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Department status petition meets goal More than 1,000 sign on to support ethnic studies By ALEXIS WHITE
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A petition to make the Latina and Latino Studies Program and the Asian American Studies Program departments has exceeded its goal of 1,000 signatures, after students and Associated Student Government showed their support on social media. MEChA de Northwestern and the Asian Pacific American Coalition have been working together as the Latinx Asian American Collective to gain signatures. As of Friday, the petition had over 1,000 signatures, said Weinberg junior Monica Garcia. Garcia said even though 1,000 signatures was their goal, the Collective still welcomes more support. “Our plan was to present the signatures to the administration just to show them how many people support our campaign, and then to see what our campaign will look like from there,” Garcia said. “We just wanted to show the administrators that we have support.” ASG published a statement Thursday in support of the Latinx Asian American Collective as it continues to garner
support for the creation of the two departments. ASG vice president of academics Sky Patterson said the ASG executive board signed the petition as one unit, and she also signed it as an individual. Patterson, a Weinberg junior, said the petition was shared among committees within ASG, and that she has spoken with faculty about the issue. “The time is right to finally make these programs departments,” Patterson said. “They (would be) important departments at Northwestern. They serve a lot of students.” The ASG statement said departmental status would give these programs more “resources, autonomy, and experienced and specialized faculty.” In addition to those benefits, Garcia said departmental status would allow these studies to hold more office space and offer more classes. She said the two student groups have been considering asking for new status for some time. However, Garcia said the issue became more urgent in May, after an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement public relations officer visited campus and was met by student protestors. “ The ICE protest was a catalyst, like, this is necessar y,” Garcia said. » See PETITION, page 6
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Brock Colyar. The Medill sophomore created the Queer Reader, an LGBTQ and radical feminist magazine, after frustrations with what he calls a lack of unity in the queer community.
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Brock Colyar was frustrated. The Medill sophomore was disheartened by the lack of a strong queer community at Northwestern. The “lazy activism” of Northwestern students disappointed him, he said.
Colyar told his friend, fellow Medill sophomore Gabrielle Bienasz, that he felt student publications did not have space for LGBTQ voices, she said. “I was like, ‘Well Brock, why don’t you start your own publication?’” Bienasz said. Colyar did just that. He said he had inklings of wanting to start an LGBTQ
Organizers talk activism strategies
Black panelists share experiences after speech by Provost Holloway By ALAN PEREZ
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After the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in 2014, Sarah Oberholtzer (Communication ’17) said she wanted a space for black students to express grief and anger. So she organized a demonstration as a “space to breathe, cry and be enraged together as black students, as concerned students.” “I didn’t see a space for me to feel rage adequately and publicly that was supported by the University,” Oberholtzer said at a Friday event. She said after that demonstration “it just made more and more sense to get involved in organizing efforts.” Oberholtzer, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter NU, was among a group of panelists from several colleges — including Columbia University and the University of Missouri — who shared their knowledge and stories about on-campus organizing. The
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Provost Jonathan Holloway in his office in November. Holloway, a scholar in African American history, discussed in his speech the history of black student activism and his role as a professor and dean.
event was hosted by the Center for African American History, the Department of African American Studies and Campus Inclusion and Community. Speakers and panelists related
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the recent rise of black student activism to movements in the 1960s, including the 1968 takeover of the Bursar’s Office at NU. Though some of the student
activists had organized before the 2014 protests, they said their work escalated as the rest of the nation reacted in protest. » See ACTIVISM, page 6
publication over the summer, but he began seriously pursuing it during Fall Quarter. Associated Student Government approved his student group in the fall, and what had started as vague dissatisfaction became the Queer Reader, a magazine Colyar said he is branding as both queer and radically feminist. He anticipates the first
Recent ETHS grad dies after shooting on Thursday
Evanston police are searching for the suspect in a Thursday night shooting that left a Chicago man dead, the department announced in a news release. On Thursday at 11:38 p.m., officers were dispatched to the 1800 block of Hovland Court to respond to a call of shots fired. Upon arrival, police located the 20-year-old man, Yakez Semark, who had been shot in the chest following a physical altercation, Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said in the release. Glew said that after the altercation, the offender fled on foot. The man was transported to Evanston Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A GoFundMe page to support Semark’s family has raised $18,000 as of the time of publication. The money will go toward funeral costs and closing Semark’s personal affairs, and any remaining money will create a fund
issue will come out in fall 2018. He said the first meeting was last week and that he is currently in the recruitment stage. Colyar said his vision for the magazine is for it to resemble a zine: “fun, playful, manic and colorful.” He said the magazine will » See MAGAZINE, page 6
in Semark’s name to support Evanston youth, according to the page. Semark was an Evanston native who graduated from Evanston Township High School in 2015. According to a GoFundMe post, Semark had just moved into his first apartment after landing his first full-time job at Shake Shack in the Westfield Old Orchard Mall. “Yakez was living that life with incredible resilience and strength, navigating adversity, racism and the day-to-day challenges that all young people face,” the page said. “There are truly no words to describe the void this community will feel without Yakez’s presence.” According to the GoFundMe, Semark was an aspiring photographer and dreamed of living in California with his grandfather. The GoFundMe post said Yakez Semark loved his mother, Evangeline Semark, “more than anything in the world.” EPD detectives, along with members of the North Regional Major Crimes Task Force, are currently investigating the incident. — Ryan Wangman
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AROUND TOWN EPL hosts panel on book tackling identity, injustice By SAMANTHA HANDLER
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Panelists speak at Evanston Public Library’s discussion on identity and injustice. The panel was the first event in a 10-week program called “Evanston Reads: Citizen.”
