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Students examine financial barriers Quest Scholars to find strategies for getting resources By ALAN PEREZ
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Marley Dias, a 13-year-old author, speaks at Evanston Township High School with Evanston eighth-grader Taryn Robinson on Thursday. Dias spoke about her recently published book and her social media campaign.
13-year-old author talks success Marley Dias comes to Evanston to share literature experiences By SAMANTHA HANDLER
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When Marley Dias sat in her fifth grade class, she was interested in reading but found one problem: All the books her class was reading had “white boys and their dogs” as the main characters. She said she knew books about black girls like her existed because
she had the opportunity to read them outside of class, but she wanted to make sure others had the chance as well. So, when she was in sixth grade, she launched her #1000blackgirlbooks social media campaign, landing her on the Forbes “30 Under 30” list and The Ellen Show. “I know a lot of black kids who rely on their librarians and their teachers to give them information about what’s important to
be reading about, learning about, educating themselves about, but it seems as though they only want them to learn about one experience,” Dias said at Evanston Township High School on Thursday. “So I thought of the idea to collect 1,000 books that have black girls as the main characters and get them into schools.” Dias — a 13-year-old from Philadelphia who recently published her book “Marley Dias
Gets It Done: And So Can You!” — spoke at an event sponsored by Family Action Network. She discussed her campaign, new book and how she has dealt with her newfound fame. ETHS principal Marcus Campbell told The Daily though the school hosts FAN events often, there has never been a crowd “this young, this engaged.” » See DIAS, page 6
As co-president of the Quest Scholars Network, Yakira Mirabito says her access to University officials can generate concrete resources if students voice concerns. “We can get stuff done as the (executive) board,” the McCormick fifth-year said at a Thursday town hall. “We definitely can take all of your thoughts and considerations and make it a reality.” Mirabito began the discussion at the Black House — which was open to all low-income and firstgeneration students, as well as their allies — by listing programs created after students shared the financial barriers they’ve encountered as low-income students, including the Student Activity Scholarship and Student Emergency and Essential Needs Funds. About 15 students discussed those obstacles and potential strategies to get the broader Northwestern community involved. To overcome these barriers, students suggested they ask professors for assistance, appeal financial aid decisions and attend an upcoming
Community Dialogue to advocate for their interests. Among students’ concerns was the administration’s perceived lack of public support for initiatives to aid low-income students. Madisen Hursey, vice president of Quest, said University officials should communicate their support with comparable publicity to their stance against sexual violence. “If the University demonstrates that they care about the issue … and take these definitive actions,” the Weinberg junior said, “then the larger campus can see this is a value that the campus as a whole, demonstrated by these representatives of the University, (upholds).” Hursey also said it’s important students know who in the administration is taking concrete action, noting students’ lack of awareness regarding Provost Jonathan Holloway’s approval of a textbook assistance program last fall. Hursey criticized University President Morton Schapiro’s previous comments that it “doesn’t matter who gets the credit” as long as something “right” is done. “It does matter that we know,” Hursey said. “We have to be able to point to someone and say, ‘We are supported by these people and maybe not these other ones.’ It definitely matters where it comes from.” Additionally, students » See QUEST, page 6
Vulgar comment Local high schooler eyes Olympics ousts state official Northbrook senior also researches dementia, takes math at NU Evanston’s Blair Garber resigns after ‘shithole’ tweet By CATHERINE HENDERSON
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Illinois Lottery Control Board chairman Blair Garber resigned and apologized after describing East St. Louis, Illinois, as the “shithole of the universe” on Twitter. Garber, an Evanston resident and representative on the Republican State Central Committee, used language reportedly invoked recently by President Donald Trump to describe the city in southwest Illinois. Garber declined to comment when contacted by The Daily. The State Journal-Register of Springfield first reported that Garber used profanity in response to a tweet from country singer Charlie Daniels. On Jan. 16, Daniels mocked U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) for being offended by President Trump referring to African nations as “shithole countries.” “Mr. Durbin, I’m so sorry
that your virgin ears were blistered by the absolutely horrible language president Trump used in front of you,” Daniels tweeted. “The president actually thought he was addressing a meeting of members of congress, not a kindergarten class.” Garber responded to the tweet, saying, “Charlie, Durbin’s hometown is (get this) east St. Louis Illinois! The shithole of the universe! Just do a google search,” the Journal-Register reported. His tweet has since been taken down, according to the Washington Post. East St. Louis, a city across the Missouri River from St. Louis, is a predominantly black city, according to the Post. About 44 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. Politicians on both sides of the aisle denounced Garber’s comments and called for him to resign, the Journal-Register reported. Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner accepted his resignation and an apology on Wednesday, according to media reports. Nikki Baim contributed reporting chenderson@u.northwestern.edu
