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After election, NU provides spaces for reflection, support
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control. “There are so, so many women who do not have the privileges I do, who rely on affordable options like Planned Parenthood,” said Fox, a member of Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators. “It’s very scary that we will have a leader in power who does not want women to have that control over their
As the reality of a Donald Trump presidency began to sink in Wednesday, elected officials and leading women in the predominantly-Democratic city of Evanston lamented what could have been. Based on polling and punditry, people across the country believed that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was poised to become the country’s first woman presidentelect. As Evanston residents witnessed the results roll in Tuesday night, it quickly became clear that would not be the case. “I’m stunned and just extremely disappointed,” Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th) said. Revelle said she was “fearful” progress made under President Barack Obama would be lost in the next four years. Since the real estate mogul announced his candidacy 18 months ago, he has been accused of sexual assault by at least eight women and started feuds with women journalists. In October, the campaign took a turn when the Washington Post published footage from 2005 of lewd remarks about
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In the wake of Tuesday’s unexpected election results, the University is taking measures to accommodate students’ needs by offering “healing spaces” and academic flexibility. “Partisan, inflammatory statements unfortunately seem to be part of modern campaign rhetoric, but they cause real wounds,” said Patricia TellesIrvin, vice president for student affairs, in an email to students Wednesday afternoon. “As we move beyond a divisive election, we therefore recognize the need for healing of those wounds.” Telles-Irvin’s message followed an email from University President Morton Schapiro which analogized the national election results to Northwestern’s own history facing “daunting issues” and undergoing “significant transformations.” Schapiro urged the Northwestern community to not let varying beliefs divide it. Telles-Irvin echoed Schapiro on the election’s divisiveness, informing students of locations on campus that would provide resources, such as the Black House, Multicultural Center and Scott Hall. Neither email mentioned Donald Trump by name. SESP Student Affairs, which was one of various resources for students feeling unsafe or marginalized, announced in an email, “Our doors are open as a healing space for all students, staff, and faculty who need it today, tomorrow, and beyond.” “Probably one of the best, if not the best, parts about my Northwestern experience is that I just feel incredibly supported,” said Imani Wilson, a work-study student in the SESP Student Affairs office. “On any given day I can walk into the office and talk to one of my advisers about whatever’s on my mind.” The SESP junior said her school in particular “goes above and beyond” to support its students and expressed hope for other organizations to provide similar spaces. “There are a lot of groups on campus … just going out of the way and making space for these » See RESPONSE, page 7
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Protesters chose the site of Trump Tower in Chicago on Wednesday night to rally against Donald Trump, the president-elect. Hundreds gathered in Chicago and in other American cities following the candidate’s upset victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Students fear Trump presidency
GOP control of White House, Congress may bring drastic change By SHANE MCKEON and ROBIN OPSAHL
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Northwestern students said they are concerned — some terrified — that four years of Donald Trump could bring sweeping policy changes that leave them worse off than they are today. Tr u m p’s stunning
Democrats lose supermajority in state House
Gov. Bruce Rauner and state Republicans broke the Democrats’ supermajority in the Illinois House late Tuesday night, getting rid of the opposing party’s veto power. Republicans remain the minority party in the House of Representatives, holding 51 seats to the Democrats’ 67. The lack of a Democratic supermajority means they would have difficulty overriding a veto from the governor on state budget bills. Illinois ended its budget impasse in June by passing a stopgap spending bill. Previous to that, the state endured a year-long budget crisis. “ Voters stated clearly that they wish to maintain
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victory, which ends eight years of Democratic control of the White House, comes as Republicans retained control in both houses of Congress. Come January, policies Trump proposed during his campaign could pass into law. Trump has advocated uprooting many of President Barack Obama’s signature achievements, such as the Affordable Care Act, the Paris climate agreements and the
a wide Democratic majority in the Illinois House of Representatives and maintain a strong check on Bruce Rauner and his antimiddle class agenda,” House Speaker Mike Madigan said in a written statement. R auner and I llinois Republicans poured tens of millions of dollars into campaigns of state House races. The incumbent Democrats lost five House seats in Port, Peru, Kankakee, Marion and Woodstock counties. Incumbent Republicans lost a seat in Edwardsville. Democratic representatives said they will continue to resist Rauner’s agenda. “Democrats value the voters’ trust, and we will continue to protect the middle class and those who don’t have access to billionaires and lobbyists,” Madigan said in the statement. — Stavros Agorakis
Iran nuclear deal. He also has claimed he will make Mexico pay for a wall along the border and temporarily ban Muslims from entering the country. Some on social media feared a Trump presidency could allow Republicans in Congress to slash funding to Planned Parenthood. Communication junior Phoebe Fox said she was afraid Trump would restrict women’s access to birth
Post-election bill passes By JONAH DYLAN
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Associated Student Government Senate passed emergency legislation Wednesday calling for expanded support and more academic flexibility for students feeling unsafe after the election. “This is to address hate, and this is to address the response and emotions from that hate,” said Weinberg sophomore Justine Kim, one of the bill’s authors. The resolution was penned to help soothe Northwestern students’ fears after Donald Trump won Tuesday’s presidential election. It calls for greater access to counseling for students who are “fearful for their identities,” especially through the Center
for Awareness, Response, and Education, which the resolution says is currently understaffed. It also emphasized the need for increased opportunities — particularly for undocumented, international, first generation and ESL students
— to learn about civil liberties and legal protections. Some senators expressed concern that passing emergency legislation would circumvent the usual process through which legislation is » See SENATE, page 6
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Justine Kim, an ASG senator, speaks in defense of emergency legislation that passed Tuesday. The bill asked the University to increase support for students as a result of the presidential election.