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A 66-year-old Evanston man reported to police Thursday that his storage unit had been burglarized. The man found the hinges removed from
the door of his unit in the 700 block of Oakton Street at 11 a.m., Evanston police communications coordinator Perry Polinski told The Daily in an email. Two electric saws, a tool bag and box and various hand tools were missing. The stolen property was valued around $500 and police have not identified a suspect, Polinski
Evanston Public Library kicked off a community reading program with a panel discussion about identity and injustice on Sunday, building off the themes in the book “Citizen: An American Lyric.” EPL partnered with the Center for Inclusivity, which seeks to create and sustain diverse communities, to host the first event in the 10-week program “Evanston Reads: Citizen,” sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. EPL will put on similar discussions and events around Evanston about Claudia Rankine’s book, including film screenings, poetry readings and lectures. Library assistant Kim Hiltwein said during the event that EPL applied for a grant from the National Education Association to create a program around “Citizen” because of the book’s timeliness. They hope the library will be a place that fosters discussions throughout the community, she said. “The book has themes of inclusivity and race and gender,” Hiltwein told The Daily, “and reaching out to the Center of Inclusivity in Chicago just felt like the right way to kick off the event in terms of tone, important conversations and the themes the book really raises.” The panelists — social worker and community organizer Jes Scheinpflug and activist and church worship leader Darren Calhoun — discussed the book’s themes of invisibility, bias and belonging. said.
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Alicia Crosby, the executive director and cofounder of the Center for Inclusivity and moderator of the discussion, said one of her biggest takeaways was that people live “whole lives” that cannot be broken down to just one identity. “Yes, Rankin’s book is about race, but it’s also about class and her experience in the world as a woman,” Crosby said. “It’s about all of these identities that intersect and interconnect.” Calhoun said talking about pain is an important starting point for more difficult conversations as it helps people recognize the “core fears” that others may have. Some of those fears, he said, are rooted in the different ways society treats people of different genders, races and classes. “I often don’t have to think, unless I choose to, about the ways women are oppressed, marginalized, experience violence and so forth,” Calhoun said. Hiltwein said that though this program does not comprise EPL’s only events and discussions centered around diversity, the Evanston Reads series helps create a safe place for the community. Hiltwein said she hopes programs like these will give the library patrons ways to learn and speak about ideas that they may not have been able to on their own. “We’re trying to be part of the community here,” Hiltwein said. “The library should be and we’re trying to be one of those places you think of as a safe place you can go to be exposed to different things.” samanthahandler2021@u.northwestern.edu
and 1:30 p.m., Polinski said. Officers found damage to his back door and pry marks on the rear basement door. The suspect — whom police have not identified — did not enter the home, Polinski said. — Nikki Baim
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ON CAMPUS A&O Benefit to host Chicago artists By MADDIE BURAKOFF
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Chicago-based musicians Knox Fortune and Ravyn Lenae will perform at the second Chicago Benefit concert put on by A&O Productions, according to a Friday news release. Both artists represent Chicago’s current music scene and offer “chill” vibes that will mesh well together, said A&O’s concerts director Makena Seeney. After the success of last year’s Benefit concert, which featured Noname and Jamila Woods, the Medill senior said they were looking to pull from the same pool of up-and-coming artists in the city. Singer and producer Fortune has collaborated with major artists like Joey Purp, Vic Mensa and Chance the Rapper — he is featured on Chance’s track “All Night.” He is working to produce more solo tracks with his signature sound, ranging from “bouncy hip-hop beats to psychedelic inspired indie tracks,” the release said. Singer and songwriter Lenae, a 19-year-old South Side native, is a classically trained musician who has toured with SZA and Noname. Her newly released EP, “Crush,” tackles topics like the “friendzone” and “finding love online,” according to the release. The concert will be held Feb. 15 at Evanston SPACE, and all proceeds will go toward Northwestern Arts and Music Programs for Education in Detention Centers, the release said. Tickets are $10 with a suggested donation of $5. In past years, the Benefit concert had been held in the spring and partnered with Dance Marathon, but last year began partnering with Chicagobased beneficiaries instead. AMPED was a “natural choice,” said A&O co-chair Louisa Wyatt, because the organization also connects to the community through music as an NU-based group that provides music education in Chicago detention centers. While other A&O concerts like Ball and Blowout have a “huge fun party atmosphere,” Benefit aims for a more “relaxed” vibe, Seeney said.