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Ethan Schonfeld walked into room 107 of Lunt Hall on the first day of Northwestern’s Fall Quarter. A Glenbrook North High School senior, Schonfeld anticipated being the only high school student in Mathematics 291, Intensive Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus. The first person he saw, however, was his friend from math team, another high school senior. “To find out I was not unique was a shock, was a nice surprise,” Schonfeld said. “What also shocked me on the first day was just how welcoming everyone was.” Schonfeld is now in his second quarter of the 291 sequence, balancing homework that is “nothing like high school” with the rest of his life, he said. After a full day of classes, both at Glenbrook North and NU, Schonfeld heads to Glenview Titan Aquatic Club for swimming practice, he said. Schonfeld started swimming in third grade, and said he “just wanted out” for the first two years, but his parents encouraged him to continue with it. Nine years
later, Schonfeld is training to earn a national championshipqualifying time in the 100-meter breaststroke, he said. “That’s the goal this summer,” he said. “And it’s a pretty lofty goal, but it’s an expectation I have for myself.” Steve Iida, Schonfeld’s coach at the aquatic club, has been coaching the senior for just over a year, he said. The “elite club” attracted Schonfeld, particularly because Iida previously coached an Olympic swimming champion, Olivia Smoliga, Schonfeld said. Schonfeld’s determination, as well as his “willingness to fail,” struck Iida when he first started coaching the swimmer. Iida said he doesn’t want to put “a grain of doubt” in Schonfeld’s head about his goal to qualify for the Olympic trials in 2020. “If Ethan thinks he’s going to do it, I don’t see why not,” Iida said. “In Ethan’s case, he has a lot of talent, and I don’t put it over on him.” When Schonfeld isn’t swimming laps in the pool or doing his math problem sets, he spends time shadowing and researching with Dr. Ricardo Senno at Senno Group Wellness & Rehabilitation. Since eighth grade, Schonfeld has immersed himself in the lives
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Ethan Schonfeld. Schonfeld is training for the swimming Olympic trials.
of dementia patients who are under Senno’s care. Seeing the suffering caused by the disease was “shocking,” Schonfeld said. “I watched people fall, I watched people go to the bathroom in the middle of the building,” he said. “As a 14-year-old, it was jarring to see that.”
The research Schonfeld has done with Senno centers on the correlation between hearing loss and falls in people with dementia, Schonfeld said. The pair will be presenting this research, as well as an algorithm Schonfeld created to » See SCHONFELD, page 6
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Sound technology exhibit opening at history center By ELIZABETH CAMERON
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“Listen Up!,” an exhibit on the history of audio technology, opens Friday at the Evanston History Center’s Dawes House. The exhibit features antique music boxes, phonographs and early versions of records, among other artifacts. All items in the exhibit come from the history center’s collection of donated materials. The exhibit features both pieces collected from Evanson homes and businesses, and technology created in Chicago. Zenith Radios has a particularly prominent piece on display in the exhibit. The center’s director of facilities, visitor services and collections, Kris Hartzell, recounted the story of two young men — Karl Hassel and Ralph Mathews — who started building these radios in a garage in Chicago upon their return from World War I. The two were part of a larger group of young people who have contributed significantly to technological advances in sound, Hartzell said. “An interesting aspect for me is the parallel between the growth of technology from historic times to present,” Hartzell said. “Most (innovations) just started out with a few young people.” One additional display in the exhibit shows the progression of the record, from when it was originally cylindric instead of flat. These original brown wax cylinders used to be made out of black wax, and were later flattened into the disk shape, Hartzell said. The records only printed with grooves on one side, she added.
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Two men rear-ended a woman’s car near the corner of Sheridan Road and Davis Street on Thursday afternoon, then fled in it. At 2:05 p.m., an 84-year-old Evanston woman was driving down Sheridan Road when another vehicle struck her car, according to an Evanston
Hartzell also said the exhibit emphasizes how telephones and radio changed the way people communicated and affected social change. She added that sound technology has significant effects on communication and culture. “Once you could record sound, it became a commodity, and you could use it to change a culture,” Hartzell said. Dawes House docent Sue Moss said Charles Dawes, a former Vice President of the United States and resident of the Dawes House from 1909 to 1951, communicated through sound himself, particularly with his 1893 Steinway Piano that is now on display. “(Dawes) would come home from work to play the piano to relax before dinner,” Moss said. “But if he started to play the first act of ‘Madame Butterfly,’ it was a sign that he was getting hungry for dinner.” When visiting the audio technology exhibit, guests are encouraged to take a tour of the house as well, Moss said. Caelan Mys, a visitor to the Dawes House, called the interior decoration “exquisite.” Her father, Carl Mys, said he was impressed by Dawes’ prestigious friends who visited the the family at their lakeside mansion. Hartzell said the theme is a big change from the last exhibit she organized, which was on accessories, and included hats, jewelry, scarves and more. “We try to have something for everyone,” Hartzell said. elizabethcameron2019@u.northwestern.edu Police Department news release. When the woman exited her vehicle, a man got out of the car that hit hers, then got into the woman’s vehicle and drove away. Another person in the second car followed. The release said the man also took the woman’s purse containing credit cards, house keys and $200. The woman was not injured, according to the news release. EPD is currently investigating the incident.
