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Admins, students talk textbook costs Dialogue follows petition that got over 850 signatures By KEERTI GOPAL
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Forrest Bruce (SESP ‘17) discusses his work with indigenous children in Chicago Public Schools at the Baha’i House of Worship on Monday. He said he encourages them to practice beading and language in addition to their schoolwork.
Panelists talk indigenous culture Discussion held in Wilmette in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day By JULIA ESPARZA
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Nanabah Foguth, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, recalls being unable to mail a letter at the post
office last year because it was closed for Columbus Day. She said the holiday reminded her that many didn’t recognize the hypocrisy of honoring Christopher Columbus. Evanston joined a number of other cities last year by replacing
Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. “Indigenous Peoples’ Day to me is an empowering identity, a spiritual identity and it means sharing that in a way that is in balance and harmony,” Foguth said.
Foguth was one of three panelists who discussed their culture in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day at the Baha’i House of Worship in Wilmette on Monday. Jim DeNomie, a » See INDIGENOUS, page 6
Students called on Northwestern to lower textbook costs and increase accessibility during a community dialogue in Allison Hall on Monday. The request comes after a petition, created Thursday, that asks the University to lower the average amount of money spent on textbooks. It also follows a new pilot program that loans eligible first-year students textbooks for science, technology, engineering and mathematics classes. Out of roughly 350 eligible students, about 150 have taken advantage of the program, associate provost for University enrollment Michael Mills said. Communication sophomore Kimani Isaac presented her petition — which has garnered more than 850 signatures — to students, faculty and administrators at the dialogue. Isaac said her personal experiences prompted her to spearhead the campaign. “The problem of being a low-income student, whose family is being stretched to even be on this campus — and then you are stretched even further to pay for the books
so that you can get the education — is that sometimes you can’t afford to fail,” Isaac said. “I want to move from a survival mindset to a thriving mindset, but sometimes you just can’t.” Isaac outlined the petition’s seven requests, including ending the use of course packets –– which she said are both financially and environmentally inefficient –– and buying licenses for popular online resources like Sapling, Pearson and McGraw Hill. The petition also calls for the elimination of the summer-work contribution from financial aid packages and requests the University provide financial aid recipients with grants to cover textbook costs. University director of financial aid Phil Asbury said those costs are about $1,660 per student each year. Mills said he had not yet seen the petition but looked forward to reading it. He added that the University is working hard to meet students’ growing need for financial support but acknowledged its room for improvement. “I would give Northwestern about a C if I were grading (its financial aid),” Mills said. “We’ve got so much more to do. … We are trying to make thoughtful decisions within the resource base that we have.” » See TEXTBOOKS, page 7
District 65 reviews ‘Welcoming city’ ordinance amended language program Undocumented Evanston residents receive additional protections School officials consider expanding immersion program By CATHERINE HENDERSON
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Evanston/Skokie School District 65 board members debated how to implement new classes for the district’s Two-Way Immersion program, a curriculum in which native English and Spanish speakers attend class together to increase cultural competence. The program — popular among parents but difficult to execute — also aims to increase academic achievement and bilingualism, said Stacy Beardsley, District 65’s associate superintendent of curriculum and instruction. Five of the district’s elementary schools — Dawes, Dewey, Oakton, Washington and Willard — have implemented TWI programs since 2001. Although school board members discussed the creation of two more
TWI programs by fall 2018, they said the decision would be complicated. “This is something that is going to be good for our district, but there will be some growing pains,” board president Suni Kartha said. Beardsley agreed and emphasized the issue of division between TWI classes and monolingual classes. She said the best solution would be implementing the two new TWI programs in a way that creates an environment centered on bilingualism. For example, the district could put the new programs at one school or split them between schools with existing TWI classes, Beardsley said. However, she also said the TWI classes would have to replace English-only classes due to the lack of space and resources. Board members said TWI fits into the district’s emphasis on equity, but underrepresentation in the program among black students is still an issue. Board vice president Anya » See IMMERSION, page 7
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Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) attends a meeting in the aldermanic library. Fleming and other aldermen voted to amend Evanston’s “welcoming city” ordinance at Monday’s meeting.
Aldermen formally amended Evanston’s “welcoming city” ordinance at Monday’s City Council meeting to include broader protections for undocumented residents. The amendment expanded a subsection that stated law enforcement officers may not arrest individuals solely on the suspicion they are undocumented unless they are conducting investigations. Under the new amendment, this rule also applies to stops and searches. Additionally, the amendment clarifies that if law enforcement officers want to stop an individual, they must have a valid judicial warrant. Marcelo Ferrer, a member of the Welcoming Evanston Coalition, which seeks to foster inclusivity for undocumented residents in the city, said his group wants to raise » See WELCOMING, page 6
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State Dems decry rollback of birth control mandate By JAKE HOLLAND
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Illinois Democrats rebuked President Donald Trump’s decision to roll back a birth control mandate issued by the Obama administration, calling the move an “attack” on women’s health. Trump’s decision, announced Friday, would exempt employers and insurers from paying for coverage of contraceptives if they object based on religious or moral beliefs. The move was intended to fulfill a promise Trump made five months ago to “not allow people of faith to be targeted, bullied or silenced anymore.” In a Friday statement, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) called birth control an “essential” part of women’s lives. She said the move would allow employers to stand in the way of women’s health care. “It is the right of women to control their own bodies, plan their own families, chart their own futures,” Schakowsky said. “For many women, it is prohibitively expensive to access the best method for them.” Schakowsky also decried the timing of Trump’s decision, saying that rolling out the plan on the Friday before a long weekend “isn’t fooling anyone” and that “women are smarter than that.”
POLICE BLOTTER Chicago man charged with possession of controlled substance A 31-year-old Chicago man was arrested Saturday night in south Evanston in connection with possession of a controlled substance. An Evanston Police Department officer was driving near the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Lee Street when he noticed a car without its headlights on, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The officer conducted a traffic stop and noticed a strong odor of marijuana upon approaching the car, Dugan said. The man did not have a driver’s license on him, Dugan said. The officer found a clear plastic bag with several
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U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) speaks at an Open Communities event in February. Schakowsky joined other Illinois politicians in criticizing President Donald Trump’s rollback of birth control coverage.
The Affordable Care Act mandate, signed into law seven years ago by former President Barack Obama, requires that birth control be covered as a preventive service with no copay — meaning health insurance companies will often fund the entire cost. Trump’s move will likely impact millions of American women
who currently receive contraceptives for free under this provision. Some Republican lawmakers, however, lauded the change as a victory for religious groups uncomfortable with providing health care that goes against their moral beliefs. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)
white, rock-like substances that were individually wrapped, Dugan said. The officer also found a pill bottle, which contained an unidentified red pill, in the side of the driver’s car door. The pill was sent to a lab for testing, Dugan said. The man was charged with possession of a controlled substance and also given traffic tickets for driving with a suspended license and driving without his headlights on.
women exited the house — including the 19-year-old — and the woman driving the car then got out of the vehicle. When the driver realized a verbal altercation was about to happen, she called the police, Dugan said. The driver returned to the car, but another woman –– who had exited the house –– tried to pull the driver out of the car by her shirt, Dugan said. Police were called and the driver and her friend tried to drive away, but the group of women from the house followed them down the street. Right before police arrived, the 19-year-old resident punched the driver in the face, Dugan said. She was charged with battery. There were no other visible injuries, Dugan said.
Woman charged with battery in west Evanston
A 19-year-old Evanston woman was arrested Sunday in west Evanston in connection with battery. A woman and her friend drove up to a house in the 1800 block of Hovland Court, Dugan said. Several
called the plan “a landmark day for religious liberty.” “Now, the Trump administration has developed a commonsense rule to avoid a needless fight,” Ryan said. “The conscience protections installed will ensure that people and organizations can freely live out their religious convictions and moral beliefs.” U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) called the move a transparent and “utterly shameless” attack on American women’s access to affordable health care in a Saturday tweet. She added that reproductive rights are not the only benefits at stake. “Limiting access to (birth control) doesn’t just limit women’s reproductive rights — it limits health care options for medical conditions like endometriosis,” Duckworth said. State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) said in a Friday statement that the rollback is part of Trump’s “anti-woman” agenda. He expressed his anger at Trump having “dismissed this fundamental right.” Biss also went a step further, saying that Trump’s move emphasized the importance of state and federal universal health care. “Somber days like these underscore the importance of fighting for our values here in Illinois and ground me in the need to fight for universal healthcare at the state and federal levels,” Biss said. jacobholland2020@u.northwestern.edu
Setting the record straight A story in Thursday’s paper titled “Faculty discusses freedom of speech” misquoted English Prof. Jeffrey Masten. He said he thought the broad nature of the disruption and demonstration policy makes free expression an aberrance. The Daily regrets the error.
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Administrators expressed support for academic freedom of speech on campus and addressed students’ concerns regarding financial aid during a community dialogue Monday. More than 70 people gathered in Allison Hall for the dialogue, which was co-sponsored by Associated Student Government. During the event, students engaged with University officials and voiced their thoughts on campusrelated issues, said SESP Prof. Mesmin Destin, who moderated the dialogue. Addressing timely issues, Dean of Students Todd Adams outlined the University’s approach to protecting freedom of expression. Adams said NU protects freedom of expression because it allows for other freedoms, such as freedom of assembly. “(Freedom of expression) really is the indispensable condition from which so many of our freedoms come,” Adams said. Demonstrators, he said, should consider three factors when gathering: time, place and manner. He added that demonstrations should occur at a time and location that allow the University to continue its “academic business.” Adams said there should be enough space for people to join and leave demonstrations when they want to. The University should also be able to protect its students while they are assembling, he said. During a Q&A session, Provost Jonathan Holloway defended University President Morton Schapiro’s protection of academic freedom of speech. Holloway said he wanted to defend the principle behind freedom of expression, but not necessarily individual views that may be expressed. “I do want to articulate the uncomfortable truth that I will be protecting freedom of expression across many different spaces
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for fear of actually shutting it down,” Holloway said. In addition to academic freedom of speech, students told administrators about their financial difficulties and expressed disappointment with their financial aid packages. SESP sophomore Adam Davies said being financially independent has been especially difficult this year. Davies said he is in need of wisdom teeth removal, but can’t afford it under his current dental insurance plan. “You would think that that would be a basic human right … to get my teeth taken care of,” Davies said. “I don’t know how I’m going to function at school if I can’t focus due to
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the pain.” Michael Mills, associate provost for University enrollment, said earlier in the dialogue that he hears and understands those who express financial concerns. Mills said while NU is doing better than other peer institutions at providing resources to low-income students, the University could do more. “We’ve got so much more to do,” he said. “We’re trying to make thoughtful decisions within the resource base that we have, which is not unlimited. I wish it were.” alanperez2020@u.northwestern.edu
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Why we need to have people of color in the room TROY CLOSSON
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I was talking with a friend this weekend when he showed me a Facebook post — a Dove ad depicting a black woman being replaced by a white woman seemingly as a result of using Dove body wash, appearing to illustrate her “becoming white.” Although we just looked at screenshots of the three-second video clip, I understood the message. Regardless of whether it was what Dove meant to convey, the ad seemed to represent a black woman being “cleansed” to become white. I didn’t really know how to feel when I saw it. I wasn’t really unhappy. I definitely wasn’t surprised. And I wasn’t even mad so much as I was just exasperated. Who actually thought this marketing campaign would be a good idea? How did nobody see its historical implications on top of present realities of U.S. beauty standards and instead think it’d win audiences over? In response,
Dove released a statement saying it “missed the mark in representing women of color thoughtfully.” I don’t know how anyone with any understanding of black history could actually believe this ad was thoughtful. Were any black people members of the teams who designed, reviewed or eventually gave the OK for the ad to be published? Probably not. And that’s exactly why situations like this happen. Dove’s campaign illustrates the importance for black people — and people of color in general — to be in the room when decisions are being made. It’s not like this ad was just low-key offensive and maybe some people wouldn’t pick up on it. One would think most people would at least pick up on the fact that the ad could potentially be controversial. But that didn’t happen. This isn’t the only example. It feels like these issues regularly arise — at least in part — because not enough people of color are in the room. Nivea’s “White is Purity” deodorant campaign earlier this year received similar backlash. I feel like media coverage of black communities lacks nuance and greater
thought, largely because black people aren’t represented in U.S. newsrooms. Even at NU, University administrators faced pushback in 2015 after proposing to move administrative offices into the Black House and Multicultural Center — and only seemed to understand why this was an issue after actually speaking with black students themselves. Inclusive content, actions and projects aren’t possible without first ensuring there’s diversity in the people behind them. When people of color aren’t involved in these decisions, people are left to “guess” whether what they’re doing would be offensive — and as Dove’s ad shows, they clearly don’t always guess correctly. Microaggressions can easily slide by and remain unnoticed when everyone in the room holds agent identities. Even if nothing “bad” happens, entire points of view are still left out. In response to Dove’s ad, I heard people say things like, “I can’t believe this is still happening in 2017.” Yes, this obviously shouldn’t be happening, but in no way is it surprising. Prioritizing diversity has always just been viewed as an option, rather than a necessity. A NU study recently found that
between 1990 and 2015, no change occurred in hiring discrimination of black job applicants. And according to a New York Times article, black and Latinx students are more underrepresented at top colleges and universities in the U.S. now than they were over three decades ago. So it goes without saying, this is bigger than Dove’s marketing department. The importance of having black people in the room goes beyond one specific industry or environment — it’s not just needed in advertising, but in newsrooms, writers’ rooms, government, University offices and so many other areas. And just one person isn’t enough. If instances like Dove’s ad are actually going to be prevented, we need to realize having people of color in the room isn’t just a “respectable goal.” It’s essential. Troy Closson is a Medill sophomore. He can be contacted at troyclosson@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.
Don’t give Bernie Sanders credit for socialism’s surge LEO SAINATI
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We all have that one friend who’s probably a socialist. Seriously, though, chances are most of us may actually have at least one socialist friend –– a reality emblematic of the dramatic, yet predictable rise of the Democratic Socialists of America. Between October 2016 and October 2017, the DSA reported over a 400 percent increase in membership, gaining approximately 21,000 new members. Fourteen DSA members hold elected offices across the country, according to the group. The DSA’s biannual conference this August drew about 1,000 people — the majority of whom appeared to be under 35 years old, while 40 percent identified as women and 20 percent as people of color. In short, socialism is becoming increasingly popular in the U.S., and while the DSA isn’t technically a political party, its distinguishing red rose logo is sparking political debate across a disillusioned liberal working class.
Many seem to credit Bernie Sanders as the catalyst for the DSA’s rise, overlooking the political climate from which modern U.S. socialism was born. In short, Sanders’ “revolution” was overhyped. As Benjamin Page and James Simmons explain in their book “What Government Can Do,” the U.S. has lacked “a particular kind of political party that has played a crucial part in the politics of many European countries: a Social Democratic party, explicitly run by and for the working people and organized labor.” Democrats have always claimed to be a home for the working class, but the newly re-branded progressives have left workers behind, drifting further and further toward political elitism. Neither major party has truly been able to successfully reach out and mobilize lowincome and working-class citizens, leaving a gaping hole in their representation. The idea that Trump won off the backs of working-class Americans has been widely discredited, effectively put to rest by a Washington Post analysis, “It’s time to bust the myth: Most Trump voters were not working class.” The majority of his voters, rather, were upper-middle class whites; his primary supporters had a median household income of
about $72,000. Another pre-election survey by NBC found that two-thirds of Trump supporters earned household incomes above the national median, and half of those made more than $100,000. The common narrative on the left that Sanders energized working-class people of color is appealing, but also misguided. Clinton’s and Sanders’ voters made similar median incomes — both around $61,000, compared to the national average of $55,000. Sanders also failed to win the minority vote as Clinton won black and Latinx voters in nearly every contest of the primaries by at least a 10 percent margin. What remains of the electorate is a group of low- and middleclass Americans, frequently marginalized and kept out of politics, precisely the group to which the DSA caters its attention. Perhaps what makes the DSA so promising and appealing to its supporters is that it looks to make large-scale structural changes from outside the political system. Sanders spearheaded a “political revolution,” but it was doomed from the start, unable to make lasting change within the confines of the system it sought to uproot. Don’t give Sanders credit for a revolution
Studios have themselves to blame for failures CHASE REED
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My memories of home are inextricably tied to going out to the movies. Whenever my family would make the trek to my grandmother’s house — to stay over, celebrate or reunite with family — we’d drive by a wide, open field of drought-addled grass flanked by four 50-foot-tall screens: the lonely remains of the Valley Drive-In movie theater. According to my mother, I saw my very first movie there when I was only an infant, just before the theater closed down in 1999. I can’t remember what played that day, nor the experience of watching a double feature from the backseat of our beat-up Ford Explorer, but I’m sure the spectacle dazzled me even as a baby. Infants are quite impressionable, after all — they absorb information they won’t understand until it unwittingly reemerges much later to guide them on a path like myself, for example, to the Radio, Television and Film program at Northwestern. But for most people, that magic has faded. Fewer people than ever are flocking to the movies; summer box office totals reached an 11-year low. What I do remember about my childhood experience at the movies is slipping flimsy blue-and-red tinted 3-D glasses over my eyes
at the beginning of the third Spy Kids movie — just a week before my fifth birthday — and marveling at the effects as they leapt out of the screen and into real life. Much later, I remember sneaking out of my dad’s trailer during weekend visits to catch midnight premieres of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2” and “Super 8” — as a preteen among a sea of devoted cinephiles. Those memories hold a special place in my heart. Yet now, as fewer people share those experiences, studio executives have placed the blame on everything from streaming services and review aggregators to audiences themselves for failing to fill seats. But the real blame lies in the studio system itself — specifically, its uber-capitalist methodology that produces overhyped, protracted films in a vain attempt to eke out as much money as possible. Take “Blade Runner 2049,” for example. Made on a $150 million budget, the film only grossed $31.5 million in its opening weekend. Executives quickly cited a lack of a female audience as the reason for the film’s unexpected flop, but in reality, the writing was on the wall since its inception. Making a big-budget sequel to a cult-classic film was always going to be a big risk, regardless of critical success. Yet Hollywood has proven to consistently over-rely on poorly scripted film franchises (I’m looking at you, “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Suicide Squad”) as a method of drawing crowds. This year alone, I’ve seen a variety of films on the silver screen, from indies like the
genre-busting creature-feature “Colossal” to big-budget blockbusters like “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2” and “Baby Driver.” I’ve bought tickets to head-scratchers like Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!” and crowd-pleasers like “The LEGO Batman Movie.” This summer, I even drove two and a half hours twice — once by myself, once with my grandfather — just to see Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” in IMAX on 70 millimeter film. Certainly, there’s an audience out there beyond myself eagerly waiting to see these films as they’re meant to be experienced — in a movie theater. Yet, rising ticket prices and an oversaturated market ultimately prevent many potential movie-goers from pulling out their wallets for the experience. Instead, they’ll wait for the film to come out on DVD or Netflix — seemingly more out of disinterest and frugality than the studio’s assumption of laziness. Once movie studios finally move away from their focus on the bottom line and begin to tell nuanced stories with multi-generational appeal, they will begin to rebound. Until then, you’ll only find me haunting the local Cinemark on “five-dollar Tuesday.” Chase Reed is a Communication sophomore. 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.
he didn’t create, but merely borrowed from to court upper-middle class white millennials. Socialism’s rising popularity wasn’t born from Sanders’ “revolution” and instead continued growing even after Sanders lost traction. Beyond all the media’s narratives lies the truth that no politician has been able to energize and inspire lower-middle class voters — neither white nor of color. Many stand opposed to the dramatic and arguably radical ideas of the DSA. Rhetoric aside, however, no one can argue against its mobilization of ignored and forgotten groups in our political system. Where Clinton, Sanders, Trump and nearly all other politicians on both sides have failed for decades, the DSA finds its strength. While still comparatively small, for better or for worse, the DSA has significant potential to finally give voice to those who need it most. Leo Sainati is a SESP freshman. He can be contacted at leosainati2021@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, 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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citizen of the Bad River Chippewa, and Forrest Bruce, a citizen of the Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwe, also spoke on the panel, which was sponsored by Northwestern’s new Center for Native American and Indigenous Research. “It’s important to have a day like this to sit down and talk about what lens you’re looking through and how you envision things and how they might not be correct,” DeNomie said. DeNomie told The Daily that the holiday should prompt people to examine Native American history — especially in Illinois, where there are no Native American reservations.
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Bruce (SESP ’17) said honoring a man who killed many Native Americans disrespected his people. “It’s important that it’s in place of Columbus Day, because just acknowledging indigenous people isn’t enough,” Bruce said. “It’s a crime to honor somebody that is responsible for our genocide.” He added that, like confronting the contradiction of Columbus Day, NU’s history of honoring John Evans is painful. In 2014, a study committee found that Evans, one of the university’s founders, “helped create a situation that made the Sand Creek Massacre possible.” About 150 Native Americans were killed in the 1864 massacre. Bruce said the University is trying to reconcile
that history, and he thinks there is a “bright future ahead” for the indigenous peoples’ community at NU. Panelists also discussed cultural and historical representation of indigenous people, saying there continues to be a lack of representation of Native American stories and history in textbooks and curricula. Bruce, a youth development specialist with the Chicago Public Schools American Indian Education Program, said he encourages students to do well in school and to stay connected to their heritage through supplementary classes, such as beading and native language. “It’s a struggle to manage both,” he said, “We
offer different tools so they have that culture without having to sacrifice their academic success.” Foguth said though Columbus is a controversial figure, she reconciles the suffering of her people with the resilience that followed. She added that when she teaches children on her reservation, she challenges them to think about the meaning behind present-day assumptions and explore conflicting opinions. “We’re still in a world where we need to find truth,” Foguth told The Daily. “We need to, as a nation, confront these challenges if we want to move toward unity and peace.” juliainesesparza2020@u.northwestern.edu
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(Left) The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research hosts a panel at the Baha’i House of Worship on Monday. The discussion centered on the controversy of replacing Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. (Right) Kevin Locke dances at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall on Monday. He performed traditional Native American hoop dancing.
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law or state court. In addition to Evanston’s status as a welcoming city, both Evanston school districts in January declared themselves a “safe haven” for families affected by any changes in immigration policy. At Monday’s meeting, the Welcoming Evanston Coalition pushed for City Council to specify the type of federal warrant required for arrests. Rachel Heuman, a member of the coalition, said to ensure due process, the group wanted to specify that federal warrants must be issued “by a judge.” The prior language didn’t identify who can issue the federal warrant, just that it had to
and it limits local cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th), who commended the revised language of the ordinance, stressed its importance both for those who may fear for their immigration status and for black Evanston residents. “I do want us to be a welcoming city for all people,” Fleming said. “(For) African Americans, we do have some work to do to feel totally welcome here. I’m still working to bridge that divide.” kristinakarisch2020@u.northwestern.edu
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Isaac said she agrees the University is making an effort to improve financial aid. The issue of expensive textbooks and poor financial aid exists throughout the country, and it is the University’s responsibility to increase accessibility, she told The Daily. Daniella Lumpkin, Associated Student Government’s speaker of the Senate, said she
appreciated administrators’ willingness to discuss financial issues but also expressed her frustration with a lack of progress. “I want to see more from the administration,” the Weinberg senior told The Daily. “I know that there are roadblocks that we don’t fully understand, but I just never feel completely satisfied with the responses and especially with the results.” keertigopal2021@u.northwestern.edu
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Tanyavutti said while survey results show black parents were interested in the program, less than half of those interviewed this year knew about TWI. “There is a history of black families being left out of a program,” Tanyavutti said. “(Including them) in an intentional way is really important.” Kartha and Beardsley said they do not yet have a definitive solution for including more black students in the program. Beardsley said the proportion of Spanishspeaking and English-speaking students is not split evenly in TWI classes, but research shows it should be. Despite increasing demand for the program across the board, Spanish-speaking students are given precedence in enrollment to prioritize the needs of English language learners, Beardsley said. Only 42 percent of English-speaking students were accepted into the program last year. During the 2016-17 school year, 65 percent of students in the program were native Spanish
speakers, and 35 percent were English-speaking students. Because this proportion deviates from the TWI model — which recommends that a class is evenly split — the program could end if it isn’t balanced throughout the expansion, Beardsley said. “With all the change, we have to look at what are the pros and cons and find the best possible pathway,” Beardsley said. “In the short term, there will be drawbacks. But in the long term, schools should and could and would come to embrace diversity as a value.” Kartha said the school board will continue to discuss TWI expansion plans at its Nov. 6 meeting, when the board plans to recommend a location for the two proposed programs. Following the November meeting, Kartha said, board members will begin community outreach and prepare a student application by January. “If we have a strong sense of school community responsibility, it’s something where we have an opportunity to embrace TWI,” Beardsley said. catherinehenderson2021@u.northwestern.edu
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For the most part, Northwestern and Illinois’ rivalry is more of a story than a real thing. But nobody told the Fighting Illini that. Illinois (5-100, 2-5-0 Big Ten) scored on Kara Marbury’s header in the 69th minute to beat the Wildcats (6-6-2, 3-31) on Saturday night in Champaign. With the 1-0 result, NU took its second-straight loss. “We’re extremely frustrated and disappointed,” coach Michael Moynihan said. “I thought the team came out with really good energy and conviction tonight and we pretty much dominated for the entire match. I think Illinois only had one legitimate even attempt at goal and that was the one they scored on.” NU is coming off a disappointing
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loss at Purdue, where it was also shut out. The Cats have now been held scoreless in three of their last five matches. This loss will sting even more because NU outshot the Fighting Illini 13-5 and was in control for most of the game. But Illinois drew a corner kick in the 69th minute, and Marbury redirected Lauren Ciesla’s cross past Lauren Clem into the back of the net. “They had a great cross and a great finish,” Clem, a senior goalkeeper, said. “We just need to be a little bit tighter on our marks and push them outside the box more, because other than that, they didn’t have too many chances and we definitely controlled a lot of the game.” Illinois mustered just two shots on goal for the match, while the Cats had six. Senior defender Kassidy Gorman had a game-high four shots and freshman midfielder Madi Kennel added two, but NU failed to find the back of the net.
Although the game was held in Champaign, NU’s loss was surprising. The Fighting Illini are ranked No. 191 in RPI, which Moynihan said could hurt the Cats’ NCAA Tournament hopes at the end of the season. Moynihan said after the game, the team’s mood was somber. “You could’ve heard a pin drop afterward,” he said. “It’s one of the tough things about soccer sometimes, it’s difficult to score goals and sometimes the team that gets outplayed walks away with a victory.” After winning a share of the Big Ten regular season championship in 2016, NU now sits in seventh place in the conference with four matches to play. Moynihan said the team is focused on qualifying for the Big Ten Tournament and ultimately going to the NCAA Tournament. Despite the losing streak, junior midfielder Marisa Viggiano said the team is still confident moving forward. “Every game we play to win,” Viggiano said. “That’s the mindset that we have going into every game. These next four games are really important for us and we want to come out on top.” jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu
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Throughout the season, Northwestern has struggled to hold early leads. So it wasn’t surprising when the Wildcats blew multiple first-set advantages this weekend. That inability was apparent in their most recent homestand, when they had to settle for split results after blowing early margins in two matches. NU beat Indiana 25-21, 22-25, 20-25, 34-32, 15-8 Friday before losing to No. 18 Purdue 27-25, 25-13, 25-23 Sunday. “We got so far ahead that we felt uncomfortable because we aren’t usually that far ahead against teams like Purdue, and it was too good to be true,” senior outside hitter Symone Abbott said. Against the Hoosiers, the Cats (12-6, 2-4 Big Ten) led 21-14 in the first set, but Indiana went on a 6-1 run before NU won the frame. Coach Shane Davis credited his team’s lack of errors for the early cushion. The Hoosiers (11-7, 0-6) won a seesaw affair in the second set in which
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neither team led by more than three points. The Cats’ hitting percentage dipped to .156 in the third set, and Indiana capitalized, taking a 2-1 lead. Still, Abbott did her part to help NU overcome its mid-contest slump. With the Hoosiers ahead two sets to one, the outside hitter landed a precision swing between a pair of Indiana defenders who could only watch it fall to the hardwood. The kill tied the match for the Cats who had set point eight different times in the frame. “Awesome, really,” Abbott said of the play. “I couldn’t even cheer because I was super tired. But just to see it fall and get everyone excited, it was super awesome.” After winning the fourth set, NU jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the fifth, and never let its edge dip below three points. Senior middle blocker Gabrielle Hazen had the winning kill for the Cats, after which she was mobbed by teammates
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on the court. Abbott tallied a career-high 29 kills, while freshman outside hitter Nia Robinson pitched in 16. Freshman libero Lexi Pitsas and senior setter Taylor Tashima led NU with 21 and 20 digs, respectively. Tashima also added 59 assists. Davis said in the past, the Cats might not have rebounded the way they did against Indiana. But NU got the job done, and Davis said Friday’s match might be a moment the Cats look back to as one where they grew as a team. “It’s big because we haven’t done that as a team,” Davis said. “When we get down, we stay down, and to be able to do that, it was just great to see our group battle back and get over that hump and push it to five and have that opportunity.” Despite surging back against the Hoosiers, NU failed to replicate that success against the Boilermakers (152, 5-1). Hazen paced the Cats with seven blocks, while freshman opposite hitter Danyelle Williams and freshman middle hitter Alana Walker tallied three each. Abbott chipped in with 10 kills, and Robinson added eight. Tashima led NU with 29 assists and seven digs in the straight-set loss. Even with the disappointing performance Sunday, Hazen said the Cats still felt good about their weekend overall. “Getting the win against Indiana was a great confidence booster that we can fight back, and we can win those matches and just hang with the Big Ten,” Hazen said. “We have to start believing we don’t have to be that Cinderella story, that we can hang with these teams and be competitive with them.” andrewhodgson2018@u.northwestern.edu
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By BENJY APELBAUM
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SKOKIE — Northwestern has the opportunity to play at home just once a year and the Wildcats made the most of it this year, surging into a tie for the win on the back of a superb final-round performance. After three rounds over two days and 835 strokes apiece, NU and Penn State could not be separated atop the 15-team field at the Windon Memorial Classic. The Cats picked up five strokes on the Nittany Lions in the final round to finish tied at 5-under-par. The win is the first of the year for the Cats, who struggled in their first two tournaments of the season. “We know that we’re a good enough team and that the last few tournaments don’t mean that we’re not a good team,” senior Dylan Wu said. “We did well last year and we had a lot of people return so we knew we were good, but we needed to step up. The coaches told us we needed a kickstart to our season and we accomplished that.” NU started the tournament strong, shooting 4-under as a team in the first round Sunday morning. The Cats were paced by a 4-under 66 from junior Ryan Lumsden, who continued his hot start in the second round before collapsing to shoot 7-over on the back nine. Lumsden was not alone, as the whole team regressed in the second round Sunday afternoon, shooting 6-over and dropping into fifth place heading into the final day. Monday’s round was NU’s best, as it surged into the lead with the assistance of 3-under rounds from both Wu and sophomore Everton Hawkins.
As the round came down to the wire, the Cats had a slim lead over Penn State, but the Nittany Lions closed the gap with late birdies. The day began with a shotgun start in which all groups of golfers took the course on different holes at the same time, so each group finished play at around the same time, adding to the drama. With no easy way to communicate scores across the course, players and coaches could only guess at their position, Hawkins said. “I actually had no idea what was going on and I didn’t know the scores at all,” he said. “I didn’t know it would be that close, I was just trying to play it one stroke at a time.” Hawkins finished the individual competition tied for third at 3-under, the best result on the team. Coach David Inglis said he was particularly proud of the sophomore’s play and believes Hawkins can continue to play at an elite level for the rest of the season. Wu said the home course advantage also played a role in NU’s excellent performance. He said the team practices at Evanston Golf Club about once a week and that those rounds over the course of his four-year career added up to give him a deeper understanding of how to play each hole. Most importantly, Inglis said, he hopes the performance at home will help give the Cats confidence as they proceed with the rest of their season. “We’ve been improving since the start of the year and it has taken a little time to hit our stride,” he said. “It was the jumpstart to the season that we really needed.” benjaminapelbaum2019@u.northwestern.edu