.northwestern.edu
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Northwestern’s team received a special advance viewing of “First Dance,” Big Ten Network’s documentary on last season’s historic NCAA Tournament run, prior to its game against Penn State on Jan. 20. Since then, the Wildcats (13-9, 4-5 Big Ten) have been undefeated, rattling off consecutive come-from-behind wins over the Nittany Lions and then Minnesota to climb back in the thick of the conference standings. And coach Chris Collins credits, among other things, that flashback to last year’s triumph for restoring NU’s motivation. “I thought it really helped our guys, just to see themselves with that kind of passion and spirit and hunger,” Collins said Friday. “It jump-started us a little bit.” Beating Penn State and Minnesota is one thing, though. Beating Michigan on the road, which the Cats will be tasked with on Monday night in Ann Arbor, would be a far superior accomplishment. The No. 25 Wolverines (17-6, 6-4) — the defending Big Ten Tournament champions — have lost only once at the Crisler Center in 12 games to date. That was a 1-point defeat to then-No. 5 Purdue earlier this month, and they followed up that performance by topping thenNo. 4 Michigan State just four days later. Michigan boasts two of the top 17 scorers in the conference in guard Charles Matthews and forward Mo Wagner, while its third-leading scorer, guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman, just erupted for a career-high 26 points in the Wolverines’ narrow and thrilling loss at Purdue on Thursday. But if NU learned anything from “First Dance,” it should be the importance of upsetting Michigan — although presumably without needing another
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full-court buzzer beater as it did last year on Nathan Taphorn’s heave to Dererk Pardon. And the cruciality of each remaining game doesn’t seem lost on this Cats team. “We just need to continue to play the way we’re playing right now,” senior guard Bryant McIntosh said. “We’ve just got to continue to play with pace, with pop, and play together.” NU’s recent implementation of a zone defense with a light press aspect has sparked a noticeable defensive turnaround, helping the Cats win the turnover battle in three straight games and most recently hold the Golden Gophers to 42.4 percent shooting in Tuesday’s win. Collins said the schemes have given NU “new life,” alleviating the recurring foul problems that were plaguing the team and allowing Collins to play smaller lineups at times, such as a threeguard lineup featuring McIntosh and fellow senior Scottie Lindsey in addition to breakout freshman Anthony Gaines. “Whether it’s a great defense or not a great defense, defense is so much predicated on whether the guys believe in what you’re trying to do, (and they do),” Collins said. The zone will nevertheless be tested against a Michigan team with the best average turnover differential and sixthbest shooting percentage in the Big Ten, and Collins acknowledged the need to make continual adjustments now that opponents have had time to scout for holes in it. There’s a danger in changing too much, however, now that the Cats are playing arguably their best basketball of » See MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 7
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Northwestern couldn’t get out of its own head. The Wildcats (9-14, 2-7 Big Ten) opened in a shooting slump in their 80-59 loss to No. 16 Michigan (194, 8-2) on Sunday and couldn’t find their way out. Playing their second game against ranked competition in four days, the Cats play against the Wolverines contrasted with their game versus Maryland on Thursday, and NU capped off the weekend with a blowout loss. When NU took on the Terrapins, who currently top the Big Ten, the Cats
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lost by just 3 points. Sunday though, NU struggled to keep up with Michigan. Coach Joe McKeown said he intends to view the games collectively. “We played the two best teams probably in the league based on paper right now,” McKeown said. “For … six and a half quarters, we played great. … When you have a team with experience like that, they’re gonna capitalize on your mistakes that you can get away with against other teams. They made us pay.” Sunday went poorly from
the get-go for the Cats. The first quarter ended with NU down 13, a sharp contrast to the tight 26-23 first quarter three nights earlier. McKeown’s largest concern about the first quarter wasn’t NU’s 13 points but Michigan’s 26, which he said proved the Cats weren’t executing on defense. McKeown said NU’s strong suit isn’t 3-pointers — the Cats went 5-for-20 from deep against Michigan — so keeping their opponents’ score low is crucial for an NU team that relies primarily on layups for points. Once the Wolverines grabbed the lead two minutes into the first period, the Cats failed to keep up. The largest Wolverine lead reached 25 points; NU’s largest and only lead was 3 at the » See LOSS, page 7
NU offense not up to task against Wolverines By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH
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Abi Scheid takes a contested shot. The sophomore had 18 points, but it wasn’t enough for the Wildcats to overcome Michigan.
After making just one of her eight shots in the first 20 minutes, Jordan Hamilton ran to the left side of the floor behind the 3-point line, and began to warm-up for the second half. The freshman guard had just finished a conversation with one of Northwestern’s assistant coaches about her hand placement on the ball, which affected its rotation and contributed to her team’s » See OFFENSE, page 7