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An 1893 Steinway Piano on display at the Dawes House. The Evanston History Center opens its newest exhibit Friday.
Property valued at $300 taken from west Evanston home
A bed frame and shower door were taken sometime between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning from outside a west Evanston home. The owner, a 49-year-old Chicago man, called police Wednesday morning after he noticed the items missing from his property in the 1100 block of Pitner Avenue, Evanston police Cmdr.
Ryan Glew said. The stolen property — valued at $300 — was propped against the garage outside the home. Glew said the house was uninhabitable due to remodeling and there was unrestricted access to the property through a nearby alley. Police do not have any suspects. — Nikki Baim and Julia Esparza
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Student voting turnout and registration increased significantly at Northwestern compared to other universities over a four-year period, according to a national study of student voting habits. The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement data showed Northwestern had an increase of more than 15 percent in voting turnout from 2012 to 2016. Nationally, the average increase during that same period was about 3 percent. Rob Donahue, associate director of the Center for Civic Engagement, told The Daily he attributed much of that increase to NU Votes — a CCE initiative that encourages voter engagement. Also, 91 percent of eligible voters were registered at Northwestern in 2016, compared to just over 70 percent at other universities. This September, the eligible student registration exceeded 96 percent, according to NU Votes. Northwestern was still above the national average when it comes to actually going to the polls, with 64 percent of eligible students voting compared to 50 percent elsewhere. Donahue told The Daily the typical narrative is that young people don’t vote. However, he said they simply haven’t built up the habit yet, and when they do get involved it will “reinvigorate our democracy.” “Now is a particularly pivotal time for the youth electorate to think about the impact they stand to make if they start paying attention in not just presidential, but also in midterm (elections),” Donahue said. With this increased involvement, Northwestern is one of nine top universities for voter engagement out of over 1,000 studied, according to an Institute for Democracy and Higher Education at Tufts University report using the NSLVE data. On Oct. 19, the University was recognized for its voter registration efforts when it received five awards from the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, a national challenge to colleges to promote civic engagement.
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NU Votes and the CCE employ several different strategies to elevate participation, said Lauryn Schmelzer, a CCE fellow and NU Votes steering committee student representative. Schmelzer told The Daily that NU Votes has voter vans to transport students to the polls and a registration station at Norris University Center before big elections. “(During Wildcat Welcome,) we are there when all of the students are checking into their dorms,” the Communication senior said. “And one of the steps in their check-in process for them is to register to vote, or they’re given the option to register to vote when they go into that first room.” Schmelzer said each state has a different registration and absentee ballot process, but NU Votes can help make those options available to every eligible student. Donahue said NU Votes also has some online resources for states that offer online registration, but there may be different requirements by state, so it’s better to visit NU Votes in person. “Colleges are civic institutions, and they do have a role in teaching young people … how to participate
in democracy,” Donahue said. “It has to be, it should be and it is at Northwestern a nonpartisan effort. I don’t care who you vote for. We’re not here to say where you should vote or how you should vote. But we’re just here to encourage people to participate and to make sure they know how to do it.” This fall, Donahue said Northwestern will participate in the Big Ten Voting Challenge in the Big Ten Conference to see which schools have the most registered and voting students during the midterm elections. He said he thinks students will increase turnout this year, although average midterm turnout is around 20 percent at Northwestern. “If people really care about their student loan debt, the interest rates on their student loans, how well the economy is doing, what kind of jobs are out there,” Donahue said, “not to mention any other host of social issues that I know are important to different folks in the NU community and the future of things, then they really need to participate in our democracy.”
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Examining whiteness from a multiracial perspective LAURA CARTHER
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This essay is part of The Spectrum, a forum in our Opinion section for marginalized voices to share their perspectives. To submit a piece for The Spectrum or discuss story ideas, please email spectrum@ dailynorthwestern.com. Writing about my own identity has always been a challenge for me. The way I have identified myself and the way I have been identified by others has been so varied and fluid throughout my life that when I try to pin it down, I am still unable to make sense of the jumble of situations and conditions. I have started and restarted this article a dozen times, but none of the experiences I tried to open with seemed encompassing enough. So I’d like to just begin by being as honest as possible. What am I? I am a woman of color. I am Asian American. Both terms that are common enough today, but come from origins heavily rooted in radical politics and resistance against white hegemony. Yet I also carry whiteness within me, both in the genetic and cultural context. My heritage is as equally white as it is Chinese. So why do I struggle so much to say, “I am white?” When I visit my white relatives, who keep track of my activities via Facebook, they want to know, “Why are you so much more proud of being Asian than being white?” It’s true
that I identify much more heavily with being Asian American: I am an Asian American Studies major and I’m a very active member of both an Asian-interest sorority and Northwestern’s Asian Pacific American Coalition.
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Because I have an unusual racial identity, there are rarely spaces in which I won’t be racialized differently from others in that space.