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It can be easy for NU students to get stuck in the “Evanston bubble,” Wyatt said, especially when it can feel stressful to have to get into Chicago to see a show. With Benefit, she said A&O wanted to connect students with some of the “great art” downtown. “I hope students are able to experience and enjoy
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live music, specifically live local music, in a safe and comfortable environment that’s easily accessible to them,” the Medill senior said. “Even if you go and don’t know the artists, I hope you find joy and connections out of our show.” madelineburakoff2020@u.northwestern.edu
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Body cameras are not a panacea for Evanston police
As incident after incident has shown, the issues of racial bias and excessive force that pervade police departments across the country also affect Evanston police — most recently illustrated in the detainment of 60-year-old black Evanston man Gregory Hall. Hall was injured after Evanston police misidentified him as an armed robbery suspect as he was leaving the Evanston Public Library south branch. As many Evanston community members continue to describe their distrust of local police, the Evanston Police Department has tried to ease these tensions. The Citizen Police Complaint Assessment Committee met for the first time in October to discuss reforming EPD’s complaint process and has been working on the matter since. And most recently, this has taken form in the utilization of body cameras. Last month, EPD began requiring all field officers to wear body cameras while on duty as an apparent move to strengthen police-community relations and increase police transparency and safety. And Evanston isn’t alone: Following widespread concerns about policing, in 2015, a nationwide survey showed 95 percent of large police departments had implemented body cameras or were planning to do so. While certainly a step in bolstering police and department accountability, however, it’s unclear how body cameras will impact Evanston policing and whether excessive force and racial discrimination in practice
will decrease. Studies conducted by other police departments do show some evidence concerning the effectiveness of body cameras. A comprehensive seven-month study was released in 2017 within Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department — in which about half of more than 2,200 officers were randomly selected to receive body cameras while the rest were not. The study found that the implementation of body cameras resulted in no statistically significant difference in citizen complaints or the use of force within the city, among other measured outcomes. It is worth mentioning that an earlier year-long study in Rialto, California did show large decreases in both areas. Ultimately, though, we must go beyond simply contesting the material benefits of body cameras, which remain largely ambiguous. Rather, it’s become clear that body cameras can’t be viewed as wholescale, comprehensive solutions when the problem is largely rooted in the need for fundamental behavioral changes in policing. In the past, EPD has taken a few steps to address deeper issues, through initiatives including the development of an updated, longer-term curriculum for its diversity and inclusion program, continued training on different de-escalation techniques and suggested reforms to the citizen complaint process. Unlike many U.S. police departments, EPD is also more representative of the community’s racial demographics: Black
officers comprise around a quarter of the police force, while 18.1 percent of Evanston’s population is black. But as institutional concerns persist, it’s apparent Evanston police can’t fall back on these factors and assume they prevent discriminatory behavior from occurring. Rather, EPD still needs more comprehensive change which addresses issues in their broader context. National policing statistics reveal racial bias can affect even the most seemingly progressive cities and communities — black and Latinx people are regularly impacted disproportionately by police stops and searches, among numerous other disparities. Next door to Evanston, Chicago police were found to engage in a “pattern or practice of unlawful conduct” and that the Chicago Police Department has “tolerated racially discriminatory conduct” behavior in a 164-page report by the U.S. Department of Justice last year. Even here, a study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — which examined traffic stops from 132 police agencies through 16 states — found that in 2014, Evanston police were seven times more likely to search a black driver than a white one, and that EPD had the highest black to white search ratio of any department. Although a tool in improving police relations, body cameras don’t directly address systemic causes of these discrepancies. Last year, a video was released showing Evanston
police’s 2015 arrest of Northwestern graduate student Lawrence Crosby after someone mistook him for breaking into a car he owned. The video shows officers striking Crosby’s knees and upper thighs, and one officer can be heard saying, “I didn’t shoot you. … You should feel lucky for that.” Police dashboard camera recordings of Crosby’s arrest were made public after a third-party Freedom of Information Act request. Body camera footage will similarly be available to residents only through FOIA requests, which require approval from the department, as well as consent from the person involved, Sgt. Jay Parrott told The Daily in January. Still, as Crosby’s arrest illustrates, accessible police footage doesn’t always prevent incidents from occurring in the first place. While Evanston police’s rollout of body cameras will surely benefit communitypolice relations by holding officers and the department accountable, it can’t be viewed as anything more than that. EPD must also consistently work to address implicit biases in policing, excessive use of force and concerns about racial profiling, among other institutional issues. This piece represents the majority opinion of the Editorial Board of The Daily Northwestern. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members or Editorial Board members of The Daily Northwestern.