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AROUND TOWN New meat-centric restaurant opens By KRISTINE LIAO
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In an effort to strike a balance between rustic and elegant, The Barn, a new restaurant on Church Street, hides a large chandelier behind its 19th-century brick structure. The Barn opened to the public on Nov. 1. It is the second Evanston restaurant for owner Amy Morton, who also owns Found Kitchen and Social House, 1631 Chicago Ave. Located down an alley in downtown Evanston, the restaurant gets its name from its past use as a horse barn. Morton first heard about the building from her brother about seven years ago when she was looking for a location for Found. “I just couldn’t stop thinking about this place. I felt like I had to use it,” Morton said. “ (And) I always knew I would do something with steak. Though never until I saw this building did it really come together.” Although many of The Barn’s meals incorporate meat, it is not a steakhouse, Morton said. The dishes range from roasted chicken to
POLICE BLOTTER In south Evanston, 4 caught in car keys theft Three juveniles and one man were charged with disobedience to the police in a public place after trying to run away from officers Tuesday night, police said. At about 6:30 p.m., six young men entered Zen Shiatsu Chicago in south Evanston, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. While being distracted by one of the men, the business owner’s car keys were stolen from the pocket of her coat, Dugan said. Once police arrived on the scene, the group
venison tartare to a side of baby lettuce salad. Morton said she aimed for a “soft opening” so the staff would not be overwhelmed. She limited the number of reservations during opening week, accepting more day by day. “My feeling is this is a marathon not a sprint,” Morton said. “If we can hone our craft, we’ll be here for a long time. You only get one chance to make a good first impression. We don’t want to set ourselves up or you up for not having a great experience.” Annie Coakley, executive director of Downtown Evanston, said the restaurant is suitable for a variety of occasions such as date nights, birthday parties and business meetings. “It’s not like any restaurant I’ve seen in a long time,” Coakley said. “It’s a beautiful, very lovely space.” Executive chef Nicole Pederson said because there are already so many casual lunch places in Evanston, they wanted to “fill the niche” by providing a more formal dinner restaurant. “The space itself is also kind of a hideaway, and the interior also works really well for evening dining,” Pederson said. “It was really more about how the space spoke to us.”
Both Morton and Pederson said diners’ reactions have been positive. “It’s only been a couple of days since we’ve opened, but we’ve gotten a lot of comments about how the atmosphere and food go well together,” Pederson said. “The restaurant’s got a warm and comfortable environment, and they feel the same way about the menu.” Unlike Found, where the menu is constantly changing, The Barn’s menu will only change twice a year. Morton said The Barn is more about consistency. “Just as much as I love people who come into Found and always find something new, I believe there’s a market for people who just want what they want and to know that it’s going to be there,” Morton said. The Barn is also a homage to Morton’s father, Arnie Morton, who founded Morton’s Steakhouse. The first restaurant he opened, Walton Walk, also featured an alleyway entrance. The Barn is open from 5 to 10 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays and closes an hour later on Fridays and Saturdays.
of six fled. Although two escaped the situation, the juvenile was caught along with three others on Main Street. The three juveniles were charged with disobedience to police in a public place, two of them also being charged with theft. One older man was charged with disobedience to the police in a public place, Dugan said.
black car in the 1400 block of Fowler Avenue, Dugan said. Once the officer pulled over the car, which had missed two stop signs, he asked the driver to step out of the vehicle after smelling cannabis. During the search the officer found five clear, individually-wrapped plastic bags in his sweatshirt, each containing suspected cannabis. The bags weighed about 9.2 grams, Dugan said. He was charged with a felony of unlawful possession of cannabis with the intention to deliver and two citations for the stop signs.
Chicago resident charged with unlawful possession of marijuana
A Chicago resident was charged with a felony of unlawful possession of cannabis with the intention to deliver on Tuesday, police said. At about 12:45 a.m., police pulled over a
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ReFusionShaka leaders recount origin of wildly popular dance show By JERRY LEE
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No one predicted the meteoric rise of ReFusionShaka’s popularity in the Northwestern community when it started in 2010. Six years later and with more than 100 dancers involved, the event has turned into a symbol of unity for the dance community on campus. “It was definitely something that I felt a lot of pride in doing,” said Yuchi Chiu (Communication ’14), who worked as an assistant producer for Boomshaka his freshman year. “To have three key student groups that are involved in the arts come together really says that we are one dance community at Northwestern.” ReFusionShaka is the annual collaboration of three student dance groups: Refresh Dance Crew, Fusion Dance Company and Boomshaka. The show has rapidly grown out of the McCormick Foundation Center Forum stage, where it was initially staged, to eventually selling out Cahn Auditorium, which can seat more than one thousand people. This year’s ReFusionShaka will premiere Friday. “The main inspiration for ReFusionShaka is that we realized each group had their own specialties about them that we were always interested in doing but never had a chance to participate,” said Jasmine Hubbard (Weinberg ’13), one of the founders of ReFusionShaka. Hubbard, previously a member of Refresh, worked together with the three groups in 2010 to help members get to know each other and build a tighter dance community at NU. The diversity of the dancers’ experience with creative production processes helped ReFusionShaka take off logistically in its first year, thanks to the heavy focus on organizing and publicizing the show, Hubbard said. Moreover, with each group’s distinct approach to dance, ReFusionShaka was an opportunity for members from groups to gain experience in other styles, Hubbard said. “Each group was busy doing their own thing — Refresh with our street style, Fusion with their more dance company outlook … and Boomshaka with their modern dance twist and musical uniqueness,” Hubbard said.
