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Students decry SAE case decision More than 100 students sign letter to Telles-Irvin By MARIANA ALFARO
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More than 100 students signed a letter Wednesday addressed to Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs, condemning the University’s decision to not pursue disciplinary action against two fraternities involved in allegations of druggings and sexual assault. The allegations were first reported last month, according to an email notification sent to Northwestern students Feb. 6. The anonymous reports alleged four female students were possibly given a date rape drug at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house on Jan. 21. The alert said two of the students believed they were sexually assaulted. Chief of Police Bruce Lewis said in the email that NU also received an anonymous report Feb. 3 alleging that another female student had been sexually assaulted, possibly with the use of a date rape drug, after attending an event at a » See SAE, page 3
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Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl speaks at the Refugee Freedom Seder at Fiedler Hillel on Wednesday. Tisdahl will be finishing her term as mayor in May, after serving in the position since 2009.
END OF AN ERA
Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl wraps up, reflects on 8-year term By RISHIKA DUGYALA
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Lorraine Morton first met Elizabeth Tisdahl about 30 years ago, before either of them had any mayoral ambitions. Morton was on the way to pick up her youngest granddaughter — then in fifth grade — from softball
practice when she found the team playing with a woman she’d never seen before. “It was Liz Tisdahl,” Morton recalled. “And I was so much impressed with her doing that because she didn’t have a child on that softball team. She was just doing it for other people.” Even after Morton began her tenure as the city’s longest-serving mayor in 1993, she continued to
cross paths with Tisdahl. Ten years later, when Morton had to appoint a new 7th Ward alderman, she turned to Tisdahl. After some armtwisting, Tisdahl agreed to serve. Fast-forward five years to the end of Morton’s fourth mayoral term. “When I knew that I was not going to run for office as mayor again, my thoughts were, ‘Hmm, who should replace me?’” Morton
New aldermen plan for City Council By KRISTINA KARISCH
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Three new additions are set to join City Council following Tuesday’s municipal election. Robin Rue Simmons will replace current Ald. Delores Holmes in the 5th Ward, Thomas Suffredin will take over for Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) and Cicely Fleming will be replacing Ald. Brian Miller (9th). Ald. Judy Fiske (1st), Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) and Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) will all serve another term, and Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd), Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) and Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th) ran unopposed for another term. The new aldermen will be sworn in May 8 along with the new mayor, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said. Fiske, who will start another term in May, said council members always welcome new faces. “New, fresh perspectives are always welcome on the City Council,” she said. “I think it will be an interesting transition,
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The Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center, 2100 Ridge Ave. There will be three new aldermen on City Council following Tuesday’s municipal election.
but certainly very fun.” Fiske, Suffredin and Fleming all said they realized that being a member of City Council is a collaborative and team-focused experience.
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Suffredin, who will be representing the 6th Ward, said he hopes to focus on ward-specific issues like traffic and crosswalk safety, but wants to work together with aldermen in other
wards on city-wide matters. He has also spoken to Tendam, from whom he will be taking over the position, to » See COUNCIL, page 6
said. “Honestly, and this is the truth, I didn’t think of any other name except Liz Tisdahl.” When Morton asked her to run for office, Tisdahl said her immediate reaction was, “Absolutely not.” But eight years later, reflecting on her time as Evanston’s mayor, she said the job turned out to be “wonderful” and “absolutely fun.” » See TISDAHL, page 6
Speechwriter Cody Keenan to speak at NU
Cody Keenan ( Weinberg ’02), a speechwriter for former President Barack Obama, is returning to campus next week to speak on the Obama legacy. Keenan will join Medill Prof. Peter Slevin, who authored a biography on former first lady Michelle Obama, next Tuesday in Harris Hall for a panel discussion, which is sponsored by Contemporary Thought Speaker Series. After joining the Obama campaign in 2007 as an intern, Keenan followed the former president to the White House, becoming deputy director of speechwriting. Six years later, Keenan was promoted to director of speechwriting, a position he stayed in through the end of Obama’s second term. Weinberg junior Ben Zimmermann, co-chair of CTSS, said he is excited to hear about Keenan’s behindthe-scenes take on Obama’s
presidency. “Cody was obviously at the center of Obama’s eight years in office and should be able to shed some great light on his administration and his legacy,” Zimmermann said. Keenan, who was raised in the Evanston area, came to Northwestern as a pre-med student but ended up majoring in political science. He began his government career as an intern in the office of then-Sen. Edward Kennedy before being accepted to Har vard University ’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Zimmermann said he hopes Keenan’s connection to the University as a former Wildcat will inspire students who attend the event. “He’ll be able to really relate to students and students can really see how this very education can help prepare them for something like becoming the chief speech writer for the president,” he said. Tickets are not required for admission; instead, people will be seated on a firstcome, first-serve basis. — Allyson Chiu
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EPD, D65 partnership aims to mentor students By SYD STONE
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The Evanston Police Department’s Officer and Gentlemen Academy hosted local business owners Wednesday for a day dedicated to learning about entrepreneurship. OGA is a partnership program between EPD and Evanston/Skokie School District 65. The 12-week program is intended to mentor male students who are black and are in 6th to 8th grade. The program begins weekly after tutoring sessions for the middle school students, includes a weekly lesson about what it means to be a “gentleman,” and concludes with facilitators and students eating dinner together family-style. Students in the program were selected by Nichols Middle School Principal Adrian Harries and all come from different backgrounds. EPD officer Adam Howard, the academy facilitator, said some students come from single-parent households with no paternal figure, while others are struggling academically or dealing with behavioral issues. “All of them have … leadership qualities within, and we felt that they could really benefit from this program and learn valuable life lessons,” Howard said. Howard started the program with Harries and
POLICE BLOTTER Domestic battery call yields gun, drug arrests
Evanston police officers were dispatched to a home in south Evanston on Monday at 9:50 a.m. in response to a report of a possible battery in-progress. According to a news release from the Evanston Police Department, the 19-year-old woman who was attacked was not injured. The information was relayed to EPD’s Special Operations Group, which obtained and executed a search warrant later that day at the house in the 300 block of Custer Avenue. Police found a 9mm Smith and Wesson handgun and approximately 1.3 grams
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Nichols Middle School Principal Adrian Harries talks with two students in the Officer and Gentlemen Academy about the business plans they created. The students learned about business and entrepreneurship as a part of their weekly class Wednesday.