Learning to love Northwestern as a multiethnic woman ANISA CODAMON
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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. Being a student at Northwestern felt isolating for a very long time. To start, no one looked like me. I had dark skin, Asian eyes and a culture that was unrelatable to many other people around me. I am half Honduran (Hispanic descent) and half Filipino (Asian descent). My first impressions of other NU students’ cultural awareness were often shaped by questions like, “You look so exotic, what are you?” and “Are you Mexican?” These questions felt representative of NU — some students had great exposure to other cultures and ethnicities, but many others clearly did not. My intention is not to paint any students as ignorant — that word creates an image of being set in stone. I also cannot
speak to another individual’s experience, nor am I trying to, but I only ask that you respect how I process people and their interactions with me. During Winter Quarter of my freshman year, I finally began to feel like part of a community when I joined Kaibigan, NU’s Filipinx student organization, for its annual Pinoy Show. I first heard about the show after a friend in my sorority found out that I was half Filipino and asked if I wanted to join a dance for the production. I was ready to decline, just as I had declined many other possible extracurricular opportunities that had arose since starting school, because I consistently felt consumed by pre-med work. But on another note, I also didn’t want to be consumed by a solely Filipina identity. If I participated, Kaibigan would be the only thing I was involved in at the time. But I did it — partially because I was desperate to form a better connection with my sorority sister in hopes of feeling more integral in our sorority — an environment that felt uncomfortable for a long time for the same reasons NU did. No matter how different I was from these women in the way that I looked or the culture that I grew up in, I wanted nothing more than to find some kind of connection within the community. I feared I would never make good friends who cared about me or my experiences. I wanted to be anywhere else but NU. I tried to keep reminding myself that I was
here to study, become a doctor and shape myself into becoming that “perfect role model” for my three younger siblings. My family couldn’t have been prouder of these “dreams” and my siblings needed hope, which made my horrifying grades and devastating loneliness all the worse to tackle. Despite my inner conflict, I joined Kaibigan. It felt selfish — devoting time to something outside of studying that might allow me to feel happy and included — because my parents were taking out unbelievable loans for me to be in class and focus on academics. But I knew I needed to step away from that toxic mentality and remember what made me unique in the homogeneity of lecture hall constituents, and that was my multiethnicity. That spring, I engaged in a class that would completely transform my view of NU. I enrolled in a Latina and Latino Studies course that discussed urban education, focusing on Chicago. I’ve always been careful to listen to others, and hearing the contributions and perspectives of the Latinx students in the class began to create for me a different “Northwestern.” By our fourth class, I was literally in tears — I couldn’t believe that I was discussing challenging experiences and concepts that were relatable to me and my identities with other NU students, a collective that I had largely come to know as callous, competitive and unkind. It was both overwhelming and incredible. I realized there were multiple communities that I
identified with on campus, and I would have found them sooner had I allowed myself to try what truly interested me — whether that was taking a class in the Latina and Latino Studies Program (which has still yet to gain full departmental recognition) or practicing cultural dances for a group that now means the world to me. Unfortunately, I often still entertain the idea that I may never truly belong at NU because of my multiethnic identity, but even just breaking down that struggle as I write this has made an impact on my perspective of our school community as a whole. This has reminded me that there are many spaces on campus to discuss and learn from others, for which I am grateful, even if they’re not always readily apparent. While it’s been a process, I’m learning to appreciate all of the interactions that I have had here because they’ve exposed me to many other thoughtful and personal perspectives which help mature my own. Promise yourself a lifetime of pursuing diverse experiences and you will not feel so alone.
Anisa Codamon is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at AnisaCodamon2020@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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The African Students Association hosted its annual culture show, Jabulani, on Sunday in Norris University Center. Members showcased African clothing, including vibrant Ghanaian dress, and performed music, dance and poetry. Jabulani, a celebratory word, means “rejoice� in Zulu.
