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Arturo Fuerte, Willard Elementary School music teacher, is one of 30 finalists for the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching this year. He said he loves the mess in the music room because it shows how much he and the students work. In his free time, Fuerte coaches 23 student bands.

Fuerte’s impact felt by students Willard Elementary feels effect of Golden Apple teaching award finalist

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Now a finalist for the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching, Arturo Fuerte has been recognized for his work in music instruction. But if not for an educator in his life, he may never have picked up the instrument he dedicated decades to playing.

It was Roger Rickson, a thenmusic director at Riverside City College, that offered him a spot in a music group, gave him a bass trombone for free, and paid for his first lesson. When Rickson found out Fuerte lived with a roommate and couldn’t practice in the mornings, he offered to come in early to the college — so early that the janitor hadn’t even opened the building’s doors.

“He used to live 45 minutes

Georgetown votes for full divestment Fossil Free GU could provide blueprint for NU

By GABBY BIRENBAUM

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On Feb. 6, Georgetown University’s president announced the school’s Board of Directors had voted to stop investing endowment funds into fossil fuel firms and withdraw existing holdings from those companies.

In doing so, Georgetown became one of the first private universities to do what student-activists across the country have been calling for for nearly a decade — fully divesting from fossil fuels.

Georgetown is not the only one — Johns Hopkins University,

the University of California system, Middlebury College and Smith College have all voted for full divestment. With over 50 campus Fossil Free clubs across the world participating in Feb. 13’s Global Divestment Day and the movement garnering national media attention after both Harvard University and Yale University’s clubs staged a joint protest at the annual Harvard-Yale football game, the divestment movement has risen from its humble beginnings to become a centerpiece of national student activism. Fossil Free Georgetown, which began in 2012, is among the most prominent successes.

“We’re all really, really excited that they did take this step,” said Sadie Morris, a sophomore member of Fossil Free Georgetown. » See GEORGETOWN, page 6

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away, and he would drive in so that there was an instructor around,” Fuerte said. “He’d sacrifice for someone who just wanted to practice and develop their musicianship. I’ve had so many people go out of their way to make me a successful musician, I feel like I owe it to pay it forward.”

Fuerte said that year, he went from being the worst bass trombone player at RCC to winning a music department award. He

would go on to study music and play professionally for years, but Fuerte said it was people like Rickson who motivated him to ultimately become a music teacher.

On Feb. 22, the Golden Apple Foundation will recognize Fuerte and other finalists in a celebration. Alan Mather, president of the Golden Apple Foundation, emphasized the importance of » See APPLE, page 6

Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Executive Director Annelise Riles presented Northwestern’s Global Strategic Plan at Faculty Senate on Wednesday in Scott Hall’s Guild Lounge.

The presentation outlined the University’s ongoing process to prepare students and faculty to be global leaders, and invest in research that addresses pressing global problems like sustainability.

Riles said Northwestern’s commitment to this strategic plan will contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, making it one of the first U.S. universities to do so. Some of these goals include gender equality, affordable and clean energy, climate action and quality education. This agenda, she said, was adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as broad goals to reach by 2030.

“We’re holding ourselves to an international standard,” Riles said.

“Not just one we made up, not just our own vision of what’s important, but a standard that is globally recognized.”

After 10 years of planning, Riles said the Global Strategic Plan only needs approval from the provost, president and Board of Trustees until it can be launched in March.

Riles said Northwestern’s signature strength is its reputation as one of only four U.S. universities that rank in the top 20 across all categories of graduate education in U.S. News’ rankings. The University’s reputation, she said, should be utilized to advance global opportunity and promote collaboration on a global scale. The Buffett Institute has piloted an Idea Incubation Workshop to create a space for multidisciplinary collaboration that can address the U.N. sustainability goals.

Slavic languages and literatures prof. Susan McReynolds asked how the Institute’s workshops plan to include support for projects in the humanities that may not fall along with the 17 U.N. sustainability goals. She said her research in Russian Literature and Culture, » See FACULTY SENATE, page 6

Students weigh in on free speech at NU

Ahead of election, community members shared perspectives on issue

By ARIANNA CARPATI

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As the 2020 election season progresses, students are reviewing what free speech means at Northwestern.This May, a committee of students and administrators will re-evaluate the University’s demonstration policy as is done every two years.

As of May 2018, the policy states, “The University encourages freedom of speech, freedom of inquiry, freedom of dissent and freedom to demonstrate in a peaceful fashion. Regardless of their own views, community members share a corresponding responsibility to welcome and promote this freedom for all.”

Following protests in response to Jeff Sessions’ talk on campus

last November, 11 charges were issued against five students, and subsequently dropped. Since then, students have re-examined their definition of free speech and how it aligns with University policies.

In an interview with The Daily last week, University President Morton Schapiro said he and senior staff members have been continue to discuss how to handle demonstrations on campus. He emphasized that their priority is “to keep everybody safe.”

Weinberg senior Henry Molnar, founder of FreeSpeechNU, will be on the Policy Review Committee reviewing the policy this spring. He said free speech should extend to everyone so far as it is not violent or destructive, and agrees with the University that harassment is unacceptable.

“At the end of the day it really comes down to students’abilities to

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A beachball rolled in front of the Technological Institue in 2017 to protest the University’s free speech policies.

protest in a way that as long as the protests are not violent in nature or are not destroying property, students should have the right to protest in a way that is disruptive,” he said.

Weinberg senior Dominic Bayer, vice president of NU

College Republicans, advocated for free speech and protests on campus so long as they do not constitute harassment such as targeted threats or the intention of harming an individual. » See FREE SPEECH, page 6

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AROUND TOWN Local women business owners reflect on leadership

By MAIA SPOTO

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As Northwestern University celebrates 150 Years of Women, three of Downtown Evanston’s female business owners reflected on their personal experiences leading local businesses and influencing their communities.

As of 2019, 42 percent of all businesses in the United States are women-owned — a 21 percent jump from the proportion of women-owned businesses in 2014, according to an American Express report. U.S. Census Bureau data indicates that the proportion in Evanston is slightly higher than the national average, around 44 percent.

Downtown Evanston business owners Amy Morton, Sarita Kamat and Nina Barrett (Medill ‘87) each relate their identities and their leadership styles differently. As they balance their missions, relationships and business strategies, these women draw from talent and hard work to engage and empower their neighbors.

Amy Morton, owner of Found Kitchen and Social House, The Barn Steakhouse and Patty Squared, said she “tried desperately to get out” of the restaurant industry.