Passing for white
Passing can be a complicated subject for mixed people. For some, being able to pass as white is desirable as a way of gaining privilege and access to places normally not available to people of color. On the other hand, passing can also mean denying or erasing one’s nonwhite heritage. Passing is also not always voluntary. Passing can be conditional and situational, resulting in a kind of chameleon effect where one’s identity is always in flux depending on who the perceiver is. In my own experience, I’m still not sure to what extent I am capable of passing. Appearance-wise, I’m sure from a distance I could pass as white. However, to my knowledge I’ve never had a white person believe I was white upon meeting me up close. They can always tell that I look a little different from them and usually proceed to ask questions until they can satisfactorily categorize me. One summer, at a new job, I got so frustrated with being constantly asked to justify my appearance that I instead began handing out business cards explaining my
background. On the other hand, the only people I’ve ever had think I was completely white are other Asians. Perhaps people are just good at noticing when others are different from them.
run into more and more mixed Asians. And while no one else may be able to figure us out, we can recognize each other instantly. My mixed friends and I call it our sixth sense.
“What are you?”
The joy of recognition
This is a question I’ve heard countless times, from countless people, in countless places. At this point in history, with so many multiracial people coming into the spotlight and speaking about their experiences, sometimes I wonder why I still get asked that question. Multiraciality isn’t new, after all. Multiracial people have existed for hundreds of years. The only difference is that now, we are perceived as desirable. “Ethnic ambiguity” has come into trend, so much so that it’s impossible to watch 20 minutes of television without seeing a racially ambiguous body used to advertise any variety of products. The way I’ve answered this question has changed a lot throughout the years. My face is marked with this question. I carry the curiosity of every person I’ve ever met on my shoulders. Sometimes it’s a burden, other times simply entertaining. At times, it’s certainly useful to be able to judge a person’s character instantly based on their manner of approaching me. There’s a kind of exhaustion that comes with every person I meet demanding to know my family history. It’s a constant reminder that I live in a racialized body, which has the capability of molding to whatever fantasy its beholder may want to impose upon my skin. Because I have an unusual racial identity, there are rarely spaces in which I won’t be racialized differently from others in that space, and therefore there are rarely spaces in which I can escape racialization. However, as I have grown older, and especially during my time at Northwestern, I’ve
There’s a special type of joy that comes with recognizing that someone is like you, recognizing a shared background, a shared experience, a shared identity. Some people get this all the time. Some people see themselves everywhere they go, in every passing face, every blockbuster film and every big news story. Other people only see themselves in certain places — in the neighborhood they grew up in, in a club at school. And sometimes, you grow up not seeing anyone like you. Sometimes you never see your face fully reflected in someone else’s. My experience with other multiracial Asian Americans is that we often don’t discuss this reflection. Every time I meet another one of us, there’s a spark inside that goes unacknowledged. When we’ve gone so long without recognition, perhaps we’re too used to keeping it to ourselves. The way I’ve wrestled with the question of my identity has changed a lot throughout the years. It’s a lot to work on within myself while simultaneously carrying the curiosity of every person I’ve ever met on my shoulders. I know that reconciling myself with holding so many identities will be a lifelong project, and I have accepted that I might never reach a satisfying conclusion.
justice to their resilience, courage or humanity. They’ll only see a commentary on how innocent, well-behaved and handy they are.
that we quantify Dreamers, transforming them into symbols of economic progress in order to garner an act of mercy on their behalf. We dehumanize and monetize them, so that they only generate value to our society insofar as they benefit white, mainstream, American society. Thus, as we move into the final push for Dreamers — as we decide as a country if we’re going to accept nearly 800,000 people for the people they are — we must be mindful to take ourselves out of the equation and stop asking how we stand to benefit from Dreamers. We must take a stand for people who should be allowed to be just as autonomous as we are. And we must commit to advocating for a group of people, and simultaneously allow them to be as complex and nuanced as they choose to be. After all, isn’t that the whole (albeit aspirational) point of liberty in the first place? Yes, call for a pathway to citizenship because of how deserving they are, for indeed they are an extraordinary community of people. But more importantly, call for a pathway to citizenship because even if they were not exceptional, even if they were just as ordinary as we all have the liberty to be, they are still deserving of the natural and inalienable rights guaranteed by the proposition that all humans are created equal.
