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City announces youth bus plan Evanston to offer transit for summer Six Flags program By RYAN WANGMAN
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Students gather outside Harris Hall to protest the visit of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement representative Tuesday. The ICE representative had been invited to speak at a sociology class.
Students protest ICE representative
Demonstrators stop public relations officer from speaking at lecture By MARIANA ALFARO
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Students protested the visit of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement public relations
officer to campus Tuesday, saying the representative’s presence on campus could be dangerous and hurtful for undocumented people at Northwestern. Members of MEChA de Northwestern, Black Lives Matter NU, the Immigrant Justice
Viet Nom Nom prepares storefront Founders launch Kickstarter to fund new restaurant By SOPHIE MANN
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Two years after Noah Bleicher (Kellogg ’15) decided to open a Vietnamese restaurant in Evanston, he and a business partner began a Kickstarter campaign weeks before the restaurant’s forecasted opening. Bleicher developed the idea for Viet Nom Nom after noting a lack of quality, healthy food on and near Northwestern’s campus. He teamed up with Alan Moy, and the pair constructed a catering and pop-up restaurant model for their fast casual cuisine.
The two plan to open their first storefront location at 618 1/2 Church St. by Memorial Day, according to the Kickstarter page. The money raised through the Kickstarter campaign — which will run through mid-July — will fund new employees, better equipment, catering vehicles and development expenses. Moy said the idea to use Kickstarter centered on getting more people involved in the project. “It takes a village,” Moy said. “We’ve had folks reach out to Noah and I and ask how they can contribute. Some people cannot help physically because they’re not there. That’s really where (the campaign) started.” In addition to funding the new restaurant, Moy said the funds will also further the grab-and-go » See NOM NOM, page 6
Project, the Asian Pacific American Coalition, NU Queer Trans Intersex People of Color and Rainbow Alliance gathered outside Harris Hall as the unidentified ICE representative began a guest presentation for Sociology 201. The class, taught by Prof.
Beth Redbird, focuses on examining “inequality in American society with an emphasis on race, class and gender,” according to its syllabus. The class began at 3:30 p.m., » See PROTEST, page 6
More flags, more jobs. While Six Flags has no plans to revive its popular marketing campaign any time soon, Evanston officials on May 5 announced a program to provide daily transportation for youth who work at the amusement park this summer. Porschia Davis, the city’s youth and young adult program coordinator, said the program expands on the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program, which will employ at least 600 local teenagers this summer. She estimated about 50 kids will work for Six Flags Great America in the second year of a partnership with the city. “There are barriers to employment and transportation is one of them,” Davis said. “Evanston’s City Council is dedicated to providing whatever service is needed so that there are no barriers if there are people
— specifically youth who are dedicated to bettering their lives — getting jobs and giving back to the community.” The theme park, located in Gurnee, Illinois, is a roughly 40-minute commute from Evanston, which is the “average” time it takes to commute to work, Davis said. She said the city also helps facilitate Six Flags employment opportunities for Evanston youth, hosting an annual job fair and busing youth to in-person interviews. The city outlined steps for transportation to these interviews in a news release earlier this month. Students must apply for jobs at least one day before their desired hiring event, and notify the city of their intent either through a link on the city’s website or by calling 311. Former mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said when she began her tenure she made expanding the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment program a priority because the number of applicants far exceeded the number of available jobs. Tisdahl said the partnership with Six Flags will continue to grow the employment program and » See BUSES, page 6
Student robbed in attempted sexual assault Evanston police said a female Northwestern graduate student was robbed and injured in an attempted sexual assault Tuesday night in a residential building in west Evanston. At about 9:30 p.m., units were dispatched to a building in the 1900 block of Ridge Avenue for an attempted sexual assault, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The 24-year-old student was riding in an elevator when a man attempted to reach under her clothing and fondle her. The student screamed, at which point the man began to punch the woman and threw her to the floor, Dugan said. The man then fled on foot with the student’s wallet and cellphone. Dugan said the student
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Police gather outside a building in the 1900 block of Ridge Avenue. Police said a Northwestern graduate student was robbed and injured in an attempted sexual assault Tuesday night.
had scrapes on her knees, but declined medical treatment. In a University-wide email, Northwestern chief of police Bruce Lewis said the student
described the man as a 25 to 30-year-old black male who is roughly 6 feet 2 inches tall. The man was wearing a long-sleeved black shirt and
a black backpack. No additional identifying information was made available. — David Fishman
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Bipartisan bill aims to address drug price increases By BILLY KOBIN
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Drug manufacturers would be required to provide more information and advance warning of planned price increases under a bipartisan bill introduced Tuesday by U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and two senators. Schakowsky introduced the legislation along with U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). The bill would require drug makers to notify the government and submit a report 30 days before they increase the price of certain drugs by more than 10 percent in one year, according to a news release. Drug makers would also have to report price increases of 25 percent over three years, the release said. The proposed legislation comes as major drug companies have raised prices for popular medications over the past few years. Mylan — the pharmaceutical company that distributes the allergy-treating EpiPen device — came under national scrutiny last year after the price of its EpiPen two-pack was found to have increased from about $100 to $608 over the past several years. In addition, a Credit Suisse report found that
POLICE BLOTTER Chicago woman arrested in connection with DUI in south Evanston A Chicago resident was arrested Monday in connection with driving under the influence of alcohol in south Evanston. A traffic officer observed the woman remaining stationary after the light changed from red to green at the corner of South Boulevard and Dewey Avenue, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. After waiting 10 seconds, she made a wide turn into the opposite lane. Dugan said the woman appeared glassy-eyed
price increases accounted for 100 percent of the pharmaceutical industry’s $8.7 billion bump in earnings in 2016, which Schakowsky pointed to as evidence of the need to address soaring drug prices. “The need for action to solve the prescription drug crisis facing Americans is undeniable,” Schakowsky said in the release. “If a prescription drug corporation wants to hike the price of life-saving medications, they should have to face the American people and explain why.” Schakowsky, Baldwin and McCain introduced similar bills in the U.S. House and Senate last year, but the bills have not left session. The latest bill would require drug makers to report a justification for each price increase as well as report various development costs, according to the news release. The bill would not prohibit drug makers from increasing prices, but would bring more transparency to the prescription drug market, according to the release. The bill also requires the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to post pricing information from the reports online within 30 days and to submit an annual report to Congress. Any drug manufacturer that fails to submit a report and follow the requirements of the bill would be fined $100,000 for each day the violation occurs, according to the legislation.