Bryon Harris, student engagement coordinator for Evanston/Skokie School District 65. Howard said the three men all had similar ideas and goals for a male mentorship program. He said he hopes to expand the program to other schools in the community in the future. Since the beginning of March, the group of about
15 students has met every Wednesday afternoon in the Nichols Middle School library. So far, the students have learned how to tie a tie, give a firm handshake and set goals. They have also had lessons in team building. This week, academy facilitators invited Hecky Powell of Hecky’s Barbecue, 1902 Green Bay Rd.,
of crack cocaine in the apartment and arrested a man on domestic battery charges as well as his mother, the release said. The 22-year-old man was charged with aggravated domestic assault, domestic battery, possession of a firearm without a Firearm Owner Identification Card and possession of ammunition without a FOID — all Class A misdemeanors. The 44-year-old woman was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance, a Class 4 felony.
Evanston. The motorcyclist struck a passenger vehicle as it pulled out of an alley in the 1800 block of Grey Avenue, EPD spokesman Perry Polinski said. He added that upon further investigation, the motorcyclist was found to be driving under a suspended drivers license. Additional traffic citations given to the motorcyclist include operating a motor vehicle without insurance and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, Polinski said. The passenger car sustained minor damage and there were no injuries. The motorcyclist’s court date has been set for May 17.
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Officers responded to a report of a crash involving a motorcyclist Monday at 2:45 p.m. in northwest
and Clarence Weaver of C & W Market and Ice Cream Parlor, 1901 Church St., to talk to the students about starting a business and how to think innovatively. For their lesson on entrepreneurship, the students were tasked with creating their own business plans to present to Powell and Weaver. Harries encouraged the students to “think outside of the box,” embrace their individual passions and to “think big.” Weaver said he created his business, C & W Market and Ice Cream Parlor, with his wife, Wendy, specifically to be a place for students and young people to get food. He emphasized that good behavior can have a big impact on how successful someone becomes and that individuality is the key to success in business. “Never forget who you are and where you come from,” he said. “Don’t just limit yourself to one idea. Every success that you make can be built off of an unsuccessful act.” Powell echoed Weaver’s sentiments and spoke about the importance of a good work ethic. The business owner shared his story of purchasing and supporting his barbecue restaurant, saying it required a lot of time and work. “I went on faith that I could make this happen, I believed in what I was doing and I worked hard,” he said. sydneystone2020@u.northwestern.edu
Setting the record straight An article in Wednesday’s paper titled “ASG candidates discuss student wellness platform” misstated Nehaarika Mulukutla’s position on dry campuses. Mulukutla is working to end the dry campus policy. The Daily regrets the error.
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ASG swears in new parliamentarian By JONAH DYLAN
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Associated Student Government Senate elected SESP sophomore Justine Kim as parliamentarian Wednesday, a week after voting no confidence on two other candidates. Kim, who was sworn in shortly after being elected, previously served as a senator for the Korean American Student Association, where she also serves as the group’s outreach chair. “More than anything, I want to create a culture where senators want to be here and want to be here for their constituents,” she said. Kim defeated Weinberg sophomore Tomer Cherki by a vote of 16-12-1. Cherki, who was a senator during the 2015-16 academic year, wrote the code of ethics at the end of the ASG code and also served on the Rules Committee last year. During the parliamentarian election, Cherki said he would hold office hours to help senators draft legislation and would create an abridged version of
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From page 1 second, unnamed fraternity the previous night. Following a University investigation, TellesIrvin said in an email last week that Northwestern reviewed all information made available to the Sexual Harassment Prevention Office and concluded that no disciplinary action would be taken. The letter — authored by Associated Student Government speaker of the senate Nehaarika Mulukutla and vice president of student activities Rosalie Gambrah, who are running unopposed for ASG president and executive vice president — expresses to Telles-Irvin that the University “has demonstrated time and time again that it does not care” about survivors of sexual assault and that its policies do not offer the appropriate support to survivors. “If the best support that the university can offer to survivors is ‘information on how to contact local
the ASG code. “The rules are way too complicated,” he said. “Even the legislative authority in Senate doesn’t know all of them.” Kim will succeed Weinberg junior Daniella Lumpkin, who was elected speaker of the senate last week and was sworn in Wednesday. Lumpkin is succeeding Weinberg junior Nehaarika Mulukutla, who is currently running unopposed for ASG president. In the wake of former IFC senator Mike Seethaler’s walkout that postponed a vote on a sexual assault accountability resolution, Senate saw a one-week uptick in attendance. But during the two sessions of Spring Quarter, Senate has operated close to the 25 senators needed for quorum. The parliamentarian has the ability to hold senators accountable for continued absences from Senate. Speaking during the election process, Mulukutla stressed the importance of the parliamentarian position. “It is really important to recognize that the parliamentarian needs to have the capacity to do the work that they need to do and be able to think about legislation and rules,” she said.
Kim will be the third parliamentarian in 2017, following Medill junior Shelby Reitman’s resignation in February and Lumpkin’s succession of Reitman for the remainder of her term. Before Wednesday’s election, Kim said enforcing accountability would be her main focus. “The structures are already in place in terms of the language,” she said. “It’s just that they’re not being enforced. Oftentimes, senators are not held as accountable as they should be. First and foremost, my priority will be accountability for senators.” Senate also passed amendments to the A-status code. Co-vice president for student life Ben Powell introduced changes that would split his position into two new ones –– vice president for health and wellness and vice president for housing, dining and facilities. The proposed change will be voted on next week. It was the last full Senate for ASG President Christina Cilento and executive vice president Macs Vinson. The election for the next president and executive vice president is scheduled for Thursday.
police’ or referencing the ‘information and resources … on the sexual misconduct website’ then it is absolutely failing to support survivors,” the letter said. The letter also asked Telles-Irvin to end alcohol and social regulations such as the dry campus policy and freshman freeze, which stops new students from visiting Greek houses during Wildcat Welcome and the first two weeks of Fall Quarter classes. The letter said these policies do not improve campus safety for students. It also asks for first-year student programming that focuses on sexual violence, “with specific focus on how underprivileged identities are increasingly affected by these traumas.” Petition signatories include different fraternity and sorority presidents as well as leaders of other campus groups. The letter asks for student leaders to receive training from the Center for Awareness, Response and Education, and it asks that the University support “reform initiatives within IFC to ensure complicit individuals and organizations are
held accountable.” Though the University has closed its investigation on the allegations of sexual assault against SAE, the fraternity’s national headquarters are conducting their own investigation into Northwestern’s chapter, SAE national spokesman Brandon Weghorst confirmed to The Daily in an email. The University continues to investigate NU’s SAE chapter for other conduct violations uncovered during the initial investigation. “Aside from the university decision, we remain focused on the proactive measures we are taking to ensure our members at the Northwestern chapter are meeting all of our guidelines and policies that uphold our mission and values,” Weghorst said. University spokesman Bob Rowley declined to comment about SAE’s internal investigation beyond Telles-Irvin’s statement.
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By MADELEINE FERNANDO
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Source: Doyle Armbrust
Left to right: Doyle Armbrust, Clara Lyon, Maeve Feinberg, Russell Rolen. The four members of Spektral Quartet are coming to NU for a concert this Sunday. The group’s album “Serious Business” was nominated for a Grammy this year.
The Grammy-nominated Spektral Quartet will perform the works of eight Bienen students in a concert this Sunday. With a repertoire list spanning a wide variety of genres, centuries and styles, Spektral Quartet was formed more than seven years ago and seeks to “pursue a conversation” between modern and classical music, said Doyle Armbrust (Bienen ’00), the violaist and group representative. “All of our concerts are really intended to be really inviting and welcoming to newcomers and hardcore classical fans,” Armbrust said. “Stylistically we’re pretty all over the map … there’s so many different sorts of flavors of (music), and we have a wide appetite for I’d say most of it.” Liza Sobel, one of the featured composers, said this openness is one of the group’s main assets that differentiates it from other string quartets. Spektral Quartet, she said, doesn’t limit itself to one style. “If it’s something we’re making not the most traditional … I think other string quartets maybe would shy away from that,” the second-year doctoral student said. “Spektral would just jump in and say great … let me figure out how to play this.” Based in Chicago, the quartet has had strong ties to Northwestern since its creation, with two of its members being NU alumni. The quartet makes student composer concerts a priority, and saw this concert as an opportunity to get introduced to the “next generation” of NU composers, Armbrust said. “There are so many people out there with so much creativity writing all these phenomenal pieces,” he said. “It’s really difficult for them to find groups to get their works played just because there is so much of it.” Each year, the composition department assigns students to various performance groups and soloists, depending on their preferences, said Hans Thomalla, professor of composition and director
of the Institute for New Music at Bienen. Thomalla said he wanted to bring Spektral to NU because the group is one of the leading new music string quartets in the country and has a diverse repertoire. “A string quartet is such a traditional and classical genre and we have now a group here in Chicago that is playing that repertoire … but also promotes new music and works with young composers,” he said. Each composer wrote a piece between seven to 10 minutes long that they worked on for several months prior to the concert, said Bienen senior Austin Busch, a featured composer. After seeing the quartet perform over the summer, Busch said he noticed Spektral had a rhythmic focus in some of the music it chose. For his piece, he transcribed audio of drum loops to pitches in the string quartet, wanting to use his percussion background to produce a piece that also played to Spektral’s wide range of musical styles. “If I hand (my piece) to a group that only plays Beethoven quartets, they can play it … but they’re not going to feel it in the same way,” he said. Ethan Boxley, a Bienen junior, said he tried to combine older styles of music with 20th century techniques in his composition. Using computer software, he studied spectrographs of water recordings to write his piece. “There’s a ton of rhythms that you can get from transcribing water,” Boxley said. “It’s just free rhythms and notes that are totally cool and so I wanted to … use those as the texture in the composition.” Sobel, the second-year doctoral student, said she’s looking forward to hearing the diverse compositions of the students at the concert. “(With) string quartets, you can imagine, ‘Oh everything’s going to sound the same,’ but I think it’ll be the opposite,” she said. “The composers each have such different styles so it’ll be a huge variety of pieces with the same four instruments.” madeleinefernando2020@u.northwestern.edu
Former NU prof premieres reading of Syrian war drama By RACHEL HOLTZMAN
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After reading a New Yorker article about the conditions in a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, former Communication Prof. Mia McCullough knew she wanted to write a story that captured their personal experiences. Her play, “Wisdom From Everything,” premiered in its first staged reading at the Local Lab festival in Boulder last month. It follows 19-yearold Syrian refugee Farsana, who marries an older Jordanian doctor to leave the refugee camp and finds herself caught between his family drama and her own uncertain status. “Over the past year with our circus of an election cycle, I feel like the war became background noise, and I’m very much not okay with that,” McCullough said. “This is my way of trying to
push it to the foreground.” McCullough originally wrote the play on commission for the Goodman Theatre before she decided to team up with Rachel Fowler, an old classmate and theater producer. McCullough said she knew that as a white artist, she’d have to conduct extensive research and recruit a team that could speak to the experiences of Arab and Muslim individuals. She conducted extensive interviews with professors and exchange students at Northwestern, talked to a refugee in a Jordanian camp over Twitter and called a United Nations manager at the camp to confirm the religion of the refugees there. “One of the things I really appreciate about Mia is her dedication to the work and to make sure it’s truthful,” Fowler said. To further ensure cultural accuracy, she teamed up with Iranian-American director Pirronne Yousefzadeh for the reading at Local Theater
Company. Yousefzadeh, lead actress Mehry Eslaminia and two other writer-actors of color worked with McCullough to figure out what sounded right and what made the most cultural sense. Yousefzadeh and Eslaminia are both IranianAmerican, and the cast was made up entirely of Middle Eastern-American or South AsianAmerican actors, McCullough said. “To be in a room where there’s a shared experience and a shared understanding of what it’s like to be a person of color in America, it fills my heart,” Yousefzadeh said. “It’s partly what contributed to such a rich experience.” Yousefzadeh said she admires McCullough’s attention to detail and passion for the project. Fowler said though McCullough has experienced some pushback, she hopes “Wisdom From Everything” will be fully staged sometime in the near future, allowing it to reach out to people
who, politically, are opposed to the entry of Muslim refugees into the United States. “I hope the story resonates … in terms of the humanity of these refugees, the horrors they’ve seen and the choices they’ve had to make,” Fowler said. “That might inspire some empathy and sympathy and open our hearts a little bit.” The reception at Local Lab was positive, Fowler and Yousefzadeh said, and it is work that both of them want to see fully staged in the future. Yousefzadeh said she hopes the play is put on as much as possible because it touches on important issues. “I hope this is done in a way that honors the characters in the community we’re representing, in terms of casting as well as choices within the show,” Yousefzadeh said. “I know that in Mia’s hands it certainly will be.” rachelholtzman2018@u.northwestern.edu
Zimbabwean songwriter to speak about musical resistance By AARON BOXERMAN
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Zimbabwean songwriter Thomas Mapfumo will speak at Northwestern on Friday about his use of song as a form of resistance. Mapfumo, who wrote music as a way to protest the white-nationalist government of Rhodesia in southern Africa, will speak on a panel in Harris Hall organized by the Program of African Studies. Mapfumo will be joined by University of California, Santa Barbara Prof. Mhoze Chikowero, who specializes in the relationship
between African music and African politics. While Mapfumo was living in Rhodesia, several local resistance movements sprung up to push for both political and cultural autonomy. Mapfumo’s music depicted this struggle and eventually landed him in prison in 1979. Rhodesia became the independent country of Zimbabwe soon after. “Watch out, don’t underestimate me. I am also armed,” Mapfumo wrote in a song that he was later arrested for by the Rhodesian government. Mapfumo, who played an active role in the resistance movement, is also known as the “Lion
of Zimbabwe,” said Kelly Coffey, business coordinator at the Program of African Studies. Mapfumo currently plays in a band with the Blacks Unlimited. “I would say he was really the voice of the liberation struggle for Zimbabwe,” said Esmeralda Kale, curator of Northwestern’s Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. “Being jailed and imprisoned, being harassed ... and yet at the same time, finding a way of being creative, of speaking up. It’s magnificent.” Anthropology Prof. Stephen Hill said Mapfumo’s music is associated with Shona religious practice, while still having musical instruments
and “economic structures” of a professional band. “Mapfumo created the soundtrack to the revolutionary struggle,” said Hill, who will moderate the panel on Friday. Coffey said she hopes NU students will draw inspiration from Mapfumo’s talk and concert. “I’m hoping that people will be inspired to think that you don’t have to settle for things that are not right,” she said. “It doesn’t have to be through conflict, it can be through music or art — not as a replacement for direct political action, but as a way to lift people’s spirits.” aaronboxerman2020@u.northwestern.edu
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Out Da Box performs at Chicago Improv Festival By EMILY CHIN
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“Musical on!” shouts someone from backstage. McCormick sophomore Muhammed Patel immediately begins to sing. The audience is hysterical. This is a typical performance for Out Da Box, an improv and sketch group on campus. The group does short form improv, which is a
high-energy performance that relies on quick thinking and making jokes on the spot, Patel said. ODB recently performed at the Chicago Improv Festival as one of the festival’s college groups. The festival, which took place March 27 to April 2, features professional improv performers from throughout the U.S. ODB did a 20 minute performance between professional acts. “It was cool being on the same stage as professional improv groups,” Patel said. “It was great that we were chosen to represent the
school. It was a big honor” John Hildreth, a well-known performer in the Chicago area and artistic director for the festival, emailed ODB inviting the group to perform in the festival, said ODB director Harry Wood. ODB’s performance in the festival allowed the group to step into the greater Chicago improv community, said Communication freshman Dora Grossman-Weir, who also performed at the festival. “It’s a testament to the reputation and quality
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Northwestern Improv group Out Da Box performs in its 2016 spring show, ODBonics. The group recently performed in the Chicago Improv Festival.
of ODB,” said Wood, a Communication senior. “In my four years here, ODB has grown its reputation and its audience every year that I’ve been in the group. I’m lucky to be on the receiving end of it.” Wood said performing at the festival was particularly fun for him because he had performed at the same theater with another group and it was interesting to be back with a different performance and a different audience. For Wood, however, the joy of performing with ODB isn’t about the venue or the audience. The joy comes more from performing with the group, he said. What sets ODB apart from the other comedy groups on campus is its level of diversity, Patel said. The members view themselves as a multicultural group, and actively recruit students of color. Patel said the comedy community at Northwestern is primarily made up of theater majors, a group that sometimes lacks diversity. “I firmly believe that ODB is the best group on this campus in comedy because we are diverse,” he said. “We bring so many people to the table and are able to write such diverse comedy. I’m Muslim so I can write about that. Our black members can write sketches about the black community.” Prior to joining ODB, Patel hadn’t explored race on a deeper level. However, joining the group opened his eyes to important questions surrounding diversity and inclusion in today’s society, he said. Wood agreed that ODB’s diversity fills in some of the gaps that other groups don’t always hit. “It fills a gap that people are looking for especially in a time today where commentary is becoming a part of comedy,” he said. “They’re looking for comedy to have a meaning or an angle or a purpose. I think the vast majority of the stuff that we do is comedy with a purpose and that puts us in an exciting place.” emilychin2018@u.northwestern.edu
Bosnia and Herzegovina gets taste of Dolphin Show By JENNIFER HEPP
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A modified cast and crew of this year’s Dolphin Show, “Little Shop of Horrors,” performed in four cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina over Spring Break. Elizabeth Blumenthal (Communication ’92), organizer of the 50th annual Dolphin Show, is now an assistant cultural affairs officer in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In December, Blumenthal reached out to Dolphin Show organizers and asked if they would be willing to perform American musical theater in the country. The group toured and performed in the cities of Banja Luka, Doboj, Mostar and Sarajevo over eight and a half days. The Daily spoke with Maggie Monahan, the director, and Janie Dickerson, the co-producer, about their experiences abroad. The Daily: How did the audience react to your shows? Monahan: They really were not as accustomed to the norms of the genre … People over and over again were saying, “You’re singing but you’re also acting, and then there’s a dance.” For them it’s much more normal for those things to be segregated. And it was surprising and exciting, I think, for them to see so many different modes of storytelling integrated.
Dickerson: That was the best part. They didn’t know what to do with themselves. They didn’t know when to clap, they didn’t know what intermission was, they just kind of sat there for 15 minutes. After each performance we had talk-backs with the audience, and that’s when it became really clear the impacts that our performance had on them.There was one woman who (said) … “I have to stand to show my great respect for you” and we had people who said it was an honor to watch the show … It was amazing. The Daily: What were some of the logistical challenges you faced with performing this show abroad? Dickerson: We had to scale back the show a whole lot … Most of the cast was entirely different. We had four people from the original cast, only two people played the same roles. The other two had to learn brand new parts and the rest of the cast had to learn the show in two and a half weeks. Having different actors really made all the difference in altering the vision of the show in really awesome ways. Monahan: It was definitely a stripped down production … I don’t think that it was compromised artistically at all, but there were definitely compromises that we had to make to the production, even if we didn’t sacrifice it artistically. The Daily: What did bringing the Dolphin Show to Bosnia and Herzegovina mean to you?
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Students performing in the Dolphin Show explore Bosnia and Herzegovina. The group was invited to perform as part of the U.S. Embassy’s cultural diplomacy program with Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Monahan: For our performances in Doboj and Banja Luka, it was particularly significant for advancing the interest of the embassy there, because those are parts of the country that still hold onto a lot of hostility towards the United States from our involvement in the war. So for there to be so many young people in those communities who were excited about seeing the show, it was some of the first meaningful contact that they’ve had with Americans in their lives.
of Northwestern alumni and … The Dolphin Show and student theater. One of the main reasons for the trip was to show the students in Sarajevo how young people can be proactive and be entrepreneurial and produce their own work. They don’t need to sit around waiting for someone else to do it for them. They were really moved by the student-produced element of The Dolphin Show and it was really important to them and it’s also really important to us.
Dickerson: I just can’t stress enough the power
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TISDAHL From page 1
Becoming the ‘face of Evanston’
Tisdahl said she decided to run for mayor after noticing that many of the city’s minority residents were leaving because they could no longer afford to live in Evanston. When she first took office, Tisdahl said people told her she was now the “face of Evanston.” However, Tisdahl said she didn’t appreciate the meaning until she flew to Washington, D.C. in mid-2009 to lobby state officials for money to expand affordable housing. At the time, many middle- and low-income residents in the 2nd, 5th and 8th Wards were losing their homes to foreclosure as they struggled to pay for housing, Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) said. Holmes, whose ward was hit the hardest, said she worked with Tisdahl to write a federal grant application. Any money the city received would be used to repurchase and sell previously foreclosed properties as well as create new affordable units, Holmes said. The city ended up receiving an $18 million grant. “The day Sen. Dick Durbin called to say we’d gotten funding was the day that I realized that there really was something to this ‘being a mayor’ thing,” Tisdahl said. Tisdahl soon realized she would be making frequent trips to the nation’s capital on behalf of the city. In 2012, she returned to Washington to lobby federal officials on another issue: health care. A few years before Tisdahl was elected, the city had stopped providing direct health services due to budget concerns, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said. To fill the gap, Tisdahl secured a designation for a federally qualified health center in Evanston. Shortly after receiving funding, the Erie Family Health Center opened a temporary location in the city before establishing a permanent Evanston/ Skokie branch a year later. The center allowed individuals with no or low coverage to get the services they needed, Bobkiewicz said. Since 2012, Erie Evanston/Skokie has seen almost 12,000 patients, said Rachel Krause, a spokeswoman for the health center. “It used to take three months for someone to get into the clinic at Evanston Hospital,” Tisdahl said. “Now you could get health care immediately.”
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discuss the transition and receive advice for how to approach the job. Suffredin praised Tendam’s work over the past eight years, saying he hopes to continue with Tendam’s practices while adding in new ideas of his own. Tendam is currently running for mayor against businessman Steve Hagerty, who held a lead as of early Wednesday morning. The election is currently contested as absentee ballots
THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2017 Over the years, Tisdahl has continued her efforts to make Evanston a more affordable and sustainable city. When she entered office, Tisdahl’s main focus was job creation, particularly with the intention of increasing employment to decrease criminal activity. The city hired outreach workers who accompanied Tisdahl as she walked around Evanston on summer nights, talking to people “hanging out on the streets,” Tisdahl said. They all told her the same thing: They wanted jobs, but had no resume or the right skills. Tisdahl set out to increase employment. First, she said, she expanded the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program, which only had 167 jobs set up in 2009. Johanna Leonard, the city’s economic development manager, said the program grew by at least 100 jobs each year since 2012, employing 750 youth in 2016. Next, Tisdahl said the city partnered with Northwestern, NorthShore University HealthSystem and other businesses to establish apprenticeship programs and job training for adults. Following national trends, Evanston’s unemployment rate dropped from around 8 percent in 2009 to 4.1 percent this February. The mayor’s tenure also brought about changes to the city’s sustainability efforts. According to a 2015 emissions report, Evanston reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 18.6 percent between 2005 and 2015. Bobkiewicz said although the city had focused on climate and energy issues before Tisdahl, the mayor helped officials broaden their understanding of sustainability to include transportation, mobility, equity and empowerment. In 2014, Evanston became one of America’s first two cities to receive a four-star rating from the Sustainability Tools for Assessing and Rating Communities initiative, a comprehensive self-reporting system on sustainability that awards cities for their statistics, services and engagement of citizens.
Mending town-gown relations
office around the same time as a new mayor, Tisdahl said she was determined to break down barriers. Tisdahl said the feud between the University and the city had many facets: Northwestern doesn’t pay property taxes, which upset aldermen who blamed the University when there wasn’t enough funding to address issues in the city. Additionally, the nighttime schedules of the roughly 3,000 off-campus students rankled Evanston residents living near Northwestern. However, when University President Morton Schapiro moved to Evanston months after the new mayor’s election, Tisdahl delivered on a campaign promise: She threw a party and baked him cookies. “She’s always reaching out, always trying to say, ‘What can we do to improve the relationship?’” Schapiro said. “She’s got a great attitude about everything. I just watch her and I see how she listens to people, how she cares about people, and she’s a great role model and mentor to me.” Schapiro said because the University has an enormous budget — $2.2 billion annually — it gives millions of dollars to the city each year through building permits, taxes and other grants. NU has invested in the Robert Crown Community Center, established a more visible presence in Evanston Township High School and provided the mayor with a five-year annual discretionary fund of about $1 million. More importantly, Schapiro said, NU students are “blessed” to be part of a vibrant community with a diverse downtown. “I don’t expect the undergraduate students at Northwestern to realize what this woman has done to make their lives better,” Schapiro said. “But if they really knew the history and they really knew that woman, they would just thank her.” Tisdahl said in the future, the new mayor would be well-served in doing more to bridge the gap between various city departments and NU professors. “And,” she noted, “I hope everyone will forget that I closed the Keg at some point. Just remember the new mayor is not the mayor who closed the Keg, so be nice to the new mayor.”
Back when she was campaigning for mayor, Tisdahl said people would ask her what she would do to improve the city’s relationship with Northwestern. “All the other candidates said we ‘need better communication,’” Tisdahl said. “I said, ‘I’m going to throw a party.’ And they all thought that was the dumbest idea in the world.” But with a new University president coming into
Although she loved being mayor, Tisdahl said she decided against a third term because she had accomplished all her policy goals. Fifth Ward business owner Nathan Haliburton
are being counted. Suffredin, who has young children, said he will be able to focus on parks and schools in his ward and connect to residents through those outlets. Like Suffredin, Fleming is also seeking to be a “team builder” and act as a collaborative member on City Council. She said she hopes to address policy within the larger context of the city. “The 9th (Ward) is one within the bigger city,” Fleming said. “We have some unique needs. On City Council ... I have to think of the health of
the city and its residents overall.” She said she wants to advocate for her south Evanston ward, which is farther from downtown and many of the amenities more northern wards enjoy. She said she wants to push for equal treatment in terms of issue coverage in her ward, and focus on equity throughout the city. Fleming has said she will focus on crosswalk safety and supporting small, local businesses through a resident advisory committee. Suffredin said though he will be suggesting new
A future in politics
said though he was sad to see her go, Tisdahl had effectively given the public a voice during her time in office. In 2011, for example, she pushed for more responsive customer service in the city and helped establish Evanston’s 311 system. Haliburton also praised the mayor’s efforts to increase public awareness around police procedures after people expressed concerns about unjust arrests. “She would always listen to both sides and not immediately say the police and aldermen were right,” Haliburton said. “She would bring it to a committee to investigate.” Going forward, Tisdahl said she’d like to see both less crime and better police-community relations. She said she expects the new mayor to lead community-wide discussions about policing and closely examine the city’s targeted stop-and-frisk policy. Tisdahl said she considered numerous qualifications before endorsing her successor. Ultimately, she said, she chose businessman Steve Hagerty because of his focus on economic development and job creation — both of which she said would help stem violence and sustain the city through a historic state budget impasse. As of Wednesday evening, Hagerty held a 159-vote lead in the mayoral race. Hagerty said though he is “potentially more extroverted” than Tisdahl, he will take many cues from the mayor, including her ability to interact with much of the community. “In the process of campaigning, people have said, ‘I really am impressed that Mayor Tisdahl has endorsed you, that means a lot to me,’” Hagerty said. “I hope that I can continue to provide a steady hand in the leadership of the city.” Though Tisdahl’s mayoral career is almost over, she said her work in politics is not quite done. After spending her summer traveling, she will join the finance committee for State Sen. Daniel Biss’s (D-Evanston) gubernatorial campaign to raise money, make phone calls and organize events. “I was going to work for Hillary, but that didn’t work out too well,” Tisdahl said. “So I’m going to work for Daniel, and I certainly will work for a presidential candidate to defeat Trump. The city’s in pretty good shape, (but) I can’t say the same for the state or the nation.” rishikadugyala2019@u.northwestern.edu policies and changes for his ward and the city, he will also draw on existing policies in Evanston that have been in place for years. “There are so many people here whose parents grew up here or who have lived in the same house for 40 years,” Suffredin said. “You don’t live here and stay here for that long if you’re not happy with the way Evanston is, so it’s a matter of continuing keeping this a great place to live.” kristinakarisch2020@u.northwestern.edu
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Sophomores lead Cats across field as NU seeks to return to winning ways No. 16 Northwestern vs. Ohio State
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Of the four players to start all 12 games for Northwestern this season, three are sophomores. That ’s an impressive statistic sophomore midfielder Nell Copeland was at first shy to brag about. “We all really looked up to the class above us and … (knew) that we had a huge role to step up into,” Copeland said. “Because we’ve been watching them, we’ve learned that in order to make it on the field, you have to work so hard. Everyone in my class just works their butt off and that’s the culture we’ve created.” Copeland opened up a bit more later. “My class rocks,” she said, laughing. As an up-and-down season for the No. 16 Wildcats (6-6, 2-0 Big Ten) continues Thursday at Ohio
State (6-8, 0-3), the team’s surprising reliance on its sophomores has become increasingly evident. Goaltender Mallory Weisse ranks third in the Big Ten in saves per game. Attacker Liza Elder has six goals in her last six appearances. Even Copeland, who has started every NU game in the midfield this year, scored her first career goal last week against Johns Hopkins. “Especially on the defensive end, we have a bunch of sophomores and they’re doing a good job bringing good leadership (and) a fearlessness to their play,” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said. “They all live together, so they have a sense of playing for each other as well.” Arguably the biggest standout of the group, however, is defender
Claire Quinn, who leads the team with 30 ground ball pick-ups and 21 turnovers caused — no one else, in either category, even comes close. “I have a 50-50 chance of getting a foul or getting the ball, and I have to know when’s the right time to take a risk or to stay back,” Quinn said. “My confidence has grown immensely, and I owe that to the upperclassmen and the other defenders. We’re a small group but we have a great chemistry and we’re really close-knit.” The continued emergence of significant contributors within the sophomore class has proved a boon for a Cats team that is suffering from the continued injury absence of last year’s second-leading scorer Selena Lasota and a recent slow stretch from current second-leading scorer Danita Stroup. NU will certainly need production to come from somewhere as it begins a conference-heavy stretch to conclude the regular season. Four
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of its last five games are against Big Ten foes. That slate begins with a road trip to Columbus for a rematch with a Buckeyes team that the Cats routed 22-13 last year. Ohio State has lost seven of its last eight games, but, in its last outing, lost narrowly to No. 5 Penn State in what Amonte Hiller called the Buckeyes’ “best game of the season.” “They’re fighting for their life to make it into the tournament, so it’s going to be a hard-fought match,” Amonte Hiller said. “We’ve got to be ready.” Quinn, who started as a freshman in last year’s meeting with Ohio State, promised that her sophomore class — as always — will step up. “The energy is really high with our class,” she said. “Everyone gets along, everyone knows their role and everyone knows what to do. I think that’s what helps this team.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu
WOMEN’S TENNIS
NU looks for strong stroke play Rolling Cats look for By JOSEPH WILKINSON
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For the first time in over a month, Northwestern will enter a strokeplay competition as the Wildcats travel to Napa Valley, California, to compete in the Silverado Showdown this weekend. In the past month, No. 15 NU has played in three different matchplay competitions, allowing the Cats to prepare for the final rounds of the NCAA Championship in May. NU was one stroke shy of reaching the match play round last year. “We’re looking forward to getting back into some stroke play,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “We’ve got four rounds there, and we’re just looking to build some momentum going into the postseason. We’ve had a good winter, and a good spring thus far.” After a seventh-place finish in a top-heavy field at San Diego State March Mayhem, the Cats triumphed at the Pepperdine Triangular later in the month, defeating No. 10 USC and the hosts in the process. Last weekend, NU travelled to Durham, North Carolina, and split the first half of a home-and-home match play set with No. 7 Duke this year. “Match play has been huge for us,” junior Hannah Kim said. “We’ve been able to compete against some really good teams, and we’ve done pretty well all around, so it’s been encouraging going forward.” The team struggled overall on the first day, winning only one matchup, but dropped just one match on the second day as Kim, senior Kacie Komoto and sophomore Stephanie
Lau, Wu earn Big Ten Golfer of the Week honors
Sophomore Stephanie Lau and junior Dylan Wu were each named Big Ten Golfers of the Week, the conference
Lau all picked up victories. Lau was particularly impressive, beating defending national champion Virginia Elena Carta 4-and-3 for the squad’s sole victory on day one. “I was just trying to treat it like any other round,” Lau said. “Virginia’s one of my really good friends, but it was pretty cool to be able to beat her.” Match play, however, is not the end of the journey for NU, and the Cats will have to turn in impressive performances at NCAA Regionals and the four stroke play rounds at the national championships. At this weekend’s tournament, the Cats are more focused on preparing for the upcoming Big Ten Championships. This is the last stroke-play event the team has scheduled before it attempts to repeat as Big Ten Champions for the third time in a row.