Laura Carther is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at lauracarther2020@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to spectrum@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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Dreamers aren’t legal pawns, and they aren’t trophies either
As we get into resolving the political crisis initiated by this administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, policy makers and advocates often turn to statistics and mathematical quantifiers to justify making a case for “unauthorized aliens” who arrived as minors in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. This is the legal definition of a DACA recipient, one by a system that dehumanizes and catalogues people into a taxonomy of legal classifications. It is indicative of how our laws look at problems over people. And it reveals an ethos that identifies people by the legal violations attached to them, as if they have no humanity or agency. This is why we get stuck when we try to categorize people by laws that don’t exist yet. Right now, these people are, by legal definition, “unlawfully present aliens who arrived as minors in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act.” So until Congress creates a legal pathway to citizenship for them, a “Dreamer” (in the strictest sense) has no affirmative legal definition. Put another way, Dreamers are not defined by who they are — they are defined by who they
are not. This is why the law cannot fully resolve this current problem without a pathway to citizenship on the books. We accept Dreamers because they are not the “criminals.” We accept Dreamers because they are not unproductive “free-loaders.” We accept Dreamers because they are not the undesirable underclass of immigrants that we have already predetermined as unworthy untouchables. Even the one redeeming civil rights case discussing education rights for undocumented children still frames the narrative as how they are beneficial to U.S. citizens — how they are helpful and advantageous in the same way that a plant may be welcomed into a new environment as a symbiotic companion species. In Plyler v. Doe, the Supreme Court made clear that legislation punishing undocumented children for the mistakes of their parents would not comport with fundamental conceptions of justice. But this was because these children would be dis-served by a failure to assimilate and participate in and uphold “American societal values,” robbed of an opportunity to add value to the United States’ economy. Therefore, the Court reasoned, these children had a right to a public K-12 education regardless of how they arrived in the United States. In this case, readers will find no discussion of their personal complexity, or the various detours of their incredible journey. They will find no narrative that does
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What if we took (Dreamers) as they are — right now, as human beings — and supported them in attaining the one thing they have always asked of us: their citizenship. Have we ever considered that the Dreamers weren’t here for our own amusement? Would we accept them if they were anything less than the incredibly exceptional people that they’ve been pressured to become? Did we ever stop to ask what we could do for them, as opposed to making demands of what they could do for us? What if we took them as they are — right now, as human beings — and supported them in attaining the one thing that they have always asked of us: their citizenship. No legal framework exists to discuss a Dreamer’s harmful experiences of trauma, pain and uncertainty. And what’s worse, in negotiating for a pathway to citizenship, cynics demand
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Bookstore owner optimistic over indie store revival By BECKY CHEN
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Despite the decline of independent bookstores in the past decade, the country has recently undergone an “indie bookstore renaissance,” said Nina Barrett, owner of Bookends & Beginnings. Barrett recently attended the American Booksellers Association’s Wi13 conference in Memphis, Tennessee, an annual winter conference for independent booksellers from across the country. She was a panelist for an educational workshop that allowed her to share her tips for selling cookbooks. Wi13 is an annual opportunity for bookstore owners to meet and exchange ideas, “pick other people’s brains” and learn what works and what
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From page 1 He said Dias’ campaign is significant for many students because it expands their understanding of what literature and stories can be. “I think that the type of attention she’s bringing to different types of protagonists is reminiscent of what Toni Morrison has done and Zora Neale Hurston and so many others,” Campbell said. “But it’s at a kid-level, which I think is really very powerful.” Dias said she began her campaign in November 2015 and mainly used her mother’s Instagram account to collect books and promote the cause. She added that her appearance on The Ellen Show and Philadelphia news and talk shows helped her get her message out. Since then, Dias said she has exceeded her goal,
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predict the likelihood of patients falling, at a conference in Toronto this November. The algorithm stems from complex mathematical analysis of the data to predict which patients are most likely to fall, which determines who should be housed closest to the nurse’s station, Senno said. Schonfeld did this project on his own, Senno said, and since Schonfeld has “proven himself ” as responsible throughout his time with Senno, the doctor respects Schonfeld’s work. “It’s not just like he comes with an idea,” Senno said. “He comes with the idea, the process and then almost the end product.” Seeking out unsolved answers is fundamental to Schonfeld’s personality, he said. To him, it’s “just fun to challenge yourself.” Schonfeld has wanted to be a doctor since he was four years old, his mom, Alla Schonfeld, said. “We were in Toys R Us, and there was a stethoscope
doesn’t in the industry. Barrett said this is the fourth time she has attended the conference, and this year, the energy was “electric.” Barrett said each indie bookstore has its own identity because in most cases, the owner is also the store’s main buyer, determining what books to purchase and crafting the store’s atmosphere. “Most owners would never take their hands off of that,” Barrett said. “They would never allow anyone else in the store to make the major buying decisions because that is how you are creating your identity.” Paul Zalmezak, Evanston’s economic development manager, said the city prides itself on having a mix of large chains and independent stores. He said indie bookstores provide a gathering place for the community.
with 11,000 books collected to date. Including her own book, Dias added, she has acquired 11,001. Her mother, Janice Johnson Dias, told The Daily she still sees Marley Dias as the same kid she has always been, but still feels the “surrealness” of her daughter’s accomplishments. Janice Johnson Dias said she taught Marley Dias to respect others and share her voice to amplify messages. She said she sees those ideas come to life when her daughter speaks about her campaign and her book. “For me, (when Marley was) a kid, all that we knew was that she loved one thing,” Janice Johnson Dias said. “She loved to read above anything else. That was her passion. It’s just delightful to see that passion go into this.” samanthahandler2021@u.northwestern.edu set and scrubs, and he asked me to buy it for him,” Alla Schonfeld said. “It was always something about being a doctor that was exciting.” The younger Schonfeld’s academic plan remains going to medical school, he said. He initially considered applying for the Honors Program in Medical Education through the Feinberg School of Medicine, but due to his exposure researching dementia, he wants to pursue neuroscience in his undergraduate studies. Despite being undecided on where to attend college next year, Northwestern remains “very, very high” on Schonfeld’s list, he said, largely due to his experience in Math 291. “I think it was the second day (of the quarter), I was telling my mom, we were just walking through Evanston, I think at Blaze Pizza, and I was saying I would really, really love to go to this school,” Schonfeld said. “It had this element that really, really felt welcoming and really felt special.” clareproctor2021@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 1 brainstormed ideas to get the rest of the school community involved, particularly wealthier students who may be unaware of the obstacles low-income students face. Mirabito said resources for lowincome students benefit everyone, saying students who receive assistance from the Student Activity Scholarship Fund, for example, are “more involved as a leader of their team and a teammate.” Even so, some students criticized Northwestern’s diversity and inclusion initiatives, saying the University focuses more on advertising its diverse students than actually fostering inclusion and support for them.