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Council to discuss recycling, store modernization By RYAN WANGMAN
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Aldermen will center their discussions at Monday’s City Council meeting on a proposed recycling program and revisions to the city’s storefront modernization program, among other agenda items. In a memo, the city’s Public Works Agency director Dave Stoneback and Evanston’s environmental service coordinator Paul D’Agostino said city staff recommends City Council authorize the city manager to execute a contract for residential soft-recycling services. The program would require no city funding to operate, and
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have an online platform as well as a physical publication. He envisions the Queer Reader as a mixture of feature stories on problems the queer community faces on campus and beyond and “fun” topics such as female pleasure, and as a space where writers aren’t afraid to be radical, he said. “I would love for this to be something that presses on some hot-button issues,” Colyar said. “I want to push up against Greek life. I want to
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Several panelists stressed “coalition building” to amass the power to push university administrators. Others discussed what they said was unfair media coverage, which one panelist said prompted him to establish media-free spaces for activists. The panel discussion, held in the Rebecca Crown Center, was preceded by a speech by Provost Jonathan Holloway, who read excerpts from his upcoming book on the history of black student movements. Holloway, a scholar of African American history and black student activism, discussed in his speech the difficulty of responding to student movements while he was a professor and dean at Yale University.
would allow residents of single-family homes or buildings of five or fewer units the ability to recycle materials not currently handled by the city’s weekly recycling program. The contractor who would collect the soft recyclables — items that weigh less than fifty pounds and can be carried by one person — would pay the city a fee of one cent per pound of gross receipts for those recyclables, according to the memo. This would result in additional city revenue ranging from $60 to $250 a month, based on a city staff review of other municipalities already using the services. “While these revenues are not significant, the program has the potential to divert a large amount of material from the landfill,” the memo reads.
Also at council on Monday, aldermen will discuss the storefront modernization program, which provides funding assistance for Evanston small business or property owners to update and maintain street-level retail space in the city’s business districts, according to city documents. The Business District Improvement Fund will provide up to $100,000 for the program in 2018. “One of the things we learned was that … a way to incentivize retail development (was) we could help businesses with these improvements,” Evanston’s economic development division manager Paul Zalmezak said in 2016. “If we could help small business build out spaces, then that would help retail.” Initially, the program only provided funds for exterior improvements, but it was revised in
2015 to include eligibility for interior projects in certain situations, a provision that has only been used to fund three major projects. It has funded an average of seven projects each fiscal year from 2012 to 2017 and has only exceeded $100,000 of annual spending twice, according to city documents. As a result, city staff recommends Evanston remove eligibility for interior renovations and cap individual improvement projects at $25,000 per applicant for fiscal year 2018. According to city documents, staff also recommends a targeted incentive to provide funding to eligible improvement projects in particular areas across the city.
The Collective will continue to host teach-ins about this proposal, Garcia said. The group hosted one on Wednesday already. They’re also sharing information about the importance of these studies through hashtags on their Facebook page: #llsptaughtme and #aasptaughtme.
The collective is encouraging students and alumni to share on the Facebook page how these programs impacted their education. Garcia said the stories being shared online show how LLSP and AASP programs help students learn about themselves. “I think a common thing is learning about our
identities that are usually silenced by the dominant narrative, the dominant white narrative, and coming to terms with our perceived marginalization and knowing that there are ways out of this,” Garcia said.
be loud and call out the administration, (which) really likes a pretty image of itself. When you push and pull against that image, there’s a really rich space for activism.“ Colyar, who is majoring in gender and sexuality studies and journalism, worked with professors in both departments as advisers for his magazine, he said. In doing so, he said he hopes the Queer Reader is not seen as a publication just for Medill students. In addition, he said he is devoted to ensuring his publication is not just for queer people. Colyar believes that one’s gender or race can
cause their sexuality to be policed in a way that provides common ground for both queer and nonqueer people. The Queer Reader aims to find that common ground and unite people, he said. Spencer Colton, the ASG senator for Rainbow Alliance, said Colyar’s magazine is creating an important space for LGBTQ voices and unity. “I was really excited to hear that we have a magazine like this,” Colton said. “It’d be awesome if this can be a unifying voice for the queer community here so we can all rally behind some idea(s) … and push for social change.” Colton said the queer community at
Northwestern is lacking in unity, and he hopes the magazine can help to bridge that divide. It’s a sentiment Bienasz agrees with. She said she hopes the Queer Reader can be a unique space for the LGBTQ community. “People need a space to talk about gay things,” Bienasz said. “It’s incredibly difficult for people in the queer community to exist as queer people, and people need a space where they can voice that and they can voice it in a space that’s all their own.”
“Professor Holloway was like ‘This is great — look at this happening, students are waking up,’” Holloway told The Daily. “And the dean (in me) was like, ‘Oh God, students are waking up.’ Not that I wanted them to be quiet, but the dean in me wanted to say, ‘This is a lot more complicated than it looks on the surface.’” Holloway was the dean of Yale College when the Black Lives Matter movement reached college campuses in response to the deaths of Brown and other unarmed black men at the hands of police officers. As Yale’s campus grappled with a series of racially charged incidents in 2015, Holloway became a “potent symbol for hundreds of African American activists on campus” after he gave an impromptu speech to students saying he would “do better,” according to the Yale Daily News. At Northwestern, however, the dynamic is
different, he said. As provost, he is less “studentfacing,” as his position revolves more around interactions with administrators and faculty than at Yale. The panelists discussed several aspects of organizing, such as the use of Twitter and other traditional media outlets. Oberholtzer said hashtags on social media sites make it easier to find past information on issues faced by activists. She added that self-care is a problem often overlooked by activists, as the issues they face are “depressing.” “I realize there was this moment where I noticed my boundaries, noticed this was too much,” Oberholtzer said. She stressed the importance of “creating a culture, wherever you build community, that checks in with each other regularly and is very intentionally prioritizing each
person.” Weinberg sophomore Sayeed Sanchez said he attended the event to learn about and get more involved in social justice advocacy at Northwestern. Sanchez said he wasn’t previously aware of the similarities between the experiences of students of color at many elite institutions. “I really appreciated that we had panelists who had a history at other places and incorporated concrete examples and histories of the similarities and also differences of their experience,” he said. “I’ll really be thinking about how these issues manifest (at places) like Northwestern and Columbia (University) … and how students of color and faculty can combat against that.”
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Northwestern opens season 4-1 at Kajikawa Classic By ANDREW GOLDEN
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After dropping its season opener in Tempe, Arizona on Friday, Northwestern won its next four games to finish 4-1 at the Kajikawa Classic. It’s the Wildcats’ best start to a season since 2014, when they opened 4-1 en route to a 35-18 season and an appearance in the NCAA Regional Championship game. NU (4-1) opened the tournament with a 4-1 loss to No. 7 Arizona (4-1), managing just one run on three hits, before bouncing back with a 7-6 win in extra innings over San Diego State. The Cats won their next three games easily, outscoring Boise State, Indiana and South Dakota by a combined
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From page 8 it was a big game for us and for them. They were the ones that threw the first punch. They were the ones that dictated the tempo and the way the game was played, and because of that, they won.” Redshirt sophomore Aaron Falzon — who has been the only consistent contributor off the bench recently — once again led that group in scoring with 8 points. Falzon is responsible for 11 of NU’s
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number of attempts for a player who averages 12.5 points per game. “We just tried to double him basically,” Maryland coach Mark Turgeon said. “Our backside of our ball screen defense was terrific today,
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while pouring in 16 themselves. As the team’s losing streak extended to seven games, McKeown said NU has been tested
score of 29-9. NU’s recipe for success this weekend was big innings. The offense found a rhythm with 5-run outbursts in the first innings against San Diego State and South Dakota and in the sixth against Indiana. The Cats’ offense relied on its veteran core to help propel them this weekend. Junior infielder Lily Novak stood out at the plate, batting .500 while hitting two doubles and driving in 7 runs. She said that the offensive explosion was a result of building on each other’s confidence at the start of each inning. “We just said that we were going to be really aggressive,” Novak said. “We were able to respond in the first inning in that (San Diego State) game, and we kept that going in all of our games and came out really strong in every game.”
Senior shortstop Marissa Panko and senior centerfielder Sabrina Rabin tied for the team lead with 7 runs scored. Rabin has now scored 158 total runs in her career and surpassed Marisa Bast over the weekend to become third on the Cats’ all-time runs scored list. A couple of first-year players were key contributors to the team as well. Freshman second baseman Rachel Lewis batted .400 and was third on the team with five RBIs. Freshman pitcher Kenna Wilkeyhit a home run in the first at-bat of her collegiate career. On the mound, Wilkey pitched a complete game in her second start against Indiana, giving up 1 run on four hits while striking out seven. After a rough outing against San Diego State, she said that her mindset was the difference between her two performances.
“I just changed the way I thought,” Wilkey said. “I wasn’t as nervous, and I just told myself, ‘You’ve been doing this your whole life, I mean, what’s different now?’” Wilkey said that she is glad NU has a deep rotation of five pitchers because they can back her up if she’s having an off day. While Wilkey was dealing, junior pitcher Kaley Winegarner struggled. After posting a team-low 2.85 ERA last season, she gave up 8 earned runs in 8.1 innings pitched. Regardless of the shaky start for Winegarner, Wilkey said she knows that this tournament will help the team prepare for the rest of the season. “I think it gives us more confidence,” Wilkey said. “I think we are ready for whatever is to come.”
22 bench points over the past three games. Falzon and freshman guard Anthony Gaines were the only bench players who played more than seven minutes Saturday. With junior guard Jordan Ash out with a lower body injury and Collins seemingly reluctant to play other members of the team, the starters were forced to carry a heavy load. The Cats only had two players in double figures: Lindsey and junior center Dererk Pardon, who had 12. Maryland actually scored fewer
bench points — only nine — but had four starters score 10 or more points. “Everybody that played, played well,” Maryland coach Mark Turgeon said. “Once we locked in, that’s as good as we’ve been defensively. We played shots, we rebounded better in the second half and just did a lot of good things.” NU’s chances of receiving another at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament took another hit with the loss. While this year’s squad took down No. 20 Michigan at home, the rest of the team’s
resume is marked with disappointing road losses and unimpressive victories. The Cats opened the season ranked No. 19 in the country, but have already tallied more regular season losses than last year’s record-breaking team. “It’s disappointing. We’d won four of our last five. We were feeling good about how we were playing, starting to hit our stride,” Collins said. “But we came up short. We were outplayed today.”
and that made the whole difference.” Shooting has been an issue for NU this season. The Cats have the third-lowest scoring offense in the Big Ten, averaging 70.4 points per game, and the second-lowest field goal percentage in the conference at 43 percent. Another offensive statistic that stands out comes from the free-throw line: NU has the best
free-throw percentage in the Big Ten at 76 percent, but has only 462 free-throw attempts on the season, the second-lowest in the conference. Collins said he hopes the Cats — and specifically, McIntosh — will be able to be capitalize on more offensive opportunities in their next few games. “(Maryland’s) principles were really good
against us and we could just never really free (McIntosh) up for clean looks,” Collins said. “Hopefully we get a chance to play these guys again and we’ll get to watch film and put him in a position to be more effective when they come to our place.”
in more ways than most young teams, specifying that the Cats have been challenged by dominant guards and post players and have lost blowouts and overtime thrillers in this disappointing stretch. He said their ball-handling, shot selection
and basketball IQ have to improve in less than three weeks before the Big Ten Tournament, which he sees as NU’s best chance to turn the season around. In the meantime, he said he’ll try to ensure his team stays the course. “We’re a little bit limited with the injuries
we’ve had and the youth,” he said. “But, I’ll tell you what, coming off the road at Michigan and Indiana, these guys are playing really hard. I hope people respect that.”
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Wildcats struggle on offense and defense in loss at Maryland By JOSEPH WILKINSON
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Northwestern traveled to Maryland looking for its first-ever true road win against the Terrapins, but the Wildcats fell woefully short, losing 73-57 on Saturday. Maryland (17-10, 6-8 Big Ten) started hot, taking a 28-14 lead early in the first half, and NU (15-11, 6-7) couldn’t catch up from there. A 3-pointer by senior guard Scottie Lindsey cut the deficit to five late in the
first half, but the Cats would never get closer than that for the rest of the game. “The start of both halves were huge, for them and against us,” coach Chris Collins said. “Maryland deserved to win. They played very well.” Lindsey led NU in scoring, putting up 20 points on 20 shots, but he couldn’t keep up with Maryland guard Kevin Huerter, who scored 22, including his first three attempts from long range to pace the Terrapins to their large early lead. The Cats had trouble containing the hosts from deep all game. Maryland started 7-of-10 from 3-point range and
finished the game shooting 43 percent from behind the arc. NU was solid from 3-point range as well, shooting almost 38 percent, but the Cats made only 10 of their 33 attempts from inside the arc. Senior guard Bryant McIntosh didn’t score, committed three turnovers and only had one assist in his final game in College Park. “We could just never free him up for clean looks,” Collins said. “We understood that » See LOSS, page 7
NU tormented by shooting woes By ELLA BROCKWAY
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Bryant McIntosh’s first shot attempt of Northwestern’s game at Maryland came with 10:22 left in the first half. The senior guard found an opening in the lane late in the shot clock, drove down the middle and put up a floater that missed the rim. That first attempt foreshadowed how the rest of the afternoon would go for the Wildcats. McIntosh was held scoreless for the first time in his career and NU (15-11, 6-7 Big Ten) continued to struggle from the field in Saturday
afternoon’s 73-57 loss to the Terrapins (17-10, 6-8). The Cats shot only 33 percent, their fourth lowest percentage this season. The offense felt the effects of McIntosh’s quiet day. The senior was held to a season-low one assist in the loss, and it was just the third time in his 125-game career that McIntosh finished with more turnovers, with three total, than points. “Any time a good player struggles like that, I think you have to credit the defense,” coach Chris Collins said. “I thought they did a great job swarming in our pick-and-roll game. I thought for whatever reason he was a step slow with his energy today.” Senior guard Scottie Lindsey led