“It’s certainly helpful for preparation,” Fletcher said. “The fact that the course has a Midwest feel to it means that the transition will hopefully be pretty easy. It’ll be good preparation for Big Tens for sure.” Last year, NU’s tune-up tournament before the Big Ten Championships didn’t exactly go as planned, as the Cats came in eighth at the Ping Arizona State Invitational in a 14-team field. That underwhelming performance didn’t stop them from snagging a share of the Big Ten title two weeks later, but coach Fletcher is hoping for better results from this year’s final regular season tournament. “We’re just looking to kind of pull it all together right now,” she said. “We hope our hard work can pay off.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Hannah Kim completes her backswing. The junior and the Wildcats are seeking a strong effort at the Silverado Showdown.
announced Wednesday. Lau, the 2016 Big Ten Freshman of the Year, earned her award after helping the Wildcats split a doubleheader with Duke on Sunday. She won both of her matches that day, defeating 2016 Olympian Leona Maguire and reigning NCAA champion Virginia Elena Carta. This is the second time Lau has won
the award, after previously earning it in October 2015. She is the third NU women’s golfer to win the award this season, along with senior Kacie Komoto and junior Hannah Kim. On the men’s side, Wu is the fifth Cat to win the award, tied with Michigan for the most in the conference. Wu’s recognition comes a day after
more Big Ten victories By COLE PAXTON
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The Wildcats have sped through the Big Ten season, and nothing is slowing them down. Northwestern (9-8, 5-0 Big Ten) has won four straight matches and is unblemished in conference play with nearly half of league matches in the books, a red-hot stretch the Cats will look to continue this weekend at Purdue and Indiana. On paper, those matches look like they will be more wins for NU. The Boilermakers (5-11, 0-5) are in the midst of an extended 11-match losing streak and have not won since late January. Th e Hoosiers (11-9, 2-3), meanwhile, are further from the Big Ten cellar but do not have a win against a team with a winning record in conference play. Th e Cats have feasted on lesser opponents early in the Big Ten season. NU owns recent wins over Rutgers, which has won just one conference match, and Iowa, which sits in the middle of the Big Ten pack with a 3-3 record. Th ough the Cats lack signature wins, they have demonstrated exceptional consistency all season, mowing down nine of their 10 unranked foes since dual play began in January. After NU’s most recent wins — road triumphs at Nebraska and Iowa — sophomore Rheeya Doshi said the Cats have been successful in part because they do not change their approach from day to day. “We treat every match equally and all matches are important,” Doshi said on Sunday. “Just working hard and he won the Redhawk Invitational with his best performance for NU, shooting 7-under-par at Chamber’s Bay, site of the 2015 U.S. Open. “Really happy for Dylan, to get his win,” coach David Inglis said after his win. “It’s never easy playing with the lead and having the pressure, but he responded really well and he ended up winning by
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giving it our best really helped the team as a whole.” NU’s recent hot streak is particularly impressive because of what preceded it. The Cats dropped four straight matches in March and lost eight of nine at one point, tumbling to a 5-8 overall record. Still, coach Claire Pollard said she believes the rough early season slate, which was extraordinarily difficult — NU lost four matches to top-10 foes — has ultimately helped the Cats. Still, she added, the wins have also been beneficial. “I like playing a challenging schedule,” Pollard said. “We didn’t always get the outcome and the results we wanted at the start of the season. It’s nice for the girls to feel more in control (now).” The tough schedule will soon return for NU, which plays its final three matches against opponents who have lost just one Big Ten match combined. As Pollard has said throughout the season, however, contests against purportedly lesser opponents do not come easy. “Week to week things change a lot,” Pollard said. “Ultimately, the girls know that they have to come out and perform well.” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu one with a birdie on the last hole.” This is the third time Wu has won this award. Heading into this week’s tournament, he was ranked No. 24 in the country, according to Golfweek. He currently leads NU in rounds under par, stroke average and top-five finishes. — Jonah Dylan