The bonds that resulted from this threeway partnership helped pave the way for members to move from group to group as well. Chiu helped publicize and organize the first ReFusionShaka, but in the spring of 2011, he decided to join Refresh and perform in their subsequent shows. Others managed to find the time to perform for two groups simultaneously. Weinberg junior Grant Hou, currently the artistic director for Refresh, is also an active member of Fusion, joining both groups during his freshman year. Hou is also part of ReFusionShaka’s executive board, in which two or three members from each participating group are selected to speak for their organization and help shape the structure of the annual show. Now, Hou helps influence the evolution of ReFusionShaka and works to improve the show’s artistic content from previous years. “For example, in years past, opening and closing has always been thrown together last minute,” Hou said. “We put a lot more work into making (them) a bigger production this year.” As the event has grown in size and popularity over the years, the mindset toward rehearsing ReFusionShaka has shifted dramatically within the groups. Just four years ago, ReFusionShaka was more casually “thrown together,” said McCormick senior Andre Mohring, who serves as one of Boomshaka’s artistic directors. After the show moved to Cahn, though, new performance material was created targeted to the audience
attending the show, he said. For Boomshaka, efforts to design and create a program specific for the show were initiated after the board realized ReFusionShaka was turning into one of their biggest performances, Mohring said. Similarly for Fusion, rehearsals intensified with the growth of ReFusionShaka, said Weinberg junior Mimi Khawsam-ang, public relations chair for the group. “It feels like there’s more at stake now, so people have definitely been getting their stuff together more,” Khawsam-ang said. “Practices have gotten a little more intense just because, with the amount of people coming, the choreography needs to be more interesting.” For NU alumni who participated in ReFusionShaka, though, watching the event get bigger is an indicator of the sheer amount of talent on campus and, on a deeper level, the strengthening of the college dance community. “ReFusionShaka was the show that got me interested in dancing in the first place,” said former Refresh member Kingsley Leung (Weinberg ’15). “It is a really cool thing to bring the entire campus together to enjoy this form of art.” Hubbard, who has watched ReFusionShaka grow for three years after her graduation, said she finds the pace at which the show expanded amazing, especially considering its humble origin story. “I absolutely love that it’s still thriving, and it seems to improve more and more each year with all the teams continuously growing and pushing their limits,” Hubbard said. “It’s a great example of how lots of different kinds of people can come together with one common passion and attract a huge audience.” jerryl@u.northwestern.edu
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Lipstick Theatre production explores teenage struggles By CATHERINE KIM
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Lipstick Theatre’s fall mainstage production will explore gender stereotypes and track the journey of finding one’s identity as a teenage girl. “Be Aggressive,” which premieres Thursday in the Shanley Pavilion, tells a story of loss and how it propels two 17-year-old girls to move away the “complete lack of personhood” that characterizes them in the beginning of the show, director Delaney Burlingame said. The play focuses on the characters’ “burning need” to fit in, Burlingame, a Communication senior, said. She added that the ongoing pressure to achieve an unattainable status quo is a recurrent pattern in the production, and many audience members who may have experienced this pressure as a teenager can relate to other themes of the play. Communication senior Marin Nass, who plays one of the lead characters, Leslie, said she looked back into her own teenage years to recollect memories of trying to struggle through high school cliques, just like her character does. “Leslie has a lot less money,” she said. “She lives in a very rich neighborhood but doesn’t have the finances, but she puts on this fake allure. And I grew up very similarly as a West Sider who went to school in the Upper East side of New York.” The negative cultural conceptions associated with female teenage rituals can make it difficult for the young characters to express themselves without receiving any criticism, Burlingame said. From teenage pop idols to cheerleading practices, the interests of teenage girls are often torn apart and made fun of as a norm in society, she said. “It’s so easy to tear down the things that are important to (young women),” she said. “They are just expected to grow up to be good wives and read beauty magazines, and we send them into this materialistic culture that they’ve been bred in.” Nass added that she hopes the audience finds the need to find their own paths in life after watching the production.
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Allison Towbes rehearses a scene from the upcoming production of “R&J.” Towbes stars as Juliet in the gender-bent production adapted from the Shakespearean classic.
In the play, the characters eventually overcome the gender oppressions of society and emerge as leading figures in their personal lives. However, this only takes place after this sense of connection is established among the characters, producer Hale McSharry said. “We wanted to have narratives about women coming together,” McSharry said. “We are really glad we’re doing this play that is not about one woman living her life and finding love or one woman beating the odds and fighting the system.
It’s about multiple women who are sticking together when life becomes tough. That’s what makes this play so different.” “Be Aggressive” parallels Lipstick Theatre’s mission statement to examine how women come together in crises. The theater board, which is a member of the Northwestern Student Theatre Coalition, has always been dedicated to providing a platform for dialogue surrounding women’s issues and more opportunities for female artists, McSharry said.
Alumnus leads local Jazz Philharmonic BY JENNIFER HEPP
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Every year for the past 11 years, Orbert Davis (Bienen ’97) has written one or two world premieres for the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic. The latest of these will be performed Friday at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre, along with the world premiere of a piece written by an 18-yearold Cuban musician. Davis has always immersed himself in both classical and jazz music, he said. Currently serving as the artistic director of the CJP, he created the 60-piece orchestra in 2007 to bridge elements from the two distinct genres and create an entirely new ensemble. Musicians of all sorts make up the CJP, Davis said, including performers who are strictly trained in either the classical or jazz genre, as well as
“studio musicians” — instrumentalists who play all styles of music. “Jazz does not close itself up from being the forefront of other styles as much as the tradition of classical music does,” Davis said. “Classical music is based on what the composer wrote … You don’t change it, it doesn’t need changing, it’s already genius. But when you combine that with the jazz aesthetic there is something quite remarkable that comes of that.” Davis, an accomplished trumpet player and conductor, also composes and arranges nearly all of the music CJP plays. The bookends of the “Americana” concert will feature two major works Davis wrote: “Home and Away Suite” and “The Mississippi River Suite: Black and Blues.” The CJP also has a significant educational component, bassist Stewart Miller said. Miller teaches at the CJP’s Jazz Academy, a weekly workshop that reaches out to at-risk students in schools in Chicago’s South and West sides.
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Orbert Davis (Bienen ’97) will present the world premiere of a four-movement work performed by the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic on Friday.
In 2014, Davis and members of the CJP traveled to Cuba to work with student musicians. The second day of their trip, President Barack Obama announced the opening of the borders between the United States and Cuba, and the CPJ devised a plan to invite 37 Cuban students to come to Chicago and perform at the Auditorium Theatre. “They’ll tell you it changed their lives, (but) it really changed all of our lives,” Davis said. “Parents would cry and say this is something that his family has dreamt about since the 40s — coming to the United States and being offered that to their child.” One of these students is 18-year-old Cuban composer Jorge Enrique Amado, whose piece “Reencuentro (Reunion)” was inspired by his trip to Chicago and will make its world premiere at the CPJ’s concert on Friday. “Jorge just didn’t stand out. He was a quiet kid … who sat last chair in the second violins,” Davis said. “But he’s absolutely phenomenal. He has an amazing future.” Miller, who has been part of CJP since its inception, said the orchestra has become an identifiable voice in the Chicago area and beyond. “Orbert’s music is really deep, meaty, thoughtful music,” Miller said. “Just being associated with someone like Orbert is great. He just loves life, loves music and loves people. He’s an inspiration to a lot of us, including me.” Davis said his orchestra defies the typical classical structure — musicians can sit wherever they want and everyone is encouraged to “just have fun.” Guest soloist and pianist Reginald Robinson has known Davis for 30 years, he said, and this will be his second time performing with the CJP, following the organization’s inaugural year. He will be featured on Friday’s concert, performing a Ragtime concerto. “It’s a thrill playing for the audience and sharing my music again,” Robinson said. “It’s great I get a chance to work with these great musicians.” Davis said he anticipates more than a thousand people will attend the concert Friday night at Auditorium Theatre. “There’s no greater feeling than standing in front of an orchestra and hearing back something that started as an idea in my head,” Davis said. “When I’m in front of that orchestra and we’re playing in Auditorium Theatre, it’s just the most unbelievable feeling in the world.” jenniferhepp2020@u.northwestern.edu
Lipstick Theatre started in 2013 as an effort to provide more female representation in the student theater community on campus. The student group joined StuCo January this year. “I hope the audience comes out of (the play) with a new appreciation for a bond of sisterhood, and a female friendship, the bonds of families, the bonds of community coming together,” McSharry said. catherinekim2020@u.northwestern.edu
Prince Henry is dating Northwestern alumna, actress in ‘Suits’
Prince Harry’s relationship with actress Meghan Markle (Communication ’03) was confirmed in a statement Tuesday, which denounced the media for its intrusion into the Northwestern alumna’s private life. The statement, released by the prince’s communications secretary at Kensington Palace, described instances when Markle was the victim of a “wave of abuse and harassment” and her safety was threatened. Markle currently stars in the American legal drama “Suits.” “Some of this has been very public,” the statement said. “The smear on the front page of a national newspaper; the racial undertones of comment pieces; and the outright sexism and racism of social media trolls and web article comments.” A headline this month from the Daily Mail referred to Markle, who is biracial, as “(almost) straight outta Compton,” comparing the “tatty one-storey homes” of Markle’s childhood to Prince Harry’s “palatial homes.” Markle could not be reached for comment and has not made a public statement as of Wednesday evening. According to the statement, Prince Harry is “deeply disappointed” he has been unable to prevent this kind of media involvement and hopes the press can pause and reflect before any further damage is caused. Theater Prof. Harvey Young, who chairs the department and was one of Markle’s professors during her senior year at NU, said Markle is a “smart, driven and talented” woman. He said Markle has been an unfair target of social media abuse. “It’s unfortunate that a person simply living their life, being in a relationship … can end up the target of internet trolls and harassment simply because they’re famous,” Young said. — Stavros Agorakis
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The Music Institute of Chicago will be paying tribute to jazz legend Louis Armstrong in a concert held Nov. 12 at the Nichols Concert Hall in downtown Evanston.
Music Institute concert to honor Louis Armstrong By MADDIE BURAKOFF
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Evanston will get the chance to swing this weekend when the Music Institute of Chicago revives the classic tunes of Louis Armstrong during a concert in town. The Music Institute will be holding its Louis Armstrong Legacy Concert on Nov. 12 at the Nichols Concert Hall in downtown Evanston. The concert will feature some of the classic works of the legendary jazz musician, who spent many of his formative years in Chicago. Don Vappie, the musical director and guest artist for the concert, described Armstrong as a “genius” who helped rewrite the standards for jazz music. “Whatever he was thinking, he could play, which is sort of the foundation for jazz musicians,” Vappie said. “We all strive for what he could do.” Victor Garcia, a teacher at the Music Institute
and the trumpeter for this performance, said it is an honor to channel Armstrong on the trumpet. He cited Armstrong as a personal inspiration and said he admired the musician’s talent as a showman who could connect with audiences. Garcia said he was unsure why he was drawn to the music of Armstrong and other jazz musicians like Dizzy Gillespie as a child. But he later realized his appreciation for the inclusivity and celebration of the individual performer that jazz offered. “I really loved that it was inviting to everyone regardless of what color you were; it didn’t matter what your cultural background was,” Garcia said. “It was music that could really be enjoyed by anyone and everyone.” Mark George, the president and chief executive officer of the Music Institute, said jazz might not be the largest program at the Institute, but it is growing quickly. He described Armstrong’s famous “Hot Five” and “Hot Seven” recordings, which were produced in Chicago, to be a major turning point in jazz with the “perfect balance” between composed and improvised
material. George admitted jazz is not as prominent in pop culture as it once was, but he said the jazz scene remains vibrant, partially due to its unique ability to evolve. “( Jazz) tends to gobble up every type of music that it hears,” George said. “It gets incorporated somehow into the jazz ethos and keeps the music alive.” Though Armstrong spent many years in Chicago, he was a New Orleans native. Vappie shares these New Orleans roots: He said his ancestors have been involved in music there for generations, and more than just being interested in the music scene, he feels a part of it. The city’s rich history and unique culture influenced both his and Armstrong’s musical development, he said. Though he is reluctant to separate jazz music into distinct categories, Vappie said, there are some distinguishing factors in New Orleans jazz, such as the way performers improvise in a back-and-forth manner. In this concert, Vappie said he hopes to bring in some of his “New Orleans-ness” and honor
Armstrong’s roots. He said he is trying to find a balance between respecting Armstrong’s music and allowing for individual interpretation. “The goal is to go back and perform some of that music as a classic entity, as you would Bach or Beethoven,” Vappie said. “But at the same time I want to allow everyone to explore themselves to a degree.” Vappie said jazz musicians are motivated by a desire to discover, not to make money. He said his dream job would be to simply stay home, practice and expand his musical knowledge. George added that a healthy knowledge of music is beneficial for anyone, even if they are not interested in becoming professional musicians. Learning music has proven benefits for the brain, he said, in addition to being an outlet for creativity and expression. “It’s really the same reason we want people to be able to read and understand literature,” he said. “People need to be musically literate if they are to fully embrace what it means to be a human being.” madelineburakoff2020@u.northwestern.edu
Student balances academics with leading nonprofit By OLIVIA ZAPATER-CHARRETTE daily senior staffer
For Weinberg senior Nikita Patel, music is about more than performance or technique. Pate runs Simple Gifts, a nonprofit organization she started in high school, which works to provide refurbished instruments to low-income music students. Patel founded the nonprofit four years ago, but after coming to Northwestern, she said she took a break from managing the group, but began leading it again this year. Patel has been studying music since kindergarten and has been playing the flute since the third grade, she said. Inspired by her flute teacher, Rosane Volchan O’Conor, and O’Conor’s after-school music education program for low-income students in Houston, Patel decided to get involved in helping students gain access to the same resources she had. Patel noticed that although all of the students working with O’Conor had access to recorders, only one graduated to playing the flute due to
lack of affordability or access to instruments. “At the time I was starting to teach lessons in my home community,” Patel said. “I was getting paid for that and I was like, ‘I don’t need this money, so I will invest it in trying to find instruments and refurbishing them and giving them to these kids.’” Patel reached out through local newspapers, asking people to donate used instruments. The local community then began making monetary donations as well, and Patel and her sister, Maya Patel, refurbished and distributed the musical equipment. A few years later, Simple Gifts was born. “When I was trying to get ads in the newspaper, a lot of them turned me down initially just because I had nothing,” Patel said. “So I laid low … and then eventually The Houston Chronicle posted, and that’s when most of our donations started flooding in.” Simple Gifts now operates in Houston and Kenya, where Patel collaborates with a program that provides music education for children in impoverished areas surrounding Nairobi. People who wish to donate to the organization can
contact the Patel sisters through their website and organize a meeting with them. Children who wish to receive instruments go through a rigorous application process, which is moderated at all times by the two sisters. “We want to make (them receiving instruments) a big deal so that they feel that they really accomplished something,” Maya Patel said. Nikita Patel is trying to expand Simple Gifts and begin operating in Chicago, she said. The goal is for them to move beyond just providing the instruments to creating a full support structure for the students to encourage them to continue their music education. She said she plans to keep working with Simple Gifts but to pass her leadership position on to someone else. “I’ve figured out what I need to let go and what I need to keep in order to put me in the right position to continue on past Northwestern,” Nikita Patel said. “Finding that has been a balancing act for sure.” oliviazc@u.northwestern.edu
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own bodies.” Communication junior Sydney Larrier echoed that fear, saying she’s concerned about Supreme Court retirements during the next four years. She said she fears a conservative court could further roll back access to birth control and abortions, as well as disable more laws protecting voting rights. Larrier also said Trump has allowed hate groups such as the Klu Klux Klan and neo-Nazis into the mainstream by not condemning their support. SESP senior Julia Cohen said she’s most concerned about how Trump will treat Muslims. Trump has called for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the United States, as well as surveillance of some mosques. The night of Trump’s election, multiple Muslim students told The Daily they felt unsafe and feared for their families in light of Trump’s victory. Cohen, the vice president of College Republicans, had crossed over and voted for Hillary Clinton in New York, citing Trump’s comments about women and Muslims. When Trump had all but won late Tuesday night, Cohen walked to the Lakefill, where a crowd had gathered. Students were taking turns venting into a megaphone. Eventually, Cohen rose
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introduced. But Weinberg sophomore Lars Benson, another one of the bill’s authors, disagreed. “Emergency legislation exists for a reason. We are facing an emergency,” Benson said. “It’s imperative that this is passed now. We need to be reactive when dealing with the needs of our constituents.” While giving the authorship speech for the bill, Kim said the bill needed to be passed immediately. She also said the election featured “hate” from both political parties. “This was not meant to be divisive in any
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grabbing women’s genitals and kissing them without consent. Former Evanston Mayor Lorraine H. Morton, who served as the city’s first black mayor and its second female mayor, said she was “not happy” with the election results and wasn’t so sure the presidentelect would change his rhetoric when he takes office in January. “By the time you get to be 70 years old, you are set in your ways,” she said. “You mean to tell me that somehow he is going to have a come-to-Jesus sort of feeling ... and expect the people to love him only because he has gotten this position? I don’t think so.” Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) said she was still processing
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2016 to speak, and she apologized on behalf of her fellow Republicans. “I didn’t sign up for Donald Trump,” she recalled saying into the megaphone. “I’m sorry. I feel like I’ve let my country down.” Cohen said she’s afraid that what Trump has said about women and minorities will become mainstream. “The bully pulpit of the president is what scares me the most,” Cohen said. “A president’s beliefs and culture reflect on our country in a way we often don’t even recognize.” Weinberg sophomore Charlie Yelin also fears the policies and attitudes toward LGBTQ people and other minority groups associated with a Trump presidency. Yelin said he felt like he was “hit by a truck” when he learned about the election results and had trouble actually processing what a Trump presidency would mean for him as a gay man. “I really had to think about what the actual ramifications are for my life moving forward as someone who identifies as LGBT,” Yelin said. “(Ramifications) like having a vice president who funded conversion therapy, what is that actually going to mean for me.” Trump and Pence have claimed they will repeal the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision, and will propose laws similar to Indiana’s Religious
Freedom Restoration Act, which LGBTQ activists say allows businesses to discriminate against them. Yelin said he feels like Trump’s win not only meant more policies would pass that could affect his day-to-day life, but also it legitimized hate against minority groups, which his campaign ran on. “In my mind it’s almost a mandate for people to think that, ‘Oh now I can say these things in public, I can say I hate illegals, I hate blacks, I hate Muslims,’ and that’s what’s most scary to me,” he said. “This means that those feelings can be legitimized in public.” SESP senior Sydney Selix, a co-president of College Democrats, joined anti-Trump demonstrations in Chicago on Wednesday night. She said protesters’ chants included “We don’t want a rapist in the White House” and “No KKK.” Although she primarily blames “the 52 million people who voted for him,” Selix said she wished more young people had volunteered before Election Day. “Over the past two months, I’ve hosted a good handful of empty phone banks for Hillary Clinton and Tammy Duckworth,” Selix said. “The ‘share’ button on Facebook has killed political activism.” Although Clinton showed some success among young voters, it wasn’t enough to top Trump.
Among voters 18 to 29, Clinton beat Trump 55 percent to 37 percent, according to exit polls. That margin was down from 2012, when Obama beat Republican nominee Mitt Romney 60 percent to 37 percent in that age range. But polls also show Trump beat Clinton among whites age 18 to 29, 48 percent to 43 percent. Young people of color voted overwhelmingly for Clinton. For NU students, Trump’s upset is perhaps all the more stunning because his support is concentrated far away from Evanston. Trump had hardly any visible support on this campus, and Clinton won Cook County by 53 points, a cushion that let her win Illinois handily. So his victory shocked and upset many students, including Fox. She said Trump’s triumph forces young people to confront a “terrifying” reality that might follow Obama’s presidency. But she’s hopeful. “There was an assumption that we were past this fear and this hate, and now we can’t ignore that we’re not,” Fox said. “It can be numbing; it can make us withdraw. But I think and I hope that it’ll bring us together, that it will make us work harder.”
way,” she said. “In fact, it was written to actually bring campus together. It was meant to ensure that students feel safe on this campus.” Senators contested many of the clauses in the resolution, including whether or not presidentelect Donald Trump should be named in the bill. They also debated whether the bill, which Kim described as apolitical, is actually so. Senate voted to amend the original bill, adding a clause to clarify that the legislation is non-partisan. Weinberg sophomore Mike Seethaler — who said he did not find the bill apolitical — introduced an amendment to drop the word “undocumented” from multiple spots in the legislation,
describing the term as inherently partisan. His suggestions were criticized by several senators. “If we want to continue with it being nonpartisan,” Seethaler said, “when something directly goes against the Republican platform, we should either acknowledge this isn’t apolitical, or we should strike language that is in opposition of one of the two major parties in America.” The Senate voted down Seethaler’s proposed amendment, and shortly thereafter voted to pass the legislation with only one vote of opposition. The legislation also calls on professors to meet with students to better meet their
academic needs through measures such as granting extensions and allowing absences. It also asks the University to pass policies that would ban exams from being held on Election Day or the following day. Senate also unanimously voted create a Mental Health Ad Hoc committee. The committee will start with only ASG members, but Vice President Macs Vinson said eventually the committee will be open to all students. Senate also approved $2,900 in Wild Ideas funding for Students for Sensible Drug Policy for an event featuring comedian Tommy Chong.
the election results Wednesday afternoon but that not electing Clinton was a “missed opportunity” for the nation. “If you think about that smart girl in the sixth grade who really did her homework and how admiring all of us were about that girl? That’s what Hillary is,” she said. Being in Evanston on Election Night, Fiske said she felt like she was on an island. “We’ve been lucky in Evanston. Our City Council is majority women and it has been for awhile,” she said. “I know Evanston will always do the right thing.” Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said in an email that the city will remain an inclusive place to live “regardless of who inhabits the White House.” Jane Grover, former alderman from the 7th
Ward, said the first call she made Wednesday morning was to her mother, who served in public office in Michigan. “I am sad for the generation ahead of me, my mother’s generation, that may not live to see a woman serve as our president,” she said. Grover and others remained hopeful about the future for women in politics. Revelle said she hopes young women won’t be discouraged by the “setback.” “I hope that women, and young women in particular are not going to be discouraged by the experience of Hillary Clinton,” Revelle said. In her concession speech Wednesday morning, Clinton said to women, “nothing has made me prouder than to be your champion.” “I know we have still not shattered that highest
and hardest glass ceiling, but some day someone will and hopefully sooner than we might think right now,” she said. “And to all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.” Grover said she was confident the future first woman president is alive today and was watching Clinton speak. “She may be a Democrat or a Republican or from some third party that hasn’t taken shape yet, but she exists, and it will happen, and I hope i’m around to see that.” Julia Jacobs contributed reporting.
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Thai restaurant owned by childhood friends opens By NORA SHELLY
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When Mina Sudsaard was trying to figure out what to do with a big blank wall in her restaurant, she decided to honor her home country with a portrait of deceased Thai king Bhumibol Adulyadej. The king’s face adorns the northern-facing wall in NaKorn, 1622 Orrington Ave., a new restaurant that features homestyle Thai food. Sudsaard started the restaurant along with Sam Rattanopas, her best friend since the two were in third grade together in Bangkok. The two immigrated to the United States together in 1996, according to a news release from the restaurant. “It’s been a long journey for us to get here,” Sudsaard said at Friday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony. “But we decided to do this with love. We love food. We want to tell the story, tell the culture through our food.” The restaurant has been serving customers for a few weeks but officially opened on Friday. Rattanopas has previous experience in the food business, so the two decided they could combine their skills and open a restaurant with Rattanopas in charge of the food and Sudsaard in charge of the marketing. Sudsaard said the restaurant’s fare is focused
on serving the sort of Thai food they would make at home. “We’re bringing back the old recipes, the home-cooked kind of meals, but we are adding a twist to it,” she said. “We stay true to the real flavor of Thai food.” Annie Coakley, the executive director of Downtown Evanston, said she expected the restaurant to fare well in Evanston. The sort of traditional food NaKorn is planning on serving is particularly popular in the city at the moment, Coakley said. “We are a dining capital of the North Shore, so it’s always exciting to get a new restaurant,” she said. Just as they are trying to bring elements of their Thai heritage into the food, Sudsaard said they hoped to honor their birth country with the decor of the restaurant. Bird-cage lights adorn the ceiling, and one wall in the restaurant is devoted entirely to a copper-marker mural depicting a Thai street scene. Sudsaard said the mural, as well as the lighting, comes from the co-founders’ Bangkok upbringing. “Everything that you see brings of the past,” she said. “NaKorn means urban, means metropolitan … and we both come from Bangkok, so we are trying to showcase … the city scene.” norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu
Setting the record straight An article in Tuesday’s paper titled “Council supports garage fee hike” misattributed a quote to Ald. Brian Miller (9th). Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said “Looking at these other rates, even the $100 range seems to me to be a pretty good bargain.” An article in the paper from Nov. 3 titled “Know your ballot: Fight for the Ninth” misstated how long U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky served in the Illinois General Assembly. She served eight years. The Daily regrets the errors.
Evanston police act under updated nuisance premises ordinance
Evanston police are for the first time using measures laid out by the city’s newly-updated nuisance premises ordinance. The department recently identified a rental property that has increasingly been the subject of neighborhood complaints, a news release said. The nuisance premises ordinance allows police to arrange meetings with a property owner after a number of property violations or instances of police activity occur. Evanston police met with the property’s landlord after increased complaints and a recent aggravated offense that occurred on the property, resulting in the arrest of armed gang members. City Council most recently altered the
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conversations to happen,” Wilson said. “Students, no matter what they’re involved in on campus, hopefully are aware of or are comfortable going to one of the different spaces that there are.” Telles-Irvin said staff members from Campus Inclusion & Community would be present throughout campus Wednesday to provide support for students, and Associated Student Government reached out to students directly by organizing a post-election gathering in Norris University Center on Wednesday night. Some faculty members also went out of their way to support students. English Prof. Shaundra Myers replaced her classes with open office hours where students could come to either discuss classwork or the election. “This is not something I would ordinarily do, but I thought today called for us to do something different and not go about business as usual,” Myers said. “It was a means to offer an intimate supportive space that sometimes the classroom is not.” In addition to providing safe spaces for students outside the classroom, professors such as McCormick Prof. Suzanne Olds altered their plans for classes.
nuisance premises ordinance in June. The updates include classifying criminal offenses into two categories, aggravated and nonaggravated offenses, which can initiate the nuisance premises process. The former includes homicide and theft, while the latter focuses on non-violent crimes such as fire code violations and prostitution. Police and the landlord formed specific recommendations for the landlord to fulfill. Once the agreement is made, the landlord will have 30 days to execute the corrective actions. Because the property owner complied with Evanston police and formed a joint agreement, the department will not reveal the landlord’s identity or the property’s location. The police will follow up with the property to make sure the corrective actions are taken by both the landlord and the property’s residents. — Ben Winck
Olds said she had scheduled a midterm for Wednesday, but received emails from students Tuesday night expressing concern about having to take an exam at 9 the next morning. After polling students, the majority of which voted to postpone the exam, Olds said she “didn’t feel right” giving an exam when students would likely be tired and distracted.
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Northwestern will twice feature in the Big Ten’s new plan to play one Friday football game per week next season, traveling to Maryland on Friday, Oct. 13, and then hosting Michigan State on Friday, Oct. 27. That announcement will surely not please coach Pat Fitzgerald, but it should satisfy all others with interests in the Wildcats’ success. The Friday primetime games will equate to a much-deserved exposure increase for the program, putting two matchups on national television that likely otherwise wouldn’t be and boosting attendance for the game against the Spartans. On Monday, Fitzgerald struggled to contain his obvious distaste for the plan, worrying about how a shortened week between games would affect players’ health and force them to miss more class time. “I’m also not naive to understand what the driving forces are behind that, and I get it, but it doesn’t mean I like it,” Fitzgerald said. Those driving forces are unquestionably television networks. Starting in 2017, Fox will pay the Big Ten $240 million annually to televise half of the conference’s games, while ESPN will pay $190 million annually for the other half. Those agreements will benefit NU arguably more than it will powerhouse programs like Ohio State and Michigan, which were already on national television almost every week. New programming — such as the Friday games, which are guaranteed to be televised on either ESPN or Fox — will give the Cats more exposure than ever before. For comparison, the team’s game against Michigan State this season was on Big Ten Network, and any matchup against Maryland, an even less historically-relevant opponent, would almost certainly have been too. There’s evidence that such national exposure could translate into better recruiting. Data from 2010 to 2015 show that, for Big Ten teams, national television exposure, and not winning percentage, was a statistically significant predictor of recruiting success. Additionally, night games, even on Fridays, will likely be more attractive to fans — and students in particular — than the all-toocommon late morning kickoffs. The student section filled 2.5 of its three allotted sections for last year’s night games against Ball State and this year’s Nebraska; it barely filled more than one section for the 11 a.m. homecoming matchup with Indiana three weeks ago. And what about players missing Friday classes? Sophomore safety Jared McGee said Monday he already misses Friday classes for travel and that the moved-up games will actually give him a more well-defined weekend to catch up on work. Fitzgerald has legitimate concerns, but the Big Ten’s decision to add Friday games — as selfish and profit-driven as it may have been — will yield nothing but positives for NU’s football program. benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu
TAKE THE FALL By BENJY APELBAUM
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Northwestern ended a better-thananticipated fall season with a dramatic finish. The Wildcats placed in a tie for third out of eight teams Wednesday at the Gifford Collegiate, a tournament contested with a combination of stroke and match play over three days. After the team finished tied for fifth in stroke play, graduate student Conor Richardson staged a dramatic comeback during the Cats’ third-place match against Washington that culminated in making a match-tying putt. “It was really cool going down the stretch,” Richardson said. “We weren’t too sure what putts were going to matter, so we tried to claw for each hole.” The first day of the tournament began with two rounds of stroke play to determine the seeding of the matches. Junior Dylan Wu led NU at 7-under par to finish tied for fourth overall in the stroke play tournament. That set up a matchup with Colorado in the first round, with the Cats squeaking by 3.5-2.5. Freshman Everton Hawkins birdied the 18th hole to secure his match, 1 up, and ensure the victory. Next came a showdown with the top seed, No. 18 USC, in the semifinals. NU lost the match 4-2, but came within just a few strokes of pulling an upset. Richardson won his individual match and was heartened by the team’s overall performance. “We started OK in stroke play … but all bets are off in match play,” Richardson said. “We proved to everyone that we can
hang with anyone in the country when it comes to match play.” The loss to the Trojans set NU up for the exciting ending in the third-place match against the Huskies. Richardson was in one of the last pairings, and while he said he was not fully aware of the overall picture, Richardson birdied two of the final three holes to finish all square and tie the overall match. The format of the tournament mirrors the final rounds of the NCAA Championships, which were changed to match play two years ago. This tournament, the Bush Cup and the Big Ten Match Play Tournament are the only chances the Cats have on their schedule to compete in match play. “I thought the format was great,” coach David Inglis said. “It was to give a chance to experience what it was like at the NCAAs. That added excitement, and they enjoyed the head-to-head match play.” The tournament was the team’s final competition of a fall season that has given NU a chance to compete against many of the nation’s top teams and establish itself as a contender. The Cats won their first tournament in three years at the Marquette Invitational and statistical rankings from Golfstat now rank them 36th in the country. “We showed this fall that we’re a really good team,” Wu said. “We competed against the best teams; we won a tournament and were a few holes from beating USC. … Hopefully we can carry that momentum into the spring and through Nationals.”
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Two top opponents on tap for Northwestern By AIDAN MARKEY
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On Oct. 10, 2015, Northwestern took down No. 3 Penn State in Welsh-Ryan Arena, 3-2. Now, 13 months removed from the program’s biggest win, the Wildcats have a chance to take down another goliath or two. NU (8-18, 1-13 Big Ten) welcomes two of the top three teams in the country this weekend. No. 3 Wisconsin (20-3, 12-2) and No. 2 Minnesota (19-4, 11-3) will visit Evanston on Saturday and Sunday, respectively, as the Cats look to do the seemingly impossible and snap a five-match losing streak in the process.
No. 3 Wisconsin vs. Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 7 p.m. Saturday
No. 2 Minnesota vs. Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 7 p.m. Sunday
Junior middle blocker Gabrielle Hazen said though the team’s opponents’ rankings are daunting, this weekend’s contests are just like any other. “We prepare the same for every team,” Hazen said. “We want to play our volleyball, regardless of who is on the other side of the net.” The team is coming off a pair of
weekend losses to Michigan State and Michigan. Although the Spartans dominated NU, the Cats came back and gave the Wolverines a competitive match in which the team showed a consistent attack and a disciplined serve-receive. Coach Shane Davis said the team is looking to carry the momentum from the match with Michigan into this weekend. “We need to continue to build off of how we played at Michigan. It was one of our more complete matches,” Davis said. “We’re playing more consistently, and that is going to be key against two teams that are upperclassmen-heavy and are consistently competitive with every point.” NU, though confident with its momentum, must prepare for the
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Symone Abbott swings for a kill. The junior outside hitter will have to contend with a strong opposing presence at the net in weekend matches with No. 2 Minnesota and No. 3 Wisconsin.
Golden Gophers’ and Badgers’ massive presence at the net. Minnesota is the top blocking team in the Big Ten at 2.92 blocks per set, and Wisconsin, ranked sixth in the category, comes in at 2.52 blocks per set. The team has struggled with its opponents’ size and blocking presence in the past, making this weekend’s matchups especially challenging. Freshman libero Sarah Johnson said the Cats’ poise and commitment to their game plan will be imperative if the team is to compete with two of the nation’s elite squads. “We need to be smart,” Johnson said. “We’re not going to change our systems; we’re going to do what we do best.” NU is in the middle of a fourmatch stretch against ranked teams. This is not the first such grueling portion of the schedule for the Cats, as the team lost five consecutive games against ranked opponents, all sweeps, from Oct. 5 to Oct. 15. Davis said aggressive but savvy play is the key if the Cats want to earn a different result this time around. “We have to be able to serve them aggressively and keep them off the net,” he said. “If we can limit some of their options and some of their rotations, it’s going to help us out a lot.” Even if the team were to execute its plans for the weekend, Davis said the tough plays in crunch time will decide whether NU takes down a top-three opponent for the second consecutive season. “At the end of the day, we can be in good spots,” Davis said. “But we have to start making plays.” aidanmarkey2019@u.northwestern.edu