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Former DNC chair talks partisanship Tom Perez spoke at a NU College Dems event Tuesday

By WILLIAM TONG

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City Council passed legislation last week that bans no-knock warrants citywide.

Evanston bans no-knock warrants

City Council unanimously ends the practice, citing policing concerns

By SAUL PINK

daily senior staffer @saullpink

Content warning: this story contains mentions of police violence.

City Council unanimously voted to ban no-knock warrants last week, a policing practice where officers are allowed to enter a home or business without warning the tenants when permitted by a judge.

Ald. Devon Reid (8th), who introduced the legislation, said both local and national incidents inspired him to propose the policy change.

In 2019, Anjanette Young, a Chicago medical social

worker, was forced to stand naked in front of police officers after they entered her apartment under a no-knock warrant. Breonna Taylor was

» See NO KNOCK, page 11

Tom Perez, former chair of the Democratic National Committee, spoke about overseeing national political strategy at a Tuesday event hosted by Northwestern College Democrats.

A former U.S. labor secretary, Perez spoke to a crowd of about 40 students at Lutkin Hall about his experience revamping the Democratic Party after its losses in 2016, when it failed to win the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate and presidency. “ We had to rebuild our infrastructure and rebuild trust,” he said. “We needed to find out, ‘Where were those expansion states like Arizona and Georgia?’ We invested in them.”

Perez also identified gerrymandering, dark money and misinformation as three of the biggest threats to American democracy.

NU College Democrats Public Relations Chair and

Medill senior Ben Chasen said the group invited Perez as its fall speaker because of his intimate experience with the political process.

“We just thought, ‘W ho would be great to talk about elections and organizing and electoral strategy?’” Chasen said. “The guy who was running the entire party the last time there was an election.”

Perez also discussed the impor tance of political involvement, regardless of party affiliation.

When he taught at Brown University, his alma mater, Perez said he noticed Democrats at the school hardly interacted with Republicans.

Due to the disconnect, he recruited former RNC chair Michael Steele to teach at the university. The pair organized meetings between the two groups to encourage a dialogue.

“I bring this up because if we want to solve (political polarization) long term, we (have) got to find a way so that we’re in the same room,” he said. “We should be able to agree that the election in 2020 was clean. The fact that so many folks are deniers, it’s very troubling, but we’ve gotta

» See PEREZ, page 11

Evanston youth NU faculty discuss affirmative action speak at town hall U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on two pivotal cases Monday Attendees talked mental health, school safety

By SELENA KUZNIKOV

daily senior staffer @selenakuznikov

The Evanston Youth Advisory Committee hosted a youth town hall Tuesday at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center to inform the community about issues Evanston youth face.

The attendees highlighted mental health and school safety as primary concerns, and encouraged residents to vote in the upcoming election.

Evanston Township High School senior and 4th Ward resident Andrea Arce, a member of the committee, said she has felt the tangible effects of Evanston’s history of redlining and refusing services to Black and brown Evanston residents.

“Our city struggles with providing marginalized communities with adequate

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and available mental health resources which directly affects our youth,” Arce said.

“Everybody’s capable of succeeding if they have the right support.”

Formed last fall, the Youth Advisory Committee engaged the city to create community resources and programs benefiting local youth. It also encourages young individuals to advise local government on youth affairs.

The committee hung blank posters with four subjects for the community to comment on: safety, health, housing and mental health. Residents were handed sticky notes at the beginning of the meeting to express their thoughts on how the city budget should be allocated to address these issues.

ETHS senior and committee member Jude Foran said he wants the city to focus on teaching younger individuals about gun violence and school safety.

“A lot of my peers disregard

» See YOUTH TOWN HALL, page 11

By CASEY HE

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Three months after its decision to overturn Roe v.

Wade and revoke the constitutional right to an abortion, the Supreme Court is back in session. This term, it’s taking up another major issue: the future of affirmative action.

Conser vative advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions sued Harvard University and the University of North Carolina for admissions discrimination against Asian American students in 2014.

The court agreed to hear the cases in January and the oral arguments regarding the matter took place Monday.

History Prof. Kate Masur said she was surprised to find how little the attorneys and justices discussed the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees equal protection under the law to all citizens, in the oral arguments.

“The lawyer for Students for Fair Admissions said the Fourteenth Amendment Equal

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Conservative advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions sued Harvard University and the University of North Carolina for admissions discrimination against Asian American students in 2014. The cases reached the Supreme Court in January, and the court heard the oral arguments Monday.

Protection Clause requires race neutrality,” Masur said.

“But he never actually came back and explained why.”

In April, Masur co-authored an amicus brief supporting Harvard and UNC in the two

Supreme Court cases.

The brief argued that the Fourteenth Amendment does not mandate race neutrality, contrary to the petitioners’ interpretation, and that opposing views neglect the historical

context of the amendment.

“We live in a country that was defined from its origins by two particularly racist policies, that is, slavery and settler

» See AFFIRMATIVE, page 11

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City Council to vote on animal shelter renovation

By ARIA WOZNIAK

daily senior staffer @ari_wozz

City Council is set to vote on an estimated $6.3 million renovation of the Evanston Animal Shelter on Nov. 14.

The proposal calls for the construction of an entirely new facility. Not all of the funding will come from the city –– two million dollars will be provided by a Cook County grant agreement, and Evanston Animal Shelter Association has committed to raise $1 million. This leaves an estimated $3.3 million for Evanston to provide.

The current facility is too small, with air conditioning and heating problems that create a suboptimal environment for the dogs and cats, according to the shelter’s Executive Director Vicky Pasenko.

The building’s potential authorization and construction will come later than originally anticipated.

Review and approval of the project was delayed after a September Land Commission meeting was canceled –– due to a lack of a quorum. By requirement of the Cook County grant, the shelter is scheduled to be operational by Nov. 30, 2023.

Pasenko said the shelter’s budget will not just finance the construction of the building. Other factors like design, animal relocation, environmentally beneficial materials and soil and toxicity concerns factor into the total cost, she said.

“I don’t anticipate in any way that the project won’t come through, but the question is the debate around cost,” Pasenko said. “I think that people feel strongly that the climate change component should be there.”

The shelter has committed to reducing its climate footprint. The building will be LEED silver certified which helps to save energy and promotes a more sustainable property. It also intends to remove toxicity from the soil and sediment left in the area from the previous establishments that existed in that space.

“My volunteers are so excited to move into these temporary facilities because they’re so much better than the building that we’re in right now,” Pasenko said.

Shane Carey, architect and project manager for the project as well as the Public Works Department, said the new facility is addressing issues like clutter in the

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City Council will vote to construct a new animal shelter at $6.3 million.

area and structural instability due to poor soils.

Carey is working to incorporate requirements of the Cook County grant that the facility currently lacks.

This includes a wildlife room, which holds injured animals, like deers and pigs, who animal control picks up and can’t deliver to hospitals. “(Cook County) wanted to have a space that would be able accommodate (these animals), because there are not many animal shelters that can,” Carey said at the Land Use Commission Meeting on Oct. 12.

The one-story shelter covers approximately

8,810 square feet and has a kennel, 16 parking spaces and a small loading berth. It will continue its food pantry program, safety net program and custodial program. The programs help to provide food, supplies, short term housing or medical assistance to owners in order to try to prevent them from losing their animals due to financial issues.

The shelter has four full-time employees and around 175 volunteers that work in shifts to provide care to the animals every day, year-round.

Northwestern’s All Paws In club, founded by

current president Weinberg junior JoJo Holm, supports the shelter through volunteering and fundraising. The group’s Foster Fair event last spring helped raise $1,700, which will be used to help fund the facility renovation project.

“Something that we’re really excited about both with these interim facilities that the animals will be in and also this new shelter is that we’ll be able to train more volunteers,” Holm said. ariawozniak2025@u.northwestern.edu

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How Greek Life operates in ASG Senate

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Before May 2019, four Greek councils on campus held 10 seats in the Associated Student Government Senate. But after multiple amendments to the ASG constitution, just two Greek council Senate seats exist today between the Multicultural Greek Council and the National Pan-Hellenic Council, though the NPHC seat is currently vacant.

The decline of seats has represented an overall shift in ASG’s attitudes toward Greek Life. Last year, ASG released a statement calling for the University “to take concrete steps towards (Greek organizations’) ultimate removal from campus.”

Under the old structure, MGC and NPHC both held two ASG Senate seats, while the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association received three each. The 2019 agreement between ASG and the Greek councils reduced the total number of seats to four, one for each council. At the time, ASG officials said the changes were in response to low Greek Life attendance at weekly Senate meetings.

Two years later, the two seats for IFC and PHA were also abolished.

Weinberg junior Dylan Jost was speaker of the senate in Spring 2021, a position he still holds. Along with the increased presence of the Abolish Greek Life movement on campus, Jost said multiple factors contributed to the removal of the two seats.

“There was a big problem with attendance among (the Greek council groups), and they didn’t seem to be particularly interested in ASG or in representing the institution,” Jost said.

The legislation abolishing the IFC and PHA seats stated that Greek Life is “rooted in racism and anti-blackness, misogyny, classism, homophobia, and transphobia,” similar to sentiments expressed by the AGL movement.

MGC and NPHC seats have remained partly because those councils cater to a more diverse set of students on-campus than IFC or PHA, Jost said. MGC oversees Latine, Asian and multicultural groups, and NPHC represents seven historically Black fraternities and sororities.

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In 2019, an agreement between ASG and the Greek councils reduced the total number of Greek life seats from ten to four, one for each council. Two years later, there are just two seats.

Jost said the Senate has no plans at this time to reassess the enshrinement of the MGC and NPHC seats in the institution and is currently working to fill the NPHC seat.

Weinberg senior Michelle Zhang was the MGC senator when the PHA and IFC seats were abolished. She voted in favor of abolishing the seats.

The legislation was authored by then-PHA senator Pamela Chen. Zhang said Chen recognized that PHA and IFC were not properly using their power within the Senate at the time.

“It was just very clear that they didn’t care and that they had this power that was just there, while the rest of us had put in a lot of effort to get to that same position,” Zhang said.

The MGC senator seat is currently held by McCormick senior Javier Cuadra. He also served as the MGC senator from spring 2018 to spring 2019.

Although MGC holds one fewer seat than in

2019, Cuadra said he thinks the current makeup works well. He said it was difficult for the smaller organization to fill two seats annually.

Cuadra said he hopes to start a dialogue with ASG Vice President and SESP junior Donovan Cusick about where MGC stands in ASG, since the multicultural Greek organization serves students of marginalized identities.

Cuadra added that he believes the two current Greek Life seats should remain permanently since both MGC and NPHC represent groups historically sidelined in Greek life systems at Northwestern and beyond.

“There’s a rich culture behind these Greek organizations,” Cuadra said. “These organizations would not exist if there was an alternative at the time to them.” pavanacharya2025@u.northwestern.edu

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Oh, how the tables have turned. Two decades ago, The Daily published a story explaining field hockey as “ice hockey on grass.” While Northwestern Field Hockey rose through the ranks to win its first NCAA Championship in 2021, some students are surprised to learn that NU has a club ice hockey team. For that team, the rink is a place for community, fun and intense competition.

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Schumacher helps cats’ mental game

By CHARLOTTE VARNES

daily senior staffer @charvarnes11

A former collegiate swimmer, Jen Schumacher felt a boost of confidence when she first swam across the 21-mile Catalina Channel — a goal she had since she was a young girl.

The swim took everything she had, including the mental performance skills she spent time honing. In her head, however, Schumacher told herself that she only accomplished the trek because of nice conditions and luck.

The following year, Schumacher returned to the Catalina Channel and recorded an even speedier time.

Dominating that second trek, in combination with managing two other marathon swims that season, “unlocked awesome doors,” she said.

“Doing that helped show me (that), ‘No, this is something that I’ve worked on, that I’ve earned,’” Schumacher said. “I can produce consistent performances if I keep working the mental game and taking care of physical stuff.’”

That swim proved to be a defining moment of Schumacher’s athletic career. Now, as a mental performance consultant for Northwestern, Schumacher brings her experience embracing mental performance skills in athletics and her education in sports psychology to the table. Hired in June 2022, Schumacher has quickly become an integral part of the Wildcats’ sideline as she works to sharpen their mental game.

Coach Pat Fitzgerald said Schumacher has done a great job connecting with NU players and teaching the team the fundamentals of mental performance.

“Everybody wants to learn to make themselves better and more complete as a person, beyond just being complete as a player,” Fitzgerald said. “She’s worked hard building those relationships where we can build trust. We’re just getting started down this road.”

Schumacher’s interest in the mental game began

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as a young swimmer, long before she arrived at NU. Growing up, Schumacher delivered strong performances at swim practices, but couldn’t translate that to competition. These struggles made her curious about the mental aspect of sports, she said.

Schumacher went on to swim at the University of California, Irvine, but suffered what she thought was a career-ending injury and transferred. At California State University, Fullerton, she discovered the field of sports psychology.

As she learned more, Schumacher became fascinated with how much contributes to athletic performance beyond physical training. While athletes often emphasize physical wellbeing, she said they devote less time to the mental game.

When Schumacher realized she could still have a swim career, she turned to open-water swimming. Her experiences in the water proved to be her own “personal laboratory” for what she learned in her sports psychology studies, testing out techniques on herself before using them on other athletes.

She quickly found success with tactics meant to build confidence and calm nerves. Embracing these

skills made Schumacher’s second swimming career even more successful than her first.

After graduating with her master’s degree in sports psychology in 2011, Schumacher went into private practice in addition to working with several college teams around southern California. A mentor connected her with an opportunity at the U.S. Military Academy, where she served as assistant director of the Performance Psychology Program.

Her role at West Point focused on building confidence among cadets, particularly after their rigorous, six-week summer training. Schumacher said the dynamics of the talented pool of cadets weren’t too different from what she’s seen at NU. “You take the best of the best, and put them all together in one small community, and it’s difficult,” Schumacher said. “We see a similar thing with Northwestern student athletes. These are some of the best scholar athletes in the country, then, all of a sudden, they’re amongst the best.”

After more than six years at West Point, Schumacher made the move to Evanston to work with the Wildcats. The opportunity to embed in a sports

organization, working with everyone from coaches to players, especially interested her. Schumacher attends practices, games, lifts and meetings, offering mental skills advice to anyone who seeks it.

When working with individual players, she said she most often addresses worries about perfectionism and overthinking. She works to instill players with a growth mindset, helping them determine what they can learn from adversity.