customers a very different browsing experience, as the selection of books offered tends to differ in every store, Barrett said. Erin Booker, a frequent patron of Bookends & Beginnings, said when shopping for books, she likes to support the “local small merchant.” She added that she enjoys the store’s selections that cater to the community it serves, as well as book recommendations from the owners and employees. “It provides employment to local community members. It keeps local businesses local and keeps the community vibrant,” Booker said. “When there’s big chain stores, people are leaving the community to go to big shopping malls and that takes away form the community feel.” rebeccachen2021@u.northwestern.edu “When it comes to upholding organizations like Quest or SES that are all about inclusion, which is different from diversity, they just shy away from it,” SESP junior Christian Reyes said. “I feel like if we’re just built into the narrative, that could really shift the way people see us — or even see us in the first place.” Reyes, a Quest Scholar, told The Daily the conversation about low-income students often ends with the University’s goal of 20 percent Pell Granteligible students by 2020. “All (University officials) are doing is promoting an image for Northwestern so that they can look good for the rest of the world,” he said. aperez@u.northwestern.edu
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Yakira Mirabito speaks to a group of peers at a Quest Scholars Network town hall Thursday. Mirabito said students can generate resources if they voice their concerns regarding financial barriers.
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He added that there is a certain intellectual value in having local bookstores whose inventories reflect the community. “Independent bookstores are destinations,” Zalmezak said. “People are seeking out authentic experiences. People are reacting to the unlined, sanitized, dehumanized world that we’re all having to live in and having an experience that is independent unique and surprising is why people talk about Evanston’s charm.” Barrett said a lot of adults no longer have access to spaces for intelligent literary conversations since they graduated from college, but independent bookstores can provide that environment. She added despite the high number of bookstores in Evanston, she doesn’t feel as though any of them are in competition. Each bookstore offers
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Rauner adviser examines data use in public policy By CHARLOTTE WALSH
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Mischa Fisher, a senior economist and adviser to Gov. Bruce Rauner, encouraged a crowd of about 40 people on Thursday to try working in the public sector to get the experience of making an impact on people’s lives. “In public policy, there are some jerks,” Fisher said. “But most people do have good intentions, and hopefully the data will illuminate those.” Fisher spoke at a School of Education and Social Policy-sponsored event in Annenberg Hall about the importance of data and the scientific method in policy. He specifically discussed the effect data can have when discussing possible strategies to deal with minimum wage, murder rates and unemployment. A formal federal legislative director, Fisher spoke about the different ways that data can be limited in its ability to solve complicated
problems like issues in healthcare. He also explained how different mathematical formulas and algorithms can be applied to legislative issues, while stressing that quantitative tools alone are not a strong enough basis for public policy. “Don’t let math equations get in the way of core logic,” Fisher said. “There always has to be some sort of core logic to whatever the math is supporting.” The event was put on in a lecture series sponsored by Nancy and Ray Loeschner (SESP ’57, Graduate School ’62), who attended the talk and were introduced by SESP Dean David Figlio. Ray Loeschner earned both his M.S. and his doctorate from Northwestern, and went on to become president of Olivet College and Ohio Northern University. SESP junior Sam Buresch, a member of the SESP Leadership and Programming Board that helped lead the event’s marketing, said Fisher was chosen to speak because of his expertise as an employee of the state government. “We wanted someone that works down in
Springfield because that’s what a lot of our students want to do, and a lot of our students are also interested in the connection of social policy and economics,” Buresch said. “So we want to give them the information to help better society.” Fisher said he wanted to show there can be a connection between quantitative data and government policy. He said the worlds tend to be very separated, but he is “someone who wears both hats.” Weinberg freshman Mackenzie Smith said she attended the program trying to research possible careers. She said her major, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, tends to place a lot of students in the consulting field, and she wanted to see what else was out there. “It was really interesting to see a different take on a data-related job,” Smith said. “I really enjoy this whole idea that you can gather data and make conclusions and apply that in a way that you’re able to help people.” charlottewalsh2021@u.northwestern.edu
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Wildcats look to carry energy into tough weekend test Northwestern vs. No. 19 Duke
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It may be early in the season, but the young Northwestern team has already learned the importance of enthusiasm. The Wildcats (2-2) are hoping that playing with higher energy can power them to success Sunday against No. 19 Duke (3-0). After beginning the year with a tight loss to unranked North Carolina State, NU realized the importance of imposing itself early in its last win against Georgia Tech, beginning with the doubles point. “NC State did a good job of getting on us early so we kind of looked at that and said that’s what we needed to do, try to get on top of teams,” junior Ben Vandixhorn said. “Georgia Tech was
the perfect example of how we could take the doubles point away from them and then use the momentum going into singles.” Against NC State, the Cats quickly fell behind in doubles play, and that 1-0 deficit came back to bite them in the 4-3 loss. Last week, NU was far more competitive in the doubles point, including a narrow loss to No. 18 Oklahoma and an easy victory over the Yellow Jackets. The energy Vandixhorn said the team was trying to display in doubles could also help the Cats in their singles matches. In contrast to the individuality of the professional and junior
circuits, college tennis is a team sport and freshman AJ Joshi said the team tries to take advantage of that. “It’s definitely helpful and important to have teammates around you because it makes you play better when they are pumping you up,” Joshi said. “The whole team plays better as a whole if we are all together.” Through the first four matches of the dual season, Joshi has played three matches at No. 6 singles and compiled a 2-1 record. Joshi, junior Jason Seidman and sophomore Chris Ephron have rotated through the bottom two singles spots so far. However, Joshi said he views the competition for playing time as a positive. The freshman has played consistently so far and said he has been working on adding more offense to his game. “It keeps you motivated,” Joshi said. “If I don’t
do a good job in one match I have to keep proving myself or else I won’t be able to play in the next one, so I think that’s actually a good thing for our whole team.” After Joshi lost his first match of the season against Oklahoma with a lopsided score of 6-1, 6-2, Ephron stepped into the No. 6 spot against Georgia Tech and won 7-6 (7-5), 6-3. Coach Arvid Swan said the lineup changes are dictated by potential matchups rather than an attempt to ride the hot hand. “It was more of a matchup decision, who we thought they would have at the bottom of the lineup,” Swan said. No matter who is playing, matchups against three consecutive ranked opponents will require the Cats to be at the top of their game. benjaminapelbaum2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Wildcats jump out to 18-1 lead; Wisconsin can’t recover By JOSEPH WILKINSON
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Last year, Northwestern took down mighty then-No. 7 Wisconsin in the Kohl Center for a crucial resume-building win. This year, the Badgers sit below seventh place in the Big Ten and the Wildcats’ 60-52 road win doesn’t carry the same importance. The Wildcats (14-10, 5-6 Big Ten) opened the game on an 18-1 run and kept the Badgers (10-14, 3-8) at bay from there. The hosts never got closer than 6 points for the rest of the game. “We feel we got off to a great start tonight that set the tone,” coach Chris Collins told reporters in Madison. “I was really proud of how we were really sharp to start the game on both ends.” After struggling Monday at Michigan, NU’s offense broke out in the first half against the Badgers, shooting 67 percent from the field and 57 percent from 3-point range. In the second half, however, the offense fell apart on both ends. The teams combined to shoot 15-for-52 from the field, commit 11 turnovers and generally look out of sorts offensively.
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“The last couple games our defense has been dialed in,” Collins said. “Obviously, that’s a big reason why we won tonight.” Junior center Dererk Pardon, who made all eight of his shot attempts from the field, led the team with 17 points. The junior also made an impact on the defensive end, swatting three blocks while committing a single foul and holding his counterpart, Wisconsin’s Ethan Happ, to only 14 points on 13 shots. The Badgers’ center also committed four turnovers. On the offensive end, he was joined in double figures by seniors guards Scottie Lindsey, who had 14 points, and Bryant McIntosh, who had 10 while adding four assists. The backcourt duo, however, struggled from the field overall, combining to shoot only 30 percent. McIntosh turned in an uncharacteristically sloppy night handling the ball as well, committing a season-high seven turnovers. “The way we battled back to do that defensively in the second half, to have a
chance at to cut it down to 5, there were a lot of good things that came out of that,” Wisconsin coach Greg Gard said. “Obviously, not happy with the outcome, but as I told the team, don’t dig yourself in a 18-1 hole, it’s a lot easier to come back and make a run.” Once again, the Cats got limited production among their reserves. Only six NU players played more than eight minutes, and redshirt sophomore forward Aaron Falzon had the team’s only 2 bench points. The Cats’ defense, however, bailed out the offense. Wisconsin shot a putrid 33 percent from the field on the day, and had nearly as many turnovers as made field goals in the first half. Guard Brevin Pritzl stood out among the poor shooters, missing all 11 shots he took, including nine from long range. With the win, NU moved into a tie for sixth place in the Big Ten and completed a 2-1 road swing. With only seven regular season games left, Collins recognized the importance of the victory. “We’re obviously feeling great about getting the win tonight,” Collins said. “We had a stretch of three-straight road games, and to be able to win two of three is a big week for us.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Texas to be tough test for Cats Pardon dominates in By BRETT HAENSEL
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Northwestern will face its third ranked opponent in as many matches when it faces off against No. 11 Texas in Evanston on Sunday. The No. 23 Wildcats (3-1), after defeating No. 21 Kentucky and falling to No. 16 UCLA, will now turn their attention to a Longhorns team that is red-hot. Texas (4-0) recently knocked off No. 11 California and punched its ticket to the ITA National Team Indoor Championships. “We’ve sort of used the analogy of college football,” coach Claire Pollard said. “You’ve got to show up every week in college football. You take one loss, maybe you get in the playoffs, maybe you don’t. We’re taking on that approach, and Texas is not any easier than UCLA was.” The Longhorns feature three singles players ranked in the top 100, including No. 10 Bianca Turati. However, NU will look to continue to excel in doubles — an area it has been dominant in since the start of the year. The Cats have yet to drop a doubles point in the young season, and boast two of the top 10 doubles pairings in the nation. The pairs of seniors Maddie Lipp and Erin Larner, and senior Alex Chatt and junior Lee Or are likely to trouble a Texas team that has no top-60 doubles teams. “We’re just trying to go out there and be on top of them and be aggressive and control the match,” Or said. “It doesn’t really matter who we’re going to play,
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we’re just going to work hard and do the best we can do.” NU will also continue to rely on Lipp, who remains undefeated in both singles and doubles on the year. The senior, a member of the fourthranked doubles pair in the country and No. 92 in singles, was recently named Big Ten Athlete of the Week after multiple wins over ranked opponents in last weekend’s matches. It’s the fourth time she’s received that honor in her career. “If I’m doing as well as I can individually, it’s helping the team overall,” Lipp said. “Obviously I’d rather have the team win over me getting that, but I guess it just means I’m doing well for the team,
which is good.” The Cats will need their experienced group to step up on the singles end Sunday if they want to walk out of the match with a win. Against the Bruins, they dropped four out of six singles matches, including a heartbreaking third-set loss at the No. 6 spot to seal the defeat. NU, though, seems poised to learn from the UCLA loss, and Pollard believes the experience could lead to success down the road. “We’ve got to take a lot away from the match because there were way more positives than minuses,” Pollard said. “We’ve got to remember that even though we were disappointed we didn’t get the ‘W.’ It’s easy to play one great match, but can you do it week in week out?” bretthaensel2021@u.northwestern.edu
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Caroline Pozo prepares to strike a backhand. The freshman and the Wildcats take on No. 11 Texas on Sunday in a battle of ranked teams.
post to secure NU win By BEN POPE
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Asked on Wednesday about improvements Northwestern’s offense needed to make, junior center Dererk Pardon emphasized “being confident in our shot.” Then the 6-foot-8-inch center lumbered into Madison and embodied that sentiment on Thursday night. Pardon made all eight of his field goal attempts — three layups, two dunks, two tip-ins and one jump hook — and added a free throw, tallying a game-high 17 points in all as the Wildcats (14-10, 5-6 Big Ten) earned a 60-52 win over Wisconsin (1014, 3-8). “He’s an anchorman. He fights for every inch — it’s who he’s been his whole career,” coach Chris Collins told reporters after the game. “He’s down there and he’s the back of our zone, so he’s got to talk, he’s got to … rebound and block shots. He played like a man tonight.” And Pardon did it while matched up against 6-foot-10-inch center Ethan Happ, far-and-away the Badgers’ best player. Happ was a third-team All-American last year (making him one of the top 15 players in the nation) and entered the season as a viable National Player of the Year candidate. He currently ranks sixth in the Big Ten in points per game (17.4) and fourth in rebounds per game (8.5). Pardon arguably won’t face a more experienced and talented opposing big man in the conference all year.
Yet Thursday, Happ was held under both those averages, tallying 14 points — on just 6-of-13 shooting — and five rebounds. He turned the ball over four times, too, and wasn’t able to force NU to double-team him and leave someone else open like he does against many teams. “It’s not easy when you’re dealing with a kid like Happ,” Collins said. “He’s such a unique player and they move him all over the court. He can pass, score and make plays, so I was proud of our communication tonight against him.” It wasn’t entirely rosy for the Cats in the paint, as they did lose the offensive rebounds battle 14-6 and conceded 10 second-chance points, but their 28-24 edge in points in the paint nonetheless was the fourth straight game with an advantage in that category. For a team that was outscored by 42 points in the paint by Nebraska and Penn State to begin this winter conference slate, that is a remarkable accomplishment. Pardon certainly deserves the lion’s share of the credit for that. Gone are the ugly, ineffective post-ups after being forcefed the ball; in their place are creative lowpost passes and scrappy rim protecting. Over the past six games, he’s scoring at a 76 percent clip offensively and defensively handled the likes of Happ and Penn State’s Mike Watkins. Only because of that consistent, maintained development was Pardon able to say what he did after Thursday’s victory. “I was just doing what I normally do,” he said. benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu