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Durbin, Schakowsky speak about resistance By RYAN WANGMAN
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CHICAGO — U.S. Sen Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and U.S. Rep Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) discussed health care, immigration and the investigation of President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia during a town hall in Chicago on Monday. Organizers planned the town hall — held at the Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N. Knox Ave. — to challenge the elected officials to offer tangible solutions for contentious political issues. The event’s leaders came from Indivisible IL-5, a group representing constituents from Illinois’ 5th District focused on resisting Trump’s agenda, holding local officials accountable and embracing progressive values. U.S. Rep Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), State Sen. Ann Williams (D-Chicago) and State Sen. Greg Harris (D-Chicago) were also in attendance. At the town hall, Durbin said one of his biggest priorities as a congressman was to protect the » See TOWN, page 6
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The sorority quad at Northwestern University. Executive director of residential services Jennifer Luttig-Komrosky said a majority of Norovirus cases have been reported in fraternity and sorority housing.
Campus-wide illness likely Norovirus
University suspects highly contagious disease cause of recent outbreak in student halls By CATHERINE KIM
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Northwestern officials suspect the cause of a recent illness outbreak among on-campus residences to be Norovirus. Executive director of residential services Jennifer LuttigKomrosky sent out an email April 10 announcing reports of an illness in residential housing with symptoms of diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. The majority of cases have been reported in
fraternity and sorority housing, Luttig-Komrosky said. Northwestern University Health Service has since then released an update through their website, which states Norovirus as the most probable cause, providing a list of cautionary actions students should take. In addition to avoiding or limiting contact with infected people, Health Service’s recommendations to students include frequently washing hands; refraining from sharing food, drinks or eating utensils; and cleaning all infected areas
thoroughly. Robert Dennis Palinkas, executive director of Health Service, said Norovirus is common in areas where large groups live together. “This is a ubiquitous virus, very common virus in the environment, and it’s not uncommon to have the occasional outbreak like we are hearing reports of,” Palinkas said. “This is the very same virus that has been implicated in outbreaks on ships and other types of facilities.” Despite the illness reports, Palinkas said little can be done
to prevent viral infections such as Norovirus other than continued good hygiene practices. People do not develop immunity to the common virus and there is no existing vaccine to prevent it, he said. In response to the illness reports, residential services is working closely with campus partners, including the health center, facility management, custodian groups and the City of Evanston Department of Health to ensure students are taken care of, Luttig-Komrosky said.
Residential services is also providing free cleaning services to fraternity and sorority houses, Luttig-Komrosky said. Cleaning services will be available to clean all hard services such as the kitchen, bathrooms, doorknobs and entries, she said. To support sick students who were under quarantine — Norovirus is highly contagious — residential services is delivering meals to students who are unable to participate in a dining program, including those who » See ILLNESS, page 6
County starts new health program New coordinator Direct access service for uninsured residents begins enrollment By ZOE MILLER
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A new Cook County health care program geared toward the uninsured began enrolling residents earlier this month. The direct access health care program, which was unanimously approved as an ordinance by Cook County commissioners in September, began in March. A direct access program is a type of health care program that establishes a network of centers that enrollees can use without paying initial fees. The program was first proposed to the county by Healthy Communities Cook County, a group of healthcare organizations that advocates for improved healthcare access for uninsured residents. Cook County commissioners Bridget Gainer, Jesus Garcia and Robert Steele supported the program. The program was established
discusses equity By AARON BOXERMAN
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Cook County commissioner Bridget Gainer speaks at a meeting in 2012. Gainer supported a new direct health care program geared toward uninsured residents.
to help uninsured, low-income residents of Cook County obtain more affordable care, said Micaela Vargas, Gainer’s chief of staff. Often, she said, uninsured, low-income residents
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Paradoxically, when uninsured people avoid health care because of cost, they end up being forced to pay more in the » See HEALTH, page 6
Rev. Dr. Patricia Efiom, Evanston’s new equity and empowerment coordinator, had some tough questions for the city at a town hall on Monday at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. “Can we own up as a city that we’re racist? Can we own up that we’re sexist, as a city?” Efiom asked a crowd of about 25 people. The town hall was the first in a series of five meetings planned to address “issues of access, equity and empowerment,” in the city, according a news release. The meetings, moderated by Efiom, mark a new effort by the city to more intentionally address issues like the achievement gap in education and affordable housing. Efiom began her talk with a 20 minute presentation on her new role and the meaning of equity and empowerment. Equity is not the same as equality and
diversity, she said, drawing sharp distinctions between the three concepts. “We always look at diversity and try to attack it by putting these Band-Aids on,” Efiom said. “When we’re talking about equity, we’re now talking about a very different thing. … (Equity) is looking systematically at what are the barriers that prevent marginalized people from fully participating.” After Efiom’s presentation, Evanston residents discussed some of those barriers: the achievement gap in education in the city’s two school districts, lack of affordable housing and the tokens required for entry to city beaches. However, Efiom cautioned against assuming what Evanston’s marginalized communities might need and speaking for them accordingly. “In order to get equity, some » See EQUITY, page 6
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AROUND TOWN City Council reviews downtown plans, advertising By BILLY KOBIN
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Evanston officials discussed Monday an ongoing plan to extend the city’s downtown area farther north, but concerns over the parameters of the plan prevented a final approval. The proposed plan — debated on by the Planning and Development Committee — would extend the city’s downtown area into a new North Downtown Planning Area located roughly between Ridge Avenue to the west, Sherman Avenue to the east, Emerson Street to the south and Foster Street to the north. This area includes a mix of singlefamily homes, student housing and businesses. Discussion about the downtown area began in part after a development bid at 831 Emerson St. was stalled last year. A developer had proposed to build a student-focused, 14-story building at a site just west of Sherman Avenue that currently houses the 7-Eleven and Lake City Cleaners, but the plan was met with strong opposition from local residents. A new plan for 831 Emerson St. was presented to officials Monday that would create a smaller, 9-story building instead. That plan will be addressed at a future meeting. Currently, the downtown area extends roughly from Ridge Avenue east to Hinman Avenue, and from Lake Street north to Emerson Street. The plan would amend the existing Downtown Plan, created in 2009, by adding five subareas to
POLICE BLOTTER Two men arrested for handgun possession in Evanston A Morton Grove resident and a Palatine resident were arrested for handgun possession in Evanston on Friday, according to a police news release. The first arrest occurred around 6:45 p.m. when Evanston Police Department’s tactical unit noticed a passenger in a vehicle not wearing
the region north of Emerson Street. These subareas would create guidelines for development in the area, such as guidelines on building heights and size. Two of the subareas would encourage transitoriented development centered around the Foster Street CTA station, while an additional two would be “transitional” areas between the more-developed downtown to the residential areas to the north. A fifth subarea would call for “traditional” development that would match closely in size and style with the current buildings. Several residents and Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) — whose ward includes part of the proposed expansion — expressed concerns over the plan’s inclusion of certain properties north of Emerson Street and west of Maple Avenue. Fiske said she did not want the plan to include the areas west of Maple Avenue along Emerson Street and on the north side of Foster Street, expressing concern over how future City Councils might further expand downtown boundaries. “We’re inviting in development,” she said. “The priority really (should be) to try to keep our smaller, affordable neighborhoods intact.” However, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said moving forward with the North Downtown Planning Area proposal is vital in order to address development issues surrounding properties. “Without some sort of plan or direction from the City Council will really jeopardize community involvement and jeopardize the city’s involvement in this,” Bobkiewicz said. Aldermen decided to delay action on the North
Downtown Planning Area for a future meeting in order to have more time to study the plan and consider resident concerns.
a seatbelt, according to the release. When the vehicle was pulled over in the 3000 block of Oakton Street in Skokie, officers recovered a small amount of cannabis from the driver and an open bottle of alcohol from the front-seat passenger. The back-seat passenger informed officers he had a duffle bag with cannabis in it. When the officers recovered the bag, it had cannabis, a digital scale and a loaded handgun inside it. All three men were then taken into custody.
The 23-year-old backseat passenger is being charged with one felony, two counts of possession of a firearm without correct identification, a Class A misdemeanor and a traffic citation, according to the release. The other two men were given citations for city ordinance violations. The second separate arrest occurred just after 11:00 p.m. in northwest Evanston when a vehicle was pulled over for having only one working headlight. The back-seat passenger began walking away
Advertising policies
The Rules Committee discussed Monday the city’s advertising policies and expenses after some residents requested the removal of city ads from the news website Evanston Now. A Change.org petition, published in January, called on a number of Evanston businesses to cancel their advertising on Evanston Now’s website, criticizing the site “for reporting that exacerbates racial injustice in our community” and its moderation of the comments section. Evanston Now is a local online news site founded by Bill Smith (Medill ’70, ’71) in 2006. Smith also serves as editor of the site. “(Evanston Now has) blamed the victims of racism for their victimization, reinforced racist myths, used racially insensitive language, and published incendiary, racist (comments),” the petition reads. During Monday’s meeting, assistant city manager Marty Lyons outlined how much money the city allocates to ads in Evanston RoundTable, the Chicago Tribune’s Evanston Review section and Evanston Now. Lyons said the city spent about $59,000 on ads for legally required notices and city services and events across all three publications in 2016, with $1,752 going to Evanston Now. Lyons also mentioned city advertisements in The Daily Northwestern but did not review them in detail.
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Ald. Brian Miller (9th), who brought up in March the issue of advertising in Evanston Now, said he would like the city’s equity and empowerment coordinator, Rev. Dr. Patricia Efiom, to examine the city’s advertising guidelines. “We don’t have standards for where we are spending dollars,” Miller said. Efiom said she met with the concerned parties about the Evanston Now issue and determined that halting advertisements on the site would not be the best action. She said she will, however, bring different groups together to develop guidelines on city advertising in publications. “The language is not always nice, but to call it racism (and) to stop advertising would be detrimental,” Efiom said. “At this point, there’s just nothing there to say we shouldn’t advertise.” Fiske and Miller said they have heard about people being blocked from commenting on Evanston Now’s website, a practice said was concerning. However, Smith told the Rules Committee he takes down comments that are “libelous,” “racist” or “terribly offensive.” “We impose restrictions on what people will say and what they’ll be allowed to say, because we maintain some community standards,” Smith said. Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said the city puts itself “on a slippery slope” when it starts to decide in which publications to place its advertisements. “I hope we will not go into the land of trying to control the press,” she said. williamkobin2018@u.northwestern.edu
from the vehicle. When officers tried to stop him, he began to run, according to the release. The man was then pursued on foot into a residence in the 1700 block of Lyons Street, where officers observed the 28-year-old discard a handgun. The man was then taken into custody and charged with two class 3 felonies and two counts of possession of a firearm without correct identification. — Sophie Mann
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ON CAMPUS Faculty plan for Native studies center By CATHERINE KIM
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As plans for the upcoming Native American and Indigenous Studies Research Center are under way, the first three faculty members selected to work on the research center are considering ways they can increase inclusion of the Native community. Sociology Prof. Beth Redbird, history Prof. Doug Kiel and postdoctoral fellow Hi ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, joined Northwestern’s faculty last year under the Indigenous Studies Research Initiative. The three have been selected as the first faculty members to work on the research center. Details for the launch of the center and its programming are still in the works, Redbird said. Associate dean for academic initiatives Ann Bradlow said the establishment of the center is a “great interest of the University.” The initiative goes back several years to when University Provost Dan Linzer commissioned a report about the involvement of John Evans in the Sand Creek Massacre, she said. “(The new faculty) are part of the initiative that is contributing to the establishment of the center,” Bradlow said. “They are key parts.” Redbird, who researches indigenous poverty and indigenous economic development, said the goal of the center is to increase participation in Native issues on campus and help the “already vibrant” undergraduate Native population grow. Redbird said NU’s Native graduate students is currently small, but hopes the center will help it expand. She also said the center could allow the Northwestern community to interact with Chicago’s well-developed and active Native population. Though it is still in its early planning stages, Redbird said she hopes one day students at the
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center will be able to do public policy analysis on reservations where tribes operate like a city governments. For example, students could examine affordable housing programs initiated by Native groups and these groups would be able to use students’ research to evaluate the effectiveness of their programs, she said. In addition to the establishment of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Research Center, increased efforts will be made so NU is a more inclusive place for the Native community, said Ninah Divine, coordinator of the Native American and Indigenous Peoples Steering Group. Future initiatives include hiring more Native staff to support Native students, providing scholarships for Native students and making changes to University tours and Wildcat Welcome, Divine said. Redbird said actions to increase inclusivity and creating the center are important because it will provide a community for Native students on campus.
“It offers support for Indians in the same way that Black House does,” she said. “It offers a place to have community and value and cultural development, but then it also offers educational programs outside the community.” Divine said the center is important because it engages directly with the Native community and allows NU students, faculty and staff to give back the resources and privilege they have as members of the University’s community. “It’s such a big deal because what it’s doing is really honoring and paying restitution to the fact that we are on Native land right now and that our institution has tangible benefits from the suffering of Native people,” Divine said. “This is a really good way of honoring that and making it more visible to every student coming to Northwestern that this is Native land and Native people are really important here.” catherinekim2020@u.northwestern.edu
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017
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Turkey’s referendum another cog in antidemocratic populism
Turkish voters headed to the ballot boxes on April 16 to vote in an historic referendum regarding a series of amendments to Turkey’s constitution. In a very close race, the amendments were approved by a razor-thin margin (51 percent “yes” vote, against 49 percent “no”). The change will turn the 150 year-old Turkish parliamentary democracy into a strong presidential system granting the head of state exceptional legislative, executive powers as well as the ability to appoint most of the higher court judges. The referendum, which was carefully formulated to increase the power and length of the tenure of current head of state, Tayyip Erdoğan, is a unique chapter in the rise of populist authoritarianisms across the globe. While many international outlets report the result as Mr. Erdoğan’s most consequential victory and suggest the referendum hit the last nail on the coffin of Turkish democracy as we know it, there is a cautious optimism amongst
the opposition in Turkey. First of all, for many, a “yes” vote does not indicate the arrival of a new era; it simply makes the de facto one-manrule an official one. For the last few years, Mr. Erdoğan has systematically tightened his grasp on power, effectively undermining rule of law and suppressing existing democratic mechanisms. Now this regime has a structure, a basis, a name. It is out in the open. It does not feel the need to be something else. The moment that the new regime unapologetically puts itself forward, however, is the moment we learn how fragile it really is. The slimness of the “yes” majority does not match the ambitions of the new regime which promise not only to turn Turkey into global power, but also cast it the protector of the Muslim nations. Once we break down the referendum results by province, it becomes clear that the Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) base is not as solidified as one might think. In many provinces, the party has failed to convince its own supporter, let alone win new hearts and minds. Especially in large metropoles, Turkey is seeing an urban exodus from the party that has been ruling the country for the last 15 years. The tight outcome of the referendum race forces us
to think about the first presidential election of the new regime, which is expected to be held in 2019. While AKP is still the leading party of the political scene in Turkey, a two-round election system is expected to create a referendum-like race. And the referendum result has proven that Mr. Erdoğan may lose in 2019 the very system he designed for himself — a very ironic upset. Can the opposition turn this honorable defeat into a future victory? This is hard to answer. Despite the success of the “no” side’s campaign, we should remember than the opposition is much more fragmented than the ruling bloc. Among “no” supporters are socialists, social democrats, staunch secularists, Turkish nationalists and the Kurdish political movement, as well as devout Muslims not impressed by the idea of a one-man-rule. Each had its own reasons for a “no” vote and campaigned independently. Given the absence of a political leadership that could bring all these fragments together, the opposition has still a steep road ahead. We can also be sure that Erdoğan will do his best to make that road bumpy by further pursuing a politics of polarization by playing into the identity based divides in the country. His victory speech — which promises
two new referenda in the near future, one on bringing back the capital punishment and the other on Turkish EU membership — confirms this expectation. How should one label the new Turkish regime? The Economist’s most recent cover calls it a dictatorship. Though it is hard to argue that Turkey can still qualify as a democracy, especially after this referendum, I find “dictatorship” problematic. Not because I think it is unjust to describe the current regime that way, but because the term fails to fully capture the nuances and in its historical trajectory of the authoritarian turn in Turkey. As seen in our analyses of Brexit and the Trump presidency, the idea of dictatorship focuses on a single man and his political ambitions, blunders and aggression. It depicts the rise of xenophobia and polarization as sudden, exceptional turns instigated by one individual. I am unable to suggest an alternative name here, but I know that understanding right-wing populism in Turkey and elsewhere requires nuanced, hard work in addition to critique and self-reflexivity. — Sinan Erensü Keyman postdoctorate fellow
Discussing sexism, masculinity as a Korean American YVONNE KIM
OPINION EDITOR
In light of recent events on campus, conversations about buzzword topics like rape culture and toxic masculinity have felt particularly heightened. We are always talking about how administrations should respond, how men can do better, what underlying problems we’re ignoring. These conversations are loud. They are pervasive and active. They manifest in noise: voices of protest, constant social media chatter and marches across campus. This noise has become central to a lot of who we are, myself included, and how we process our surroundings. But over time, as I have tried to have these same conversations within my own Asian and Korean circles, I have continuously been met with confusion as I realize how absolutely separate these spheres are from my life at Northwestern. As a Korean American, I have relentlessly tried to reconcile those two identities — assuming, in my own naivete, that I could simply take one discourse and slap it onto another — but
I no longer think I can. Different problems require different conversations. The toxic masculinity I talk about in theory is often not the same one I experience on a day-to-day basis. In fact, in many spaces I frequent, discussion is entirely nonexistent. We don’t talk about masculinity. It is a topic shunned or scorned, or sometimes altogether silenced. People express misogyny in a wide range of ways, and I find myself navigating this spectrum the moment I move from the comment sections of an English YouTube video to a Korean celebrity news website. Or as I go back and forth between hanging out with one group of friends to another, or on break when I return and somehow manage to feel a new wave of culture shock each time. What I’ve ultimately come to realize is that mainstream culture’s approaches to misogyny and masculinity are inaccessible, sometimes absolutely incomprehensible, for those who come from other cultures. Cultures like mine are far more passive and silent on the issue than we are here at NU, or even in the United States. Unfortunately, the fact of the matter is we are encountering people from these backgrounds each day, even on our seemingly homogeneous college campus.
As I continue to encounter situations where I cry in attempts to converse with my father about masculinity, or fail to speak out in predominantly Korean spaces due to discomfort, I’ve made two realizations that have helped me move on from this cognitive dissonance with a liberated attitude instead of a frustrated one. Firstly, although engaging
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The toxic masculinity I talk about in theory is often not the same one I experience on a day-to-day basis. In fact, in many spaces I frequent, discussion is entirely nonexistent.
in comfortable conversations here on campus can be incredibly formative and healing for me as an individual, it can also prevent me from tackling smaller, quieter issues in my own communities. And to be quite frank, the latter affects me just as much, if not more so, than the former does. I hope to be more willing to put aside the ways I’ve been conditioned to engage with social justice to be
Housing process example of bad resources CHASE REED
DAILY COLUMNIST
Housing selection is currently underway, and hopefully you’re sitting pretty on top of the priority number totem pole, itching to claim your rightful spot in a swanky Shepard single or the newly-constructed 560 Lincoln. Or, if you’re anything like me, you decided months ago that you’d like to move a couple doors down the hall to live with a new roommate, one of your best friends, who decided they wanted to retain — or “squat” — their room for sophomore year. Unfortunately for us, this proved to be yet another encounter with the University’s poor transparency. The process seemed easy enough at first. In January, I received an email from residential services outlining the procedure: “All Residential Community residents who completed a housing contract will receive an email from Residential Services asking them to confirm whether or not they wish to ‘squat’ their room for next year.” By the time March rolled around, my prospective roommate and I had completed our contracts and sent out emails indicating our intent to retain his room. We kicked back our feet, certain that we were on the fast track to becoming roommates next fall. So you can imagine my surprise when, two
weeks ago, I received an email stating that my priority number was available to view through a link on the housing website. I was confused. I had been under the impression that priority numbers were issued only to students who weren’t sure where they planned to live on campus during the 2017-18 school year — a camp I didn’t consider myself a part of due to the fact that, in essence, I had already selected my room when my future roommate and I had indicated our plan to ‘squat’ earlier this year. Bewilderingly, my roommate hadn’t been issued a priority number of his own, suggesting that his request to ‘squat’ had gone through successfully, albeit with me being left out of the equation. When I contacted residential services to clear up the fog, asking them why I hadn’t been assigned to my roommate’s room, I was met with the response that “if you weren’t living with him this year, there was no way that he could of pulled you in.” However, this crucial aspect of the retention process had not been explained at all to students. As a result, I found myself strung out with a painfully high priority number and no idea about where I was going to live next year. This could have been avoided easily if the proper steps toward retaining a room had been outlined clearly, either in emails sent to students or in online entries on the housing website. In order for the “squatting” process to be consistently effective, it is necessary that
more information be conveyed to create a fluid and understandable experience. Something similar occurred earlier in the year as I researched how to apply to live in a dorm in East Fairchild. Even though I was able to find a link to the application early on in my hunt for information, it wasn’t until deeper perusal many months later that I unearthed an additional requirement related to the number of points I would need to earn as a non-resident member if I wanted to participate in housing selection. It’s the same accessibility issue that affects information about NU’s dual-degree programs and its online student-activities portal: a lack of explicit transparency. By burying things within the thick, practically impassable web of NU’s online network, with dozens of disparate websites describing a gargantuan spectrum of University-specific information, it’s sometimes difficult to look beyond the forest for the trees. By clearing up, consolidating and better organizing the options that students have, especially in relation to housing, they’ll be able to avoid stress and have a better idea about what’s available to them — and what isn’t. Chase Reed is a Communication freshman. He can be reached at chasereed2020@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
more flexible and understanding of specific Korean, Asian and minority issues. Secondly, I’ve found that judging the spaces and people I come from through the lenses of mainstream discourse has merely made me internalize resentment against Asianness. Surely I have the right to be critical, but to move forward almost in arrogance — as though my knowledge and experiences as a bilingual, bicultural college student give me the right to see Korean issues as separate from myself — is fundamentally misguided. Admittedly this is incredibly difficult, often resulting in hurt feelings with family members, built-up bitterness against my own friends and very uncomfortable conversations. But as I continue to become more cognizant of these cultural disparities, I put it upon myself to be gentler in understanding my own communities, to use noise as a tool to help me navigate silence instead of feel stifled by it. Yvonne Kim is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at yvonnekim2019@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members at The Daily Northwestern.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2017
Four Northwestern faculty members named Guggenheim fellows
Four Northwestern University faculty members, each representing a different school, earned 2017 Guggenheim Fellowships, a University news release announced Friday. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, established in 1925 by former U.S. Sen. Simon Guggenheim and his wife, offers fellowships to “further the development
of scholars and artists” with financial assistance in research or creation in the arts, according to the program’s website. Chosen from a field of about 3,000 American and Canadian applicants, Communication Prof. J.P. Sniadecki received one of the 173 Guggenheim fellowships awarded this year. Sniadecki, a filmmaker and anthropologist whose work spans both China and the United States, explores themes like sensory ethnography and the cinema. The fellowship adds another accolade to the his 2017 list of accomplishments. In February, Sniadecki received the Caligari Film Prize
for his work at the Berlin International Film Festival. Teresa Woodruff, the Thomas J. Watkins Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, also received the fellowship. In addition to her work within the field of reproductive medicine, Woodruff was the first to clone inhibin, a gonadal hormone that plays a key role in the endocrine system. As a Guggenheim fellow, Bienen School of Music Prof. Hans Thomalla plans to continue working on “Dark Spring,” his third opera. Thomalla’s first opera, “Fremd,” premiered in
2011 at the main stage of the Stuttgart Opera, and his 2016 opera “Kasper Hauser” was produced by the Freiburg Opera. Recipient Shalini Shankar, an anthropology professor and director of the Asian American studies program, will spend her fellowship year researching Generation Z and how to better account for the contributions of minorities and immigrants. According to the news release, Shankar will also spend the year completing her book titled “Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal about Generation Z’s New Path to Success.” — Jake Holland
Biss, Collins propose law banning car insurance premium redlining
State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) and State Sen. Jacqueline Collins (D-Chicago) plan to introduce legislation prohibiting car insurers from using ZIP codes to determine premium rates, according to a news release. The proposed legislation comes after a ProPublica-Consumer Reports investigation earlier this month that discovered a bias in car insurance premiums across several states. According to the investigation, residents with ZIP codes from predominantly minority neighborhoods often paid more than their counterparts from predominantly white areas. Of the 34 Illinois companies studied in the investigation, 33 charged at least 10 percent higher premiums on average for the same driver in a predominantly minority neighborhood than a white area with comparable risk of accidents. According to the news release, Collins and Biss — who is running for governor — will amend a pending state senate bill that would prohibit insurance firms from using people’s credit ratings to determine their car insurance premiums. The practice, though considered discriminatory to minority and low-income populations, is legal in Illinois, according to the news release. The report — which focused on Illinois, Texas, California and Missouri — noted that the overpricing may produce a subtler form of “redlining,” the denial of services to largely minority neighborhoods. To simplify the
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State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) speaks with a supporter at a “meet and greet” last month. Biss and State Sen. Jacqueline Collins (D-Chicago) plan to introduce legislation prohibiting car insurers from using ZIP codes to determine premium rates.
analysis, researchers limited the demographic to one type of customer: a 30-year-old woman with a safe driving record. “This is a pattern of discrimination all too familiar to people of color at every level of modern life,” Collins said in the news release. “A fair market demands a level playing field.
Stories like this remind us that this requires investigation and regulation.” Biss echoed Collins’ sentiments, stressing the need to remedy “across-the-board disparities” that “don’t occur by accident.” “As a mathematician, as a lawmaker and as a person who fights for equality, I am deeply
troubled by the questions that were raised in this investigation,” Biss said in the news release. “There clearly is a systemic problem that needs to be addressed by the insurance industry and by the government on behalf of consumers.” — Jake Holland
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Affordable Care Act. He said theoretical “easy ways” to solve the health care problem — like buying health care across state lines — were “crazy talk.” “Health care is not a privilege, it is a right,” Durbin said. “I will not support any change to the Affordable Care Act which reduces coverage, which reduces the number of people who are insured, or forces Americans to accept watered-down policy.” Republican efforts last month to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a more conservative alternative were unsuccessful. According to the New York Times, Trump told journalists that Republicans were 10 to 15 votes short of what they needed to pass the repeal bill. On the issue of Trump’s immigration policy, Schakowsky said she would take whatever means necessary to support “sanctuary cities” — municipalities that limit cooperation with the federal government to protect undocumented immigrants. Alongside Quigley and Durbin, Schakowsky committed at the town hall to oppose future funding bills that include money for anti-immigration policy. Throughout the course of his presidential campaign, Trump promised to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico to keep undocumented immigrants out of the country. He has also pledged to deport millions of people living in the U.S. without legal authorization. “This is unacceptable in a country of immigrants,” Schakowsky said. “We are going to fight this thing until we win.” The politicians all committed to pushing for public hearings in the Russia investigation, and to continue to put pressure on the Trump administration to provide all relevant information. Quigley said an independent commision should be established to investigate the case, along with an independent prosecutor. He emphasized that public pressure has already had an effect, but that the effort
start with a committed group of people who are willing to sacrifice some of their time, maybe give up a Saturday morning, maybe a little more, get on the phones … that is the future.”
are not on a meal plan, Luttig-Komrosky said. Residential services tries to ensure students are able to get the nutrition they needed to recover, she said. “We feel really good about our retainment efforts as well as our response,” she said. “When you’ve got a space of 4,500 students living in this kind of dense environment, we really try to have excellent hygiene practices already in place.” Scott Tatro, one of the many students diagnosed with Norovirus, said University services was slow when it came to sending a cleaning service. The McCormick freshman, who is a resident of the Evans Scholarship House located in the sorority quad, said he experienced vomiting, diarrhea and numbness on April 11. “It was mentally stressful because between the seven hour span of me getting sick and going to the hospital, I probably threw up 13 times,” he said. “Every time I threw up, I’d just be like, ‘Hopefully this is the last time, please finally stay down.’” Though members of Evans Scholars requested cleaning services after other residents exhibited similar symptoms, residential services was not as responsive as they would have liked, Tatro said. Tatro said it took about two days and several phone calls until cleaning services were sent to the Evans Scholars’ house. He said waiting for services was mentally taxing because people would go through their days wondering if they caught the disease. When residential services came, they cleaned the major common areas and the rooms of those who were affected by the virus, he said. “We’re lucky that we have such a small house compared to all the other sorority houses that are around us because if we were a regular sorority (size) a lot more people could have gotten sick,” he said.
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form of hospital visits, which are more expensive than other types of care, Vargas said. Even if patients have no insurance, the Cook County health and hospital system is required to take in all patients in its emergency rooms, Vargas said. She added that emergency room services are often the most expensive care options. “A lot of times, if you don’t have insurance, you’ll kind of wait and wait until your health deteriorates enough that you just have to go into the emergency room,” Vargas said. Cook County Health and Hospitals System hospitals and clinics all offer free care under the program. The program also assigns a primary care provider and a list of available medical resources. In addition, the program coordinates medical care so people can take advantage of care that’s already available to them. It also tracks a patient’s
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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin speaks at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law in 2015. Durbin joined U.S. Rep Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and other politicians at a town hall on Monday to discuss health care and immigration.
will take time and support. “We’re doing the right thing,” Quigley said. “We’re measured, we’ll get to the facts.” At the end of the town hall, Durbin praised the crowd for taking time to engage in public dialogue. “This is how you win elections,” he said. “You medical history and assigns staff to follow up with them afterward. “People don’t know how to get the care that they need,” said Phoebe Flaherty, a member of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, an organization that helped petition the County to institute the program. Organizing clients’ medical care, Flaherty said, could help them obtain care they would not otherwise receive and minimize costs. “They’re being told that they’re not eligible for financial assistance when they in fact are,” Flaherty said. “People have access to resources, theoretically, but are not physically able to actually access those resources.” In the future, Vargas said officials hope to further expand the program. She said the current iteration of the program is the first of several phases that have been planned. zoemiller@u.northwestern.edu
EQUITY
From page 1 of us need to shut up,” Efiom said. “We need to close our mouths. … We have to learn to be quiet (so) that others might speak.” Cicely Fleming, who was recently elected 9th Ward alderman, expressed concern about placing an emphasis on diversifying conversations; she said it is just as important to ensure that the marginalized groups are heard. “The whole idea of ‘at the table’ bugs me,” Fleming said. “Don’t bring me to the table and then neglect what I have to say. I think that (Evanston) has mastered that … You get there, you say your piece and then it’s like, ‘Well, thanks for coming.’” Efiom agreed with Fleming, saying the city needed to start to hear marginalized communities in Evanston, rather than just getting them to the table.
Kevin Brown, youth and young adult program manager for the city, said that the success or failure of Efiom’s project will depend on her ability to lead the rest of the city government. “You can put together a process, you can bring people together,” Brown said. “Ultimately it comes down to the leadership of our new mayor, our city council … their particular goals and how they intend to go about the implementation and accomplishment of those goals.” Efiom concluded the town hall by acknowledging that equity could not be established in a day, and that resolving these “historical wrongs” requires a longer conversation. In the meantime, she said, her job is to go out, to listen and to learn. “I don’t have the answers,” Efiom said. “I am not here to shove anything down anybody’s throat. I’m here to lead the city — residents and government — to a place where we can be a livable city.” aaronboxerman2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Wildcats look for rebound in midweek matchup Milwaukee vs. Northwestern
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Matt Hopfner runs to first base. The senior outfielder and the Wildcats are seeking a victory at home Tuesday against Milwaukee.
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in the lineup hold spots in the top 125, while Larner, at No. 122, is NU’s only ranked singles player. Lipp, however, said that she found positives in Sunday’s match. “Even though we didn’t get a win, compared to our match against them last year it was a lot more competitive,” Lipp said. “We were competitive with them in the doubles points … That was something we
After its longest winning streak of the season came to a halt last weekend, Northwestern is searching to regain all-around consistency to lead them to victory Tuesday against Milwaukee. “I think that we’ve been kind of spotty in one of the three in each of the last couple games,” senior outfielder Matt Hopfner said. “Hopefully, we can play a clean game defensively, on the mound, and get some clutch hits.” Although the Wildcats (13-22, 3-6 Big Ten) only came away with only one win in last weekend’s Illinois series, they have had some recent success, winning five of their last seven games. NU owes a significant amount of their recent stretch to a consistently strong showing by senior outfielder Joe Hoscheit, who was singlehandedly responsible for 10 hits, nine RBIs and five runs scored over four games. For his accomplishments, he was named Big Ten player of the week. Hopfner contributed as well, with three RBIs of his own on Saturday. “Offensively, I think that we’re starting to get a little more consistent,” coach Spencer Allen said. That consistency did not manifest itself into a series win against the Fighting Illini, however. As a result, this weekend’s series against Penn State is crucial if the Cats make a push towards the Big Ten Tournament, and a win Tuesday would help NU regain momentum ahead of that series. The Cats’ upcoming schedule provides some potential opportunities for a new streak, as the Nittany Lions have struggled significantly, particularly in conference games, winning just one of nine Big Ten matchups. The following game against Chicago State offers NU were definitely looking to get.” The loss against Ohio State knocked the Cats out of their three-way tie for first place in the Big Ten. NU remains without a win against a top-25 this season, an ominous fact for the Cats’ trip to Ann Arbor on Friday to take on No. 9 Michigan. Lipp said she views every match as an opportunity. From that standpoint, the match against the Buckeyes
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hope as well, since the Cats have already beaten the Cougars this season. A win against Milwaukee (12-20) on Tuesday would be a positive step in that direction. All-around consistency will be a key factor in whether NU takes that step, Hoscheit said. “We need to do well in all facets of the game: pitching, defense and hitting,” he said. “Once we put all that together, I think we’re tough to beat, and if we can do that, I think we’ll be in good shape going into the weekend.” Milwaukee is also playing well, however, having won four of their last five games and putting up a gaudy 29 runs in consecutive victories last week. Their offensive success has not gone unnoticed by Allen, who will start Josh Davis on the mound. The senior has excelled in previous midweek starts this season, including a strong 6 inning outing last week against Western Michigan. “UW-Milwaukee, traditionally, they can really, really hit,” Allen said. Both teams will enter Tuesday’s game game on the heels of close losses, with NU falling 10-8 in the series finale at Illinois and Milwaukee dropping a 6-5 contest to Youngstown State. For the Cats to reverse their recent fortunes, Allen said they need to make the Panthers earn everything both offensively and defensively. “We just need to continue to pound the bottom of the zone,” he said. “I just want to see that we’re not throwing any at-bats away.” taliahendel2020@u.northwestern.edu only helps prepare NU for teams like Michigan. “Even though this year we haven’t pulled out a top-10 win, we’ve beaten everyone that we’re supposed to beat,” Lipp said. “After playing Ohio State, we’ve seen the level that Michigan probably can be capable of playing at. We’re prepared in that sense.” sophiemann2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Those deuce points can really make a huge difference and today was a great example of how the deuce points can influence the entire match. — Dominik Stary, men’s tennis
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Zieba drops third set, keeping Cats from statement road win By BENJY APELBAUM
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Northwestern showed signs of progress, but narrowly lost its chance at its first top-25 win since January in a loss to Michigan on Sunday. The No. 21 Wildcats (18-8, 6-3 Big Ten) lost a 4-3 squeaker against No. 14 Michigan (18-5, 7-2) on Sunday, two days after they cruised past conference bottom-feeder Michigan State (10-15, 0-9) 7-0. Though NU lost to the Wolverines, picking up three points against such a competitive team allowed the Cats to take away some positives. “We were in a position to win against Michigan,” coach Arvid Swan said. “We did a lot of things right and there are a few things we can work on. We came up a little short, but overall I was pleased with the performance. I’m pleased with the direction we’re heading.” Against the Spartans, senior Strong Kirchheimer put himself in the history books as the winningest doubles player in program history with his 70th career victory. After winning the doubles point, the Cats put together a dominant performance in singles, losing just one set across all six matches to complete the sweep. Sunday was a different story, however. The match began when the Cats
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dropped a critical doubles point. The deciding set came at No. 1, where seniors Sam Shropshire and Konrad Zieba fell 7-5 to the No. 17 doubles team in the nation. That doubles point would end up being one of the deciding points. Swan, however, tried to avoid being dispirited by the situation, acknowledging that the individual no-ad sets can turn quickly. “We just got to keep working on holding serve. We were in a position right there to win, it didn’t go our way, but maybe the next time,” Swan said. “We’re in position to win the doubles point so if you’re in position, you’ve done some good things to get there.” NU then won three matches in straight sets, while losing a pair, to knot the match at three. Zieba played his deciding third set at No. 2 singles with the match in the balance and lost decisively 6-0. This was the fifth match of NU’s season that came down to the final court; the Cats are 2-3 in such matches. Freshman Dominik Stary said he believes close matches come down to decisive deuce points. Deuce points are not played at many
other levels of tennis, such as on the pro tour, where players must win consecutive points from deuce to take the game. In college however, the first player to four points wins the game. “It always comes down to deuce points,” Stary said. “Those deuce points can really make a huge difference and today was a great example of how the deuce points can influence the entire match.” Stary said those high leverage points in particular worked against Shropshire and Zieba in their matches on Sunday. Though the close loss to a fellow conference contender was tough, Swan believes that with all his starters playing again, NU’s season can reach the heights thought possible at the start of the year. “We know we’re close to playing our best tennis,” Swan said. “We got a full team playing, which is great, and we’ve got a lot of confidence. We know we’re a good team and I’m very confident that we are going to continue to have good results at the end of the year.”