A fourth-generation restaurateur, Morton worked in restaurants with her father for many years and ran her own business in Chicago when she was younger. But for a time, she struggled to see purpose in her work. She said it was difficult to juggle raising her family with the restaurant industry’s around-the-clock hours.

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“I felt that I was missing meaning in my life,” Morton said. “I felt that I was just feeding people of means… When I was thinking about going back to work ten years ago, before I opened Found, it dawned on me that if I’m going to give up this much time from my girls, I also need to make a difference.”

So she launched Found with the mission to employ individuals coming out of homelessness.

Working primarily alongside the Evanston organization Connections for the Homeless, Morton trains and supports individuals as they gain independence.

While a number of her hires do climb the ranks from dishwashing to prep work to cooking, Morton said sometimes Found and its employees “fall away from each other.”

However, she said she has faith that her work, which supports individuals developing healthy decision-making habits, will make a difference in the long run.

An ongoing search for balance that weaves her life as an entrepreneur with her life as a mother defines her story so far, Morton said.

“I felt really fortunate to be able to model this for my girls,” she said. “That you don’t have to be perfect, and it’s okay to ask for help.”

Sarita Kamat, on the other hand, doesn’t have to split time between her business and her family, because she runs the Artem Pop Up Gallery alongside her husband and two children.

The family took over the gallery about a year ago. Kamat said she leads Artem to provide an outlet for other local artists, while also supporting her own work as a jewelry designer.

Artem’s central mission lies in establishing self-worth — Kamat said many artists price their pieces far too low.

“We teach them to value their work first, before they sell it,” Kamat said. “So other people learn to value it, and they get a fair price. It’s really good work.”

Kamat also helps her artists cultivate a social media presence to market their work.

While she curates her collection of vendors, Kamat said she looks for a spectrum of artists who complement each other. As a result, her store represents a wide range of mediums and expressions.

“If you ask me, it’s very hard to name a favorite,” Kamat said. “They are all my favorite.”

As Kamat teaches artists to advocate for themselves, Barrett, the owner of Bookends and Beginnings, teaches her employees to be entrepreneurs.

“You’re mentoring people to understand that they are responsible for part of the business,” Barrett said. “That it’s important if they do their jobs well, it’s important if they bring ideas to their work, that it’s important if they understand the bigger picture of bookselling.”

As part of her strategy to facilitate autonomy and leadership within the business, Barrett sends employees to national booksellers conferences.

She also encourages her employees to engage customers in unique programming initiatives.

For example, employee Brooke Williams leads a science fiction and fantasy book club that centers around works written by women, members of the LGBTQ+ community and people of color.

“My goal is to reach out to those people and show them the exciting, philosophical, really deep stuff about science fiction and fantasy in a way that is inclusive,” Williams said.

Barrett said she used to dream of becoming an editor at a famous publishing house, or of writing for the New York Times as the next Lois Lane.

She said she never anticipated becoming a bookstore owner — but now, she embraces her role.

“It’s like you’re being a little museum curator,” Barrett said. “You’re having a cultural impact… a little impact on a lot of people every day.”

valued at around $300, Evanston police said.

The incident took place on Feb. 6 at around 8 p.m., though it wasn’t reported until employees completed inventory the following day. The man reportedly removed the security device and exited with the product unnoticed, Evanston police Cmdr. Brian Henry said.

Police investigated using surveillance video and

identified the man as someone known to them. He was arrested on Elmwood Avenue.

unclear, Henry said.

The value of the damage done to the garages and the property has not yet been assessed. The owners will report costs after repairs are started.

Little suspect information is available, though three teens were seen running down the street.

Residential property vandalized

Two garages and one car in the 1800 block of Wesley Avenue were defaced Tuesday at around 8:30 p.m..

The property, each with a different owner, had graffiti sprayed on it, though the images were

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Bookends and Beginnings. Nina Barrett, owner of Bookends and Beginnings, said she encourages her employees to take entrepreneurship roles within the store.

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ON CAMPUS ASG votes to reduce total Senate seats

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Associated Student Government Senate debated the composition of their group to consider a constitutional amendment to decrease the number of senators at this Wednesday’s session before voting to pass it.

The amendment to reduce ASG seats, proposed by Speaker of the Senate Matthew Wylie, passed in a 36-1 vote with two abstentions.

Students interested in running for Senate seats in the future can now expect to compete for 41 seats instead of the original 51. The seats are now composed of 18 seats from schools, 18 from student groups, 1 from Student Athletic Advisory Committee and 4 from Greek organizations.

This session, officials also noted, marks one of the highest attendance rates the Senate has seen in Winter Quarter, following a Feb. 12 meeting in which the Senate did not reach quorum, the simple majority of members to be able to vote on an amendment.

“I am glad that we were able to make some progress,” Wylie said. “Change is a slow, long process and we took a step in the right direction.”

The passage of the constitutional amendment also happened in conjunction with enacting legislation proposed by ASG Parliamentarian Elizabeth Sperti regarding the Student Group Apportionment Committee, which appoints student group senator seats.

The Senate passed the measure, updating the code to include that the committee “must prioritize selecting student groups that serve marginalized students.”

This means ASG will have the opportunity of facilitating a more open-ended and involved discussion of the matter of representing student identity groups on their own terms.

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ASG’s deputy vice president Margot Bartol supervises records of proposed senate compositions.

Senate should be composed. Senators suggested designating specific seats to organizations like For Members Only and QuestBridge Scholars.

Others suggested eliminating Greek seats completely to consolidate them into student groups.

In contrast to these proposals, senators also brought up that while there was intent to represent student groups, ASG should not be the deciders to designate who gets to be represented.

After the debate, Weinberg sophomore Margot Bartol, ASG’s deputy vice president, said there needs to be a much longer conversation beyond the session.

“Having permanent seats for marginalized communities (is) I think something that can work and it works for other schools,” she said.

“But the way it was presented tonight, like for specific groups that were going to be chosen and however many other marginalized communities that weren’t gonna be represented in that same way, felt really problematic to me … If we’re going to do it, we gotta do it right.”

Bartol also brought up considering

constituency senatorship, which is a representative method successfully used by the student government in the University of Iowa, in which members of certain identities vote on senators that can represent them.

Senators noted that even student groups dedicated to serving marginalized communities have failed to represent intersectionality in the past.

Daniel Rodriguez, a SESP sophomore senator, said he pushed for schools with smaller student populations to have proportional seats. He added that he also advocated for separation in Greek seats so that there was more room to represent student groups of marginalized identities as well.