the team with 20 points, but only five of those 20 came in the second half. The Cats, coming off of a 61-52 win over Michigan in which they held the Wolverines to a 25 percent second-half shooting percentage, faced a Maryland offense that hit eight of its first nine shots of the game and shot 53 percent from the field overall. NU’s defense showed some promise in the second half, forcing the Terrapins to go 2-for-7 from 3-point range, but the Cats were unable to convert on the opposite end. Three of McIntosh’s five attempts came after the break, a season-low » See SHOOTING, page 7
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Losing streak extends to 7 games Lack of depth hurts NU against Hawkeyes 70 By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH
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Even when the calls went his way, coach Joe McKeown was loud. It’s a part of his nature, he said, one that hasn’t changed in nearly 1,000 games of coaching. So after freshman guard Lindsey Pulliam drove to the basket with seven minutes to go and drew an and-one with Northwestern (9-17, 2-10 Big Ten) down 12, McKeown shouted until he was sure the foul had gone his team’s way. He got the and-one and a warning from the referees as he tried to do what he could to light a fire under his team in its 70-61 loss to Iowa (20-6, 8-5). But McKeown’s motivation wasn’t enough to turn the tide. “We have a young team, so you’re always trying to make sure they know what I want,” he said. “I’m trying to keep the flame going.” Throughout the game, as foul trouble limited Pallas KunaiyiAkpanah and freshman guard Jordan Hamilton, NU couldn’t find a consistent source of offense. The junior forward led the Cats with 17 points in just 25 minutes, but the rest of the team shot 32.7 percent from the field. Pulliam and Hamilton especially struggled scoring over Iowa center Megan Gustafson, who finished with 25 points and 16 rebounds and stopped several opportunities on the defensive end. McKeown said they prioritized getting the ball out of her hands, but NU had little success
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taking her out of the game. “I was just trying to be aggressive,” Kunaiyi-Akpanah said. “The game plan was trying to deny (Gustafson) the ball, so whenever I was playing D on her and they passed her the ball I tried to quickly jump
to it. But they run a lot of plays for her, and she’s really good.” After spotting the Hawkeyes an 8-point lead to end the first quarter, NU eliminated the gap as Pulliam’s shooting troubled their zone defense. The freshman hit a pull-up midrange jumper to tie the score at 21, but after an Iowa timeout, the Hawkeyes switched to man-to-man and limited the Cats to 2 points for the last seven minutes of the half, » See STREAK, page 7
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Jordan Hamilton comes off a screen from Abi Scheid. Hamilton had only 7 points on 10 shot attempts in the loss to Iowa.
By JOSEPH WILKINSON
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Over the past week, Northwestern has played three games, has lost all three and has played only eight players in all three games. That lack of depth held the Wildcats back Sunday, as they struggled to keep up in a fast-paced, high-scoring battle against Iowa in Evanston. NU’s seventh straight loss, this one by a score of 70-61, really got away from the Cats (9-17, 2-10 Big Ten) late in the first half, when Iowa ripped off a 16-2 run to take a 14-point lead into halftime. Foul trouble was a major problem for NU on the day. With freshman guard Jordan Hamilton and junior forward Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah each picking up their second fouls during that stretch, sophomores Abbie Wolf and Byrdy Galernik were thrust into the lineup for significant stretches. The duo combined for 12 points on 4-of-7 shooting, filling in ably on the offensive end but struggling to contain the Hawkeyes’ attack. “Foul trouble, for us, it’s a tough street for us to go down,” coach Joe McKeown said. “We need Jordan and Pallas on the floor.” Constantly on the floor were freshman guard Lindsey Pulliam and sophomore forward Abi Scheid. Scheid played all 40 minutes Sunday, while Pulliam played 39. Both players average at least 36 minutes per game in conference play, and neither has sat more
than two minutes in any of the previous three games. McKeown has been forced to deploy his starters for heavy minutes due to several injuries and departures from the program. Senior guard Lydia Rohde has missed time with an upper-body injury, freshman Lauryn Satterwhite is out for the year with a lower-body injury and would-be junior forward Amber Jamison took a leave of absence from the program. With a short bench and the starters dealing with a heavy workload, the Cats struggled to keep pace with the Hawkeyes’ attack. In the fast-paced first half, the hosts committed nine turnovers — including a careless inbounds pass that led to a wide open Iowa layup — and struggled to stop Iowa, which shot over 55 percent from the field. The Hawkeyes didn’t let up in the last two quarters either, shooting almost 60 percent from the field. Star forward Megan Gustafson, who leads the Big Ten in scoring, poured in 14 points and made all six of her shots from the field. While Kunaiyi-Akpanah was able to keep NU within striking distance, scoring 12 points of her own after the break, Scheid and Pulliam struggled in the second half, making only four of their 13 combined shot attempts. “We keep telling them, just keep playing hard,” McKeown said. “Our whole staff is doing a great job. We’re a little bit limited with the injuries we’ve had and the youth, but … these guys are playing really hard. I hope people respect that.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu