The Daily Northwestern — October 30, 2019

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Pete Nance’s quest to be a “star-type player”

Children flock to Norris, run throughout floors for annual Project Pumpkin event

78th Annual Dolphin Show canceled For first time since WWII, musical won’t take place

By JASON BEEFERMAN and VY DUONG

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The Dolphin Show, the largest student-produced musical in the country, will not perform its 78th annual musical this year, multiple sources with ties to the organization confirmed.

This is the first time the show has been cancelled since a period from 1944 to 1946, due to World War II. “To see it not happening for the first time since World War II is devastating to me and a lot of other Northwestern alums who work in theater, work in Broadway or even just who are alums of The Dolphin Show,” said Abigail Doermann (Communication ‘19) who works as an intern at Aurora Productions, a Broadway production management company.

Although cancellation rumors have recently been circulating in the Northwestern and alumni theater communities, the organization has not released an official statement.

Last year, Communication senior and the show’s director Tucker DeGregory, along with

many members of the executive board, resigned due to internal disagreements, especially regarding the show selection process.

In the spring, some members of Dolphin’s executive board also told The Daily the felt a root cause of the resignations centered around discussions and decisions made on behalf of unrepresented identities without their input.

The resignations were soon followed by a letter posted to Facebook by Dolphin’s producers and executive board that drew controversy among the student body.

Besides a May apology for the letter, the organization has been silent about the prospect of the 78th Dolphin Show. Producers Maxwell Han and Janet Lee did not respond to requests for comment.

Doermann said the ongoing open leadership positions and the missed casting deadlines, also known as the winter generals, have “solidified” the show’s cancellation.

“They left for the summer with no board, no director, no show, no designers, no team,” Doeermann said. “You can’t come back in September with the January show and expect any type of show to happen without all of those things that would have had to happen months ago.”

Broadway producer Andrew » See DOLPHIN, page 6

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Obamas talk place, purpose at third-annual South Side summit

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CHICAGO — When former first lady Michelle Obama and her family moved into the White House in 2009, they brought the

South Side with them. Now, the Obamas are bringing the White House back to the South Side, with the third-annual Obama Foundation Summit and planned Obama Presidential Center.

“Our place had to be the place where I came of age and where Michelle was born and raised,

and where our babies were born,” former president Barack Obama said at the summit. “We want (the center) to be a university for activism and social change and a convening place for re-imagining how we solve the problems that your generation will confront.

This will be the beacon from

which we are sending out a signal that the values we believe in are shared and that they’re strong.”

The main theme of this year’s summit was “Places Reveal Our Purpose,” and speakers addressed both their sense of home and » See OBAMA, page 6

Eric Andre enthralls eager audience Evanston parents Comedian’s sold-out crowd couldn’t stop laughing at the A&O event

By GREGORY SVIRNOVSKIY

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Three quarters of the way into his show — a debauched performance in which he reminded the audience of their parents’ sex lives and reveled in President Trump’s “Mario starpower” — comedian Eric Andre needed a phone.

He wanted to play a game where he’d text the mother of a student using only options on the iPhone’s predictive text keyboard settings, and responding to any incoming messages in kind.

Communication freshman Jacqui Touchet volunteered to help.

“All my friends were like, ‘Do it,’ because I’d been texting my mom before the show so I knew she would be awake,” Touchet said. “My mom’s pretty chill so I knew she wouldn’t freak out or anything.”

She subsequently watched her mother respond to Andre’s repeated incoherent messages

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Eric Andre performs in front of a sell-out crowd at Cahn Auditorium. The comedian is known for his work on The Eric Andre show and 2 Broke Girls.

and then appear on FaceTime in front of a sold out crowd at Cahn Auditorium.

“She loves that kind of stuff,” Touchet said. “She thinks it’s funny being the mom that my friends like or whatever so I’m sure she ate that up. She was very into it.”

At the A&O Productions’

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Fall Speaker Event, Andre entertained the sold out crowd in his own way, with a range of personal anecdotes like getting high with his mother. The comedian, famous for his work in “2 Broke Girls” and the self-titled “The Eric Andre Show,” has long been known for his eccentric comedic style.

A&O speakers chair Syd Monroe said Andre’s wacky style made him an interesting person to bring to campus. The Weinberg senior said Northwestern’s student body is a good fit for any comedic voice. » See ANDRE, page 6

Haven Middle School parents said their daughter was sexually assaulted by a custodian on school grounds, according to a letter the parents sent to city and school officials.

In the Oct. 23 letter obtained

by The Daily, the parents — whose names were not disclosed — said the assault occurred on Oct. 4 at around 1:50 p.m. in the girl’s bathroom by a custodian. They sent the letter to Haven principal Kathy Roberson, Mayor Steve Hagerty and Evanston police chief Demitrous Cook.

“On Friday, October 4, 2019, our family’s life changed forever when our 12-year-old, seventh grade daughter was raped,” the parents said in the letter. “Our family is enraged, upset, shocked and cannot believe our new reality.”

Evanston/Skokie School District 65 interim superintendents said in a statement that they previously had not disclosed the nature of the assault to protect the privacy of the student and

the ongoing Evanston Police Department and Department of Children and Family Services investigations.

Interim superintendents Phil Ehrhardt and Heidi Wennstrom said in the statement that law enforcement and the district will take “necessary and appropriate” actions against anyone found responsible after the investigations.

“We were shocked and deeply distressed to learn this,” the interim superintendents said in the statement. “Our immediate concern was and continues to be to support this student in every way possible and do all we can to make sure all of our students and staff are safe.”

Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew told The Daily on Tuesday that there are no updates on the investigation. He previously said police are investigating only one person and no one has been charged. The district said the staff member has been placed on leave.

The incident was reported on Oct. 7.

The parents listed questions they have for the district and » See HAVEN, page 6

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AROUND TOWN 1st, 4th Wards discuss Evanston’s proposed budget

By EMMA EDMUND

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Evanston residents, aldermen and city staff discussed possible concerns about the proposed 2020-2021 budget at Tuesday’s joint 1st and 4th ward meeting.

The two-year proposed budget was presented to City Council for review in early October, and the city must adopt the 2020 portion by Dec. 31.

Hitesh Desai, the city’s chief financial officer, gave residents a presentation about the general aspects of the proposed budget.

Desai went over the baseline revenue for the General Fund, the city’s main operating fund. The city has predicted over $118 million in revenue for the 2020 General Fund, including increases in state use tax and income tax, an increase of about $924,000 in recreation fee revenue from the new Robert Crown Community Center and a decrease in the parking tax. The city expects just under $118 million in expenses, which include costs for the Robert Crown Community Center and social services consolidated in the Health and Human Services Department.

Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said he knew some residents are concerned about the expenses associated with the Robert Crown Center. However, he emphasized that part of the center’s business model includes a built-in maintenance fund, so the center will have a way to pay for the inevitable repairs and expenses that will arise in the future.

POLICE BLOTTER Two bikes taken from Mulford garage A 29-year-old Evanston resident reported two bicycles stolen from her garage in the 700 block of Mulford Street on Monday between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m, Evanston police said.

Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said the bikes were valued at $300 each. The woman

“These things are extraordinarily expensive,” Wilson said in reference to unexpected expenses, which the maintenance fund is designed to avoid.

“We torture over this. The past few years were really, really hard.”

Desai also discussed how the burden of the property tax is expected to shift from residential properties to commercial properties.

One negative impact of the tax burden shift is the impact on residents who live in apartment buildings, which Wilson said are considered commercial properties in Cook County.

Wilson added that someone living in an apartment is likely under more financial strain than someone living in a $700,000 house. He said the entire community should be worried about the inequity of a possible tax increase on apartments but that the city has relatively little control over this change.

Residents also brought up other concerns. Resident Betty Hayford asked if closing one of the fire stations, which was debated in 2018, was still on the table as a way to cut costs.

Wilson said while the station will remain open, some unfilled positions within the police department are still unfilled, and that police and fire unions have made “some compromises.”

Residents also brought up the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center, which needs an estimated $20 million in repairs, according to Ald. Judy Fiske (1st). Wilson said the city is undergoing a needs assessment to see if the city can reduce its space for administrative needs and rent out the extra space as a way to generate revenue.

Residents also raised the idea of reparations described them as a light blue Schwinn brand bicycle and a burnt orange bike of an unknown make.

Glew said when the woman left her home at 10 a.m., she believed that the garage door was shut and the side doors were also locked. When she returned home, the overhead door was open and both bicycles were gone.

Glew said there are no suspects and no one is

for black residents due to past injustices. The city recently approved a proposal to move forward with reparations plans, but has yet to come up with specifics.

“We’ve had general conversations,” said Fiske.

“We’re just really at the beginning of this, and the conversation hasn’t really extended to a conversation with the full council.”

One resident expressed skepticism that reparations will even come up in time for the budget to

be adopted, although Wilson said some aldermen want something worked out this year.

In general, though, the budget is still up for debate, and the aldermen encouraged resident input as they work on finalizing the budget for fiscal year 2020.

“This isn’t set in stone,” Wilson said. “Anything is in play, theoretically.”

in custody.

bike near the intersection of Maple and Garnett, and when he returned, the bike lock had been cut and the bicycle was gone.

The stolen bike is valued at approximately $700, and Glew said it was manufactured by Masi Bikes.

There are no suspects, and no people in custody in relation to the case.

Bike stolen from intersection of Maple and Garnett

A 20-year-old Evanston resident reported the theft of a bicycle from the 1900 block of Maple Avenue between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Glew said the incident was reported Monday at noon. The resident told police that he secured the

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Ald. Donald Wilson (4th). Wilson expressed concerns that residents in apartment buildings could get hit hard by the recent property reassessment.

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ON CAMPUS Project Pumpkin finds its way to Norris

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Costumed children roamed Norris University Center Tuesday evening, carrying bags of candy as they passed by inflatable Halloween-themed animals and cobwebbed walls.

About 800 children from Evanston and the Chicago area came to Northwestern Community Development Corps’ annual Project Pumpkin trick-or-treating event, according to Val Buchanan, NCDC’s adviser.

Student volunteers led children in costume from room to room, where they played spooky games, jumped in a bounce castle and trick-ortreated at booths run by more than 60 student organizations.

“Often, people from the community feel like they don’t have a place on campus where they can come,” Buchanan said. “Tonight is a night all about transforming Norris to make it kidfriendly, accessible and family-friendly.”

Due to the ongoing Chicago Public Schools teachers’ strike, fewer schools from the city attended this year, Buchanan said. However, nonprofits and Evanston’s public schools still brought their groups, and families also walked in individually.

Susana Salgado, youth program director for Chicago nonprofit Centro Romero, has brought 60 to 70 Centro Romero children to Project Pumpkin every year for the last five years.

“This is one of the field trips that they’re looking forward to the most,” Salgado said, dressed as DC Comics character Harley Quinn. “When school starts in September, they’re like, ‘When are we going to Project Pumpkin at Northwestern University?’... I’m all dressed up too, because it’s one of the field trips that I love the most.”

During her five years coming to Project Pumpkin, Salgado said the event has become much more organized.

She said she appreciates having volunteers from the University show her students around

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Abigail Hernandez and Hector Baez pose with their six months old daughter Daenerys at Project Pumpkin on Tuesday. Hernandez lives in downtown Chicago and said Project Pumpkin is a much safer alternative to typical Halloween festivities.

Norris so the students can experience everything. Also, Salgado said she’s seen her students draw inspiration from the games at Project Pumpkin when crafting their own Children’s Day celebration.

Patryk Kot, a Communication junior who helped run Delta Sigma Pi’s booth, said Project Pumpkin plays an important role in connecting Northwestern students with the world beyond campus.

“You get to interact with your community and not just stay in your own little bubble,” Kotz

said.

Jasmine Wright, an administrative assistant at the University, brought her daughter to Project Pumpkin for the first time this year.

She said the event was bigger than she expected.

“This is my daughter’s first Halloween,” Wright said. “We’re excited to see her reactions to other kids in costume and give her freedom to roam around with other kids.”

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Not all students, families can afford financial literacy MELISSA SANTOYO

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

I may be a humanities major, but numbers have always been a part of my life. Ever since I’ve been able to count, numbers represented the days since my dad left for work — days that inevitably eroded into weeks. When I was eight years old, numbers started to involve my monolingual mother and I (the family polyglot) failing to interpret billing statements in English.

When I entered a richer, whiter school in sixth grade, numbers were the bank accounts and income that differentiated me from my peers.

Growing up, I quickly realized that numbers were never going to be on my side.

Now, in college, numbers symbolize more obstacles: the cost of winter clothes, the minutiae of necessary Target hauls and the seemingly minor expenses of transit when I need to travel into Chicago for reporting. But the greatest obstacle of all comes with the advent of October, the FAFSA. Some of us procrastinate and let the form sit unfiled until a day before the deadline. Many of us sit alongside our parents in a group effort

to trudge through it together. Others send our parents the link and move on, maybe even follow that up with a reminder text.

But I can’t afford that luxury.

I am the daughter of two immigrants from Cuba. My dad? A trucker with a heavily accented handle on English. My mom? A stayat-home mother who’s been in this country for over 20 years and still struggles to understand a cashier’s greeting.

Some Northwestern students live in a bubble, oblivious to the struggles minorities face navigating and surviving this university. I didn’t have the privilege of forwarding my mother the link and forgetting about my FAFSA. While applying to this school, I navigated years’ worth of W-2s, 1040s and 1099s. I would get so anxious about the various numbered forms and the numbers on those forms; at one point, I incorrectly misfiled something and I was so panicked that I couldn’t bring myself to eat that night.

Financial literacy, as defined by Investopedia, is the “education and understanding of various financial areas.” Financial literacy can involve investment, business budgeting, retirement planning and paying for college. It’s not information that’s commonly taught unless one pursues studies in that area. For most adults, that’s not a problem. It’s a skill that can be picked up through employment and learned through trial

and error. Some people inherit that information from their parents. And for those who aren’t so lucky to have financially literate family members, they may be able to afford working with outside parties to file their taxes and provide retirement consultation. There are even online classes one can take to be financially literate.

But for my family, that was never really an option. I don’t have the time or the resources to pay for and sit through financial literacy courses.

My school offered us EVERFI: Financial Literacy for High School, which I completed through my AP Macroeconomics course. It was comprised of a series of vague videos and multiple-choice questions wrapped up into a graduate requirement. But it didn’t provide anything that helped when navigating FAFSA, the CSS or IDOC. That’s the reality of many first-generation students across the country. Most of us are not properly equipped to interpret the FAFSA, nor can our parents help us fill it out. Even so, I have it easier than most; I am a U.S. citizen and my parents are both legal residents.

In a 2016 article for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Amairani Perez-Antonio writes about how the FAFSA acts as a barrier for firstgen students. Perez-Antonio’s high school held a parent workshop to help families file the form.

After a call from her parents who said they

didn’t understand any of the information being shared, she drove to the school to join them.

Perez-Antonio writes, “I was astonished to find that I, too, found the presentation on the screen impossible to understand. The language seemed to be written by and for government regulators. For example, because my mother is undocumented, we did not know how to fill out the line asking for a Social Security number.”

A few weeks ago, I was sitting in Sargent Dining Hall, complaining about FAFSA’s unintelligible language, when the girl next to me interrupted to ask why I simply hadn’t sent my parents the form. Easy, right? The ignorance surrounding financial literacy on this campus continuously astounds me, despite my understanding that I can’t expect people who aren’t in my circumstances to understand nor empathize.

Here’s your wakeup call, NU. Financial literacy is a privilege and not everyone has access to it.

Melissa Santoyo is a Medill freshman. She can be contacted at melissasantoyo2023@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.

Let’s be real: Service trips are not inherently charitable KATHRYN AUGUSTINE

ASST. OPINION EDITOR

Scrolling through my Facebook feed, I stumbled on a post with a conglomeration of photographs from a friend’s week-long service trip to Ghana. There’s a photo of her clothed in Lululemon, messily painting the walls of a new community center. In the thread of comments, she’s hailed a saint.

They go something like this: “Look at you, changing lives!” “Great work, I’ll keep the Ghanians in my prayers. We are so lucky.” “Proud to call you my niece.”

Americans, particularly white, upper-class people, often embark on service trips with positive intentions — to provide aid to the underprivileged and address poverty. In concept, traveling abroad to volunteer seems promising.

However, at best these service trips have no impact on the population of a foreign community — typically a community of color. At worst, service trips are blatantly harmful to the host community.

The reality of short service trips is that they rarely ignite lasting, positive change.

Volunteers that choose to go on mission trips are rarely competent to complete the job at hand. I have personally experienced this. When I was in eighth grade, my school decided to take us on a service trip. Our task was to build the floow of a new building. Realistically, we were a troop of scrawny eighth-graders with absolutely no prior experience in construction or prolonged physical labor attempting to hammer nails into wood planks. Still, we paid for flights to Ecuador, coach buses for travelling from Quito to the Amazon, housing accommodations and three meals each day.

The fact that we paid to ineffectively help local Ecuadorians is absurd. In place of a service trip comprised of middle schoolers, organizing a fundraiser to allow local Ecuadorians to invest in their community their way would have been more helpful. This would have ensured that the school was built in a timely manner by people with expertise and experience in construction and would have helped increase the level of employment in the community.

Aside from some trained experts and professionals, the average American cannot provide

services that people in the country cannot provide for themselves. The only people who benefit from the week-long “work” of the American volunteers is the Americans themselves. They leave with an inflated ego and a distorted view of the community they intended to help.

On top of that, a week is not a significant period of time. Flying into a country, working for approximately five days and subsequently leaving is ultimately not impactful. There’s only so many hours in a week and so much you can realistically contribute in that compact time frame. Additionally, you cannot possibly immerse yourself in the culture and understand the actual challenges that people who live there face.

If you want to make a difference in people’s lives, then volunteer locally. It’s more influential long-term because you can commit to volunteering regularly and develop genuine empathy for those you work with. Volunteering is more meaningful when you remain dedicated to the cause.

Apart from the fact that volunteers on service trips are largely unhelpful, an inherent power dynamic emerges between Americans and the locals of a community. The presence of white saviorism seems to be the rule rather than the

exception. Americans unconsciously perceive the individuals they are assisting, often individuals of color, as helpless children.

This is view is skewed — poverty is not synonymous with weakness and dependence.

Additionally, the white savior mindset is often transparent and demeaning to individuals of that nation. The people volunteering are left with a warm, fuzzy feeling that they assisted desperate, inferior beings. The locals, by contrast, are left with a sense of condescension.

So when an advertisement pops up in your Instagram feed for a ‘life-changing’ service trip to rural India, don’t give in. Instead, opt to volunteer in a city nearby or raise funds for organizations that will allocate your money properly and empower members of the country.

If you are vying to travel to rural India, then hop on a flight, but don’t travel under the guise of worthwhile volunteer work.

Kathryn Augustine is a Medill sophomore. She can be contacted at kathrynaugustine2022@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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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2019

ETHS removes student-athlete GPA eligibility

By SNEHA DEY

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After removing the athlete GPA requirement, the athletics department at Evanston Township High School boasted the highest GPA in department history.

In the 2018-19 academic year, the average GPA for student-athletes in the first and second semester was 3.72 and 3.69, respectively.

Students previously needed at least a 2.0 GPA to be eligible for athletic participation. ETHS removed this requirement two years ago. Any student passing five classes or more can now participate in athletics in any given season.

The Illinois High School Association awarded an academic achievement reward to every ETHS varsity team this year. Recipients are required to have a team GPA of over 3.0, a benchmark all ETHS varsity teams have met since removing the eligibility requirement.

According to ETHS Athletic Director Chris Livatino, 82 percent of varsity teams also boast a team GPA of over 3.5.

Student-athletes are currently performing better in school than their non-athlete peers.

The differences in academic performance are significant across every racial sub-group, but remains the largest for Hispanic and black students, Livatino said.

The impressive academic performance of student-athletes was a major reason the department chose to drop the requirement, Livatino said.

School District 202 Board Member Jude E. Laude said the board had some hesitation

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about this decision from the athletics department to remove the requirement.

“We were hopeful,” Laude said. “We saw how the research was trending, we knew we needed to get more kids engaged, (but) we were nervous.”

As part of the decision to remove the GPA requirement, the athletics department worked to put new academic supports in place for student-athletes struggling in school.

Student-athletes with a GPA below 2.0, who would have been previously ineligible to participate, were placed on an academic watch list.

The watch list functioned as a semester-long academic probation period. When the school placed students on the watch list, they had to meet short-term academic goals rather than make long-term improvements.

Students on probation received academic support at least three times a week. They were also held to a higher GPA standard on a weekly basis; if the student received more than one D or F any given week, they could not participate in the sport the following week.

“Sometimes people think if you move the bar down, you must be expecting less, when in fact, what we communicated to these young people (is) we have high expectations for you,” District 202 Superintendent Eric Witherspoon said. “And they’ve done it. It’s quite a story.”

According to Livatino, 18 percent of students on the academic watch list would not have been able to participate in athletics if the eligibility requirement had not been removed.

He emphasized the importance of giving every student the opportunity to connect with athletics.

Livatino also reported an all-time high in The University is in the process of planning three transnational seminars and a summer institute for next academic year. The award will also fund fellowships for two graduate students and one postdoctoral student, and will count towards Northwestern’s “We Will.

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Evanston Township High School. All ETHS varsity teams report a team GPA over 3.0 despite the department removing the GPA eligibility requirement.

participation numbers. He noted a jump in participation from female participants but a decrease in participation from Latino students, which he plans to address this academic year.

“When you have everybody going in one

direction and one group that’s not, there’s got to be a reason,” Livatino said. “We got to figure out what that is.”

of black art production, according to a University release. They’ll “seek to create models redressing concerns around archival access and translation,” the release said.

The Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars provides support for comparative research on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments and aims to engage scholars in comparative research that would otherwise, in ordinary university circumstances, be difficult to pursue.

The project will be led by Carlos Montezuma Professor of African American Studies and Performance Studies E. Patrick Johnson.

“Given the current global political climate, it is imperative that black arts social movements be documented in a systematic way and that these archives be made accessible — across artistic forms — to constituents in the African diaspora,” Johnson said in the release.

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From page1 belonging, as well as how they found their purpose in activism and storytelling. The summit Tuesday featured moderated conversations, presentations and breakout sessions from activists, politicians and foundation fellows at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Barack and Michelle spoke at the morning and afternoon sessions, respectively. Speakers included filmmaker Ava DuVernay, actor Billy Porter, director Lulu Wang and labor rights activist Dolores Huerta, among others.

Michelle Obama reflects on her home

For most of Michelle Obama’s life, she was known as “Craig Robinson’s sister.” She grew up on the South Side as the younger of two siblings, and her brother was the popular one, the basketball player who went to Princeton.

She would follow him there herself and even end up in the same major — sociology. And though they didn’t spend all their time together, she said having the support of a family member at the Ivy League college helped her adjust to a new environment.

DOLPHIN From page 1

Restieri (Communication ‘18) said his involvement with The Dolphin Show during his four years at Northwestern gave him valuable theater experience and meaningful connections. The unparalleled opportunity for a team of entirely students to create a show at such a large scale makes the show special, Restieri said.

“I feel really bad for this year’s freshman class who’ve been completely deprived from The Dolphin Show experience,” Restieri said. “These are freshmen who won’t be able to make those connections not just

ANDRE

From page 1 “Northwestern’s got a really great sense of humor,” Monroe said. “Eric Andre isn’t your classic vanilla standup. It says a lot about Northwestern that the show sold out because he’s kind of a niche comedian. The people that love his work love his work. I don’t think it’s gonna be basic standup.”

Andre started his routine with anecdotes about seeing Tupac’s hologram at Coachella and taking MDMA. From there, he moved on to topics of greater substance, like his views on the War on Drugs.

“The war on drugs is bulls--t, man,” Andre said. “It’s a complete waste of taxpayers’ money.

It allows cops to arrest black kids four times as

But now, the former first lady said with a smirk, “the tables have turned.”

Obama and her brother shared childhood memories and friendly teasing during the summit’s morning session, moderated by journalist Isabel Wilkerson. Growing up on the South Side, the siblings had parents who valued their education and provided a steady source of support. With hard work and good self-esteem, they said, everything was possible.

“We grew up with a lot of love, and not just symbolic love — the hold on tight, kill-a-man kind of love for your kids,” Obama said. “What our parents gave us was unconditional love and the notion that our voices matter.”

Obama’s continued dedication to the South Side is evident in the foundation’s deliberate choice to reinvest in the area through the Obama Presidential Center. She said the library and its surrounding facilities will create jobs and become a hub for community activism.

After eight years in the White House alongside her husband, Obama has paved her own legacy.

Now, it’s Robinson who most often gets recognized as “Michelle Obama’s brother,” and he said that it took

him until right before the 2008 election to truly believe that “my sister is married to the guy who’s going to be the next President of the United States.”

On Tuesday, Obama took one look at her brother and laughed.

“You still can’t say ‘the First Lady?’”

with each other, but with upperclassmen.”

DeGregory said this year’s show would have marked the 50th year since the Dolphin Show switched from being a synchronized swimming show in a pool to a mainstage musical, an important milestone in the show’s history.

He also lamented the missed opportunity for the freshman class.

“It was devastating to know that (it was cancelled) because it has such a legacy and has propelled people into their careers,” DeGregory said. “A lot of my friends have the jobs they do because they’re wickedly talented artists, but also because they have the experience coming from The Dolphin Show. It’s sad

that there’s a blip in our crazy, amazing tradition.”

Doermann said the cancellation could impact possible funding for future shows. According to Maanas Bhatt, vice president for student activities finances in Association Student Government, large-scale student groups like The Dolphin Show apply for funds in the Spring and Fall quarters. In past years, he said, a cancelled or unsuccessful event would lead to a proportionate decrease in funding.

Doermann added that the controversy around resignations last spring and the organization’s silence ever since have caused anger to some in the Dolphin alumni community.

“The fact that they have not made a statement,

much as they do suburban white kids. It’s old racist, Nixon-era bulls--t.”

Andre was sincere about his past experiences, and said some of them inform his views on social policy today. He pointed to the “civil disobedience” he practiced in Amsterdam to support his view that prostitution should be legalized.

Among the show’s standout moments was a monologue by self-described bit-person Mary Hardy, who shared a story on when she walked in on her parents. The Weinberg junior and Andre spoke in front of the crowd for five minutes, riffing off of one another.

“I love him,” Hardy said. “I think he’s the funniest person in the world. He’s just f--king with everyone so I enjoy it.” gregorysvirnovskiy2022@u.northwestern.edu

Barack Obama talks how to find purpose

Though Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, he got his start as a community activist in Chicago. He, along with actress and activist, Yara Shahidi, spoke with four Obama Foundation fellows about their individual paths to activism and finding purpose.

What’s crucial for anyone starting out, Obama said, is figuring out what you want to do, rather than who you want to be. If your goal is to become a member of Congress, for example, what drives your work will largely be self-serving to set you down a path of success, he said.

“It’s this constant of fine-tuning — of matching your values, your actions and your impact,” he said, “and that takes time.”

But it’s those who find what they want to do — like improving access to education or women’s health

— and then build their career through helping people in whatever way possible, who find real success and fulfilment in activism.

Still, Obama urged young activists to be patient during their journeys and not to expect to have it all figured out immediately.

As Obama reflected on historic activism — like the civil rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy of nonviolent resistance — he offered words of reassurance to young activists today. Social change doesn’t occur overnight, he said, so it’s important to remember that the work happening “in this place and at this moment” is not likely to mark the beginning or end of a movement.

Rather, activism is a gradual process, he said. As long as the work is helping people and moving the proverbial needle a fraction of a degree further, it’s valued and important and contributes to the bigger whole.

“You’re part of that continuum,” Obama said.

“The good news is that when you start feeling that you’re a part of something larger…you don’t feel as alone.” karisch@u.northwestern.edu canceled the show, done anything since that happened, is only adding deep insult to an already bad injury,” Doermann said.

Still, DeGregory hopes this year’s series of events can be used as a learning process for future Dolphin shows.

“I am positive that (The Dolphin Show) will come back very soon,” DeGregory said. “It will come back with full force and hopefully, more focused on how to make the art encourage reflection in its audiences.” jasonbeeferman@u.northwestern.edu vyduong2021@u.northwestern.edu

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district contacted EPD and DCFS. She wrote that maintaining a safe and welcoming environment at school is a high priority for the district.

EPD went to the school, met with the student and the student’s parent and began investigating the allegation, according to the letter. District 65 also started its own investigation.

In a follow-up letter two weeks ago, Roberson said the district is in “daily contact” with EPD and DCFS, whose investigations are ongoing.

“We continue to focus on maintaining a safe and welcoming educational environment for all of our students,” the second letter said. “We have also maintained our focus on academic and social emotional learning and have observed students to be actively engaged in instruction and activities all week.”

From page 1 police, including “how could this brutal sexual attack happen at Haven?” and “what does the school plan to make sure this doesn’t happen to another student?”

“I (the mother) grew up in Evanston and graduated from Haven and ETHS,” the letter said. “If we had any idea that lurking in the hallways of Evanston schools are every parent’s worst nightmare, we would have protected our daughter and enrolled her in another school.”

Earlier in October, Roberson sent a letter to parents saying the school had learned that a staff member was “inappropriate” with a student during school hours. Roberson’s sent a letter to parents saying after the school learned of the complaint, the

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Research team awarded NIH grant for opioid-related device

By NEYA THANIKACHALAM

daily senior staffer @neyachalam

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Northwestern and Washington University in St. Louis won a $10 million grant to develop a device that can identify a life-threatening level of opioids in the bloodstream and automatically administer a dose of naloxone, an antidote, to prevent death from overdose.

The team will receive the grant from the National Institute of Health’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative over the course of five years.

Over 42,000 deaths in the U.S. were attributed to opioid overdose in 2016. In 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency regarding the opioid crisis.

The prevalent way to treat an opioid overdose currently is to deliver naloxone.

McCormick Prof. John Rogers, one of the principal investigators on the project, said because the device is implanted into a human body, there were certain factors the engineering team had to consider while designing the device.

“Nobody’s ever tried anything like this before,” Rogers said. “So we have to worry about long-term stability, we have to worry about immune response to the device, we have to worry about reliability and the operation.”

The device, which is about the size of a small USB drive, monitors the oxygen level in the blood, which decreases when someone overdoses on opioids. If it senses a problem, the device delivers a dose of naloxone without outside intervention.

The moments following an overdose are critical, as a dose of naloxone must be administered by a

trained professional to reverse the effects. However, if there aren’t people around, then there is a chance that no one will come to help the person who overdosed or the naloxone will be administered too late.

The device is currently in the trial phase and will start rat testing in January, Rogers said.

Robert Gereau, a professor at the Washington University School of Medicine and the other principal investigator on the project, said in an email that some raised concerns about whether the device would promote “risky behavior” in opioid addicts because they had a method to overcome overdose.

However, Gereau and Rogers both dismissed this concern.

Gereau said the device was intended for people coming out of inpatient rehabilitation, who although striving to remain sober, still have a chance of relapse.

Opioid users develop a tolerance to the drug

while they are regularly using. However, if people use after coming out of rehab, where they were sober for an extended period of time, they have a higher chance of overdosing because their tolerance has decreased. Gereau said these are the overdoses the device is meant to prevent.

However, Gereau emphasized that the device had a separate purpose from methods of prevention for opioid addiction.

“This is not a device to treat opioid addiction,” Gereau said. “It is intended to prevent death from accidental overdose. Treating opioid use disorder is a related but separate issue, requiring an integrated, multi-pronged approach. Our device is intended to reduce the number of deaths from accidental overdose, which often happens during the course of treatment for opioid use disorder.” neyathanikachalam2022@u.northwestern.edu

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On Friday night before Northwestern Football’s competition with Iowa, alumni, students, and fans of the Wildcats gathered to watch a spectacle of performances on Deering Meadow. A cappella group Treblemakers and dance group Bookshaka were among the student groups who performed for the crowd.

Concluding the night of spirited activities, the

marching band played a medley of favorites, and they were followed by speeches from both President Morton Shapiro and head football coach Pat Fitzgerald. The night was concluded by crowning this year’s Homecoming Wildcats: Serena Salgado and Debbie-Marie Brown.

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Pete Nance looks looks to live up to high expectations

By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

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Northwestern could have used Pete Nance in an 18-point loss to Maryland last January. But he was 350 miles away.

While the Wildcats were playing in College Park, Maryland, the freshman forward was at home in Akron, Ohio.

Sitting on the couch with his parents.

Eating applesauce.

Sure, he wishes he could have eaten something more substantive, but mononucleosis had that effect on his appetite and his body. While Nance was sick, he lost 15 pounds in four weeks.

“I got down to 195 at my lowest,” Nance said. “It was really, really unhealthy.”

Coach Chris Collins sent Nance home after he was diagnosed with a severe case of mono last January. In addition to the weight loss, Nance had an ear infection, a sinus infection and a swollen throat that made it hard to get food down, even applesauce. There was nothing Nance could do but wait, as he struggled to get out of bed each day.

All of this impacted his presence on the court. Nance’s coaches have always believed he needed to put on weight and become more physical. Nance gained twenty pounds during his freshman season so he could hold up better in the Big Ten, but mono took all that progress away from him. Nance missed nine games because of his illness last season, and when he returned to the court at the end of February, he played like someone who’d been sick.

“I don’t think I ever really got into the shape that I was in before I got mono,” he said. “It just really took a lot out of me.”

Nance has spent the last eight months rebuilding himself. Now he weighs 225 pounds and has actual biceps for the first time in his life.

When Nance saw former teammate Vic Law in October, the first thing Law mentioned were Nance’s muscles.

Nance wants to show off his growth this season, and Collins said the sophomore looks strong enough to carry the team on his back.

“We want him to be a star type player,” Collins said. “Those kinds of guys impact the game at all levels, and

I want him getting in that mindset.” ***

When Nance came to Evanston in the summer of 2018, he knew he wouldn’t have an easy transition into college basketball.

“It was a lot coming in being a freshman at this level,” he said. “You think you know a lot about basketball, but there’s a whole new world of stuff you have to learn. It was all about taking it all in and trying to keep moving.”

In his first season, Nance could never earn a consistent role in the rotation. Opposing post players would lower their shoulder and score right through him, and Nance struggled finishing around the basket even when smaller players were guarding him.

Nance just wasn’t big enough, and he averaged 2.9 points per game in 13.9 minutes.

Nance took 75 shots last year, and over half of them were from three-point range. If you take out his dunks, Nance missed the majority of the shots from within three feet of the basket. Instead of using his long arms to lay the ball in the rim, Nance took fadeaway jumpers or passed the ball.

When Collins drew up a play that gave Nance a chance to get a bucket, he had a hard time executing. In the Big Ten Tournament last March against Illinois, Nance was guarded by a scrawny six-foot-two guard, Tyler Underwood, but Nance failed posting up someone eight inches shorter than him. Instead of powering his way to the rim, Nance missed an eight-foot turnaround jumper, and Collins quickly took him out of the game.

“When you’re 200 pounds at 6-foot-10 and you start to make a move, people put their bodies on you,” Collins said. “You have to learn how to play through physicality. That was something he was struggling with out of the gate.”

Becoming a more physical player is a challenge for almost every freshman, but Nance had an additional adjustment to make. Throughout high school, he’d been a point-guard. Nance was the Magic Johnson of northeast Ohio, whirling crosscourt passes and throwing down multiple dunks a game on the fast break.

On a Wildcats team with three high-usage seniors, there was no way Nance would get to do any of that. He basically had to learn a new position as a pick-and-pop stretch four. As a freshman, he barely touched the ball.

“It was hard (for him) not being a point guard anymore,” said Dean Rahas, Nance’s high school coach. “The big thing for him was moving without the ball and finding ways to impact the game when he’s not a high-usage player.”

Nance never looked comfortable in that role, so Collins played him less often as the season went on. Frequently last year, Nance would make a mistake on the floor, Collins would shout “Pete!” and the freshman would quickly be out of the game. He logged fewer than 15 minutes in the majority the Big Ten games he played.

This year, Nance is expected to play 30 or more minutes every night. There arguably isn’t a player in the Big Ten who’s being asked to make this big of a jump in minutes or role on the team.

To some extent, NU’s fate, whether last place in the Big Ten or impressive in conference play, rests on Nance’s shoulders. *** Nance’s shoulders are much bigger now.

He’s added more weight and more confidence. He started a new nutrition plan this summer that includes a lot more pasta than he used to eat. His work ethic and attitude in the weight room stands out compared to the rest of his teammates, and Nance has been one of the most dominant players in preseason practices.

The Cats will need that work to pay off right away this season, as they lost over 60 percent of their scoring players. Nance is going to get the ball a lot more often this season, and Collins said he wants to see Nance play more aggressively.

“He’s always been a guy who’s been an incredibly unselfish player,” he said.

“He’s always been someone who likes to pass. I want him to get into a mindset where he’s thinking more about scoring.”

In the Cats’ preseason intersquad scrimmage, Nance brought the ball up

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Pete Nance plays in a team scrimmage. Nance gained a lot of weight in preparation for his second season.

the floor multiple possessions. When he attacked the basket off the dribble, he got all the way to the rim. Now that he’s stronger and can score better in the post, bigger players will have to defend him. And when bigger players defend him, Nance has less resistance driving to the basket.

Because of this dilemma Nance poses to opposing defenses, Collins said he expects the sophomore to be one of NU’s hardest-to-guard players.

He has faith in Nance’s physicality that he’s planning to play him at center frequently. That never happened last season, but Nance has grown enough to make the coaches reconsider what he can become.

“I know I’m going to have a bigger role this year,” Nance said. “I’m just literally trying to do anything I can, so we can prove everybody wrong.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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NU prepares for the final game of the regular season

By DREW SCHOTT

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Ty Seager fights for the ball. The senior forward has scored one goal for the Wildcats this season.

Coming into their final conference match last season against Wisconsin, Northwestern had zero wins in Big Ten play. The Wildcats eventually fell to the Badgers, ending their season with an 0-5-3 conference record.

This year, NU (7-7-1, 3-3-1 Big Ten) once again concludes Big Ten play against the Badgers (2-10-3, 0-4-2 Big Ten).

However, the Wildcats have completely flipped the script.

The Cats are coming off two straight conference wins against Rutgers and Michigan State. With a victory against Wisconsin, NU would win three Big Ten games in a row for the first time since 2011 and give the Cats four conference wins for the first time since 2014.

Coach Tim Lenahan credited part of the team’s recent offensive successes to the play of seniors, specifically midfielder Matt Moderwell, forward Ty Seager and midfielder Sean Lynch.

“Seniors are starting to play like seniors now,” he said. “They start to see the end and you can see them turn it up a notch.”

The three seniors, in addition to

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sophomore forward Jose Del Valle, were aggressive in pushing the ball onto Michigan State’s half of the field in the last 10 minutes of NU’s 1-0 victory, Lenahan said. Their aggressiveness eventually culminated with Moderwell’s game-winning goal in the 89th minute.

Lenahan said Mattias Tomasino’s move to defense has also helped boost the back line’s athleticism because of his ability to play on-ball.

Additionally, sophomore defenseman Jayson Cyrus’ athleticism and one-on-one defending has also impressed Lenahan.

The coach mentioned how Cyrus’ strong defense forced one of Michigan State’s top players, forward Farai Mutatu, to move to the other side of the field during the team’s previous match.

NU will face a very different Wisconsin team from the one it lost to last season.

Last year’s squad finished with six conference wins and was the #2 seed in the 2018 Big Ten Tournament.

This season, the Badgers are sitting last in the Big Ten and rank last in the

conference for shots, points, goals and assists. They’re led by freshman midfielder Iñaki Iribarren and sophomore forward Matthew Comisky. Both players lead Wisconsin with two goals and each have one assist.

However, scoring for both NU and Wisconsin will be difficult with two stellar goalkeepers on the pitch in Madison.

Junior goalie Miha Miskovic, who is coming off two straight shutouts, ranks fourth in the Big Ten in saves with 42 and has five shutouts on the season.

Wisconsin’s goalie, senior Dean Cowdry ranks second in the conference in saves with 53.

Currently, the Cats are ranked fifth in the Big Ten and winning against Wisconsin is incredibly important for NU’s conference seeding, Miskovic said.

However, Moderwell knows that the Badgers’ record by no means makes their match easier than any others.

“At their place, it’s going to be another grind,” Moderwell said. “They’re really gonna make it hard to score, so we’re gonna need to play our best and get the result.” drewschott2023@u.northwestern.edu