“It is a step in the right direction,” Rodriguez said. “I definitely think that there’s still conversations to have about how we can have overall representation on campus on marginalized communities, but I think it does (extend) the olive tree branch so people from all different backgrounds are able to talk.”

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The cast of “Xanadu.” The genderbent production brings a queer vision to a famously campy film.

Genderbending ‘Xanadu’ delivers radical, queer joy

By WILSON CHAPMAN

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When Communication senior Shane Eichstaedt was a “very gay and very sad” 13-year old, they went to see their friend in a local production of “Xanadu,” a musical version of the famously terrible Olivia Newton-John film. Eichstaedt fell in love with the show, but also knew that it would be so much better if they had the opportunity to implement their unique vision.

And that vision was incredibly, extrodinarily queer. “‘Xanadu’ didn’t know how gay it was until I told it it was,” Eichstaedt said.

Now, Eichstaedt is bringing their queer version of “Xanadu” to life in McCormick Auditorium. The musical, which is produced by WAVE Productions, will go up this Friday and close after a two-day run.

“Xanadu” tells the story of Clio, a Greek Muse who travels from Mount Olympus to Venice Beach, California disguised as an Australian woman “Kira,” with the goal of helping struggling artist Sonny achieve greatness. The two

set out to build a roller disco, but complications ensue when Kira develops feelings for Sonny, as the Muses are forbidden by Zeus from entering relationships with mortals.

The original 1980 movie musical version of “Xanadu,” which starred Newton-John and Gene Kelly with music from Electric Light Orchestra, was a notorious box office flop and critical failure. It did however spawn “Magic,” a number one hit single for Newton-John, and developed a cult following, especially in queer communities. The musical version, which premiered on Broadway in 2007, is a loving parody of the film, taking a tongue-in-cheek and intentionally camp approach to the material.

Communication senior and “Xanadu” producer Sophia Barron said WAVE as an organization is focused on producing work they feel like the campus needs, and the team was interested in producing a fun, bright show to cheer people up during the dead of winter. In addition they are very director-focused and support directors with specific visions for their material, and Eichstaedt had a very clear vision of bringing a fun, celebratory show to campus.

For their production, Eichstaedt opened up the roles in the script to performers of all gender

identities, casting solely based on ability. Because of this, Sonny is now played by a woman, queering the central relationship of the story. In addition, the character Danny, a tough real estate mogul with a heart of gold, is also portrayed as a queer women in this production.

“The movie is pretty old, it’s set in the 80s, so it’s interesting to look at it as if it’s reflective of the 80s but also we’re doing it now in 2020,” Barron said. “(We’re) kind of reflecting on how relationships can look like now, and they don’t have to just be the way they are in the movie.”

Danny is played by Communication freshman Anelga Hajjar, who said that making the character a woman has added significant nuance to the role. Danny is a very traditionally masculine character, but when Danny is portrayed as a woman, it adds another layer of her performing masculinity to succeed in her field. Hajjar said this interpretation has made the character significantly more empathetic and relatable, as this struggle of performing masculinity is one many women can relate to.

Hajjar said that working on the musical has been unlike any other rehearsal process she has been in, because of how incredibly fun it has been. According to Hajjar, Eichstaedt as a person

is very compatible with the tone of “Xanadu,” and has helped establish a goofy and energetic rehearsal room filled with people who support each other, and that has translated into the joyful, raucous energy of the production.

“Everything needs to be at a hundred percent or more,” Hajjar said. “When we’re on stage it needs to be like we’re having the time of our lives, that’s what we need to portray on stage.”

Although “Xanadu” is a very silly show, Eichstaedt said their production, through its alterations, has become something important to them.

“Xanadu” is a muscial about fighting for love, and Sonny and Kira’s struggle to be together, especially when the Muses view love as a curse, is much more meaningful now that they are a queer couple. Through “Xanadu,” Eichstaedt hopes to spread what they call radical queer joy, showing queer people living happily, healithly and in love.

“Straight things bore me,” Eichstaedt said.

“I’m a queer person who sees a queer world, so those are the worlds that I try to make. And I think that people will find that it is truer than they ever could have imagined.” wilsonchapman2021@u.northwestern.edu

Northwestern Art Review features video art by students

By AARON WANG

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Growing up as an Olympic swimmer for Guatemala, Communication senior Valerie Gruest Slowing said she felt like the public only saw her through the lens of medals, records and achievements. In her conceptual film, “Behind the Smiles,” Slowing challenges the narrative of a swimming prodigy, telling a hidden history of trauma and physical abuse.

“I never had the chance to have a way to let it all out,” Slowing said. “Art for me has been the way to channel everything that happened in my life. It was a way that I was able to focus all my energy on telling a powerful message to the world.”

Slowing’s film will be screened Feb. 25 at “The Screen Time: Video Art Show” along with the work of four additional student artists in Kresge Centennial Hall. Presented by Northwestern Art Review, the event will be accompanied by live music, snacks and drinks.

Communication senior Kelsey Malone, former president of Northwestern Art Review, said this is the first time NAR has organized a video art show. She started developing the show after

a friend of hers approached her with an installation idea. Recognizing the lack of a platform for student-made video art on campus, Slowing said she hopes the event can promote practicing artists on campus.

“Northwestern gives a lot of opportunity to theatre, dance and vocal, but when it comes to visual art forms, it’s just totally swept under the rug,” Malone said. “I hope that it encourages people to produce and be more creative in the visual arts. ” Slowing said “Behind the Smiles” echoes her own life story. During the film, the screen is split into three sections that present a variety of swimming-related shots, symbolizing her social perception in the public eye. In addition, the audio, which consists of five languages that had unique meanings to her upbringing, narrates her experience of physical abuse and trauma.

When Slowing came to Northwestern, she wasn’t able to reveal her experience with physical abuse to the public. She said she had to “put up a brave face” to maintain the image in the public eye. After confronting her abuser during a trial in Guatemala and retiring from swimming last year, Slowing said she was empowered to tell her story.

“Sharing (the film) at this show is definitely

another kind of milestone,” Slowing said. “I couldn’t say anything when it happened, but I feel like now I’m in a place where I feel empowered. I’m not gonna keep quiet. This is my story, and this is my truth.”

Communication sophomore Shelby Schultz will also present an experimental film made in her senior year of high school during the event. A short film under two minutes, her work explores the human senses through the manipulation of color, sound and image on the screen, including techniques like voiceover and desaturation of color, Schultz said.

Schultz said the film was inspired by her struggles and feelings of being overwhelmed during her senior year of high school. Stressed out under the pressure to figure out her life goal, Schultz said she wanted to express her impulse to shut everything out by telling her story through film.

“I talk about my feelings very openly, but actually getting to express (them) through film feels like a lot more,” Schultz said. “There isn’t really a boundary for what I can say and share, and film especially can express things that I can’t verbally express.” xuandiwang2022@u.northwestern.edu

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The poster for “The Screen Time: Video Art Show.” The event will take place on Feb. 25 in Kresge.

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Imagine U modernizes ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’

By JENNIFER ZHAN

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The classic story of an emperor who dresses to impress is coming to life with a few new characters in Imagine U’s upcoming musical, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” based on the famous Hans Christian Andersen fairytale.

The production features music and lyrics by Alan Schmuckler (Communication ‘05) and a book by David Holstein (Communication ‘05). It opens Feb. 21 in the Hal & Martha Hyer Wallis Theater at The Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts, and runs through March 8.

“One of the things that’s exciting about this production (is) it provides a way to get young people excited about musical theater and how impactful storytelling can be in this form,” the music director and Communication junior Ruchir Khazanchi said.

The music in “The Emperor’s New Clothes” adds “buoyancy and levity” to the story, Khazanchi said.

He added that the production demonstrates how theater for young audiences is theater for all audiences and will be engaging for the whole family.

Like the original fairytale, this adaptation explores the dangers of pride and vanity. In the show, the clothing-obsessed Emperor spends his money on his personal wardrobe rather than enacting change to help his subjects.

Director and choreographer Amanda Tanguay

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Promotional Art for “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” The musical is a retelling of the famous Hans Christian Andersen fairytale.

said she hopes to inspire dialogue between young people and their parents. With the 80-minute production, she’s conscious of creating a show that is palatable to children and their attention spans but also meaningful across all age groups.

“The most important thing is to find the honesty in the piece and make sure we are telling the story as genuinely as possible,” Tanguay said. “When you’re just a human making choices and learning and growing on stage, it’s easier for viewers to

understand (and) see reflections of themselves in the characters.”

“The Emperor’s New Clothes” will be the final Northwestern performance for Communication senior Hannah Hakim, who plays the Emperor’s college-aged daughter, Sam. In this modern retelling, Sam and her father struggle to get along and appreciate each other.

Hakim said she chose to wrap up her Northwestern career with this show because it’s “very honest” — her favorite type of theater. “(My character) is very grounded and is the only one that kind of sees through all the BS,” Hakim said. “What I really love about it is I just get to play an honest character in a musical where everyone around me is over the top and funny.”

Tanguay said while the show has many humorous scenes, she has enjoyed working on moments where the story explores the character relationships and how they succeed or fail at communicating effectively.

To her, the Imagine U version of the fairy tale is special because it also focuses on how empathy can help people approach disagreements and differences in opinion. It’s a message she said all audience members can take away. “(What’s) important in helping to create peace and harmony in our world is learning to listen and understand the people around us,” Tanguay said.

“The earlier we do it, the better we are at using those tools in the future.” jenniferzhan2022@u.northwestern.edu

Campus a capella groups explore value of competition

By NAFI SOUMARE

the daily northwestern @nafisoumare

For many a cappella groups at Northwestern and other universities alike, competitions are a valuable way to garner national recognition and grow as a group — though for some, it’s more “treble” than it’s worth.

As the a capella community on campus approaches the competition season, however, many groups have vastly differing opinions about whether or not competing is fully aca-worth it.

Weinberg senior Daniel Goldstein has been a member of Purple Haze, a co-ed competitive a cappella group, since his freshman year. He said that challenging themselves through competing is an imperative part of what makes the group great.

“Our group is filled with so many ridiculously talented singers,” Goldstein said. “When we approach competitions, we’re just having fun and (seeing) these crazy talented musicians actually try their hardest to put together a product that they’re proud of.”

Unlike most of his fellow Purple Haze members,

Goldstein is not in an arts-centered academic major.

As someone who isn’t planning to pursue singing after college, Goldstein finds competitions to be a gratifying and exciting environment.

Communication sophomore Simran Deokule has been a principal member of the South Asian and American fusion a cappella group Brown Sugar since her first quarter at Northwestern, and currently serves as president. While the group used to compete, Deokule said it took

a break Graphic by Jacob Fulton

in recent years. While she has yet to compete with the group, it’s something she looks forward to in the future.

“Competing is important for us because we’re sort of a niche group,” Deokule said. “We have a lot of music that isn’t commonly heard, since we are a South Asian and American fusion. Our music is pretty unique, and we really just want to showcase that.”

Brown Sugar stopped

competing in national competitions since plans emerged to put

out their fifth

studio album,

which Deokule hopes to see come out soon. The album will consist of eight to ten songs that mix American pop with Bollywood or Indian music.

As the president of the all-male a cappella group Freshman Fifteen, Communication junior Jacob Leaf said competition isn’t crucial for every group on campus. In fact, he said his group’s decision not to compete is a creative choice.

For Freshman Fifteen, their ethos is to build a creative and friendly environment for every member, where they can feel free to experiment with the music they want to perform. Although Leaf said he respects a cappella groups that take part in competitions, he feels that doing so would interfere with the mission statement of his group.

“Usually the stuff that we ourselves enjoy singing and the way we like to perform doesn’t mix with the classifications that would occur at a competition,” Leaf said. “And because our group would not enjoy it, we don’t do it. The fact that the sound that we’ve cultivated is unique to our own and we’re not abiding by any rules or any competition standards makes for a whole lot of fun.” nafisoumare2023@u.northwestern.edu

There’s a Ghost in Gadsden’s Garden at Actors Gymnasium

By REBECCA AIZIN

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A man who tends to a haunted garden. A ghost who resides in the garden and is in a relationship with the living man. A child who stumbles upon the wilting garden and finds all sorts of phenomena hidden in its thorny walls.

These are the characters in The Actors Gymnasium’s new circus, “The Ghost in Gadsden’s Garden,” set to premiere at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center this Friday, Feb. 22 and run through March 22.

Co-written and directed by Chris Mathews and Sully Ratke, this original show explores the evolution of relationships from multiple angles, from those that deepen to those that die slowly, according to Mathews.

Mathews said he and Ratke worked together with the goal of creating an original, spooky story. While Mathews handled the script, Ratke designed the visual world of the show, with both working to incorporate a circus theme.