On the sidelines, Schumacher said she tends to take a hands-off approach, only approaching players if she has a preexisting relationship with them and notices them struggling. Some players might be nervous if they see their mental skills coach approach them during games, she said.

Prior to the Duke matchup in September, junior quarterback Ryan Hilinski said Schumacher’s work greatly improved his play.

He told The Daily that Schumacher understands that football is a “crazy sport” and respects players’ boundaries. During NU’s first game against Nebraska, Hilinski said he warned Schumacher to watch out for linemen who might run into her.

“She was like, ‘Why are you worried about me during the game?’” Hilinski said. “I was like, ‘It actually makes the moment less big than it is.’ It helps me.”

Fitzgerald said he’s looking forward to Schumacher’s future on staff. The program is only just beginning its journey with mental performance, but he said Schumacher has done a “terrific job” already.

Schumacher said she’s enjoyed the relationships she has built since June. The Wildcats’ losing record may seem challenging, she said, but it has provided learning opportunities.

“It’s a high-performance organization,” Schumacher said. “I can’t wait until our record matches that.

It will undoubtedly (happen) if we keep doing the right things. Those results will come.” charlottevarnes2024@u.northwestern.edu

Stroud poses NU’s biggest challenge yet

By SKYE SWANN

daily senior staffer @sswann301

As Northwestern welcomes families and friends from across the country this Family Weekend, the football squad will face another heavy-hitter game Saturday in a primetime matchup against No. 2 Ohio State.

The Wildcats (1-7, 1-4 Big Ten) suffered a major setback last weekend on the road to Iowa during Halloween weekend, logging their seventh consecutive loss of the season. However, this weekend’s battle will be even tougher as they face Buckeyes’ starting quarterback C.J. Stroud and his magnetic offensive line.

“From a standpoint of quarterback play, I’m not sure there is anyone playing better quarterback than C.J. in the country,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said.

Effortlessly knocking down competition in the Big Ten, Stroud has played a central role in the Buckeyes’ undefeated streak. But his quickness is one of many skills Stroud brings to the table for Saturday’s game.

Beating the sophomore slump last year, Stroud entered the season with all eyes on him and was named

a Heisman Trophy candidate in the preseason. The junior quarterback currently sits in second place in odds for the award, trailing slightly behind Tennessee’s Hendon Hooker.

Although Stroud holds the second spot after Ohio State’s win against Penn State, he is far from slacking off this season — completing 71.3 percent of his passes, throwing 2,377 yards and recording 29 touchdowns.

Stroud has a 194.9 quarterback ranking, placing him as the best quarterback in College Football, according to ESPN. “He’s been in a lot of our crossover tape,” Fitzgerald said. “He’s so efficient. (He’s) so explosive.”

Based on 2022 statistics alone, NU’s defensive line is facing immense pressure Saturday to not only cover down the field but force Stroud to intercept or throw an interception. Although the Cats sophomore quarterback Brendan Sullivan completed 23 passes for 159 yards in Iowa City, Stroud’s production can make life difficult for NU’s defense and lead to a lopsided score early in the game.

Fitzgerald called the Buckeyes an “outstanding team,” highlighting both its offensive and defensive abilities. He said Saturday’s face-off will be a “handful”

for the Cats, but the squad isn’t scared of the challenge ahead.

With Stroud being among the top NFL prospects in the game, Fitzgerald said one of the main areas of contention for NU is executing its plans on coverage.

As the Cats prepare for the matchup Saturday, they will need to force Ohio State to lean on its ground game, which has underperformed this season, and get off the field on key downs.

One of the goals to combat Stroud’s offensive dominance is to play complimentary football, essentially playing hard-fought tackle ball on the field. Senior defensive back A.J. Hampton, Jr. said NU will have to shut down Stroud’s connection with his wide receivers and halt their motion.

“If you just turn on the film, the throws (Stroud) is making week in and week out and the way he is keeping his team composed is one of the biggest things he does,” Hampton Jr. said. “He keeps his team together and is a great leader on the field.”

As the game approaches, the Cats’ tight end Duke Olges — former defensive linemen — equated watching Stroud on film to watching a quarterback on NFL tape. With the Buckeye quarterback’s ability to turn

heads across the nation, the Ohio football program’s reputation of producing top professional quarterbacks seems secure.

Prior to Stroud’s success on the field, Ohio State produced another top-ranked quarterback in Chicago Bears’ Justin Fields. NU had its hands full when it played Fields and his squad back in the 2020 Big Ten West Championship and in a 52-3 home loss in 2019.

Olges said the team is aware of the defense’s uphill battle Saturday in another top-tier athlete in Stroud.

It goes without question: the Cats biggest challenge aside from offensive production is defensively blocking Stroud on the field. If NU can’t get a little leverage in the game and prevent the Buckeyes’ quarterback from taking complete control of the field, there will be little hope for the purple and white to grab a second win of the season.

“He’s a very talented player,” Olges said. “He’s a guy that goes out (on the field) and executes plus is able to lead his team well. His experience and poise makes it possible for him to do things easily that people would consider hard.” skyeswann2024@u.northwestern.edu

What to Watch for against No. 2 ohio state

By ALEX CERVANTES

daily senior staffer @cervantespalex

Make it seven in a row: Northwestern’s weekend trip across the Mississippi River was fruitless as the Wildcats were dominated for all 60 minutes by Iowa.

After surrendering 33 points to the Hawkeyes — the team’s highest scoring output in 2022 — NU (1-7, 1-4 Big Ten) returns home to face No. 2 Ohio State (8-0, 5-0) this weekend.

Saturday’s late morning contest pits the Big Ten’s highest scoring offense against the conference’s thirdworst scoring defense. The Cats are desperately searching for a tinge of optimism in a season devoid of it — and those hopes might have to wait another weekend.

Though it might be a lopsided affair, here are three storylines to follow during the clash between NU and Ohio State.

1. Dec. 19, 2020 to now, how can so much change in two years?

It’s been almost two years since these two teams squared off in the Big Ten title game in Indianapolis, and it feels like an eternity has passed between then and now. While the Buckeyes year-in and year-out remain one of the top dogs in the conference, the Cats have sunk into the Big Ten’s basement.

“Well, we’ve lost games (in the last two seasons),” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “And (if) you look at the ‘Why?’ it starts with turnover ratio … Then obviously our explosive play battle, offensively and defensively.

Third, making the plays that need to be made down in crunch time, especially this year that need to be made to win games.”

Fitzgerald pointed to the talent that graduated following the 2020 campaign, leaving a massive hole. He said this year’s squad continues to mature and improve as the season progresses.

Meanwhile, Ohio State has the luxury few other teams possess: when NFL talent exits, it gets replaced by future next-level talent. Justin Fields may be gone, but quarterback C.J. Stroud is at the center of the Heisman race. Garrett Wilson has been replaced by wideouts Marvin Harrison Jr. and Jaxon Smith-Njigba.

TreVeyon Henderson has picked up right where Trey Alyce Brown/Daily Senior Staffer

Sermon left off in the backfield. That doesn’t even mention the NFL talent on its defense.

Needless to say, the odds are slim that NU could pull off one of the most remarkable upsets in the conference’s history this weekend — ESPN’s Football Power Index gives the Cats a 1.6% chance of winning — but Fitzgerald and his team will trot out on Ryan Field ready for battle against a legion of NFL talent.

2. Can Sullivan conjure any magic against this stout Buckeyes’ defense?

Outside of the Cats’ garbage time final drive of the game in which he completed 7-of-7 passes for 51 yards and a touchdown, sophomore quarterback Brendan Sullivan had a modest game at best. Granted, Iowa’s defense is one of the nation’s best units and the entire offense struggled to gain any momentum, but the opponent doesn’t get any easier this week.

Ohio State has conceded no more than 21 points to unranked opponents this season. The Buckeyes allow a measly 93.4 rushing yards per game and only 176.8 yards through the air. Sullivan, who was sacked seven times against the Hawkeyes and threw his third interception in two games, will again have his work cut out for him.

Fitzgerald said he isn’t focused on any of the team’s shortcomings from earlier in the season, and he put bluntly what the team needs to correct ahead of the game against Ohio State.

“We gotta play better football,” Fitzgerald said. “We

gotta start faster from (last) Saturday.”

3. Can the two teams weather the weather?

As Family Weekend officially commences, students and their families, along with the traveling Buckeye contingent, should expect some wet conditions on game day.

The Weather Channel is forecasting a 78% chance of rain in the morning with winds mostly in the range of 25-35 mph — but gusts could reach more than 40 mph. If the rain continues beyond kickoff, both teams may be forced to run the football more, an area that would certainly benefit Ohio State.

Led by Henderson, the Buckeyes average 191.5 rushing yards per contest, while NU’s run defense has struggled in 2022, conceding 186.4 yards to opponents. Though the Cats will look to establish their run game behind juniors Evan Hull and Cam Porter, similar to the Penn State game last month, NU may be forced to pivot to a passing attack if the backfield struggles.

Still, there may be hope yet in the unlikely case the Ryan Field grounds have gone untouched since the Cats’ last home game on Oct. 8.

“We haven’t cut the grass at Ryan Field since our last home game, so it’ll be somewhere between two to four feet high,” Fitzgerald said ironically. “Maybe the sprinkling system will come on.” alexcervantes2024@u.northwestern.edu

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a.j. hampton returns to cats’ secondary

By LAWRENCE PRICE

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Senior defensive back A.J. Hampton Jr. had the Big Ten in the palm of his hand last November.

Entering Northwestern’s (1-6, 1-3 Big Ten) Friendly Confines contest against the Purdue Boilermakers, the starter co-led the Big Ten in pass breakups with 11 — a top-10 mark in the country. By the end of the season, Hampton Jr. saw the fruits of his labor, finishing second in the Big Ten in passes defended and an All-Big Ten honorable mention.

And with this momentum, even without being named to an All-Big Ten preseason team, the likelihood of Hampton Jr. turning out an even better season seemed high.

But the Arkansas native’s upward trajectory took a hit during NU’s first contest against Nebraska. During the first play of the second quarter, Cornhuskers quarterback Casey Thompson made a muffled snap out of nothing — finding his tight end Travis Vokolek 14 yards down the field.

Hampton Jr. was covering? the six-foot-seven Vokolek, but he couldn’t make a play on the ball.

Both players fell to the ground after the catch and Vokolek rose up immediately, pointing his arm and football forward to celebrate the first down. But the Cats starter stayed on the ground, beckoning to the NU sideline for help. “(It was) definitely a first-time experience,” Hampton Jr. said. “I’ve had injuries, but never none that’s kept me out of the game for that long.”

With the help of NU staff members, Hampton Jr. made his way to the sideline with a limp in every step. Later in the contest, fans received news of Hampton Jr.’s status, but not the type they wanted to hear. NU tweeted that Hampton Jr. would be out for the rest of the game with a lower body injury.

Although the Cats came away victorious, rushing onto the field to hoist the Aer Lingus Classic trophy, a major question left in the hearts of the team, fans and Hampton Jr. himself was when he’d return back to the field.

“It was tough to see him go out in the first game of the season,” junior defensive back Rod Heard II said. “He’s a seasoned player. He’s been here for a long time (and has) made a lot of great plays.”

*** A vibrant ‘energy-guy’ in between and outside the white lines, it wasn’t in Hampton Jr.’s nature to let the injury get the best of him. Rather, he

said it gave him a chance to tackle and strengthen different parts of his game.

“I realized it’s not necessarily about my timing, it’s about God’s timing,” Hampton Jr. said. “That allowed me to really take that next step and be not only a better teammate to the younger guys getting a lot of reps, but just really helped me be out there emotionally.”

Throughout the longtime starter’s absence, NU turned to multiple defensive backs in the Sky Room, including junior Garnett Hollis Jr., sophomore Theran Johnson and sophomore Ore Adeyi. Hampton Jr.’s hiatus provided each with their first true college experience, so he made sure to continue being his vocal self — just from the sidelines.

To him, this meant attacking the rehab process at 100%, whether it be lifting, studying the playbook, or becoming an aide to cornerback coach Ryan Smith.

“He used (the injury) as motivation and not something that was hindering him,” Smith said.

“To have a guy like that in the room that you know is really close to the age of the freshman, that can be a second coach in the room and be a coach out on the field, is something that is … integral to success.”

A 2014 College of William & Mary graduate, Smith understands what experienced, veteran defensive backs bring to any college program — he racked up 47 tackles, one sack and an interception during his senior season. Smith said having players who have gone through the fire that can speak on real life experiences make a huge impact on the entire defensive back room.

Graduate student and redshirt senior defensive back Jeremiah Lewis said not only has Hampton Jr.’s presence in the locker room been influential, but also his veteran presence.

Additionally, Lewis has had to make the transition from cornerback in Durham at Duke to safety since coming to Evanston. Having to learn a new system and parts of a different position, Lewis said Hampton Jr. helped make the move smoother.

“Since he had been in the system for a while playing corner and stuff he kind of knows what to also anticipate from the safeties perspective,” Lewis said. “He’s been able to give me some insight as far as what I should be preparing for (and) things I should look into.”

open-field tackle late into the first quarter.

“There’s not really much to say but it felt good,” Hampton said. “I’m like a little kid, I can’t lie. Sitting around on the sideline, that’s not my type of game. I want to be out there, contributing, communicating and having fun.”

In the College Park contest, Hampton Jr. finished with six tackles, still working to get his groove back — partially involved in allowing the Terrapins running back Roman Hemby’s 75-yard house call in the fourth quarter as the final blow in the 31-24 loss. The following week in Iowa City, the senior picked up six more. He said the time off strengthened his mentality and helped him get closer to his teammates — a key to success when it comes to on-field communication.

Like Hampton’s teammates and Smith, coach Pat Fitzgerald expressed his excitement at having Hampton Jr. back on the field, noting that his game is only going to get better as the season continues.

“I’d say he’s really close to being back full speed,” Fitzgerald said. “It was a long drought of him being off the field, but we collectively thought he did some really good things.”

Fitzgerald said Hampton Jr. was close to returning for the past few weeks, but due to a few setbacks, NU wanted to be cautious and not play

him. Yet, through this determination and focus, Hampton Jr. joined the Cats back on the field with five games left in Big Ten play.

And now with four games left on the conference slate, the seasoned veteran and secondary face off against arguably the best receiving core in the nation in Marvin Harrison Jr. and Emeka Egubka, who hold the second and third most yards in the conference, and NFL top prospect Jaxon Smith-Njigba for No. 2 Ohio State (8-0, 5-0 Big Ten).

This doesn’t mention the arm throwing to them in top NFL prospect and Heisman finalist quarterback C.J. Stroud, the country’s leader in touchdown passes and the holder of most passing yards in the Big Ten. Yet, even against a game-changing group that the Buckeyes flex, with aspirations of making it to the NFL, Hampton Jr. understands that to be the best, you have to beat the best.

“There is money out there to be taken, so just go out there and take it and have fun,” Hampton Jr. said. “Everyone is praising these guys, everybody wants these guys to do good, but they haven’t faced us yet.” lawrenceprice2024@u.northwestern.edu

*** Hampton Jr.’s absence from NU’s lineups would stretch from the end of August, past Homecoming and into the thick of October.

But two weekends ago against Maryland, No. 11 finally made his return to the field and made an

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Defense looks for rebound performance

By LAWRENCE PRICE

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Over the past five seasons, Northwestern (1-7, 1-4 Big Ten) hasn’t had the best luck against some of the country’s top teams, specifically offenses.

In 2018, the Cats lost 31-21 to No. 3 Notre Dame at the hands of now-Chicago Bears wide receiver Chase Claypool’s 130 receiving yards — the most by an opposing wideout in a game versus NU that season. In the following two years, the Cats took on a No. 4 and No. 3 Ohio State team led by Claypool’s new quarterback, Justin Fields, the No. 11 overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft.

2021 was no different, with the team losing to No. 6 Michigan 33-7, behind this year’s Heisman Finalists Blake Corum 119 rushing yards and two touchdowns.

Fast forward to the present, NU now welcomes possibly an even-tougher matchup than the three mentioned above in No. 2 Ohio State (8-0, 5-0 Big Ten). Arguably, the Buckeyes boast one of the most talented offensive groups Chicago’s Big Ten team has ever faced.

“They have got depth everywhere and explosiveness in all three phases,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “In my opinion, I think I voted them number one in my ballot. If I didn’t, I should’ve.”

Fitzgerald is right: coach Ryan Day’s squad is electric, especially with the pigskin in its hands.

At the top of the offensive pyramid is

quarterback C.J. Stroud, a Heisman finalist and a projected top pick in this year’s NFL Draft. The California native holds the highest passer rating in the country and leads the Big Ten in total passing yards. On a national scale, Stroud is tied for the most touchdown passes and average yards per pass in the country as well.

Stroud isn’t the only premiere talent. The weapons around him are the cream of the crop as well.

“Everybody can take it the distance,” Fitzgerald said in reference to the Ohio State wide receiver room. “It’s a really impressive group, to say the least.”

Outside of the NFL prospects like Paris Johnson Jr. and Luke Wypler blocking for Stroud, the quarterback’s main targets out wide include Emeka Egbuka and Marvin Harrison Jr., who hold the second- and third-most total receiving yards in the Big Ten respectively.

These two threats make it even more difficult to remember the Buckeyes head honcho of the group: wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba. A 2021 third-team All-American and NFL prospect, Smith-Njigba entered the season as arguably the top wideout in college football after breaking multiple school and Big Ten records. Although the playmaker has suited up in just two games this season due to injury, that game-changing factor remains.

And even with this talent on the opposite side, senior defensive back A.J. Hampton Jr. is ready for the challenge and won’t back down.

“As a secondary room I think we match up very

well,” Hampton Jr. said. “We got to play with that fire. We have got a lot of good young talent, and we’ve got some seasoned vets, too.”

Throughout the season, NU has played a multitude of Sky Room players due to injury. Losing both one of its most seasoned veterans in junior safety Coco Azema and his backup, junior and young talent Jaheem Joseph, the group has struggled to play at one hundred percent — especially after Hampton Jr. went down in the first game of the season.

Even with miscues, the group has now had time to mesh, as experienced players add more seasoning and the young guns gain in-game experience.

Already having played the Buckeyes multiple times during his college career, Hampton Jr. highlighted the importance of taking a step back, learning from past experiences and trusting themselves as a team.

“It’s going to be a great week and a great challenge,” he said. “Obviously, this season hasn’t went the way we wanted, but I feel like the biggest thing is that we have got to stick together.”

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junior linebacker Bryce Gallagher reemphasized Hampton Jr.’s comments about the importance of trusting in himself and his teammates. Another key factor is consistent execution, especially in high-pressure situations like facing one of the top teams in the country, he added.

The execution aspect hasn’t been much of a problem for Gallagher, though, as his play has only gotten better every week. After three

consecutive weeks with 12 or more tackles during the season — one of these performances against No. 11 Penn State — the Massachusetts native continued his elite play two contests later versus Maryland, racking up a career-high of 16 total tackles.

Putting up the numbers week in and week out, Gallagher is already playing at a high-level consistently. However, with defense showing quarters or halves of potential throughout the season, the linebacker’s mentality should be the same for the entire defense — a key to success versus a great team like Ohio State.

“Just focus on your keys and playing fast and trusting your coaches,” Gallagher said. “Our main focus of the week is just trying to force turnovers, so hopefully we can do it this week in practice, and hopefully it carries over to the game on Saturday.”

Like Gallagher, coordinator Jim O’Neil’s defense has already put out an optimistic outing against a high-level team, forcing five turnovers against Penn State in October. But the squad hasn’t fared well overall, allowing 42 points to a Wisconsin team that fired its head coach a week prior, 31 points to a starting quarterback-less Maryland squad and 33 points to one of the worst offenses in the country in Iowa.

With a top-notch offensive powerhouse in Ohio State coming to town for family weekend, the heat only turns up more. And if the Cats want to compete, it starts on the defensive end. lawrenceprice2024@u.northwestern.edu

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Professors discuss racial, LGBTQ+ health disparities

By SHREYA SRINIVASAN

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Medill Prof. and Renberg Chair Steven Thrasher and City University of New York Professor Linda Villarosa discussed racial and LGBTQ+ inequalities in the U.S health system at the Renberg Forum event Tuesday.

Moderated by Medill Dean Charles Whitaker, the panelists discussed Thrasher’s book, “The Viral Underclass,” and Villarosa’s book, “Under the Skin.” Both books were authored at similar times and highlight systematic health impediments against marginalized communities.

“The Viral Underclass” recounts the often unfair narratives of viruses and how certain communities are “blamed” for them, such as Black gay men during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Thrasher said. The shaming of Black gay men during the crisis highlighted societal ills like HIV criminalization and limited access to treatment, he added.

“Often viruses, which are inherently social and which connect socially are blamed on one person, as if they don’t exist anywhere else,” Thrasher said. “It’s really important for media coverage to reflect that reality … and give people an ability to come forth safely without thinking they’re going to be shamed.”

“Under the Skin” explores the racial biases held in the health system, especially against Black women. In 2020, the maternal mortality rate for Black women was almost three times the rate for non-Hispanic white women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Villarosa discussed how Black diabetes patients are more likely to become amputees than their white counterparts.

“I don’t think that healthcare providers go into their profession to do harm,” Villarosa said.

“But someone is making these unequal treatment decisions.”

Villarosa said these problems are often structural, with policies that perpetuate redlining and the poverty cycle. Skewed media coverage can also exacerbate these issues, she added.

Thrasher said a journalistic focus on an “individualized narrative” rather than a systemic one inadvertently increases the stigma

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Thrasher and Villarosa both researched inequalities in maternal mortality rates and in the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

against underrepresented communities. All three professors agreed that health reporting still disproportionately focuses on individual cases and their experiences, rather than delving into the systemic roots of the problem.

“Naming those bad practices is helping the media realize what our complicity has been in perpetuating those stereotypes and not digging beyond the surface,” Whitaker said of Thrasher’s perspective. “I certainly think we have the capacity to change it.”

The panelists also opened the floor to audience questions. English prof. Sarah Schulman asked if Villarosa had applied her line of research to Black gay men, and if class impacted these patterns.

While Villarosa said her work has not yet explored the matter, her anecdotal research has indicated Black gay men receive similiar quality of health care regardless of class.

In her time teaching medical students, Villarosa said she realized many need a wake-up call

to recognize the systemic issues within the profession. But she added that individuals are also sometimes the ones perpetuating these inequalities.

“I feel bad when I’m speaking sometimes at medical schools saying, ‘Well, here are these 483 studies saying something is happening in the hospitals where you work,’” Villarosa said.

“This is implicit bias that is happening in individual people no matter who you are.” shreyasrinivasan2026@u.northwestern.edu

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Bade: Vote yes on ranked-choice voting BEN BADE

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Evanston voters will have the opportunity on Election Day to revolutionize the city’s electoral system and create a more representative, engaged and civil democracy. On the ballot will be a referendum for Evanston to adopt ranked-choice voting, also known as instant-runoff voting in municipal elections.

Under a ranked-choice system, voters rank the candidates rather than select only their top candidate, which differs from the zerosum game of the current plurality system.

Here’s how ranked-choice voting works: If a candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes — meaning more than half of voters selected them as their top choice — they immediately win the election. If no candidate wins a majority of first-choice votes, the candidate with the least first-choice votes is eliminated, and all voters who selected the eliminated candidate as their first choice have their votes redistributed to their second choice. This process continues until one of the candidates receives a majority of votes, winning the election.

With RCV, your voice is heard even if your first choice doesn’t get picked, ultimately allowing for a more representative government. You can vote for who you genuinely support without needing to vote for the most “electable” candidate or the “lesser of two evils.” We have all heard the calls to vote for the “strategic” candidate, or the candidate who has the best chance of victory, over our

favorite person for the office. Voters would no longer have to choose between supporting their favorite candidate or the strategic one. If RCV is in place, people would vote for candidates they genuinely believe in.

Ranked-choice voting can also boost voter participation, especially among young people. According to a 2021 study by Juelich & Coll, voters under the age of 35 were more likely to participate in ranked-choice elections than in standard elections. The adoption of ranked-choice voting in the 2021 New York City election preceded the highest local election turnout in about 30 years.

In Evanston, ranked-choice voting would eliminate primaries, since all candidates will be ranked on Election Day. Only about 25% of Evanston voters turned out to vote in the last municipal primary election — meaning only a small fraction of the population decided who made the general election ballot. By eliminating primaries, RCV makes our democracy more accessible and amplifies more people’s voices. And when voters feel like elections better reflect their preferences, more people will go to the polls.

Ranked-choice voting may also lead candidates to pursue more civil and respectful campaigns. For example, if another candidate led a brutal campaign against my favorite candidate, I would be less likely to rank that candidate as my second pick. More civil campaigning leads to a healthier and more productive public discourse, something we desperately need in the current state of our political ecosystem.

As we head the polls over the next week, Evanston voters have the chance to make our democracy more civil, representative and

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With RCV, your voice is heard even if your first choice doesn’t get picked, ultimately allowing for a more representative government. You can vote for who you genuinely support without needing to vote for the most “electable” candidate or the “lesser of two evils.”

- BEN BADE, Op-Ed Contributor

effective. Ranked-choice voting is by no means a cure-all for our nation’s democratic woes, but it is an improvement we urgently need. When people have more confidence in government, things can only improve, and ranked-choice voting is a necessary step down this path.

Ben Bade is a Weinberg Senior. He can be contacted at benjaminbade2023@u.northwestern. edu. This article was written in collaboration with Reform for Illinois, a research and advocacy organization that has been involved in bringing ranked-choice voting to Evanston. 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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Our top story this quarter is “I did this to be true to myself,” Weinberg Sophomore Sara Azimpour’s frustrating story of navigating NU’s policy on Title IX. Other top stories include Communications Junior Zai Dawodu’s “I was dismissed from NU for bad grades,” exploring imposter syndrome, as well as Medill Sophomore Lucia Barnum’s “The white queerness of The Daily Northwestern,” interrogating our newsroom’s culture and demographics.

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Jiang: I’m not fluent but allow me to learn your language HANNAH ZHIHAN JIANG

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Getting off the plane to Paris this fall, I found an airport café and ordered in French.

Ten minutes before, with my phone tilted so no one could see my screen, I Google Translated every word I would need and ran through several scenarios in my head. I walked up and spoke. The staff smiled and nodded.

It felt like I managed to exchange code on a secret mission – and it worked!

As I rushed to grab my water and leave, they spoke to me in French again. They must have seen my widening pupils and noticed my brain rapidly processing to match the new phrases to a line in my French textbook. The processing was 80% there; I was about to say something — “Do you want it cold or at room temperature?” they asked again, this time in English.

Frustrated, I thought they had no faith in me.

Just hours into studying abroad in Paris, I realized I was not in a Northwestern French class anymore, where the professors talked more slowly. Whenever there was a complicated expression, my professors tried not to directly translate but found synonyms. I felt respected.

But I never paid the store staff to teach me French. They were only there to sell the water.

Living in a place with a foreign language is like being a child again. Right or wrong,

appropriate or inappropriate, I need to learn the rules, the tacit agreements hidden in a language.

The language speakers, with their absolute superior expertise, are the adults. They decide whether they are in the mood to correct, to help, to criticize, to show confusion or to reject by a simple switch to English. They know the rules, and they play by them.

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Living in a place with a foreign language is like being a child again. Right or wrong, appropriate or inappropriate, I need to learn the rules, the tacit agreements hidden in a language.

- HANNAH ZHIHAN JIANG, Op-Ed Contributor

But I’m also not a child anymore. Any kind of interaction is educational as long as I keep speaking, I remind myself. It’s uncomfortable, but I shouldn’t allow a short temper to get the best of me like the three-year-old who lives next door to me. Waking up to his crying and coming home to a symphony of guitar and drums, I couldn’t blame him. He also speaks better French than me.

Living in a new language is like becoming an introverted child with restraint.

This was not the first time the introverted child in me made an appearance overnight.

I went from a Chinese public school to an international school in the UK in 11th grade.

I dreaded speaking with my classmates in a new language. Although I took English writing, speaking and grammar classes every weekend in middle school, and flew all over China and to the U.S. to attend debate tournaments, making small talk in a loud dining hall in English was terrifying.

Sitting across from native English speakers, I said to myself, “You’ve got to say something. You cannot eat a silent meal. That’s not acceptable in a boarding school.” I always asked a question, in the loudest volume possible. And then they would go on for at least two minutes, saving me from speaking English. I had to listen carefully because my next sentence would be a follow-up question.

I replaced my laptop this spring and, for the first time, I didn’t download a Chineseto-English translator. When I came to France, French people sat across from me and said, “You intimidate me because you speak English too well.” Years of English language immersion paid off, and all at once, I started to sit on the other side of the table where the native speakers effortlessly expressed themselves and nodded along with encouraging smiles when non-native speakers spoke.

I might never be as fluent in French as I am in Mandarin and English. I’m returning to the U.S.

in two months and learning French is only out of interest. But the feeling of being vulnerable and absorbing new information every waking moment, which I sought to grow out of in my English-learning journey, felt precious this time.

Knowing the two most spoken languages in the world, I no longer shoulder the responsibility of making others understand me through language barriers. It’s like a sentence I often hear speaking with older French people: “Ce n’est pas mon problème.” It’s not my problem.

But whose problem is it? The locals speaking their languages in their hometowns or the passersby reinforcing the dominance of English? Perhaps behind the staff ’s quick switch to English is their recognition that people visit Paris for the Louvre and the croissant but rarely for everyday life in the French language.

They become used to tourists stepping into their stores, looking righteous, placing orders in English and expecting to be understood.

Locals expect nothing beyond “Bonjour,” and they have learned to speak better English.

After all, they have to sell the water.

So I continue making Parisians repeat their sentences and practicing my broken French with every French speaker.

Hannah Zhihan Jiang is a Medill Junior. She can be contacted at hannahjiang2024@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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NO KNOCK From page 1

killed in Louisville in 2020 by officers executing a no-knock warrant, sparking nationwide protests.

“I want to make sure that Evanston is staying on the cutting edge of creating policing policies that keep our law enforcement safe and keep the community safe,” Reid said.

According to a May Washington Post investigation, police executing no-knock warrants have killed at least 22 people since 2015. Thirteen of the 22 people were Black or Hispanic.

Newly appointed Evanston police chief Schenita Stewart said she supports the city’s ban.

“I think no-knock warrants are not only unsafe for the community, they’re unsafe for the officers,” Stewart said. “I’m glad (City Council) passed that.”

Patrick Keenan-Devlin, executive director of the James B. Moran Center for Youth Advocacy, said these kinds of citywide bans act as a defense against the Supreme Court’s leniency toward noknock warrants. While the court has the ultimate say in setting precedents for rules surrounding no-knock warrants, local bans prevent officers from entering homes without warning in the first place.

Keenan-Devlin cited Hudson v. Michigan, a 2006 case where the court ruled that evidence found when officers violate the “knock-andannounce” rule can still be used in trial.

“Evanston taking this position really moves us away from the direction of the high court,” he said. “It concretizes that we, as a community, still

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keep trying.”

Perez also sat down with political science Prof. Laurel Harbridge-Yong, the NU College Democrats’ faculty sponsor, to answer studentsubmitted questions.

He also answered direct questions from the audience, including one about his thoughts on Democrats funding far-right candidates to decrease Republicans’ chances in general elections.

Perez said he believes this was a necessary strategy.

“I’m not going to a knife fight with a spoon,” Perez said. “I don’t think the practice is going to stop. You will see both sides investing money to prop up the third candidate because it could help either side.”

Weinberg freshman Sally Rogal said she attended to learn more about the political process.

“I like learning more about politics from different perspectives,” she said. “I feel like with the election coming up, it just makes more

believe in the principle of knock-and-announce for how we execute warrants.”

An early 2021 Illinois law mandated that officers executing a no-knock warrant must be equipped with body cameras and work to ensure that they are at the correct location and have a plan for children and other vulnerable people on site.

State Rep. Lamont Robinson (D-Chicago) introduced the Anjanette Young Law in January to ban no-knock warrants statewide. The bill is still under review after its referral to the Rules Committee in February.

Reid said his Evanston ordinance is part of a package of criminal justice-related proposals ranging from nixing a ban on certain “burglar’s tools” without proof they are being used innocently to removing gendered language from Evanston’s public nudity ordinance.

The no-knock warrants ban breezed through the Human Services Committee and City Council with little debate and ultimately passed on the consent agenda at the Oct. 24 council meeting.

While Reid said he has not seen specific situations in Evanston regarding mishandled no-knock warrants, he wants to prevent such incidents from ever happening in the city.

“It only takes one time for something tragic to happen,” Reid said. “We’ve seen time and time again that we are not indemnified from the troubles that are happening across the nation and across the world.”

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a lot of the community issues as being something more of an adult issue,” Foran said. “Being able to reach and kind of resonate with my peers could really make a lot of difference.”

Foran said he feels conflicted about policing in schools. While he understands the need for school security, he also realizes how added security can make students feel overpoliced. He said his solution to “nip gun violence in the bud” would be promoting access to community centers.

ETHS senior and committee member Sachin Clark cited the relationship between ETHS students and the police department as a major issue. ETHS currently has an established School Resource Officer program in partnership with the Evanston Police Department, with an officer present daily at the school. Many students have reported feeling uncomfortable with the presence, Clark said.

Clark said he also wants the committee to work on making public mental health services more accessible to teenagers in Evanston.

“With the pandemic and so much national and international conflict, you really need to focus on the minds of the young teens who are going to help shape the future of this world,” Clark said.

ETHS graduate and committee member Davi Hunt said she hopes to help break down

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saulpink2025@u.northwestern.edu sense to have political conversations.”

McCormick freshman Davi Gutkin also said he went out of curiosity.

The event confirmed many of his preconceptions about the party, Gutkin said.

“The way he talked about dark money, it seemed like he was downplaying the role that it plays in the Democratic Party,” he said. “It becomes so much less about governing and what policies people want enacted and more about winning a race.”

During the event, Gutkin asked Perez about potential winning issues for the Democrats.

Perez said advertising legislative achievements and campaigning on protecting reproductive rights following the overturning of Roe v. Wade may convince voters to go blue this November.

Seven days ahead of the midterms, Perez emphasized long-term political organizing as a strategy for electoral success.

“One thing the Republicans understood better than the Democrats is the importance of year-round organizing and down ballot races,” he said. “We’ve just got to out-organize.” williamtong2026@u.northwestern.edu

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colonialism. So race has always been a factor in American life,” Masur said. “(Factoring race into college admissions) is an entirely reasonable thing to do, particularly given the context of the society that we live in.”

Sociology and political science Prof.

Anthony Chen said affirmative action policies have been the subject of past litigation. A 1978 Supreme Court decision outlawed racial quotas at universities, and in 2003 the court prohibited the use of an admissions points system that guarantees points to minority applicants.

But none of those results entirely eliminated race as a factor that can determine college admission decisions, Chen added. He said a race-neutral admissions process could hinder institutions’ efforts to build diverse campuses.

“There is a large body of interdisciplinary research supporting the conclusion that racial diversity confers a number of important educational benefits,” Chen said.

Chen cited studies by the American Educational Research Association and the American Psychological Association on these benefits.

Both detail the advantages of a diverse student body, including improved cross-racial understanding, reduced prejudice and increased civic engagement.

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structural barriers that prevent young individuals from receiving mental health services.

“Sometimes people our age think that when we go through stuff, it’s like okay to just push it to the side,” Hunt said. “The first step would be making sure that we feel comfortable with speaking up.”

Hunt said she also wants to see youth of all ages engaged in programs like the committee.

After providing their stances on youth issues in the community, committee members opened up the floor to public comment. Ald. Devon Reid (8th) said he was impressed by the committee’s insightful comments.

“It is really important that young folks with our values and our morals start to get more involved in government at all levels of leadership to truly transform the institution,” Reid said.

Reid also added that he hopes to see more young individuals running for elected office, as he ran for and won the city clerk position at the age of 24.

Mayor Daniel Biss said the town hall shined a light on “real” problems in the community and said he hopes Evanston residents and youth will continue to hold elected officials accountable.

“Stay in the game,” Biss said. “What you’ve done so far is enormously persuasive. It’s enormously powerful. Take that next step, don’t take no for an answer and change the world.” selenakuznikov2025@u.northwestern.edu Political science Prof. Alvin Tillery, director of the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy at Northwestern, said striking down affirmative action will not make admissions truly race-blind due to factors like legacy and athlete recruitment, which traditionally favor white students.

“You’re just taking race out of admissions for Blacks, Latinos, Asians and Indigenous Americans,” Tillery said. “We’re not taking it out of the system because all of those other forms of privilege, which accrue to whiteness, are still going to be at play.”

Following the oral arguments, Supreme Court experts said the justices seem prepared to strike down affirmative action. The decision for the cases is expected to be released next summer.

In an Oct. 27 op-ed for the Chicago Tribune, University President Michael Schill said diversity is fundamental to higher education, and race should remain a factor in achieving it. Tillery, meanwhile, said he hopes NU will continue to prioritize diversity on campus regardless of the cases’ outcomes.

“I just hope that Northwestern keeps its head in the game and really tries to think of some creative ways to balance racial equity and justice for all,” Tillery said. caseyhe2026@u.northwestern.edu

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NU overcomes slow start, defeats Wisconsin-Parkside

By JAKE EPSTEIN

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Northwestern opened its season with an 88-72 victory over Division II Wisconsin-Parkside in an exhibition match Tuesday.

With the departure of guard Veronica Burton to the WNBA, sophomore guard Jillian Brown is expected to become a cornerstone of the Wildcats’ offense this season. The 5-foot-10 Michigan native opened the matchup with an early threepointer, but also amassed four turnovers in the first quarter.

“I feel like I was a little bit frantic those first few minutes,” Brown said.

Sloppy play and poor shooting would allow the Rangers to keep the matchup close, with NU holding a meager 16-14 lead after the first quarter on the back of Brown’s six points.

The game continued to be a dogfight into the second quarter, with Parkside not shying away from its heavily-favored opponent. At the end of the first half, the Cats held a 35-31 lead.

“We rushed a lot in the first half,” coach Joe McKeown said. “We dribbled into a lot of traffic.”

McKeown, entering his 15th season at NU, told his players to slow down the tempo of the game at halftime.

The Cats listened to their coaching staff and began to pull away in the second half. Improved shooting from beyond the arc, the field and the free throw line put NU firmly in the driver’s seat. Going into the fourth quarter, the Cats took a 66-51 lead and didn’t drop their intensity during the final stretch.

Sophomore forward Caileigh Walsh seemed to respond positively to the tempo shift, as the New Jersey native

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Junior forward Paige Mott backs down a Wisconsin-Parkside opponent. Mott scored six points in the season opener.

caught fire from the field. Walsh, a modern forward who can stretch the court, shot 3-of-6 from three and finished with 21 points. She also tallied 12 boards.

“I took last year personal,” Walsh said. “I know what I’m capable of, and I know that to be a great teammate, I had to do certain things. I just worked really hard on the offseason and I’m looking

forward to having a better year.”

Walsh and Brown combined for 39 points. The sophomore tandem, who were the only two players shooting around on the court 90 minutes before tip-off, fed off each other’s energy.

“When Jillian makes threes, it really opens up the post for me,” Walsh said.

“They were collapsing a lot, and once

we started hitting threes – it was 4-for-7 (Brown) shot amazing – it paves the way for other players.

After the win, NU goes straight back to work as a tough non-conference matchup awaits against No. 20 Oregon on Nov. 7.

The Ducks are the first of a difficult slate of matchups to open the season, where McKeown’s squad must prove they

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belong among the nation’s elite programs.

“We have a brutal non-conference schedule — we’ve played some great teams over the last seven or eight years — but this might be the toughest nonconference schedule we’ve played,” McKeown said. jacobepstein2026@u.northwestern.edu

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Cats take Cal Poly Invitational Northwestern scores

high at Temple Open

By LUCAS KIM

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Coming off a tournament-best 17-under second round, Northwestern was poised to win the Cal Poly Invitational with an eight-stroke lead.

However, after hitting 11-over in the final round, the Wildcats lost their lead and finished second on Tuesday with a 16-under 848.

Despite the rough ending, it has been a stellar fall tournament season for NU. This was the Cats’ fourth straight top-five finish — placing fifth, second and first in their previous three tournaments.

NU began the tournament in California with an impressive first round.

Graduate student David Nyfjäll led the team with a five-under 67, with freshman Daniel Svärd next in line with three-under. The Cats ended the round tied with Marquette for first place.

The second round was where NU really separated itself from the pack.

Senior James Imai took over, carding a tournament-best six-under 66 and helping the Cats retain sole possession of first place following the round. Overall, NU shot a 17-under 271, six strokes better than any other team that round.

By the conclusion of Monday’s play, NU held an eight-stroke advantage over runner-up Ohio State.

But a collapse in the final round brought the Cats back down to earth.

Every NU golfer except for Imai hit over par for the round as the Cats found themselves three strokes behind the Buckeyes by the end.

It was nonetheless a successful outing, particularly for Imai, who finished

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Northwestern competed at the Temple Open this weekend, earning five topeight finishes and placing ninth in the latest preseason coaches poll.

The freshmen led the way for the Cats in the women’s epee, with Anna Damratoski and Karen Wang taking third and Lia Douglas placing eighth. Sophomore Hanna Lipthay finished 13th.

Junior Sky Miller and freshman Megumi Oishi placed third and fifth in the women’s saber, respectively, while sophomore Kailing Sathyanath took 13th. In the women’s foil event, freshman Juliana Hung finished ninth and sophomore Rowan Park placed 12th.

The Cats kicked off the season by hosting the Remenyik ROC and RJCC tournament and competing at the 2022 October North America Cup. At the

Remenyik ROC and RJCC tournament, sophomore Yejine Lee placed first in Division 1-A women’s foil and Oishi won the Division 1-A women’s saber.

NU is coming off an impressive 202122 season, which included a top-10 team finish at NCAA Championships, a takedown of No.1 Notre Dame at the DeCicco Duals and a 31-13 record.

Miller finished ninth in the saber at NCAA Championships and took home a bronze medal in the Senior National Championships for Women’s Saber. She was also a finalist for Women’s Saber Fencer of the Year.

Lipthay finished 18th in the epee competition at NCAA Championships and was a finalist for Newcomer Collegiate Athlete of the year and Women’s Epeeist of the Year.

Looking toward the rest of the season, NU has a jam-packed month ahead, competing at the Western Invitational, Vassar Invitational and Elite Invitational. katewalter2025@u.northwestern.edu

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Graduate student David Nyfjäll strikes the ball. Nyfjäll won the individual Big Ten Championship last spring.

in fourth individually with a score of seven-under. Two other Cats finished in the top 15 — Nyfjäll tied for ninth and sophomore Cameron Adam tied for thirteenth.

With this invitational over, NU has

now completed its fall tournament schedule. The team’s next outing will occur on Feb. 3 when Big Ten Match Play commences. lucaskim2025@u.northwestern.edu

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