“The American people should not be forced to choose between filling a prescription or making their monthly mortgage payment,” McCain said in the news release. Numerous organizations support the bill, including the AARP, according to the news release. “It’s abundantly clear that we need to address the unsustainable trend of sky-high prescription drug prices,” AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins said in the release. “The FAIR Drug Pricing Act is an important step in demanding more transparency from pharmaceutical companies when they dramatically raise the prices of their products.” More than 85 percent of Americans support requiring drug manufacturers to release information on how they set prices, according to an April poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The same poll found 60 percent of Americans say lowering prescription drug costs should be a “top priority” for President Donald Trump and Congress. “When a quarter of families in our country are unable to fill out prescriptions for the drugs they need due to skyrocketing costs, it is time to hold manufacturers accountable,” Schakowsky said.
and had the scent of alcohol on her breath when she was pulled over. She refused to take a field sobriety test and was subsequently arrested, he said. Dugan said she was charged with felony driving while under the influence, misdemeanor driving while under the influence and several other charges.
blue sweater said sexually explicit things to her and would not leave her alone, Dugan said. When officers arrived and attempted to detain the man, he continually told the officer to “f— off ” and began walking away. The officer grabbed the man’s arm, but was unsuccessful, Dugan said. The man balled up his fists, causing the officer to fear he was going to be assaulted. The officer then took out his taser and the man became compliant, Dugan said. He was charged with misdemeanor assault against the officer, Dugan said.
Man arrested in connection with assault of police officer
A man was arrested Monday in connection with the assault of a police officer at a CTA station in south Evanston. A CTA attendant reported that a man in a
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U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) discusses policy issues and voter disconnect at an event earlier this month. Schakowsky introduced a bill Tuesday that would require companies to provide more information about price increases for certain drugs.
Setting the record straight
An article in Tuesday’s paper titled “Rasmea Odeh speaks on campus” misstated how many people attended the event, which student groups hosted the vigil and that Samantha Max attended the event. More than 70 people attended the event, and the vigil was hosted by Fiedler Hillel, Wildcats for Israel and J Street U. Max did not go to the event. The Daily regrets the errors.
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Panel talks Asian Americans in civics By JANE YUN
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Asian Americans need to push back against media stereotypes and misconceptions that they are politically apathetic by engaging civically, political science Prof. Julie Lee Merseth said during an event Tuesday. Panelists discussed the impact of the election and President Donald Trump’s administration on Asian-American communities during the event in Fisk Hall. They addressed issues of stereotypes and political participation among Asian Americans in front of about 50 people. The panel, organized by the Asian American studies and Multicultural Student Affairs, included Merseth, Asian American studies and African American studies Prof. Nitasha Sharma, associate chaplain and director of interfaith engagement Tahera Ahmad and Asian American studies Prof. Justin Tse. Weinberg senior Diana Fu, who helped organize the event and moderated the panel, said the event was held as a follow-up to “But Where Are You Really
From?: A Panel on Being Asian in America,” which was held last year to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Merseth said Asian-American political engagement is important, calling political resistance one of the only tools citizens have against oppressive practices. “We need to keep reminding people that, for example, don’t like politics for all sorts of understandable reasons, is that it is the time to engage because the stuff happening in far away Washington is absolutely changing the lives of the people around us in our communities,” she said. “We’re going up against institutions, structures and systemic oppression, so we need collective politics, and we need resistance, not just participation.” Tse said Asian-American immigrants’ political engagement has transnational implications. Immigrants’ actions in their new country can affect their homeland, he said. “In that way, transnational political participation is not abdicating political participation in the United States,”Tse said. “Political participation in the United States can very well be connected to political
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Panelists speak in Fisk Hall on Monday during event hosted by Asian American studies program and Multicultural Student Affairs. The panelists discussed how Asian Americans can use political engagement to resist policies in the Trump era.
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happenings in Korea, in China, in Hong Kong, in Taiwan (and) in India.” Sharma said although stereotypes of apathetic Asian Americans exist, Asian Americans have historically been activists and continue to fight against xenophobia and racism. Though people forget about the past due to “historical amnesia,” Sharma said the issues of racism faced by Asian Americans are not new. Merseth said though people believe progress had been made in equality and social justice, there is still a contemporary mainstreaming of xenophobia. Neighbors, the president and other elected officials have changed the way they speak about issues of oppression, Merseth said. “People just feel like it’s okay again, and mainly people in positions of power feel like it’s okay to utilize this language and discursivity that feels like such a setback,” she said. The panelists also discussed the importance of coalition building and the intersection of religion and race for issues that face Muslim-American communities in the Trump presidency. Merseth said identity plays an important role in Asian-American politics today and must explore how religion factors into race. “The current political moment is also really calling on us to engage courageously with the relationship between race and religion, and more specifically the role of religion in racialization processes,” she said. “There’s a lot at stake.” Fu said it was important to hold the panel in the wake of recent political events regarding the Trump administration. The event was organized to help people understand political difficulties Asian Americans encounter, she said. Communication sophomore Andrew Song said he attended the event because he was interested in learning about his identity. “I haven’t really talked to anyone about these topics, or anyone older, so I think it’s nice to get a professor’s perspective,” Song said. “We all kind of have a stand on the issue, but I think it was just more learning about my identity.” janeyun2020@u.northwestern.edu
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Perceptions of success in Asian culture stymie careers PHAN LE
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As my final undergraduate year is coming to a close, I am still uncertain about my postgraduation plans. Unlike the stereotypical highachieving and driven Northwestern student, I’ve had no clue what I’m striving toward. For nearly my entire college experience, I’ve wandered every which way in my search for meaning, and more importantly, my career path. I say this because words like “passion,” “purpose,” and “meaning” were never part of my family’s vernacular. Rather, the discussion of career planning almost always began with the question, “How are you going to make money?” or even, “What kind of doctor do you want to be?” During one conversation with another secondgeneration Vietnamese American, I once said that even though I had no post-grad plans at the moment, I would be content with a starting salary of $30,000. She seemed disgusted and said, “Girl, if I was making 30K, I would run.” She may have been joking, but I knew she believed herself with some amount of conviction. What struck me most about this interaction was how surprisingly identical it was to the values imparted onto us by our first-generation Vietnamese parents — those
of choosing financial security over happiness. I thought we’d moved past them, embracing mainstream culture of individualism and personal passion. Yet, those values, my values, are still stigmatized and perpetuated by my own community. People often take for granted a culture that values curiosity and self-discovery. We are told to be more than students, that we are expected to become changemakers. During the President’s Convocation in 2013, University President Morton Schapiro described this as the “second curriculum.” He said, “The first curriculum is all the courses you take. The second curriculum is everything that you do outside the classroom.” Ideas and moments such as Schapiro’s speech serve as artifacts, evidencing the culture we’re expected to live in — a culture that not everyone in the U.S. (or even the world) shares. Career planning and general life navigation are part and parcel of this ”second curriculum,” yet they are things I’ve struggled with during my time at NU — in ways that are unique to the fact that I am a first-generation college student and second-generation Vietnamese American. I have noticed that many people in my family, just like many other members of the Southeast Asian diaspora, fail to see the value of going beyond the books once they arrive at college, leaving many of them struggling to find jobs that lead to both financial and political upward mobility after graduation. Although well-meaning, my parents
and their repeated recommendations to become a doctor have failed to prepare me to pursue the life I want to live. My parents fail to see the opportunities in the U.S. because the only culture they have ever known was the one that existed decades ago on the other side of the world. As someone who faces cultural and language barriers with my parents, I often feel guilty and impotent that the path I choose to take is more ambiguous than a straight, definite path to a graduate or professional degree. The persistence of the model minority myth and stereotypes of Asian success, along with having Asian friends from more privileged backgrounds, often makes me feel uncomfortable talking about how much I struggled psychologically with these expectations. At one point, I did not even think I would graduate in four years because I’d simply lost sense of my own identity. The culture I grew up in imparted a limited imagination of the opportunities within my reach. I grew up in a working class community with friends from low-income backgrounds, some of whom are first-generation college students themselves. My parents never attended high school, but rather worked as fishermen and farmers in Vietnam. Upon starting college, all these aspects of my identity suddenly debilitated me with self-doubt. Despite my past successes in overcoming failure, I felt like I had run into a brick wall. I was afraid that I was on the path of becoming the invisible
statistic of Asian failure. My parents want me to pursue medicine for no other reason than to provide for our family, which conflicts with my ability to preserve my individualism — a value that seems so inherent to our cohort, but I often feel it is being wrenched away from me as I straddle cultural lines. As people worried about how many employer interviews they could procure, I worried that I didn’t even have a specific career in mind and became guilted — by my parents and, more recently, my peers — into settling rather than searching. Career planning for me looks very different from that of other NU students due to the fact that it was not easy to adopt this mindset of prioritizing my goals and ambitions over my family’s expectations. I couldn’t resolve this internal conflict at the drop of a hat or through a meeting with career services. By going rogue, I lose the understanding and support of my family, and my friends fail to empathize. But to have the independence I want, I pay the price of facing uncertainty alone. Phan Le is a SESP senior. She can be contacted at hongle2017@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.
Ben Shapiro is good choice for NU College Republicans JOSE TREJOS
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Last week, Northwestern College Republicans announced Ben Shapiro, editor in chief of The Daily Wire, as our spring speaker. This selection has sparked significant controversy from students who object to Shapiro’s rightwing views and have even accused him of racism, citing his previous role as editor at large for the outspoken, pro-Trump site Breitbart News. I believe much of the controversy surrounding Shapiro mischaracterizes what he has stood for throughout his career. While I have my share of disagreements with Shapiro, I believe he brings a valuable perspective as spring speaker for College Republicans. The idea that students should protest Shapiro for his former involvement at Breitbart, let alone label him a racist for it, seems to somewhat misunderstand the nature of his role on the website. Several years ago Breitbart was a fairly mainstream conservative outlet, and its founder Andrew Breitbart was in fact known for defending gay voices in the conservative movement
and fighting dubious elements in the Republican Party, such as the Birther movement. This is not to deny that today the website represents a source of some of the alt-right’s most hateful and disgusting content. However, it is important to note that it was the leadership of Steve Bannon, who is horrifyingly one of the president’s top advisers, that moved Breitbart to embrace the alt-right and adopt the hateful messages it champions today. Shapiro’s role at Breitbart was not to encourage the spread of racism within the outlet, and his subsequent coverage of Breitbart suggests a strong opposition to the direction Bannon took it. After incidents during the Trump campaign led Shapiro to confront the new nature of Breitbart News, he resigned from his role as editor at large to focus on his own website, The Daily Wire. Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, Shapiro repeatedly denounced the Trump campaign and his former employer, as well as what he saw as racist elements in the Republican Party. What I respect the most about Shapiro is how he has continued his advocacy against Trump despite the devastating price he’s had to pay — according to the Anti-Defamation League, Shapiro was targeted by more antiSemitic attacks than any other journalist during the 2016 election season. It is hard for me to
understand how people can so casually dismiss someone who has faced this level of discrimination as a simple bigot. This is certainly not to say that I agree with everything Shapiro stands for. In particular, I find his views on transgender rights to be deeply objectionable, and I fear that his advocacy against them will further perpetuate harm against what I view as the country’s most oppressed and vulnerable identity. Some of his other positions, especially his views on terrorism, lack enough nuance for me to take them seriously in a discussion of policy. Inviting a speaker to campus, however, does not mean that one champions all of their positions, but rather believes their perspectives on the topic should be debated and discussed. I identify as a conservative because I believe that conservative ideas about free trade, welfare reform, lower taxes and reduced regulations have the potential to drastically improve human welfare, especially for poor and marginalized groups. The 2016 election was deeply painful to me as I saw large parts of the conservative movement reduced to a cult of personality by a proudly ignorant businessman that shamelessly embraced previously fringe racist and sexist elements of the Republican Party. I was ultimately unable to vote Republican as a result of these
On May 15, 2017, Northwestern’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine invited a woman charged with complicity in the bombing of a supermarket and the murder of two Israeli students to speak for their Israeli Apartheid Week. As a liberal Jew who’s lived in Israel for a year and seen the obtrusive wall separating the State of Israel from its occupied territories, I’m all for being critical of the Jewish state when such critiques are merited. I’m a staunch believer that one can be anti-the Israeli government, but still pro-Israel, just as one can be vehemently against Donald Trump and his administration without being “anti-American.” But there’s a stark difference between being critical of Israel and promoting its destruction. Likewise, a bright, fine line exists between political activists and terrorists. Yesterday’s article in The Daily Northwestern blatantly disregarded these differences and, frankly, misrepresented the truth. To begin, the article’s headline likens Rasmea Odeh to a community organizer instead of a convicted terrorist. The caption under the photo of Odeh said, “Palestinian organizer Rasmea Odeh speaks about her fight for liberation …” Odeh’s
Jose Trejos is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be contacted at josetrejos2019@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.
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issues. At the same time, the Democratic Party seems to sink to new depths every day, growing ceaselessly more radical under the far-left influence of figures such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. With nowhere to go, many conservatives like me are forced to try to tolerate a party that is (hopefully just temporarily) controlled by the likes of Trump, trying to seize on victories we can agree with such as the appointment of Justice Neil Gorsuch to rationalize our continued opposition to what the Democratic Party has become. Northwestern students seem to view everything on the right wing as fundamentally associated with Trump and the ideas he’s has brought into the party. Shapiro is a good speaker because he has built his career fighting parts of the right that he disagrees with while continuing to be an unapologetic conservative — and hopefully Northwestern students can understand that position a bit more through his talk.
“fight for liberation” included the murder of two innocent Israelis. The initial version of the article (having since been corrected, though after its printing and widespread circulation) failed to mention the 150 people who attended the vigil, including University President Morton Schapiro among many other university officials. This omission of facts is not only reckless journalism, but also completely discredits the widespread convictions of many students who do not see Odeh as an “organizer” as the article claims, but as a terrorist. Furthermore, the original article falsely claimed that Hillel was the sole organizer of the event. In reality, students from Hillel, Wildcats For Israel and J Street U, three organizations with different visions, members, purposes and political leanings joined together to plan the vigil. Once again, this omission of facts undermines the significance of the vigil and the remarkable plurality of its participants: Jews and non-Jews, liberals and conservatives, students and faculty. The article included a quote from Odeh in which she said, “I will continue the struggle … for self-determination and for the establishment of a democratic state on the entirety of the historic land of Palestine.” The establishment of a sovereign Palestine over the entirety of the land may initially seem reasonable, but in reality is coded language for the complete destruction of the State of Israel, the one Jewish nation in the world. This quote highlights Odeh’s radicalism but is framed as
rational discourse. By all means, oppose specific policies of the Israeli government that you find disturbing or wrong. But, please, do not label a terrorist as an “organizer,” or endorse the destruction of the State of Israel without mentioning that these are radical and offensive viewpoints. The greatest test of a people, a nation or a group is how they address their own wrongdoers. I’m confident that Hillel, Wildcats for Israel and J-Street U would condemn any and all Jewish acts of terror and would never desire to bring such people to campus. Clearly, the same cannot be said of Students for Justice in Palestine who, instead of condemning them, laud them. The article concluded with a quote about the “Israeli, Zionist and colonist” account being the dominant narrative that unfairly outweighs an “underdog narrative of the Palestinians.” While I wholeheartedly agree with the need for the “underdog” Palestinian narrative to be understood, I worry about our campus’s blindness to nuance. The topdog, underdog analysis is irrelevant to what is true and moral. The ebbs and flows of history might anchor how each narrative is viewed at different times, but truth and nuance will forever be blind to the biased lenses through which each narrative is viewed. Don’t equate the underdog’s narrative to truth and justice, simply on the grounds that they are the underdog. — Joseph Charney, Medill freshman
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Friday, May 19, 2017 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Harris Hall 108 (Leopold Room), 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.: Keynote address by 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan) “Blood in the Water: Attica and Prisoner Rights Past and Present” Full conference program available at www.historicalstudies.northwestern.edu events conferences The Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern University Graduate Conference 2017
Students eager for Spoon deal with major media network By CATHERINE KIM
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Spoon University, founded in 2013 by two Northwestern students, has been acquired by Scripps Networks Interactive, a move members of the NU chapter say will lead to several new opportunities and resources for individual chapters across the country. According to Reuters, Spoon University is valued at about 10 million dollars. However, Sarah Adler (Medill ’13), who co-founded the food publication with Mackenzie Barth (Communication ’13), said details of the deal have not been released. Though Adler said the acquisition, which occurred May 3, will not change the way Spoon University is operated, she is excited to see the new resources that will be available to the publication. “Nothing is changing except that hopefully we will … give our members experiences so much better that we can get significantly more chapters, significantly more members, make the network stronger and make it a more valuable experience for everybody,” Adler said. Adler said one of the most unique aspects of Spoon University from an investment perspective is its concentration on user experience. The company’s engineers spend a “vast majority” of their time making tools that will enhance the user experience, she said. The staff in New York spend time producing training tools, which will create better experiences for users, Adler said. Spoon University appeals to Scripps Networks Interactive because of the publication’s large young audience, Adler said. With the development of social media, there is a need to understand how younger people are consuming content differently, she said. “Our generation, we want to be creating content and participating in conversations actively instead of passively consuming it. We want to be heard,” she said. “What Spoon University is trying to do is to help people who want to accomplish those goals, build that for themselves in a way that they could have never done for themselves and then help everyone else who can benefit from that work gain access to it.”
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Our generation, we want to be creating content and participating in conversations actively... Sarah Adler, Spoon University co-founder
Medill sophomore Ashley Hackett, editorial director of Spoon University’s NU chapter, said the publication has the ability to capitalize on the growing food industry through social media because the users are the content creators. “Spoon has such a college-aged voice,” Hackett said. “Everyone who contributes is pretty much a college student and we know how to write for our own audience.” Hackett said she was initially wary when she received an email from headquarters, which explained the deal would give members more opportunities and acquire more equipment for videos and photos. Her concern was that individual voices can be stifled when bought by big companies, she said. However, Hackett said she is no longer concerned about the publication’s creative freedom being impacted because each chapter of Spoon University has the ability to produce its own content with little external interference. SESP senior Mariel Falk, manager of the NU chapter, said this is an “exciting and really impressive” next step for Spoon University and a testament of its successful work over the past few years. Even with the change, Spoon University will continue to be a “relatable” magazine, she said. “Spoon is written by people about their personal experiences as college students with food,” Talk said. “It’s for that audience as well, so it speaks peer-to-peer and that definitely makes Spoon such a relatable magazine.” catherinekim2020@u.northwestern.edu
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around the time when student demonstrators entered Harris Hall, holding banners and chanting “F---k ICE” outside the classroom. Protesting students were told by University administrators at the scene, including dean of students Todd Adams, that they would be allowed into Redbird’s class if they did not disrupt the presentation. Students then walked into the classroom but did not sit down, instead holding up banners and asking Redbird why she invited the ICE representative and if she had considered the possible effect the visit may have on undocumented students or students who know someone who has been detained by the federal agency. ICE, a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, implements immigration, customs and border control laws. During the demonstration, student protesters said ICE is responsible for the separation of families with undocumented members. The agency, which is in charge of investigating, arresting, detaining and removing foreigners from the country, has been criticized for its arrest methods, treatment of detainees and poor detention center conditions. Earlier this year, ICE led a series of raids across the country where half of the detained were undocumented immigrants with no criminal records or minor offenses. Soon after demonstrators entered the class, the
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part of the business, which is set to roll out in the fall. This will help bring more quality food to campus, as Moy said the pair plans to have their products in “every building that does food.” Moy said the Kickstarter was strategically timed to share next steps with supporters. Kickstarter backers can get special perks depending on what they donate. People who donate $15 can get a meal for two, while people who donate $1,000 or more can help create an item for the menu. “The message we have going into this longawaited store opening is a lot what Kickstarter is about,” Moy said. “We will have the grand opening to celebrate with our friends and family … to celebrate where we’ve been and celebrate where we’re going.” Even before launching their Kickstarter campaign, Moy said the pair found support from NU
WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017 ICE representative left the room and Redbird stayed to answer students’ questions. Redbird said she invited the ICE representative so they would explain to students how the agency works. Redbird, who joined Northwestern last year, told demonstrators she invited the ICE public relations officer to speak to students as one half of a two-class discussion. “All they did was come here today to answer questions so that you know what’s going on, so that you are informed and so that you can make decisions,” she told students. “If you want to make change in a community, you need to know what’s going on.” Redbird said she planned to have an undocumented person visit the class Thursday as the second half of the discussion, but during the protest she decided to cancel the presentation over fears for the speaker’s safety and privacy. Some student demonstrators left the room after expressing their concerns, saying they did not want to discuss Redbird’s motivations. Others stayed in the room and told Redbird and her students that inviting an ICE representative could be hurtful to some. Redbird dismissed the class at 3:45 p.m. because of the protests, but most in the room stayed to listen to the discussion between Redbird and the demonstrators. SESP sophomore April Navarro, a MEChA member who helped organize the protest, told The Daily though having the representative on campus might have come from the idea of having a “good, nice conversation with ICE,” the agency and its representatives
shouldn’t come to NU because they “terrorize communities” and profit from detainee labor. “We’re not interested in having those types of conversations that would be like, ‘Oh, let’s listen to their side of it’ because that’s making them passive rule-followers rather than active proponents of violence,” Navarro said. “We’re not engaging in those kinds of things; it legitimizes ICE’s violence, it makes Northwestern complicit in this. There’s an unequal power balance that happens when you deal with state apparatuses.” Redbird told The Daily she invited protesters into the classroom to engage in dialogue with both the ICE officer and her students, and that she wanted her students to know why the protesters were there as well. Redbird’s students were notified two weeks ago there would be an ICE officer as a guest speaker, Redbird said, and they were given readings to prepare for the discussion, which was intended to be based on policy. A Department of Justice representative was also going to speak during Tuesday’s class, Redbird said. Several protesters asked Redbird during the demonstration why she didn’t have the officers answer the classes’ questions via email or Skype. Redbird said she wanted to have a more engaging dialogue. University spokesman Al Cubbage told The Daily after the demonstration that it was “disappointing that the speakers were not allowed to speak.” Professors, Cubbage said, may invite whomever they like to speak to their classes. He said it was unfortunate that Redbird’s speakers could not share their experiences with the class.
“The University believes very much that if you have concerns about an idea or position, the solution is not to censor or prevent someone from expressing those ideas, it is to provide more discussion and more discourse,” Cubbage said. “More speech is better than no speech.” Redbird told The Daily she intended to provide her students with the opportunity to learn from the ICE officer. “In our society, knowledge is power, and I want to make my students as powerful as possible,” she said. “When we keep ourselves ignorant, we deny ourselves power.” But demonstrating students told The Daily freedom of speech is often used to defend views that can be damaging to some. They said demonstrators were using their own freedom of speech by voicing their concern about the ICE representative. “There are people who would be listening to this ICE representative and agreeing with them and maybe one day becoming an ICE agent or co-signing and supporting them and that in itself is violence,” said Communication sophomore Danielle Douge, a MEChA and BLMNU member at the demonstration. “I had a right to be in that building and I had the right to speak and say whatever I wanted. I had the right myself to tell her I don’t want the ICE person on this campus.”
less likely to ever come in contact with the criminal justice system or to have an unwanted pregnancy,” Tisdahl said. Under Tisdahl’s leadership, Evanston received an award in 2015 from the United States Conference of Mayors for the success of its summer youth employment program.
In talking to youth who were employed by Six Flags, Davis said she didn’t “know one kid that did not like” working there. She said the long, structured hours help kids save money for things like vehicles. “One kid specifically said, ‘My checks were at least $400 a week!’” Davis said. “For somebody
who’s 16 years old, that’s a lot of money. Especially in the summer, when you’re not spending it either because you’re working so much.”
students. Communication junior Erica Rottenborn said Moy and Bleicher began catering twice quarterly for her sorority, Gamma Phi Beta, starting last winter. She said the pair has been accommodating for dietary restrictions and a busy schedule. Viet Nom Nom has also previously catered for Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, Moy said. The new storefront will reach more people than the current catering model or pop-up stand in Kellogg, Rottenborn said. Moy said as the restaurant’s grand opening nears, momentum has also picked up. He added that the Kickstarter campaign is just another way of continuing that momentum and getting more people involved. “It becomes a story about all of the momentum and the growth we’ve had already,” Moy said. “It’s a way for folks to be a part of our story. People want to be a part of this.” sophiemann2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Viet Nom Nom, 618 ½ Church St. The restaurant’s founders say they plan to move into the storefront location later this month.
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Evanston named finalist for prestigious 2017 park, recreation award
Evanston was named a finalist for the 2017 National Gold Medal Awards for Excellence in park and recreation management, according to a Tuesday new release. Evanston is competing with three other cities — Arlington Heights, Illinois; Mountain View, California; and Roswell, Georgia — in the Class III category, which includes cities with populations of 75,001 to 150,000. The prize is given out by the American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration and the National Recreation and Park Association. “We are extremely humbled and excited about being recognized as a Gold Medal finalist,” Evanston Parks, Recreation and Community Services director Lawrence Hemingway said in the news release. “Our team of professionals strives on a daily basis
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to provide the best recreational opportunities for all populations in our community, and is working toward making Evanston the most livable city in America.” The finalists were selected by a panel of five park and recreation professionals and judges chosen for their “considerable experience and knowledge” in the area, the release said. According to the release, the four cities in the Class III category will compete for the Grand Plaque Award honors, which will be announced at the 2017 NRPA Annual Conference in New Orleans this September. The award, founded in 1965, is presented to communities in the U.S. that “demonstrate excellence” in parks and recreation with long-range planning, resource management, volunteerism and environmental stewardship, according to the release. Evanston is home to 77 parks and seven community centers, the release said. In addition, 98 percent of households in Evanston live within half a mile of green space. — Syd Stone
borrowing from the library’s digital collection, including eBooks and audiobooks. The Bookmobile will be open from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the parking lot to the east of the library, according to the release. Tours will be free and open to the public. “This is a great opportunity for Evanston’s readers to explore the world of eBooks, learn more about what is available to them through the library, and get their questions answered,” EPL director Karen Danczak Lyons said in the release.
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The pond in Dawes Park. Evanston is competing with three other U.S. cities in its category for the 2017 National Gold Medal Awards for Excellence in park and recreation management.
The Digital Bookmobile is equipped with free Wi-Fi and a variety of monitors and media players for visitors to browse the library’s digital collections, according to the release. Technical experts will be available to give one-on-one tutorials and help readers with the borrowing process. Th e Digital Bookmobile also includes a Gadget Gallery with access to different devices including phones, tablets, laptops and Kindles, according to the release.
In 2016, 86,000 of the 1,080,109 items circulated at EPL were digital, according to the release. Anyone with a library card can access the digital collections for free to borrow eBooks and audiobooks. The Digital Bookmobile is sponsored by digital reading platform OverDrive, which serves more than 36,000 libraries and schools, according to the Digital Bookmobile website. — Maddie Burakoff
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Staged Reading of world premiere play
The X-X-Y equation By acclaimed Moroccan playwright Driss Ksikes and directed by Chicago director Kathryn Walsh
Driss Ksikes Wednesday May 17, 2017 University Hall 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 Hagstrum Room 201
5:30-6:15 pm In this play, three sisters meet again, years after their abrupt separation from each other, at their mother’s funeral, and listen to her recorded posthumous stories. The three, a divorced human rights activist, a lesbian teacher, and the youngest, a doctor soon to be married, are telling each other intimate, violent and funny stories, in the shadow of their late mother’s coffin and under the gaze of their senile father. Meanwhile, they confront their divergent relationships with rules, life conduct, sexuality, and mainly their capacity to delve into memory to better construct their own future. This play is part of a diptych project by the author and a Moroccan feminist, on “family laws and stories.” FREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC Sponsored by the Center for the Writing Arts and Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENA) at Northwestern University
more from NU than just winning. The senior said playing for the Cats provided her with invaluable life lessons. “Personally, I just learned, all throughout my five years, how to pick yourself up whenever you get knocked down,” she said. “ Sometimes you have to be your own mascot and pick yourself up. … It’s a very hard program, Northwestern, so playing for them has taught me how to be a warrior in all aspects of life.” The fifth-year senior has been through the emotional ups and downs of the program. But reflecting on her time playing at NU, Esposito couldn’t help but notice both how much she has changed and how much the sport has changed around her. She said comparing lacrosse when she committed to NU and at the end of her career is like night and day, and she’s amazed by how much the sport has progressed. “One of the things that I always like to point out is that a lot of Division I coaches are all former Wildcats so when we’re playing them, they started to know some of our defenses,” Esposito said. “Kelly (Amonte Hiller) is helping the sport grow a tremendous amount, but that skill has taken to the next level, coaches are starting to formulate things and it’s really gone through a night and day shift.” The attacker said the changes to the sport are apparent in all facets of the game, from the development of new top programs like Colorado to the improved gear the team receives from Under Armour. As for the future of Northwestern lacrosse, the team faces another crossroads. Five years after winning its last national title, the team is in need of a restart. With Esposito at the helm, the Cats built a new style of lacrosse this season, relying heavily on the surging sophomore class. Defender Claire Quinn, attacker Liza Elder, goalie Mallory Weisse and defender Nell Copeland complemented Esposito, bringing a new aggressive playstyle to the team. But with Esposito on her way out, it will be up to the sophomore class to lead NU into the future, marking the next chapter of Cats lacrosse. “I see it getting better every year,” Quinn said. “There’s great team chemistry now and we know Nell has sisters coming in next year … It’s important to forget about the past and work on our team now and work on the future. Yes, it was a great dynasty but we have a lot of good energy to work with.” Esposito has noticed the work ethic instilled in the sophomore class along with contributors like freshman attacker Megan Kinna. Although the senior will go down in NU history as never having won a title, Esposito will go down as the player who transitioned an old dynasty of Cats lacrosse to a new one. “We’ve kind of established the culture to where we’re heading to be,” Esposito said. “We have a lot of younger girls that are just willing to do whatever it takes and that’s one of the major things you want. … We’re there now and we can only grow and get better in the future.” danwaldman@u.northwestern.edu
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We’ve kind of established the culture to where we’re heading to be. ... We’re there now and we can only grow and get better in the future. — Christina Esposito, attacker
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Despite team struggles, Esposito leaves NU in strong place By DAN WALDMAN
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Senior attacker Christina Esposito walked off of a college lacrosse field for the last time Sunday, as the Wildcats came up short against host Stony Brook in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. For Esposito, Stony Brook will go down as the last field on which she will ever play college lacrosse. But the field carries deeper significance for the veteran, as it’s the same field Esposito saw the Wildcats win their last NCAA Tournament title in 2012, convincing her to commit to Northwestern.
Why Northwestern?
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Five years ago, the Cats rolled past Notre Dame, dominated Duke and edged out Maryland to set the team up to win its second-straight championship. NU only had Syracuse in the way of winning its seventh NCAA Tournament title. With 10 minutes remaining, junior midfielder Taylor Thornton broke a 6-6 tie, scoring what would be the goal to secure the program the championship. The Cats walked away from Stony Brook, boasting their seventh title in eight seasons, reaffirming what the lacrosse world already knew — no one could beat Northwestern. But following the Cats’ victory, the team graduated six seniors, including
star scorer Shannon Smith, who won the 2011 Tewaaraton Award as the best player in the country. NU, however had trouble recruiting. Despite its reputation, the team failed to land a single top-5 recruit. However, the back-to-back champions managed to lock up their future scorer, Christina Esposito, the No. 9 recruit in the country.
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Following the 2012 season, NU needed to find Smith’s replacement. The program turned to its old pipeline — West Babylon High School in New York. Smith was a standout at West Babylon, scoring 505 goals during her high school career. But she was old news in Long Island, New York, as Esposito had adopted the West Babylon offense as her own. Esposito was the Cats’ lone top25 recruit, a two-time All American and, most importantly, the lethal scorer the team needed. The New York native announced her commitment to NU in November 2011, but it wasn’t until after the Cats took down Syracuse in May that the program locked down its star recruit. “That’s my school,” Esposito told Newsday after committing in May. “I felt a lot of pride knowing I’d be going there.”
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Come 2013, the team was in a period of transition, figuring out how to configure a lineup that would best replicate its historic offensive prowess. Esposito was immediately thrown into the mix as a freshman, but the promising prospect pulled up short, suffering a season-ending injury just eight games into the season. The NCAA awarded Esposito a medical redshirt, granting her an extra year of eligibility. But the injury set the team back, as the Cats failed
to qualify for the NCAA championship match for the first time since 2004, losing to eventual champions North Carolina in the Final Four. Kelly Amonte Hiller, however, was still the model coach, and though the team didn’t lose faith, next year had to be different. But it wasn’t. The Cats fell short again in the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament, succumbing to top-seeded Maryland by a narrow 9-6 margin. After five years of long practices and emotional losses at Lakeside Field, 2014 would be the closest Esposito would ever come to winning a title. Following disappointing 2015 and 2016 seasons, Esposito had one last shot this year at bringing a title home to Evanston. But a season-ending injury to star midfielder Selena Lasota and a tough schedule plagued NU. The Cats qualified for the tournament, beating Albany in the first round, but Stony Brook got the better of the injury-riddled NU team. Five years later, Esposito was back where she started, watching her team leave Stony Brook, New York, but this time empty-handed. Following the loss, Amonte Hiller commended the seniors, noting their hard work and contributions to the program. “I’m really proud of them,” Amonte Hiller said. “They gave a lot of dedication and heart to this program, we’re really going to miss them. … Despite the loss and things not going our way, they gave a lot to this program, they gave everything that they could.”
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Esposito wasn’t able to continue NU’s dynasty, failing to win a title in her five years with the Cats. But the graduating attacker took » See ESPOSITO, page 7
MEN’S TENNIS
Cats fall hard in second round of NCAA Tournament By GARRETT JOCHNAU
daily senior staffer @garrettjochnau
Northwestern’s season came to a close Saturday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, as a comeback from No. 8 California (20-7) halted the Wildcats’ early momentum and capped NU’s tournament run. The No. 21 Cats (22-11) opened the weekend with a win over No. 45 Utah State (23-9), in which they recovered from a doubles loss to score a 4-2 victory. Despite falling behind early, senior Konrad Zieba said the team didn’t play poorly in the doubles slate. “We brought some energy, and they just played better than us,” he said. “Our coach mentioned that, and going into singles we brought the same energy.” Senior Strong Kirchheimer opened singles play with a dominant 6-1, 6-2 win at No. 1 singles. Zieba and freshman Dominik Stary followed up with wins on courts Nos. 2 and 4, while sophomore Ben Vandixhorn dropped his match at No. 5. The pressure fell on senior Sam Shropshire, who — after fending off a match point — broke his opponent en route to a third-set comeback,
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which ended in the decisive 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 win. “He’s just a clutch player,” coach Arvid Swan said. “If it comes down to him, I have all the confidence in the world that he’s going to win.” Swan wasn’t alone in his vote of confidence. After doing their part to prolong their careers, Zieba and Kirchheimer expected a similar result from their teammate, who rewarded their trust. “That was definitely a special moment,” Zieba said. “Me and Strong were watching and we both felt like he was going to pull it out. We definitely weren’t ready to have our season over.” The win gave NU early momentum in the second-round match against the Golden Bears. Zieba and Shropshire clinched the doubles point with a dramatic 6-4 victory against the nation’s No. 5 doubles team, and the Cats opened singles play with three first-set wins. But Cal found its groove and turned the tide, following straightset wins at Nos. 5, 4 and 2 with the
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clinching victory at No. 6. “We knew after the doubles point the match was far from over,” Zieba said. “They have a really good team, and every single match was going to be a battle.” Despite falling short, the Cats said they were proud of their effort. Swan credited the Golden Bears with earning the competitive win, and Zieba said he was proud of his team and fellow seniors after lifting the program to new heights during their careers. “You can’t look back and be disappointed,” Zieba said. “We’re all grateful for each other and grateful for the careers we had.” And though Zieba, Shropshire and Kirchheimer never ultimately fulfilled their goal of qualifying for the main site, Swan is confident their legacies are complete. “I’m sure they wanted to be at the final site; we all did,” he said. “But that doesn’t change the impact they’ve had on this program.” jochnau@u.northwestern.edu
Daily file photo by Kate Salvidio
Sam Shropshire awaits a return. The senior and the Wildcats fell in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to California.