“The same way musicals convery story and emotion through song, circuses are told expressionistically

using different tools in our tool kit,” Mathews said.

“You certainly don’t want the circus elements to feel extra or redundant.”

Choreographer Sylvia Hernandez-DiStasi said circus choreography can be used in many different styles to express metaphors or add bursts of excitement. For this show, she chose to place emphasis on the circus in the magic garden, where she saw an opportunity to manipulate equipment and bring the ghost to life through aerial tricks.

Hernandez-DiStasi emphasized that the Actor’s Gymnasium felt a need to keep coming up with new things to keep the audience enticed. For the first time on their stage, they will be using an aerial pole, which hangs in the air and allows the actor to swing around freely, a more complicated technique than the usual routines they use. Hernandez said it is exciting to incorporate new elements in their shows after including the usual elements like fabric.

“It’s like an adrenaline rush,” Hernandez-DiStasi said. “You’re trying to fit in a piece of a puzzle and figure out how to make it work.”

Both Mathews and Hernandez-DiStasi said time was their ultimate enemy during this production, as there was never enough time to rehearse due to

everyone’s conflicting schedules and the tight deadlines that shows of this caliber run on.

Mathews added another challenge he faced was his own doubt in the success of the show. He said as he and Ratke were creating the show, both wore their hearts on their sleeves and felt more vulnerable as their vision was brought to life.

“You can’t move through a process like this in fear, so you have to just sort of buck up and hope you’re doing it as best you can,” Mathews said. “We’re just trying to live by that.”

In spite of all the difficulties they encountered, Hernandez-DiStasi is hopeful for the success of “The Ghost in Gadsden’s Garden.” She said that she thinks the story of the show has a touching, heartwarming center.

“We don’t have a whole lot of that in our world today, where you can go somewhere and just forget about your troubles and the state of the world, really get immersed in a show for 90 minutes and come away feeling like there’s redemption and hope,” HernandezDiStasi said. “That’s always been my goal with our productions.” rebeccaaizin2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Concept art for “The Ghost in Gadsden’s Garden.” The original circus will open Feb. 22.

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From page 1 honoring teachers, calling them unsung heroes.

“There is a fairly dramatic teacher shortage across the country and in Illinois,” Mather said. “Part of what we need to do is really elevate the profession and show the value of teaching and the impact you can have.”

Fuerte is one of 30 finalists selected from a recordbreaking 732 nominations, according to the news release. From that group, winners will be selected and surprised in the spring with the award, which includes a cash prize and tuition-free quarter sabbatical to study at Northwestern.

Fuerte was shocked to hear he is a finalist.

His wife Shelly Fuerte said in the 25 years she’s been with him, she has never seen someone else with Fuerte’s lack of ego.

FACUTLY SENATE From page 1

which may not explicitly create such a specific global impact, was excluded in the wording of the Global Strategic Plan.

“There was nothing about listening to the rest of the world,” McReynolds said. “The assumption seemed to be that the world is broken (and) a set of problems, and our intervention is needed. It’s a kind of almost missionary relationship to the world.”

Elsa Alvaro, chair of the non-tenure eligible faculty committee, presented a survey that explained the goals, priorities and areas of improvement among non-tenure eligible faculty members.

Economics prof. Robert Gordon, the chair of the salary and benefits committee, also presented a report on tuition benefits for dependents, faculty and staff at the Senate meeting.

FREE SPEECH From page 1

Bayer said he thinks protests are generally positive as long as they do not prevent anyone from communicating their ideas. He expects an increase in student activism as the election progresses, and even more so if Trump is reelected.

“I do believe it’s appropriate to have protests outside the buildings or take advantage of the Q&A section during events to express disagreement with a speaker,” he said. “But I do think when it crosses the line is when it switches to trying to disrupt the event, trying to shut down the speaker or causing a ruckus to the point where it impairs attendees’ abilities to listen to the speaker.”

Weinberg junior Adam Downing, director of public relations for Northwestern University College Democrats, said he believes in unabashed free speech with the exception of anything that is racist, sexist or otherwise directly harms an individual. Downing said that although not every opinion is of equal value, everyone is worth hearing.

When it comes to student protests, Downing said

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2020 Beyond class, Fuerte spends most of his time still teaching students music. Three years ago, some students wanted to form a band called Divisible by 6,or DB6.They approached him, asking to be coached, and he said yes.

DB6 performed at Beat Kitchen, a music venue in Chicago, as part of the 2017 Little Kids Rock Jamfest.

Fuerte said the next year, he had 11 bands knocking on his door.

To create a space for students to play, Fuerte decided to create the Hootenanny Music Festival.The first year, they held it at Willard. Now, the festival runs for two days at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Center, and the number of student bands has more than doubled.

Listen below to hear more about his impact on his students and the Hootenanny Music Festival.

Fuerte said his teaching style is student-centered and student-led. Rebekka Green, a Chicago Public Schools music teacher, uses some of his methods. She said she Gordon discussed the cutbacks in portable faculty and staff tuition benefits for courses at other universities in comparison to other high-ranked universities.

Any faculty or staff hired before Jan. 1 would see their benefits reduced from $12,000 to $5,250, and those hired after Jan. 1 are not at all eligible to receive the benefit. This reduction occurred because of a lowering in the federal income tax ceiling, he said.

“We have a major reason to protest the elimination of this benefit for new hires,” Gordon said. “(Though) Columbia, Yale and Stanford don’t offer these benefits, I see no reason why we should be in a horse race toward the bottom.”

The committee proposed a resolution to demand that the $12,000 subsidy be maintained for those starting new programs and those who are midstream in ongoing programs. The resolution was passed unanimously. isabellesarraf2022@u.northwestern.edu when a protest becomes disruptive — such as when property is destroyed — it actually moves the conversation backward because the focus becomes the destruction, not the issue at hand.

“I think there’s nothing wrong with student protests,” he said, “I think there’s nothing wrong with student activism on campus,and what’s more is I think it’s a really good, healthy thing for a university experience.”

Downing said it is important to hear constructive feedback even if sometimes it isn’t what you want to hear.

He noted that there are different ways to protest, whether it is listening to a speaker and asking tough questions.

He said he believes free speech should be used as a tool to reach the end goal of having conversations with those one disagrees with.

“Free speech is something we talk about a lot in this country, but I think it’s only one half of the conversation,” he said.“I think the other half is having difficult conversations, it’s really really easy to be an advocate for free speech. It’s harder to sit down across from the table with somebody you disagree with.” ariannacarpati2023@u.northwestern.edu

has attended about 50 professional development sessions, but learned more from Fuerte in one session.

Outside of his schedule of coaching and teaching, Fuerte said he tries not to do too much.

The exception is playing in two Lakeside Pride Music Ensembles — the Latin Band, and the Symphonic Band — which he said is just for fun.

He founded the Latin Band a few years ago with his wife and a mutual friend. He said it gave him the opportunity to learn percussion parts of latin music and play music outside of teaching, even though he no longer professionally performs.

For him, playing is a different kind of feeling than teaching. He said he can express himself and let his personality come out.

Fuerte added that playing gives him a chance to connect with others. He said that there is something about it that he can’t even explain, but that the people

GEORGETOWN From page 1

“We think the role that our organization has played in, one, creating conversation about investment on campus and making investment socially responsible, and two, actually really bringing divestment to the forefront of these Board members’ minds is really, really important.”

But while peer institutions like Georgetown have become leaders in the fossil free movement, Northwestern University has remained silent.

The Board of Trustees voted in 2015 to reject a Fossil Free Northwestern proposal to divest from coal companies. Five years later, the Board and Fossil Free Northwestern again sit at an impasse. A petition for full divestment — this time approved by the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility, created in 2017 as a result of the failed 2015 proposal — was submitted to ACIR in January 2019 and approved in June. The Board has yet to respond to the petition.

While the situation today may seem similar to the failed 2015 effort, Fossil Free Northwestern now has the benefit of an enhanced national dialogue and the Georgetown example to use in negotiations — a highprofile success story that did not exist five years ago. ...

Formeded in 2012, Fossil Free Georgetown launched its movement with demonstrations, protests and sit-ins. Through that activist work, Morris said club members began relationships with Georgetown’s Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility — analogous to NU’s ACIR — and worked with the faculty, staff and students on the subcommittee to develop and successfully implement a policy in 2017 calling on Georgetown to divest from tar sands and coal and a Socially Responsible Investing Policy in 2017.

In January 2019, the group submitted a proposal to the sub-committee for full divestment, which was met with a request for more information, which was met with “radio silence,” Morris said — similar to Fossil Free Northwestern’s proposal.

Grace Dolezal-Ng, Fossil Free Northwestern

he’s played with have felt like his family. Now, Fuerte said he wants his students to have the same experience.

“You’re in a classroom, you’re making music man, let’s have fun, let’s just make music,” he said. “You’re going to remember this time when you leave. What you do when you’re making music creates a bond, and that’s something special that I want my kids to have.” mollylubbers2023@u.northwestern.edu Scan this QR code with Snapchat or your smartphone camera to view an accompanying podcast about music teacher Arturo Fuerte

director of marketing and media, said Board members had told ACIR members they would have an answer to the proposal by the Feb. 11 ACIR open meeting, but they still have yet to receive one. Morris said Fossil Free Georgetown took action when they were left in the dark.

“We could not really get any more than a few words from (the sub-committee) last semester,”Morris said. “So, we were like, okay, this isn’t working anymore. We need to try a different tactic. We need to try to go back to our more activist roots.”

To do so, Fossil Free Georgetown decided to pursue a student referendum — something Fossil Free Northwestern did in the initial 2015 push, when 74 percent of students said they supported divestment from coal. The student pressure worked — after securing Student Association senate approval for a referendum on divestment — Fossil Free Georgetown members finally heard from members of the subcommittee, who said they were working on their own divestment proposal and asked for the club to halt any plans to generate student input or hold any protests, claiming student action would not be helpful to their attempts to convince Georgetown’s Board of Directors to vote to divest, Morris said.

But years of struggling to get their Board to follow through on the 2014 coal and tar sands divestment policy had led students to lose trust in the sub-committee, so they decided to go ahead with the referendum, scheduled for Feb. 6, which ended up passing with over 90 percent of the vote. As it turned out, just the threat of the referendum was enough — the Board voted earlier that day to divest. ...

Even J. Landis Martin, the chair of Northwestern’s Board of Trustees, told The Daily peer schools’policies and the movement’s successes are “a factor that the Board would consider, and that the committee, I’m sure, considered.”

Dolezal-Ng said Fossil Free Northwestern coordinates with other campus movements to demonstrate strength in numbers and garner more attention. Fossil Free Georgetown’s achievement strengthens the movement, she said.

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USC Prof. David Crockett talks research on race

By SAMMI BOAS

the daily northwestern @boassamantha

David Crockett, professor of marketing at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina, spoke about his research on the role of race and racism in the marketplace.

Crockett described the field of marketing as “axiologically thin.” In his work, Crockett said, he tries to talk across different disciplines of marketing and view race, racialization and racism in the marketplace with a broader lens.

“We need a deeper and richer understanding of how racism operates in the marketplace specifically because that’s where most people experience it,” Crockett said. “A lot of what we do is about all these other settings: the workplace, criminal justice. All these things are super important, but I would say, generally, we’ve paid less attention to what happens in the marketplace.”

During the presentation, Crockett discussed the various papers and projects he has worked on

throughout his career, starting with a paper on dress codes in public schools. He then wrote his dissertation on Milwaukee, a city characterized by its racial segregation.

Drawing on the question of stigma management, Crockett discussed racial uplift ideology and respectability politics. Crockett broke down different strategies of using respectability politics as ways of reducing stigma.

Medill prof. Michelle Weinberger shared the same dissertation advisor as Crockett and helped organize the event.

“I don’t think we talk enough about race, racism and racialization in the marketplace at Medill, and it’s something we’re trying to change,” Weinberger said. “I thought it would be exciting for our faculty, students and staff to hear from him for both their own research but also for changing how they’re thinking about their lectures and what they’re teaching in classes.”

Crockett’s recent work, that has yet to be published, mapped the different impacts of race, racism and racialization at the micro, meso and macro levels. By mapping out the different

arenas of marketing research regarding race, Crockett wants researchers to talk across their respective fields and unpack some of the complications that come with discussing race in the marketplace.

Apart from his research, Crockett is working with Sephora to study racial bias and exclusionary treatment in retail settings.

Medill Dean Charles Whitaker said that introducing race theory into the Medill curriculum through speakers like Crockett is something Medill is working on. Whitaker said having a better theoretical framework to think about journalism and marketing would be beneficial for students.