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O’Brien re-breaks NU Cats lose perfect Big Ten mark record in 1,500 meters 0 7 Penn State
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struggling Nittany Lions, but winning was the start the Cats needed going into the weekend. “(Penn State) came out pretty strong at the start of doubles, but … I felt like we were in control for the rest of the match,” Pollard said. “We knew that match on Sunday wouldn’t be as meaningful if we didn’t take care of Penn State, so we could go into Sunday fresh.” Lipp, Chatt and sophomore Rheeya Doshi then took down their singles opponents, all in straight sets, to secure the match for the Cats. NU was up by a set and a break in two of the three unfinished matches, highlighting the depth of their dominance.
The same could not be said, however, for Sunday’s contest against the Buckeyes (23-2, 9-0). All three doubles matches went to the Buckeyes. Even Lipp and Chatt couldn’t snag a win, and Rischbieth and Or, despite their previous success, were unable to tie it up for the Cats. That match secured the doubles point for Ohio State, the first doubles loss for NU since late March. Singles did not prove fruitful for the Cats either, with all six matches going to the Buckeyes. Chatt and senior Jillian Rooney both went down before
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For freshman Kelly O’Brien, life is lonely at the top of the Wildcats’ 1,500 meter leaderboard. With a school record 1,500 time of 4:26.56 set on the track Friday at the Bryan Clay Invitational, O’Brien improved on her previous record of 4:31.04 achieved earlier this season. She now holds the top two spots on the program’s top-10 times list. The rookie finished in 46th place overall in the race, and was the sixth fastest freshman finisher. O’Brien, who is coming off of a cross country season that was shortened due to a stress fracture, said setting the school record was unexpected for her. When she first hit the No. 1 mark, she said didn’t hear about it until a coach told her on the flight back from the meet the following morning. She said when she races, she is more focused on competing well. “I’m thinking more tactically, like how to do it,” O’Brien said. “For me personally, I like going into races and not thinking about what I’m doing, not thinking about the times.” In the 5,000 meters, freshman Sarah Nicholson led the way for NU, dashing to a personal record time of 16:29.37, over 30 seconds faster than her previous best mark that she set two weeks ago. The performance was good enough to net her the No. 2 spot on the program’s top times list. Nicholson said she has focused on taking recovery days seriously and that she feels like she has more energy and confidence going into races, a key for setting such strong times. “I recognize that PRs are really hard to achieve, and especially big
ones,” Nicholson said. “I really want to make sure that I’m doing everything possible to recover from this race and then go into the next one completely ready.” The meet, which took place in Azusa, California, took place over the course of two days. Five NU runners set personal records in their respective events. Coach ‘A Havahla Haynes said the team’s performances over the weekend were positive and that she was excited for the future of the program. She and an assistant coach sat down with runners after the San Francisco State Distance Carnival two weeks ago and outlined goals for the Azusa meet. “We talked about being a little more competitive, sticking to our race plans, and then executing them appropriately,” she said. “What was great is at Azusa, all three of those things happened.” Per NCAA rules, the top 48 competitors from each region in each event are eligible to compete in the NCAA Preliminaries in late May. Nicholson, who currently holds the 41st fastest outdoor 5,000 qualifying time in the West region, would be the only NU runner eligible to compete in the prelims if the season ended today. An NCAA preliminary bid would be relatively unusual territory for the Cats, who last qualified a runner to that meet in 2015. That runner, Andrea Ostenso, was the first prelims qualifier for the program since its inception in 1998. “Our ideal situation is we are looking for our women to put themselves into the top 48,” Haynes said. “And I think we have a few who are going to be in there or really close to making that NCAA first round.” ryanw@u.northwestern.edu
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Northwestern’s weekend started impressively, as the Wildcats blanked Penn State on Friday. Then on Sunday, NU (12-9, 8-1 Big Ten) saw its lengthy winning streak snapped in the same fashion. The Cats were red hot to begin the opening match, grabbing the doubles point and the first three singles points to clinch the match against the Nittany Lions (5-13, 0-2). Juniors Alex Chatt and Maddie Lipp, the No. 15 doubles pair in the nation, started doubles play off strong with a 6-3 win. Senior Brooke Rischbieth and sophomore Lee Or sealed the deal for the Cats. Coach Claire Pollard said she was unsure of what to expect from the
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Rheeya Doshi chases after a groundstroke. The sophomore and the Wildcats saw their streak of Big Ten perfection end this weekend.