“Studying race, which is a social construct, is a very complicated thing,” Whitaker said. “It’s far more nuanced than we tend to think it is. It’s not for a lack of a better term, black or white; there are lots of shades of gray, and this kind of theoretical framing helps us think about it in a much more sophisticated way.” samanthaboas2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Michelle Weinberger moderates a question and answer session with speaker David Crockett.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Wildcats sweep UIC but fall to #17 Georgia Tech 4-2

By GRAYSON WELO

the daily northwestern @graysonwelo

With only one more match until the start of the Big Ten season, Northwestern women’s tennis (3-4) started to gradually gain momentum with its third win of the season but continues to struggle against ranked teams.

The Wildcats returned to Combe Tennis Center for two matches on Sunday, following a close win against No. 32 Notre Dame. While NU was looking for its first back-to-back wins, the team split its matchups to maintain a losing record, falling 4-2 to its first opponent, No. 17 Georgia Tech — a team with four nationally ranked players in its lineup — before sweeping the University of Illinois at Chicago 4-0.

Against the Yellow Jackets, the Cats produced remarkable results in doubles, winning two close matches with a 6-4 score. Junior Caroline Pozo and sophomore Hannah McColgan inched out Georgia Tech senior Nami Otsuka and sophomore Gia Cohen to claim the win at second doubles.

Freshman Christina Hand and sophomore Clarissa Hand also defeated Georgia Tech freshmen Sophia Sassoli and Monika Dedaj to clinch the doubles point for NU. During singles, the Cats’ luck ran out, as they lost four of five completed singles matches. While the Yellow Jackets won by a large margin, NU almost scraped up the third and fourth singles matches, which both dragged on for three sets.

Clarissa Hand lost to Cohen 7-5, 3-6, 6-1, and Pozo fell to Otsuka 6-4, 2-6, 6-3.

Only a few hours after their first match, the Cats bounced back against the Flames with an

unconventional win. To reduce the length of the match, NU and UIC agreed to follow an abridged format for their match called “clinch/clinch” where once the doubles point is clinched, the rest of the doubles matches stop. Afterwards in singles, once the team match has been clinched, the remaining singles matches stop too.

Senior Julie Byrne and junior Inci Ogut defeated UIC senior Karyna Bihel and freshman Izzy Marshall 6-4 to pick up the doubles point.

In singles, only five matches took place instead of the usual six due to the Flame’s lack of healthy players, automatically giving the Cats their first singles win. NU picked up its second singles win when Byrne won her match 4-0 after her opponent retired, and Pozo also redeemed herself with a quick 6-1, 6-1 win gainst UIC junior Georgia Gulin to claim the match for NU and end the night on a high note.

This weekend, the Cats face Baylor in their last match before the start of the Big Ten season. If they beat the Bears, that’ll be their first consecutive win and potentially help the team find a rhythm before facing Indiana in two weeks at the Combe Tennis Center.

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Softball No. 7 Florida at No. 25 NU, 5 p.m. Friday

We were able to control what we wanted to do, and we knew that we wanted to attack.

-- Lindsey Pulliam, junior guard

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Behind Burton and Pulliam, Cats win sixth straight No. 18 Northwestern

By DREW SCHOTT

the daily northwestern @dschott328

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Against the Big Ten’s best scoring defense, No. 18 Northwestern played like the conference’s best team.

Junior guard Lindsey Pulliam and sophomore guard Veronica Burton combined to score 50 points as the Wildcats (23-3, 13-2 Big Ten) defeated the Scarlet Knights (18-8, 8-7) 82-65 at Welsh-Ryan Arena.

Senior center Abbie Wolf added 14 points and NU’s defense — ranked second-best in the conference — forced 11 turnovers to give the Cats their sixth-straight win.

“We were able to get the shots we wanted and transition early,” coach Joe McKeown said. “We kept expanding on (our lead) and I thought we kept the pace up. That was really important.”

Calling themselves “the best backcourt in the Big Ten,” Pulliam and Burton both had stellar performances on Wednesday night. Pulliam, who shot 1-for-13 against Nebraska, bounced back in a big way by scoring 27 points and grabbing seven rebounds. Burton, who McKeown called the “most underrated player in college basketball,” dropped 23 points and dished out nine assists.

NU’s commanding zone defense was on full display early on as Wolf obtained two blocks within the first

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sixty seconds and the Cats held Rutgers scoreless for nearly three minutes.

Offensively, NU started off fast, with senior forward Abi Scheid and Pulliam draining three-pointers, causing the Scarlet Knights to press the Cats. But Pulliam — who scored nine points in 10 minutes — helped NU combat the aggressive defense and take a 16-14 lead at the end of the first quarter.

The Maryland native continued her shooting streak into the second, scoring five points to jumpstart a 21-8 run for the Cats. Over the next ten minutes, NU shot better than 60 percent from both the field and behind the arc, as 19 combined points from Pulliam, Wolf and Burton — who scored a buzzer-beating layup — fueled a Cats rally that gave the squad a 37-22 lead at halftime. During the quarter, NU played some of their best defense of the season, causing three Scarlet Knight turnovers and forcing Rutgers to shoot 20 percent from the field.

“We were able to get out in transition,” Pulliam said. “We dictated the pace of the game and we were able to control what we wanted to do and we knew that we wanted to attack.”

Pulliam still had the hot hand in

the third quarter, scoring five points in three minutes. As the Scarlet Knights put pressure on the junior, the Cats’ other scorers caught fire, extending the team’s lead to 30 at one point. Scheid — the nation’s most accurate threepoint shooter — nailed two triples as the Cats shot 80 percent from behind the arc over ten minutes.

Burton, one of the best two-way players in the Big Ten, scored 10 points on 3-for-3 shooting and had three steals. Holding Rutgers to below 50 percent shooting, NU used a 27-15 run to take a commanding 64-37 lead after three quarters.

In the fourth quarter, the Cats led by as many as 26 points, allowing McKeown to give bench players such as senior guard Byrdy Galernik and sophomore forward Courtney Shaw valuable minutes as NU cruised to its 17-point win.

With three games left in the regular season, NU will head to Madison and Columbus for its next two conference contests. Calling Welsh-Ryan a special arena, McKeown said he wishes the Cats had more home games because of its energetic crowd.

But no matter where NU plays, Burton said the squad will flourish on the court.

“The confidence that my teammates give me… is a great feeling,” Burton said. drewschott2023@u.northwestern.edu

WRESTLING

Cats prepare for final stretch of the season

By BEN LUALDI

the daily northwestern

This season, no win has come easy for an injury-riddled Northwestern in college wrestling’s toughest conference. However, the Wildcats have a chance to return to form as the home stretch of the season approaches.

Northwestern (5-7, 3-6 Big Ten) wrapped up Big Ten play on a high last weekend, dominating at Maryland (2-15, 0-9) 37-9 last Sunday, ending a two-game losing streak.

The Cats won eight of ten matches against the Terrapins, including all five of NU’s nationally ranked wrestlers. Coach Matt Storniolo believed the win would give Northwestern momentum heading into the Big Ten Tournament on March 7 and 8.

“You want guys going into the Big Ten Tournament with confidence,” he said.

The major storyline of the match was the return of star Sebastian Rivera, ranked No. 5 in the 133 lb class. Rivera had not played since losing by injury default on Dec. 29 at the Midlands Championship. Storniolo said that Rivera’s return was a boost for the Cats.

“Having a guy like Sebastian in the lineup, a high-octane caliber of competitor, is gonna give residual effects throughout the lineup,” he said.

Storniolo added that injuries have plagued NU throughout the Big Ten season — he says they’ve been a major factor for the Cats’ poor conference form. “[We] would’ve hoped that we would have come out in the Big Ten season with a winning record,” he said. “I wholeheartedly believe that if we had a healthy lineup throughout the Big Ten season we’d be sitting on a 7-2 record.”

Even with the Wildcats’ struggles,

there have been several bright spots in the lineup. The first is junior Ryan Deakin, ranked No. 1 in the 157 lb class with a 17-0 record. Deakin handily defeated highly ranked wrestlers throughout the season, including No. 7 Kendall Coleman of Purdue and No. 9 Will Lewan of Michigan.

Deakin has taken his wrestling to an even higher level than his sophomore season, when he finished 31-7.

Storniolo said Deakin’s continued success has been due to a number of factors.

“His attitude coming into workouts, the effort, there’s no one thing with Ryan you can put your finger on to give credit for the success and consistency he’s brought to this season,” Storniolo said. “Outside of the practice room, he’s living the way a top competitor should be living.”

In addition to Deakin, Storniolo highlighted the work of senior Shayne Oster. Oster moved to the 165 lb class this season from the 149 lb class, and has vaulted himself to the No. 17 ranking in the country. Oster won eight of nine matches during the Big Ten Season, and has been a surprise success story during NU’s injuryriddled season.

“Shane has been a model teammate,” Storniolo said. “It’s motivating to the guys on the team, it’s inspiring for the coaching staff. Shane sets the gold standard for how to use all seven minutes of a wrestling match.”

The Cats face off against SIU Edwardsville (2-13, 0-9 MAC) this Sunday in their final match of the season before the Big Ten Tournament.

Storniolo said the team did “not just expect to win the match, but to get the most out of yourself. To push yourself, to find the best version of you, before we go out there and really test ourselves at the conference tournament.” benjaminlualdi2023@u.northwestern.edu

Lacrosse’s offense is scary good Northwestern’s offense was not supposed to be this good — at least this quickly.

In theory, a team losing the leading scorer in school history would result in a drop in offensive efficiency. But, that hasn’t been the case so far for the Wildcats.

Although they’ve only played four games, this year’s NU team has looked like the best offense in the country.

Behind Tewaaraton nominee Selena Lasota, the NU offense was one of the best in Division I women’s lacrosse in 2019. The Cats were third in the NCAA in goals per game, and their 366 total goals was second in team history behind only the 2009 undefeated National Championship team.

Lasota was the engine driving the juggernaut — finishing with 85 goals and 19 assists as she was named Big Ten Attacker of the Year — but it wasn’t a one woman show. Running the attack from the X, Lindsey McKone led the team with 28 assists while also scoring 45 goals. Lauren Gilbert was elusive, slipping and sliding her way to 65 points. And after moving to attack from defense midseason, Izzy Scane scored 62 goals on her way to earning Big Ten Freshman of the Year award.

The quartet was a well-oiled machine, and it propelled NU to the Final Four.

Heading into the year, the biggest question was who was going to pick up Lasota’s offensive production. Some of it was destined to go to Gilbert, McKone and Scane, but they couldn’t do it all. And, so far, they haven’t.

Graduate attacker Liza Elder

has been great having started the first four games on attack with Gilbert, McKone and Scane. Midfielder Megan Kinna averaged only 1.2 points per game her first three seasons, but has had at least two points in every game so far.

Freshman Jane Hansen and Dylan Almonte have combined for five multi-goal games. And, aside from the Notre Dame game, draw specialist Brennan Dwyer has been in great form, creating a plethora of opportunities by winning draw after draw. In total, 20 different players have scored a goal through these first four games. Last year, 19 players scored at least one goal.

And while they’ve had help, Gilbert, McKone and Scane are still the fulcrums of the offense. All three are in the top 11 in the country in total points. Scane is tied for second in the country with 16 goals through two weeks, with Gilbert right behind her at 14. McKone has 10 assists, and had an outstanding five-goal, two-assist performance against Duke.

These individual successes have resulted in some staggering team performances. The Cats opened the season like a feisty bull leaving the stocks, becoming only the second team since 1986 to score 30 goals in a game in their merciless destruction of Detroit Mercy. They followed that up by thoroughly outplaying a ranked Duke team in the Bull City. They struggled to finish chances against thenNo. 7 Notre Dame on Friday, but bounced back with another spectacular offensive showing against Arizona State.

While the offense has been electric to start the season, there are

tough challenges ahead. In the just next three weeks, the Cats play No. 7 Syracuse and No. 1 North Carolina. Both have dynamic offenses, with the Orange led by the nation’s leading scorer Emily Hawryschuk and the Tar Heels helmed by Preseason Player of the Year Jamie Ortega. The matchup with North Carolina is particularly interesting, and not just because of the number next to their name. The Chapel Hill squad has had NU’s number over the last few seasons, including last season, when the Tar Heel defense held the Cats offense to a season-low 11 goals.

Not every game is going to be a 20-plus goal bonanza like three of these first four contests. There will be some days where a few more shots than normal ping off the orange posts or an opposing goalie extends a few more inches out to deflect a shot wide. Last Friday was one of those days. They will happen.

But as this offense gets into the flow of the season, those games will go by the wayside. This team is still learning how to play together — and yet still scored more than 28 goals in half of its games so far. The offense will, as crazy as it sounds, get better and more efficient.

For the rest of the country, that’s a scary thing.

Peter Warren is a Medill junior. He can be contacted at peterwarren2021@u. northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to sports@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.