The Daily Northwestern — Graduation Issue 2024

June 3, 2024

The Daily Northwestern Class of 2024 Graduation Issue

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Letter From The Editor

Graduation Issue Staff Box

A little humility

Editor in Chief

goes a long way

It’s a personal hell of mine to exist as a journalist and a habitually private person. From my understanding, one point of journalism, (unless you’re a columnist and even then), is that the journalist should not be the story. So it’s a little weird to think that after four years of chronicling other people’s lives in these faded, newsprint pages, it’s time to write a column all about me and my experiences at The Daily Northwestern and Northwestern University at large.* If I were to write a generic senior farewell, I’d probably start with a little anecdote about how I began working at this paper, mention people who supported me along the way, add more information about some things I did here, and wrap it up with a bow in the form of a lesson about community, friendship, empowerment, finding myself and other common themes of young adult, comingof-age novels. These are all great stories that you should read and digest, but you won’t be getting any of the above out of me. Not because I don’t think I deserve it, but because there are plenty of those narratives to go around.

Instead, I invite you to think about the same existential question that journalism posed to me as a habitually private person. Each time I picked up the phone to call a source, a small voice in the back of my head asked “Why are you so entitled to this person’s opinion?” Clearly it wasn’t loud enough to stop me, but it did give me pause when approaching sensitive stories or when interviewing someone who wasn’t thinking about how their words might affect future job prospects or their reputation.

Alex Perry

What made me proud to work at The Daily Northwestern was that I joined this publication at a time where staffers were questioning their own entitlement. The broad brushstroke journalists use when defending our craft is that we’re about transparency and holding power to account. These are great missions on paper, but in practice, they’re messier than one would expect.

Entitlement is dangerous, and most sources can sniff out a bad motive (“we’re doing it for the greater good!”) behind a question in a heartbeat.

If you want information, you better have a good reason in the eyes of the person you’re asking, and it can’t be “just ‘cause!” Are you looking to better something about this person’s situation by revealing inequality? Are you helping a deceased individual be remembered more completely in an obituary? Are you documenting a political event so that readers can see the truth about what’s happening and respond accordingly?

To me, these reasons are way better than the selfaggrandizing, navel-gazing, and frankly, disturbingly entitled viewpoint of journalists who invade private lives, extract information and cast aside the consequences as necessarily casualties created in the pursuit of an amorphous and mystical “truth.”

See exceptions: Broken promises and lies from governments, companies and other entities (including

Design Editor Angeli Mittal

Contributors

media!) who claim to be in service of others but fall short of that expectation.

As a private person, the only way you’re getting me to share my story is to demonstrate that your inquiries are rooted in impartial curiosity, empathy or a genuine want to lend history a more complete truth. Anything less than that, and I’m afraid the only stories out there will be from people who shout unprompted for opportunities to put their own story on center stage.

It’s been a good run. Thank you to my friends, family, partner and hamster for getting me through each day. The journalists I worked with and the people they wrote about taught me a lot about myself, and for that, I am grateful. * In fact, my commencement speech (to be posted next week on the Class of 2024’s graduation website) goes seven paragraphs until I crop up for two sentences and disappear for the rest!

Class of 2024 staffers of The Daily Northwestern

Aayushya Agarwal Sarah Aie Olivia Alexander Gabe Bider Anna Bock Caroline Brew Lily Carey Alex Cervantes

Will Clark Yiming Fu Isabel Funk Joanne Haner Audrey Hettleman Joanna Hou Russell Leung Waverly Long

Daniela Lubezki Ali McCadden Kadin Mills Angeli Mittal Laya Neelakandan Lily Nevo Catherine Odom Brian Paget

Maia Pandey Alex Perry Katrina Pham Lawrence Price Emma Rosenbaum Jorja Siemons Charlotte Varnes Skye Swann

Aayushya Agarwal Caroline Brew Alex Cervantes Isabel Funk Joanne Haner Joanna Hou

Russell Leung Maia Pandey Lawrence Price Jorja Siemons Charlotte Varnes

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COVID-19 causes concern for community safety

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Cusick (SESP ‘18), the memorial began after Ramzan’s name was painted on the tree following his death in 2017. The next time The Rock was painted, Cusick said, the tree was left unpainted to preserve Ramzan’s name. Over time, more names were added, including Chuyuan “Chu” Qiu, who died in a biking accident in 2016.

Cusick, Qiu’s Peer Adviser, remembers the tree as a way to stay connected with Qiu.

After their numbers began dwindling following a “mass wave” of disaffiliation, newly appointed executive board president J.R. Hecimovich said he doesn’t know what the future holds for the Sigma Nu chapter at Northwestern.

About 75 percent of the fraternity’s pledges, including the chapter’s former president, Weinberg junior Philip Clement, said they were inspired to drop out after seeing the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement and testimonials on the Abolish NU IFC/PHA Greek Life Instagram account.

“I felt like a lot of people have had this large shift in perspective (over the summer),” Clement said. “With this new perspective, I personally didn’t feel comfortable being in an organization that operated the way Greek life currently operates.”

Clement said conversations took place virtually during the summer months and

» See TREE, page 9

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By SAM HELLER the daily northwestern @samheller5 As students return to Evanston and adjust to pandemic measures, city residents are also adjusting to having students back in town.

Many residents are worried about students being back — especially when it comes to their compliance with Illinois COVID-19 guidelines.

“We are very happy for the students to be our neighbors, but we have to ensure that not only are the students safe and healthy, but so is the broader community,” Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) said.

Rue Simmons said some residents have complained directly to her about students living in off-campus housing, which prompted a 5th Ward town hall meeting this Thursday.

Residents’ largest concerns have been large gatherings off campus and encounters with dozens of students not wearing masks in downtown Evanston, Rue Simmons said.

Some residents have also mentioned being worried about the underclassmen who are returning as well and moving to off-campus housing, thus increasing the number of students who are not under Northwestern’s direct watch.

Evanston businesses are projecting a loss in revenue without all the students coming back to campus. The financial impact of COVID-19 has already hurt many of them.

However some believe the risk of having the students back on campus outweighs the increased revenue students would bring.

Dave’s New Kitchen relies heavily on student business. But » See RETURN, page 9

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The memorial tree lies on the grass outside Harris Hall. After students and alumni reacted negatively to the tree’s removal, the University is planning

Student memorial to be replaced

Commemorative tree taken down without warning for safety reasons

By MEGAN MUNCE

daily senior staffer @meganmuncie

Students and alumni quickly organized to save a memorial to students who died while at Northwestern after it was removed by the University without notice.

On Friday afternoon, a group of students contacted administrators after noticing the tree next to The Rock had been removed and was lying

on the ground nearby alongside several other chopped trees.

According to Julie PayneKirchmeier, vice president for student affairs, the tree was removed over the weekend for “safety reasons,” and the trunk is now held in storage.

“We acknowledge the special place the tree held for many members of our student body, but in recent months the condition of the tree had been rapidly deteriorating, to the point that it was considered

by University arborists to be a

potential risk,” she said in an email to The Daily.

Before 2017, student groups would paint the tree in the same fashion as The Rock. However, in recent years, the tree served as a memorial to students who had died during their time at NU. The names of some of these students — Chuyuan Qiu, Ananya Agrawal, Kenzie Krogh, Mohammed Ramzan and Jordan Hankins — were painted vertically up the trunk of the tree.

According to Katharine

Businesses adapt to help customers during COVID

Mass closures endanger downtown Evanston storefronts after shutdowns, student departures

By JACOB FULTON

daily senior staffer @jacobnfulton

Downtown Evanston seems emptier than it was at the start of the year.

Walk down any street, and passers-by will notice signs advertising retail spaces for lease, covering the once-filled windows of shops long gone. In 2020 alone, around 70 businesses have closed so far, and nearly 40 of these closures were prompted by a shared problem: COVID-19.

The pandemic has hit retail stores incredibly hard, causing mass closures and stalling the growth of recently-opened locations. Annie Coakley, the executive director of Downtown Evanston, said many restaurants had an infrastructure in place that allowed them to transition to pandemic service — but many retailers didn’t.

“Restaurants were working or at least operating throughout the actual quarantine and shelter in place because of their ability to do delivery and pickup,” Coakley said. “That’s a different world

than regular retail where you couldn’t go into a store and shop.

But the root of this problem doesn’t begin with COVID-19.

Even before the pandemic, local businesses, especially retailers, were crippled by the rise of online shopping and the wave of big businesses moving into Evanston.

Amid this overcrowding, Nina Barrett, the owner of Bookends & Beginnings, has remained an advocate for local businesses and the “shop local” mentality.

Barrett’s store, an Evanston favorite since it opened in 2014, had to change its business model

when the pandemic hit. From the day Barrett closed her doors in March until Bookends & Beginnings’ reopening in July, the store was only taking online orders.

“We had to completely reinvent the business that we were in,” Barrett said. “What was good for us and gave us an advantage that a lot of other small businesses don’t have is that all along, we had a website that allowed people to order online not only anything that we had in the store, but anything that our very large distributor that we work with has in their warehouses.”

Barrett said one of her store’s biggest competitors, Amazon, was actually the store’s saving grace for a short time. Early on in the pandemic, the retail giant announced that it would prioritize essential deliveries over nonessential ones, like books. As a result, Barrett said her store saw an influx of online orders during that period.

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On being scared to tweet and the pressure to market yourself as a student journalist

In the winter of 2022, two of us (Caroline and Maia) were at long last ready to publish our In Focus — a monthslong investigation into how Northwestern Counseling and Psychological Services has repeatedly failed students. On the eve of publication, however, we nearly buckled under a final hurdle: Our editors encouraged us to craft threads on Twitter, now known as X, to promote our reporting.

It wasn’t an entirely unprecedented piece of advice. Journalists often post on social media to boost their major reporting projects, including authors of In Foci at The Daily. But one of us had tweeted only under duress for class assignments, and the other didn’t even have a Twitter account.

We asked ourselves why — despite the countless hours spent interviewing students and administrators in addition to the numerous nights stuck in the newsroom writing and editing — one of the hardest parts of the In Focus process was drafting a tweet. Why does it feel so uncomfortable at times to promote your work as a journalist?

This question continued to come up when the four of us worked together on the campus desk in spring 2022. That quarter, we also bonded over struggles to fill the paper, the minutiae of Associated Student Government bylaws and various Evanston brunch spots.

While we all moved on to other roles at The Daily after the year, we stayed friends and continued to navigate the social politics of student publications and the challenges of journalism together. And in

the subsequent experiences we had at The Daily and professional newsrooms, we kept grappling with how to pursue our careers while not swiveling the

spotlight of our reporting on ourselves.

When it came time to apply to jobs and internships, we were faced with the reality of having to “sell” ourselves as journalists. Even our very first Medill classes encouraged us to create Twitter accounts and build a social media presence.

But we realized that while sharing your own work and accomplishments is important, it can sometimes feel at odds with why we entered journalism: spotlighting underrepresented communities and bringing systemic inequities to light. What is the line between promoting your reporting and redirecting attention away from the actual subjects onto yourself?

We understand that social media can be an

important tool to reach broader audiences. And for journalists who aren’t institutionally trained and connected — especially those from communities historically underrepresented in newsrooms — it can be the key to “making it” in the industry.

However, in the case of sensitive stories like our In Focus on CAPS, it can feel morally confusing to post about all the months you spent working on a story — especially when the sources themselves were the ones who were truly brave in sharing their painful, even traumatizing experiences with us.

In spring 2023, the other two of us (Russell and Joanna) covered the aftermath of the fatal Clark Street Beach shooting. Journalistically, it was a big story, but we avoided tweeting long-winded thoughts about our own coverage to keep the attention on the victims.

In both instances, tweeting felt self-congratulatory, even if it was to promote important pieces of reporting.

When we sat down to write this column, we were hoping to end it with our thoughts on how others might approach striking this balance. But the truth is we don’t really have an answer. All we know is, as we start our careers, we want to interrogate the emerging imperative for journalists to cultivate a personal brand.

We hope The Daily and Medill will start tackling these conversations, especially as social media plays an evolving role in journalism. Journalism has never been about the person behind the byline, and we believe stories have the most impact when sources speak for themselves through our reporting.

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A love letter

to the multimedia room

Those of us unfamiliar with the Daily may not even know where the multimedia room is. For reference, we’re located on the third floor, just like the “regular” newsroom, but on the other side of the space with the couches. I remember giving my nonDaily friends those exact directions and seeing them turn in circles in confusion as they looked around the floor and couldn’t find me. As I would wave from behind the door of the tucked away multimedia room, I’d laugh as they came in and saw what we, an award-winning college newspaper, would be up to in there.

Don’t get me wrong, we got our work done, and I like to think we did it well, but part of what made the multimedia room so special was the camaraderie of the tight space. With standing lights, backdrops, equipment cabinets, desks, and wall decorations galore, we really had no choice but to be close to each other.

I spent way too many hours on the third floor of Norris my sophomore and junior years. But the dwindling hours of the night were always made brighter by the laughter and antics of my fellow friends and staffers. Some of my favorite Daily memories are of watching and commenting on the cultural significance of the Twilight series as we edit and wait for stories to come in, ultimately leading to some crazy conversations about pop culture and media as a whole.

But the multimedia room wasn’t always smiles and silly movies. Entering as a freshman mid-pandemic, producing photo and video content was virtually impossible. As the newsroom adapted to remote reporting, multimedia was lost in the past.

Part of what makes the Daily Northwestern such an impactful organization in the world of journalism is its institutional knowledge and renowned reputation. But in the ever-changing world of multimedia content, it can be hard to keep up with trends and platforms and apply that knowledge.

I saw the photo desk rise from the ashes my

sophomore year. Later that year, I saw the video desk become a small but mighty force of digital reporting. All the while, audio was on the rise, and it was only a matter of time before we introduced a data visualizations desk to the paper with the help of my former photo assistant Ava Mandoli (unrelated, but there’s an unspoken photojournalist to data journalist pipeline that should be studied). While we now “officially” had these desks, garnering interest wasn’t always the easiest task – when people think “The Daily Northwestern,” they usually don’t immediately think “immersive multimedia.”

I know that handling expensive equipment and using industry-standard editing software sounds intimidating. We did our best to make it as accessible as possible to interested parties – after all, the goal of working at the Daily is to learn. To be honest, I was surprised we managed to keep the desks afloat some quarters given the few staffers we had. It was definitely a labor of love, fighting to pave the way for multimedia love in an otherwise print-heavy newsroom, but I wouldn’t change anything about my journey. Taking the unbeaten path and building something for future generations can be rewarding.

Also, I would be remiss to write a love letter to multimedia without recognizing the countless hours of the design team. While I myself haven’t touched InDesign in years, the design team keeps the print paper afloat each quarter. Your efforts and actions are so valuable to this paper, and don’t ever forget that.

So to everyone I shared a laugh with over crazy music suggestions and cursed Glee episodes – I’ll miss you. I met some of the best journalists – and people for that matter – I know at the Daily, and I’ll cherish those relationships forever. The insane photos and papers plastered on the walls and ceiling of the multimedia room are just the start of a long living archive of what that little windowless room is capable of.

Joanne Haner/Daily Senior Staffer

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GOOD THINGS COME FROM THOSE WHO WAIT I never intended to join a college newspaper staff when I imagined what the next four years would look like. Though spending the second half of my senior year in my bedroom was not how I envisioned the culmination of high school to look like, either. It’s funny how a pandemic can truly defy the odds, creating positive memories previously unimaginable.

Becoming the subject of my reflection four years later.

I was actually a waitlist admit to Northwestern. In a world without a pandemic, where students may not have deferred their first year of college, I don’t think I ever would have been stuck at Howard as many times as I have, waiting for the Purple Line to take me to Evanston. But a phone call in early May truly changed that, though The Daily Northwestern was still never on my radar.

I’m still truly not sure how I got to the level of involvement that I did during my time at Northwestern. I just know that logging into the fall Student Organizations Fair, I was drawn to how eager the students were to welcome any freshman looking for a way to understand Northwestern despite circumstances keeping us apart.

At first, I was adamant about staying away from science reporting, having had enough of the subject in my freshman year courses. Instead, I became acquainted with the Evanston community without ever stepping foot in the city. I learned about the Associated Student Government from meetings I attended on my bed. But in reporting for disparate subjects, I learned how unavoidable it was to separate the pandemic from our current lives. How unavoidable it would be to separate our health from our reality.

I could not have written half of the articles I wrote for The Daily had it not been for the pandemic. And

it became my unique way of melding my background and interests with journalism.

But my reflection isn’t about the science and public health reporting I did for The Daily. Or about how I would soon rise up the ranks, serving in the trifecta of managing editor roles. Though all important to the back story, it’s about why I stayed at the college newspaper.

When I came to the design room at the beginning of sophomore year, I felt like I had stumbled upon a circle of life-long friends. While I was planted on the third floor of Norris into weird hours of the night, I thoroughly enjoyed blasting my controversial music taste and marathoning through the Twilight series.

Because journalism wasn’t my main field of study, designing the print paper twice a week served as my reprieve from studying for organic chemistry.

The Daily prides itself as a teaching newspaper, with students claiming that they learn more from The Daily than from their Medill classes. As a non-Medill student, it was pretty neat, then, to not only learn to use the whole suite of Adobe Creative Cloud software, but to also learn how to pick up a camera and find myself traveling for sports games for years to come.

I have made memories both in the newsroom and across the country that have become the highlights of my Daily tenure and my undergraduate experience.

As a senior in high school looking forward to how my college experience would become, I did not see myself even becoming involved with a college newspaper in the first place. In the newsroom now as a college senior, just a week shy from graduating, I can’t imagine a place more fitting to spend the last moments of my time here at Northwestern.

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Rewind the tape.

May 12, 2021

Mike Polisky resigns as AD after nine-day tenure Mike Polisky, a long-time athletics staffer, was named athletic director on May 3, 2021 following Jim Phillips’ departure for the ACC. His promotion sparked immediate backlash, as Polisky had recently been named a defendant in a federal lawsuit alleging sexual harassment in the cheer program. More than 200 students, faculty and staff marched to then-University President Morton Schapiro’s home to protest Polisky’s promotion on May 7. Schapiro defended the hire in a May 6 statement. Polisky resigned on May 12, writing in a statement that he did not “want to be a distraction to our incredible staff as it pursues the collective goal of helping our student-athletes become the best they can be.”

Spring 2022

Softball punches ticket to first Women’s College World Series since 2007 Elimination was knocking on the ‘Cats front door on May 29, as coach Kate Drohan and her squad trailed 5-0 in the third inning to No. 8 Arizona State in the third and final game of the Tempe Super Regional. It begged whether senior pitcher Danielle Williams, who had already thrown over 300 pitches total in the first and second contests of the series, could continue to do the impossible.

Yet, with their back against the wall, the Cardiac Cats lived up to their name. Scoring four runs in the fourth, the ‘Cats would go on to score at least one more in the game’s final three innings, while Williams limited the Sun Devils to only one run in the bottom of the seventh. As sophomore third baseman Hannah Cady caught the final out in foul territory, it stamped the program’s first trip back to the Women’s College World Series for the first time since 2007.

The Class of 2024’s top 10 Northwestern sports moments

November 21, 2021

Field hockey wins its first-ever national championship The Cats used a dominant defensive performance to shut out Liberty 2-0 en route to the program’s first-ever national championship. The championship victory marked the first for an NU team sport since 2012, when lacrosse won its seventh national championship. The team bused back from Ann Arbor that evening, dancing in the street by the Walter Athletics Center as the NU Marching Band played. Maddie Zimmer was named Most Outstanding Player after scoring one of the Cats’ two goals in the championship game.

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May 28, 2023

Lacrosse wins eighth national championship After an 11-year drought, the Cats again found themselves atop the lacrosse world after defeating Boston College 18-6 in the national title game. NU was unstoppable after its sole loss to Syracuse in the season-opener, going on a 21-game winning streak that continued through the championship.

Izzy Scane, who went on to win the Tewaaraton Award, led the team with 99 goals and 35 assists.

After the championship, coach Kelly Amonte Hiller spoke about how she hit the “reset button” on the program and embraced what made it successful back in 2005 as a way to get back to the top.

February 12, 2023

B a s ke tb a l l ’ s w i n over No. 1 Purdue Propelled by a 17-3 run over the final four minutes of action, NU notched the program’s first victory over an AP No. 1 team. The Cats’ starting triumvirate of Chase Audige, Boo Buie and Ty Berry suffocated the Purdue backcourt, while Chris Lowery’s patented post traps gave Zach Edey fits, combining in 22 Boilermaker turnovers. As the seconds ticked away and the buzzer sounded, a horde of black-clad students and fans stormed the court in celebration. And no one offered a better summation of that fateful Sunday’s events than NU’s own Dave Revsine (Weinberg, ‘91) on the call for BTN: “The improbable season has taken an impossible turn.”

March 12, 2023

Basketball punches ticket to M arch M adness Six seasons removed from their first NCAA Tournament appearance, Chris Collins and the Cats were dancing again. After years spent toiling in the Big Ten’s basement, NU mustered the most conference wins in program history (12), a second-place finish in the Big Ten and secured a postseason bid to Sacramento, California, which earned Collins the distinction of Big Ten Coach of the Year.

The Cats knocked off Boise State behind 42 points from Buie and Audige before they fell to UCLA in the round of 32. Collins came to Evanston wanting to “create history,” he said, and did so to an incredible degree during the 2022-23 campaign.

Source: NU Athletics

Fall 2023

Football goes above .500 post-scandal, wins bowl Entering the 2023 season, expectations surrounding Northwestern’s ability to compete in the Big Ten remained razor thin. Following a tumultuous offseason and clear voids on both sides of the field, the ‘Cats proved many skeptics wrong early on largely in part through Ben Bryant’s play under center.

After a 38-7 home victory over UTEP, NU earned its first victory over a calendar year. Over the next six games, the ‘Cats traded wins and losses, remaining at 3-3 entering the team’s bye. With six wins needed for bowl eligibility, NU followed an impressive home victory over Maryland with road wins at Wisconsin and Illinois. Off a 45-43 shootout against Illinois, the ‘Cats won the Land of Lincoln trophy for the first time since 2020 and finished the regular season with a 7-5 record. Matched against Utah in the Las Vegas Bowl, NU won a 14-7 defensive dogfight, following Bryce Kirtz’s game-winning, latefourth quarter touchdown.

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Summer 2023

Football hazing scandal/general athletic turmoil, Fitz fired On the morning of July 8, 2023, The Daily Northwestern reported that inappropriate hazing traditions, involving coerced sexual acts, took place in the Northwestern Football program, a former NU football player told The Daily and was confirmed by a second player. This included reports that head coach Pat Fitzgerald had knowledge of some of these encounters and made reference to them at practice. Following Saturday’s story, more reports came out surrounding the program, as former players described a “culture of enabling racism,” over 15 lawsuits were filed and multiple players entered the transfer portal. After suspending Fitzgerald for two weeks without pay on Friday, July 7, Northwestern parted ways with the longtime coach on Monday, July 10. Fitzgerald filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in October 2023 and currently awaits his case’s trial date in April 2025.

Winter 2023

B o o B u i e b re a k s b a s ke tb a l l s cori ng re cord Entering a late-February contest against Michigan at Welsh-Ryan Arena, Boo Buie remained just four points shy of surpassing John Shurna programbest 2,038 point milestone. While Buie tallied his first points off a quick running layup in the game’s opening minute, he needed to wait almost 10 minutes before surpassing the program highmark.

Buie’s record-setting points came courtesy of a surefire three. Buie capped his historic evening with 16 points, seven assists and two steals, leading the ‘Cats to a 76-62 victory over the Wolverines, and one step closer toward eventual consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. Over his illustrious fiveyear Northwestern career, Buie finished with 2,187 points, earning consecutive First Team All-Big Ten selections honors in his final two seasons.

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May 12, 2024

Izzy Scane breaks NCAA all-time scoring record Angeli Mittal/Daily Senior Staffer

With an early first period score in the second round of NU’s NCAA Tournament clash with Denver, Scane surpassed Charlotte North as women’s lacrosse’s all-time leading goalscorer. Scane, who helped lead NU to consecutive national championship appearances and a national title in 2023, finished with 88 goals and 21 assists in her final season in Evanston. The two-time Tewaaraton Award winner tallied 376 goals and 107 assists across 84 games in her illustrious five-year career.

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Keep sight of why student journalism matters

In late April of my senior spring, I reported on Northwestern’s campus for the first time in a year and a half.

As the pro-Palestinian encampment launched and the University gained national attention, media swarmed Deering Meadow.

I was in the odd role of being part of the outside media as a freelancer for the Chicago Sun-Times, yet still a part of the NU community. I felt a strange sense of disconnect at the same time, watching as The Daily’s staff maintained 24 hour coverage, while my job did not require the same level of nonstop reporting.

From my unique position, I could see and appreciate the vitality of student media’s work, while covering the same exact circumstances myself for a broader audience.

I haven’t written for The Daily since fall of my junior year, and that distance has given me some perspective.

Being a student journalist can feel like trivial and small work. When you’re covering a campus event with fewer than 10 attendees and you know the only people

guaranteed to read the article are your parents, it can start to feel pointless. When you’re navigating complex situations with no guidance, you can feel isolated and in over your head. And when you’re dedicating 40+ hours a week to that job without significant compensation or credit, it gets easy to lose sight of why it matters.

On those late nights working until the early hours of the morning, there are certain things that keep you going. It’s not money, or a line on your resume or masochism. It’s the friends you make, the only ones who will fully relate to your experiences — and who (I promise) won’t go away when your time at The Daily ends. It’s the pressure of the deadline to get the paper to press. It’s the responsibility of making sure the whole Evanston and Northwestern community will be reflected in the pages.

And it’s the knowledge that if you aren’t there for the little events, for the day to day stories with small audiences, you won’t be ready when the University starts making national headlines and outside media descends.

We all know that local news is a crucial part of the media ecosystem, and so is student journalism. It’s not only the training ground for future professionals, it offers crucial coverage of our generation. Journalism is at its best when reporters know and care about their communities, and that is where student journalism excels.

When journalism starts to feel like a slog and the fear of burn out creeps in, I think of my sources and I think of my audience. If I can make my sources feel heard, even if only by me, or reach one reader that needs to see my story, then I’ve done my job.

When I look back on my time at The Daily, yes I remember every crisis that felt like the end of the world.

But I also remember how we always got back up and kept going, how we celebrated the big moments, and how we finished every quarter by staying up all night to watch the sunrise together on the Lakefill.

So to all current and future Daily staffers, here’s my advice: trust yourself but be prepared to grow, hold your

friendships close but make sure to live a life outside of the Holly and John Madigan Newsroom, and always remember the responsibility and power of your words.

On the trials and triumphs of covering City Council as a student When I first volunteered to cover City Council my sophomore year, I had no idea what to expect.

I’d never attended a city meeting, let alone covered one as a student journalist. I remember walking to Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center and feeling a rush of nerves. The historic building is beautiful, but intimidating. Looking at the brick exterior and crown molding, I felt out of place in my sneakers and jeans.

I had a few preconceived notions about how the meeting would go. I expected heavy jargon and deep discussions about topics I knew little about. I didn’t

realize just how critical these meetings are to city news.

I also didn’t expect that covering City Council, my “night job,” would not only define my experience at The Daily, but also my journalism education at Northwestern.

After years of sitting at the press table, furiously typing notes on my computer to keep up with the conversation, I’ve learned that student journalism equips you with the power to teach yourself almost anything.

While we may be young and new to the job, we can use our relative inexperience to our advantage by asking questions, doing our research and meeting people where they are.

Hours of listening to the mayor, council members and community discuss a myriad of topics have taught me so much about Evanston. I’ve learned everything from how parking fees work to how the city has allocated COVID19 relief funding to what programs are available at the Robert Crown Community Center. Even the smallest details from these meetings matter. When community members can’t make these Monday night meetings, it’s important to have eyes and ears in the room.

To cover these meetings well, I had to do my own homework. When it was time in fall 2021 for the City Council to craft, analyze, and debate the proposed city budget, I developed a new routine.

Each afternoon I would click onto the city’s website and do what every city reporter does: stalk. I digested page after page of charts stuffed with numbers and political jargon. I took endless notes in bad handwriting, filling my computer, scrap pieces of paper and even my class notebooks with thoughts and questions. The more time I spent with this ever-changing document, the more knowledge I gained.

I would lie if I said there weren’t times where I wanted to give up. When my financial knowledge or ability to decipher the inner workings of a particular fund were limited, I got frustrated. How could I be the watchdog journalist I dreamed of being if I felt so confused by the budgets’ dozens and dozens of pages?

I learned that even though I could teach myself the basics of the budget at a desk in the back of The Daily’s newsroom, I couldn’t do the job alone. I leaned on my thoughtful editors and fellow city reporters. I talked with my Evanston neighbors before and after meetings about the programs and investments they hoped to see. I emailed, called and interviewed council members for their comments. Eventually, our team at The Daily successfully covered the budget from proposal to passage.

It turned out I was more capable of boiling down

jargon-filled conversations into accessible reporting than I had thought. To my fellow student journalists, I urge you to appreciate this power and never let yourself or others underestimate you. But, also, know that journalism takes a village — and building relationships with the community members at the forefront of local efforts and governments is essential.

Ultimately, covering even tedious elements of City Council left me with invaluable knowledge about Evanston, local politics and how to report well. When I got the opportunity at Medill on the Hill to report on congressional hearings in Washington, D.C., my experience came in handy. I was ready to listen intently, report quickly and ask politicians questions. At Northwestern I’ve learned that, in and out of journalism, the ability to teach yourself new skills builds confidence and resilience.

I remain immeasurably grateful for The Daily editors and reporters who made covering City Council communal, informative, and enjoyable. I’m also thankful to the Evanston residents who read this newspaper. As a college student, it can sometimes be difficult to get involved in the local community off campus. Journalism has given me the opportunity to meet others that call Evanston home, and for that I’m so grateful.

Four years in photos

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The unlikely path to my sports journalism stint

When I joined the Daily in my sophomore fall, I had no intentions of staying long.

I had just spent my entire freshman year online, transferred from Carnegie Mellon and was never in Medill.

Flash forward nearly three years later — some of my closest Northwestern friends are from the Daily.

My strong commitment to the Daily started at the beginning of my junior year when I covered the men’s basketball team. The beat initially daunted me. Much of the journalism lingo and etiquette confused me, and I needed to manage the fast-paced schedule.

Working alongside beat writers Alex Cervantes and Lawrence Price and photographer Angeli Mittal, I found my footing several weeks into covering my first full-time beat. Alex and Lawrence served as the Medill professors I never had.

But the real fun started on January 8, 2023 – the date of my first road trip.

At the crack of dawn, Alex, Lawrence, Angeli and I trekked to Bloomington, energized by Lawrence’s nostalgia playlist, Alex’s valiant driving skills and Angeli’s back-seat chatter.

By the end of the 2023 season, we went on four trips — to Ann Arbor, Madison and Champaign.

While these road trips helped me find balance outside coursework, the madness materialized in March.

Traveling to Sacramento for Northwestern’s second-ever NCAA Tournament was an experience my sophomore-self would have never envisioned.

And taking a photo of Jaime Jaquez Jr. and his teammates dancing for a TikTok video outside of Golden 1 Center before running away in fright was pretty memorable, too.

Then, I applied to join The Daily’s Gameday staff in the fall of my senior year.

Nearly every fall Saturday remained solely devoted to covering football. This meant no tailgates or darties and early weekend wake-up times.

As the road trips continued, Jake Epstein, Angeli and I traveled to Lincoln for Northwestern’s Nebraska game. After a near-eight-hour journey through the scenic Iowa farmlands, we arrived at Microtel Inn, a rundown motel off the highway.

Nearly having my credit card and driver's license stolen upon check-in and Angeli’s room door propped open as we returned later that night, Jake and I bonded

through the night in the corner of our shared room over sliced oranges.

Over the next several months, I took more initiative.

Embarking on solo trips to Champaign for the Land of Lincoln Trophy or East Lansing and Piscataway for basketball, I was one of the only Northwestern student journalists in away venues.

My second stint covering the men’s basketball team was surprisingly more adventurous than the first. By the season's end, I traveled to six venues — including Minneapolis for the Big Ten Tournament and Brooklyn for the NCAA Tournament. I attended nearly every media availability — even missing class — just to tweet a photo of Chris Collins or Boo Buie with a quote. And the credential photos and pictures on opposing stadium courts persisted amid pushback.

I would be lying if I said I didn’t shed a tear or two as I wrote my final-ever basketball — and Daily story — from the Barclays Center media room after Northwestern’s Round of 32 loss to UConn.

A special thanks to Patrick Andres, Gaby Carroll, Charlotte Varnes, Skye Swann, who all served as sports editors during my time and entrusted me despite my lack of journalism experience. Lastly, a shoutout to Elena Hubert, Lucas Kim and Henry Frieman — all of whom I covered games with over my Daily experience.

Over 100 Daily stories and nine Big Ten schools later, I am proud of every second I spent with the paper.

While the diploma I will receive this weekend will not mention journalism, I am happy to have left a legacy behind on the sports desk. I hope more non-Medill students will build their communities in the Daily just like I happened to.

An Ode to Covering NU Women's Sports

I had February 14, 2021 circled on my mental calendar for weeks.

The Big Ten’s Olympic sports were returning after months of confusion and uncertainty amid the pandemic. That frigid Valentine’s Day marked the beginning of the season for Northwestern lacrosse, a program I had followed since I first picked up a stick in seventh grade.

I was nervous I’d enter Ryan Fieldhouse the wrong way, get lost inside or somehow break NU’s COVID-19 policy. But I was also thrilled as a kid who loved lacrosse and spent her middle school years reading USA Lacrosse Magazine cover to cover.

When gameday arrived, I watched Izzy Scane score nine goals, tying the then-program record, which she naturally went on to break later in her career. I was starstruck calling her and coach Kelly Amonte Hiller after the game, my heart racing as I dialed the phone. I couldn’t believe I could regularly interview one of college lacrosse’s greatest coaches and some of its best players, getting a better sense of how they saw the game.

I was hooked on beat writing, relishing the feeling that no one on campus knew more about the lacrosse team.

What’s unique about my beat writing experience here is that I covered just one men’s sport: football during the ill-fated 1-11 season. My coverage lies in women’s sports: field hockey, lacrosse, volleyball and cross country.

This led to some of my favorite moments of my college experience. In a world where women are derided for every misstep, for every bit of emotion shown, for daring to be great, it was thrilling to watch countless Wildcat women defy expectations and be truly, fully themselves.

I’ll never forget lacrosse’s Hailey Rhatigan’s powerful stick drop in the 2023 NCAA Semifinal, an exclamation point on the Cats’ rout of Denver. Or when Lauren Gilbert crouched to the ground after North Carolina came back from an eight-goal deficit to defeat NU in the 2022 NCAA Semifinal. Or softball’s Danielle Williams’ dominance at the Tempe Super Regional in 2022 en route to a Women’s College World Series appearance.

These moments of women embracing their emotions and athleticism on the national stage are what I'll remember the most about covering NU athletics.

Covering women’s sports led to some of my favorite memories off the field, too. The lacrosse national championship in 2023 comes to mind, as I wandered Chapel Hill and got coffee and bagels with Jake Epstein, Sophia Vlahakis and Sarah Meadow. I loved being part of the

section of student reporters at soccer and lacrosse games, chatting about NU athletic happenings.

I feel lucky that my peers at The Daily and other student publications also care deeply about women’s sports. I’ve never met a NU student who’s treated women’s sports like a second-rate beat. There are also many phenomenal women in sports at NU, making it a shock when I interned and realized reality isn’t so utopic.

Only 15% of sports stories are reported by women journalists, and just 15% of sports coverage focuses on women’s sports — a reality contradictory to Northwestern student journalists’ embrace of women’s sports.

It’s disheartening that opportunities to cover women’s sports full-time are rare. It’s been thrilling to watch the rise of Caitlin Clark and see just how much has changed for women athletes in recent years. But, for now, jobs covering women’s sports aren’t arriving along with the rise of the WNBA and other women’s professional leagues.

Regardless of where I work or what my beat is, I will always pitch stories about women’s sports and women breaking barriers in men’s sports. While I’ve cared about women’s sports since I was a kid, The Daily crystallized my desire to highlight trailblazing women in my work.

I’m going to miss the beauty of a lacrosse game under the lights at Ryan Fieldhouse, pink hues of the sky over Martin Stadium during a women’s soccer game and the intensity of volleyball games at Welsh-Ryan Arena. These places, along with The Daily’s office on the third floor of Norris, were my campus homes.

I know student journalists will continue fighting the good fight covering women’s sports in these locations and wherever the teams travel across the country. Here’s to hoping professional media outlets catch up.

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Life is a highway and is better with friends

There’s something very special, yet unexpected, about the Daily Northwestern’s sports road trips.

On the surface, it’s an opportunity to travel and cover a Northwestern program outside of the confines of Evanston — an experience even some professional journalists don’t get to do.

But to me, it was much more than that. It’s where I built some of my strongest relationships and memories at NU. There was rarely a minute of silence in our rented enterprise cars or Alex Cervantes’ vehicle. The countless hours on the road were filled with either Patrick Andres and I’s music playlists, constant conversations about NU sports teams, or whatever crossed our minds. There was always a collective search for a post-game fast food location to cap off the trip — usually something to accommodate Angeli Mittal’s dietary restrictions or outlets to charge our computers and finish our stories.

On Nov. 11, 2023, though, our car ride back to campus felt a lot different.

Mostly silence and little to no music. It almost felt unreal, like out of a movie.

Traveling back from the football team’s road victory at Wisconsin, Cervantes, Mittal and I, alongside sophomore Jake Epstein, recognized that it was our

final road trip together.

It was a whirlwind of emotions and a chance to reminisce on our many shared experiences. There was a feeling of happiness that our schedules would begin to free up and that the ‘Cats won, yet sadness that this was our last go-around.

More importantly, though, I realized that the road trips provided us a chance to escape from reality and not worry about whatever stresses we had going on, whether that was school, life or gripes with The Daily.

It gave us the opportunity to get to know each other on an intimate and personal level outside of sports. We laughed, argued and ate together nearly every weekend.

I quickly understood that my sadness didn’t derive from it being our last hooray, but because I wouldn’t be able to hang out with friends in the same capacity ever again. I never thought I would become so close to a group of people when I started at the newspaper in Fall 2020.

And it doesn’t just stop at the sports desk, you

begin to realize the different people you’ve met throughout the years that have come and gone. The amount that you accomplished as a full-time student by day and full-time reporter by night, and how much you’ve grown as a journalist. The satisfaction of winning awards for your work and becoming an editor for three different desks in spaces that lacked Black personnel — in the newsroom and the press box.

I couldn’t tell you how many road trips I went on throughout my time at the Daily, the number of phone calls we received from my previous sports editor Drew Schott nor the number of Welch’s Fruit Snacks I bought from the nearest gas station. But it’s safe to say that it made my tenure worthwhile and embodied my four years on Norris’s third floor.

When asked to describe my time at the Daily, I fight between the terms battle-tested and gratitude, as both feel fitting at times. However, as this ‘road trip’ comes to an end, there’s nothing more appropriate to say than thank you.

The open road and the community I found Taking great inspiration from my good friend Patrick Andres’ graduation column two years ago, I’d like to tell you about a place. But first, I need to tell you about a drive.

The clock had just passed midnight outside of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and I was humming south along I-151. The headlights of my Hyundai served as the only source of light illuminating an otherwise flat and dark landscape. I had been warned by my editors to remain vigilant of the animals that roam the highways and backroads across rural Wisconsin, but, being the proud North Carolinian I am and believing myself to be well-versed in how to maneuver around any late-night two-eyed obstructions, I brushed off their warnings.

Lo and behold, a mere two minutes after merging onto the highway, a fox or coyote (I know, I apologize for not knowing which little carnivorous fur ball decided to test my reaction time) darted in front of my car. Brakes were slammed, my body tensed and there was a brief pause before I pressed my foot against the accelerator.

As I white knuckled my way back to Madison, capping yet another night flying solo on my JR, I remember longing for one thing: to have shared that experience with someone else.

Admittedly, it’s a bit of an odd thought. Why would I want to share this startling event with another person?

But all I could think about was how I missed the companionship that The Daily afforded me during other sports coverage-related road trips.

My car, at that moment, with each passing tire rotation inching me closer to my destination, felt emptier than usual. I wanted and wished it was full of the laughter, conversation and, most of all, the people I’d come to so deeply appreciate.

And I almost never got to experience those road trips.

My freshman year experience of self-induced isolation sucked. I certainly don’t believe my experience to have been unique either. Matter of fact, it makes sense that the combination of a global pandemic, somewhat crippling introversion and acclimating to a new environment would result in the seclusion I subjected myself to. Heading into my sophomore year, aided by some sage advice from my parents, I knew I needed to find an outlet on campus to cover Northwestern sports.

I joined The Daily, spurning the invitation of Chili’s provided by InsideNU, under the encouragement of Lawrence Price. What followed was a 2.5-year rollercoaster of emotions and sports coverage, highlighted

The scoop on

Kathryn Hahn

Actress and comedian Kathryn Hahn (Communication ’95) will give the 2024 Commencement address at Northwestern, the University announced in a Saturday press release.

Hahn is famous for her performances in multiple TV series, including “Tiny Beautiful Things,” “WandaVision,” “The Shrink Next Door,” “I Love Dick” and her own production, “Mrs. Fletcher.”

Soon, she will reprise her “WandaVision” role of Agatha Harkness to star in the Marvel/Disney+ limited series “Agatha: Darkhold Diaries.”

Source: Northwestern Now

Hahn has also graced the silver screen, featuring in movies including “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” “Private Life,” the “Bad Moms” franchise, “Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse” and “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.”

Hahn has won Best Villain and Best Fight at the MTV Movie + TV Awards, an Ensemble Cast Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, a Female Stars of the Year award at CinemaCon, and more. She has been nominated in the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Primetime Emmy Awards, the Critics Choice Awards and the Gotham Awards.

Hahn announced her speakership to the Class of 2024 in a video that played Saturday night at the senior class formal at the Theater on the Lake in Chicago.

“I’m going to be your commencement speaker — ta-da!” she quipped in the video. “To me, it really is like my greatest role that I’ve ever got a chance to play.”

In another video posted to the official NU Instagram, Hahn sported sandals and socks as she walked her dogs and joked about being famous for stealing a soda from Norris University Center during her time at NU. Hahn also visited NU as A&O Productions’ 2021 celebrity speaker.

Hahn will receive an honorary Doctor of Arts degree at the ceremony, adding to her theater degree from NU and her Masters in Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama.

by many late nights spent writing and rewriting on the third floor of Norris.

But to truly capture my experience at The Daily is to tell you about the car rides.

To tell you in great detail about the nostalgic music playlist that boomed from the bluetooth speakers in the car on nearly every trip with Lawrence, Aayushya Agarwal and Angeli Mittal. To tell you about the heel click celebrations in Madison, the combative cop in Bloomington, Indiana, the World’s Largest Truck Stop in Walcott, Iowa, the hot tub and Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the snowy detour to Outback Steakhouse in West Lafayette, Indiana. To tell you about the places we went, but also the sanctuary the people on those trips provided.

It was work, and there were days where it was especially taxing. It was also a welcomed respite from the rapidity of this school’s quarter system.

Writing can be a lonely enterprise. I became privy to that reality over the winter. Amid the solitude, however, I found a quote from Stephen King that has stuck with me. Acknowledging how solitary of an act it can be, he said: “Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a difference. They don’t have

to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”

In the end, I found that belief and support in the people I shared the finest four-wheeled, four-doored, Enterprise-rented vehicles with — shoutout to Lawrence, Aayushya, Angeli, Patrick, Jake Epstein, Charlotte Varnes, John Riker and more.

The Daily taught me a lot, and I’m sure one day I might very well miss those late Norris nights. But I know for certain I’m going to miss traversing the Midwest with my friends.

Commencement Schedule

Saturday, June 8

of Communication Convocation 9 a.m. School Welsh-Ryan Arena

School of Music Convocation 12 p.m. Bienen Pick-Staiger Concert Hall

3 p.m.

Sunday, June 9

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Convocation Welsh-Ryan Arena

Annual Commencement 10:30 a.m. 166th United Center Baccalaureate Service

4 p.m. Pick-Staiger Concert Hall

Monday, June 10

School of Journalism Convocation 9:30 a.m. Medill Ryan Fieldhouse School of Engineering Convocation 2 p.m. McCormick Welsh-Ryan Arena

2 p.m.

School of Education and Social Policy Convocation Ryan Fieldhouse

MONDAY, JUNE 3, 2024

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Operations

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We’ll miss you!

Concerts@Bienen salutes the Class of 2024 and wishes its talented, hard-working staff members the best as they head out into the world.

Thanks for all the great memories!

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— In Memoriam —

SIMONE SCOTT As we don our caps and gowns, we remember the members of the Northwestern community who will not be here to walk with us.

Our thoughts are with the loved ones of Simone Scott.

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Northwestern goes remote for firstand second-year students, reduces Fall Quarter undergraduate tuition by 10 percent Northwestern administrators have announced an all-virtual Fall Quarter for first- and second-year students as well as a 10 percent tuition reduction for the quarter, according to an email sent Friday.

The email, signed by administrators including University President Morton Schapiro and Provost Kathleen Hagerty, noted the University

was “compelled to make several adjustments” after consulting with Northwestern Medicine and state and local health officials. Such adjustments include prohibiting first- and secondyear students from coming on campus, with limited exceptions. They will start the school year on a remote-only basis and come to campus at the beginning of Winter Quarter.

Oct. 19, 2020

Disarm, defund, disband: Students a re m a rc h i ng e v e ry day u n ti l North w e ste rn a b ol i s h e s N U P D For over a month, a mask-shaped sign reading “We’re N This Together” hung from the Weber Arch. It was meant to symbolize a unified start to Northwestern’s academic year but was often mocked by students instead.

By 11:51 p.m. Saturday night the sign was on the ground, by 11:53 p.m. it was in flames and by 12:30 a.m. it was in a crumpled heap at the feet of police officers guarding the home of University President Morton Schapiro.

About 300 students, led by members of NU Community Not Cops, gathered in front of Foster-Walker Complex Saturday night for the sixth consecutive day of marches demanding the abolition of University Police.

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For over a month, a mask-shaped sign reading “We’re N This Together” hung from the Weber Arch. It was meant to symbolize a unified start to Northwestern’s academic year but was often mocked by students instead.

By 11:51 p.m. Saturday night the sign was on the ground, by 11:53 p.m. it was in flames and by 12:30 a.m. it was in a crumpled heap at the feet of police officers guarding the home of University President Morton Schapiro.

About 300 students, led by members of NU Community Not Cops, gathered in front of Foster-Walker Complex Saturday night for the sixth consecutive day of marches demanding the abolition of University Police.

“You guys are here tonight for a cause,” one student said to the crowd. “And you’re here to protect Black and Brown lives.”

“The power of the people don’t stop”

Music and spirited chants spread among the masked crowd as students marched through Evanston Saturday night. Some students tagged sidewalks and buildings, including UP headquarters, with “F--k 12,” “ACAB,” “Abolition is the Solution” and more.

The march concluded in front of Schapiro’s house, where at least three UP officers stood guard behind a University Facilities Management barrier. Other officers were stationed around the block.

Several Evanston Police Department officers stood at the nearby intersection in riot gear as well, some equipped with batons and shields. Standing in front of Schapiro’s house, students reminded the president of their demands. He didn’t make an appearance at any of the past week’s protests, and hasn’t personally met with student organizers at all.

“Divest from NUPD, disband NUPD, invest in Black lives and get the f--k out of our University,” one student said to the crowd.

Throughout Saturday’s march, students spray painted abolitionist messaging on neighborhood sidewalks and buildings, including Whole Foods Market, which is

Behind City Council’s pick for new city manager Amid controversy, Storlie chosen after interim year

By JACOB FULTON

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Evanston City Council announced Tuesday it had selected Erika Storlie as its

finalist to fill its open city manager role, amid public opposition from many residents to the possibility of her appointment.

Storlie, who has served as Evanston’s interim city manager since September 2019 and has been a city employee since

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2004, was one of three finalists for the job. The other two finalists were Aretha FerrellBenavides, who is the current city manager of Petersburg, Va., and Marie Peoples, who is » See STORLIE, page 1

The gymnasium in the newly renovated Robert Crown Community Center will be named the Logan Family Gymnasium, after the Logan family, who have been longtime residents of the city, the city of Evanston and Friends of the Robert Crown Center announced Thursday.

The gymnasium will host events like camps, recreational activities and pre-K classes,

facilities include two ice rinks, a variety of athletic fields, a new library branch and multiple community rooms, along with the gymnasium.

“It is next to impossible to find a family who has invested more time or worked harder to make Evanston a safer, better educated and more just community than the Logan Family,” Evanston Parks and Recreation Board President and Friends of the Robert Crown Center Board Member Denise Barreto said in the release.

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May 9, 2022

N ative American and Indigenous Student Alliance organizes NU’s fi r s t s tu d e n t - r u n Po w Wo w Four years ago, lumber from the Menominee Tribal Enterprises, a Native-owned and operated business, was used to build the WelshRyan Arena basketball court. The Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance made history on that lumber on Saturday, hosting Northwestern’s first student-run Pow Wow.

A pow wow is a celebration held by many Native American and Indigenous communities where Native and non-Native people connect over dance, food and more.

More than 200 people attended the event, including Native and non-Native students, faculty, family, local residents and students from other universities.

August 11, 2022

Michael Schill named next p r e s i d e n t o f N o rt h w e s t e r n Michael Schill will be Northwestern’s next president, the Board of Trustees announced Thursday.

Schill, who has served as president of the University of Oregon since 2015, will begin his presidency this fall. He will succeed current University President Morton Schapiro, who has served NU for 13 years.

“I am thrilled, honored and humbled to join Northwestern, one of the world’s most prominent universities,” Schill said in an email to the community. “Northwestern has a long tradition of educating the brightest minds and pushing the boundaries of research and innovation.”

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Former state Sen. Daniel Biss will be Evanston’s next mayor as of Tuesday night, with unofficial results showing he secured over 73 percent of votes, with all precincts reporting.

Biss first announced his campaign in September. Because Biss

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Just a few days after Evanston’s 100th resident died of COVID-19, the city invited residents to observe a moment of silence Tuesday evening as it held a light beam display that traveled through each ward.

Evanston’s ceremony coordinated with the

lighting of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. Tuesday that honored the more than 400,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19 to date. It came the evening before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Throughout the evening, a light truck traveled

between parks in all nine wards, stopping for 20 minutes in each ward to shine beams into the night sky. Masked residents congregated at a safe distance to watch the display.

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Front line workers receive vaccine IL to be first state At Northwestern Memorial Hospital, vaccine boosts morale

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When Nancy Foster, a nurse manager for one of Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s COVID-19 units, received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID19 vaccine on Dec. 18, a familiar face administered it.

That face belonged to Northwestern Memorial Hospital Education Coordinator Lizzy Murphy— an emotional sight, Foster said, because they had been through the pandemic together since it began. Of the 40 different stations Foster estimated were set up, Murphy’s happened to be the available one.

“I literally cried. Somebody took a picture and I sent it to my family,” said Foster, who received her second dose on Jan. 8. “And

I’m like, ‘This is one step closer.’

So it was very, very emotional.”

For Northwestern Memorial Hospital healthcare professionals who have upended their personal lives to treat COVID-19 patients, the vaccine has provided a morale boost. There were tears and smiles around the hospital on the day the vaccinations arrived.

The vaccinations — created in record speed and using mRNA technology— have arrived after months of sacrifices made by people around the world, especially healthcare workers, who were among the first groups to receive it.

From April through August, Dr. Khalilah Gates averaged working one week on and one week off at the intensive care unit — “very much a lot of ICU time,” she said. Gates, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, now

to abolish cash bail Pretrial Fairness Act would end cash bail in Illinois

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CRavi Fernando, a respiratory therapist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, receives one dose of the vaccine. For Fernando and other healthcare professionals, the vaccine has provided a morale boost.

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The Illinois legislature of Representatives passed a bill spearheaded by the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus last Wednesday that would end cash bail.

The Pretrial Fairness Act, which gives Illinois until Jan. 1, 2023 to abolish cash bail, currently awaits Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s signature. Pritzker has expressed support for the bill in the past.

If passed, Illinois will be the first state in the nation to end all cash bail.

Evanston mayoral candidate

Sebastian Nalls, 20, said ending cash bail is a step in the right direction.

“This is an issue that hits directly at home for a lot of us,” Nalls said. “And it’s been disproportionately affecting Black and brown members of Illinois and members of the nation as a whole.”

Briana Patyon, a policy analyst for the Chicago Community Bond Fund, said the money bond system is racist and classist because it makes finances the determining factor in a person’s incarceration.

People who cannot afford to post bail must stay in jail until their trials, typically for cases that do not involve violent charges. This population comprises more than two-thirds of America’s jailed population,

received over 50 percent of votes cast in the primary, he automatically won the mayoral election. He is slated to take office in May.

» See BAIL, page 10

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March 23, 2021

City Council passes the country’s first reparations program for Black residents Evanston’s City Council voted 8-1 to implement the Restorative Housing Reparations program Monday, with Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) opposing.

The program will become the first material action on reparations for Black

Americans in the nation’s history, commiting the first $400,000 of Evanston’s $10 million reparations initiative to grants for housing assistance.

“We all know that the road to repair and justice in the Black community is

Two thousand students surrounded the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house, spilling into Lincoln Street. The crowd stood still, holding a moment of silence in solidarity with the individuals allegedly drugged at the house Thursday.

Until an organizer’s shout cut through the air: “Abolition is not the end! It is the beginning!”

The crowd cheered and shouted back in response. Soon after, students hurled eggs, which splattered against the AEPi house’s walls.

The protest, held outside the oncampus houses of Sigma Alpha Epsilon

going to be a generation of work,” Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) said. “What I’m excited about is the new engagement, the new interest in what we’re doing… All I heard today was support of reparations.”

NUGW announces affiliation with U n i te d E l e c tric Worke r s affiliate with United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.

More than 300 NUGW memb ers and supp or ters filled Deering Meadow for the “Rally for More Pay and More Say.”

and AEPi Sunday night, followed two University Police crime notices. According to the Friday notice, multiple individuals reported they were drugged at an AEPi house event, and according to the Saturday notice, another individual reported they were drugged at an SAE house event. The Saturday notice identified both addresses as on-campus fraternity houses, though the Friday notice did not. Neither notice identified the fraternities by name.

Sunday ’s action was part of ongoing advocacy to remove Greek life at Northwestern. The alleged druggings have spotlighted the movement to end Greek life on campus and brought historic violence in fraternity spaces to the forefront.

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Two thousand students surrounded the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house, spilling into Lincoln Street. The crowd stood still, holding a moment of silence in solidarity with the individuals drugged at the house Thursday.

Until an organizer’s shout cut through the air: “Abolition is not the end! It is the beginning!”

The crowd cheered and shouted back in response. Soon after, students hurled eggs, which splattered against the AEPi house’s walls.

The protest, held outside the on-campus houses of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and AEPi Sunday night, followed two University Police crime notices. The first reported multiple druggings

at the AEPi house, and the second, sent just a day later, reported a drugging at the SAE house.

The Saturday notice identified both addresses as on-campus fraternity houses, though the Friday notice did not. Neither notice identified the fraternities by name.

Sunday’s action was part of ongoing advocacy to remove Greek life at Northwestern. The druggings have spotlighted the movement to end Greek life on campus and brought historic violence in fraternity spaces to the forefront.

As students take action, they look to the future and wonder: What would it look like for NU to replace the Greek system with safer communities, and how can the University better support survivors?

Students respond to weekend reports

At 7 p.m, protesters prepared posters on SAE’s lawn. Some signs targeted SAE and AEPi with phrases like “Say bye bye to AEPi and all frats,” while others addressed Greek life as a whole: “IFC enables rapists.” “Not too late to

disband.”

The crowd gathered on the sidewalk in front of the house and poured onto the lawn. Students held their posters to the house, though blinds covered the windows.

They chanted: “How do you spell rapist?

SAE.” “Silence is violence.” “Out of the frats and into the streets.”

Around 7:45 p.m. demonstrators moved to the AEPi house. “1-2-3 f--k SAE,” they chanted.

“3-4-5 f--k AEPi.” Some protesters banged on AEPi’s door and others spray-painted the sidewalk in front of the house with “abolish Greek life” and “f--k rapists,” among other phrases.

UP, Evanston Police Department and officers from Allied Universal, a company contracted by the University, patrolled the protest. Officers stationed themselves around the SAE house, on the street and outside the AEPi house.

At the demonstration’s end, Medill sophomore Maggie Sullivan, the event’s organizer,

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dead, ASG bans IFC and PHA from Senate seats One one injured

The announcement on Instagram follows multiple reports of drugging at AEPi and SAE

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Associated Student Government banned Northwestern’s Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association from holding or applying for Senate seats, the organization announced Sunday.

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This follows multiple reports of drugging at a Thursday Alpha Epsilon Pi event and another account of drugging at a Friday Sigma Alpha Epsilon event.

About 2,000 students protested outside of both fraternity houses Sunday evening, demanding support for survivors and calling for an end to Greek life on NU’s campus.

Last April, ASG ended guaranteed representation for PHA and IFC with almost unanimous Senate approval in an amendment authored by former PHA Senator Pamela Chen. Both decisions are part of a campuswide discussion about the Abolish Greek Life movement, which prompted large-scale deactivation from many PHA and IFC chapters.

NU has prohibited members of IFC from holding social events and chapter-sponsored recruitment events until at least Oct. 17 in response to this weekend’s reports. Chapters violating the ban must pay a $1,000 fine and face demotion to associate status for the following quarter, meaning they can’t vote in IFC matters.

However, no specific disciplinary

after shooting

actions have been taken directly against AEPi or SAE by NU or IFC. Some community members have said existing sanctions don’t do enough to address the culture and environment that allowed the druggings to occur. ASG called on NU to remove Greek life from

Warning: This story contains content about gun violence and knife violence.

A linked shooting and stabbing left a 45-year-old Naperville resident dead and 27-year-old Chicago resident injured Sunday afternoon, according to Evanston police.

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Content warning: This article contains mention of hazing , sexual assault and suicidal ideation.

An 18-year-old is dead and two 15-year-old boys are injured following a Wednesday night shooting at Clark Street Beach.

One of the boys is hospitalized in critical condition, while the other suffered a graze wound and has been released from the hospital, according to an Evanston Police Department news release. All three victims were Skokie residents.

The family of the 18-year-old is likely processing and has not made a statement, according to an individual familiar with the family.

A former Northwestern University football player told The Daily some of the hazing conduct investigated by the university involved coerced sexual acts. A second player confirmed these details.

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The player also told The Daily that head coach Pat Fitzgerald may have known that hazing took place.

“I’ve seen it with my own eyes, and it’s just absolutely egregious and vile and inhumane behavior,” the player, who asked to remain anonymous in this story, said.

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NU Hillel hosts community Seder Swae Lee to As negotiations finished, the headline Dillo University agreed to permit protests in support of Palestine at the Meadow through June 1. The permit will require that Residents gain ground in battle against city rats

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Rats scurried in broad daylight outside Insomnia Cookies in downtown Evanston. At night, the longtailed rodents leapt out of trash cans. And around the clock, they forced nearby businesses to wage a “losing battle” to keep them away, store operations manager Laura Dundas said in early March.

She estimated that hundreds had overrun the 1700 block of Sherman Avenue.

Defeat to mere rodents seemed almost certain.

No battle plan could contain them “outside of nuclear war,” she said.

Less than two months later, the rats have largely vanished. In an apparent victory for humans, downtown Evanston’s once-rattiest block may no longer be the rattiest.

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After six years of grassroots organizing and building community support, Northwestern University Graduate Workers launched its formal union drive at a Thursday rally. The organization announced that 95% of its members have voted to

Just a few days after Evanston’s 100th resident died of COVID-19, the city invited residents to observe a moment of silence Tuesday evening as it held a light beam display that traveled through each ward.

Evanston’s ceremony coordinated with the lighting of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. Tuesday that honored the more than 400,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19 to date. It came the evening before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.

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according to the release.

The construction process on the project began in summer 2018, with a price tag of nearly $53 million. The renovations were initially proposed in January 2017, when the plan was to refurbish the inside of the building. However, later on, the project turned into a complete rebuild of the center, causing cost increases and community controversy.

The city held a celebratory ribbon cutting on Oct. 3, though the center first opened on Feb. 29, with portions opening throughout the spring. The

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owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos. As some students wrote anti-capitalist messages on the building’s exterior, at least one individual smashed a storefront window.

University spokesperson Jon Yates told the Daily in an email the University firmly supports vigorous debate and the free expression of ideas but was disappointed by the vandalism and damage to private and public property.

“Should members of the Northwestern community be found in violation of University policies, state or federal laws,” Yates said, “they will be held accountable through our processes.”

But as students marched demanding abolition of UP, they also urged accountability from the administration, who they said have ignored their demands.

“They care more about private property than human lives,” one student told The Daily. “There is no level of property destruction that we can do that is more violent than the cops existing.”

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Dundas and other proprietors, going weeks without spotting the fearsome critters has offered a welcome relief.

“When it gets to the point where students and anyone who’s out at night makes jokes about how many rats there are, I’m sure the city has to take notice,” Dundas said this week.

Next door at Jimmy John’s, employee Mary Garcia hailed the recent repaving of a trash-strewn alley as one reason the rat pack disappeared. At the same time, however, their apparent demise arrived on the heels of yearslong efforts by the city’s rodent control team.

Evanston has long grappled with waves of infestations. A 1978 front-page story in The Daily called one the “worst rodent problem in recent memory,” with about 250 sightings reported over six months. As of late, Evanston has received more than 300 reports over a similar period, according to figures provided this month by city officials.

The recent infestation erupted as restaurants moved past the COVID-19

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The Senate passed similar divestment resolutions in 2015 and 2021.

Senators vote to call for NU’s disaffiliation with Israeli institutions

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The Associated Student Government Senate passed a

resolution Wednesday to add its signature to the Northwestern People’s Resolution, which calls for the University to protect the civil liberties of proPalestinian community members and divest from Israeli

institutions.

With the passage of the emergency legislation, the resolution — sponsored by NU’s chapters of Educators for Justice in Palestine, Students for Justice in Palestine,

and Jewish Voice for Peace — received the support of the liaison between the student body and the administration.

The ASG legislation passed

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Event celebrates traditions, Jewish experience for first night of Passover

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Traditional Passover foods, drinks and flowers decorated tables at NU Hillel during the community Seder to mark the first night of Passover Monday.

Seder is a traditional meal celebrated with songs and prayers and traditionally held with friends and family on the first two nights of Passover. This year, NU Hillel organized a Traditional Seder and a Reform Seder featuring social justice themes.

The holiday retells and celebrates the story of Jewish liberation from Egyptian slavery over 3,000 years ago. The Haggadah, a Jewish text read throughout the night, guides the order of the feast, starting with Kadesh, the blessing over wine, and ending with Nirtzah, expressions of hopes and prayers.

The tradition is to tell the story in first-person to relive the Exodus together as a community and be “connected to

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the Jewish story throughout time and space,” according to NU Hillel’s website.

Weinberg sophomore and NU Hillel religious and spiritual life co-chair Haley Shamah said Hillel’s staff works to foster a community and provide resources for students to celebrate Passover and recreate the family experience associated with Seders.

Some Jewish students do not celebrate Passover at home with Passover Seders, Shamah said, but Hillel hopes to provide the space for all students to come together to try the custom and celebrate the holiday together.

“Obviously, nothing will compare to the traditions that you’re used to at home and home-cooked food,” Shamah said. “Our hope is that the community that we build at Hillel and the broader Northwestern community will definitely be a fun substitute.”

NU Hillel staff works with NU Dining to provide Kosher Passover meals, according to Shamah. Monday ’s Seder menu featured traditional dishes such as chicken matzo

Hip-hop and R&B musician to perform at 52nd NU festival, Mayfest announces

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my fellow classmates some of the Seder traditions we do at home.”

Communication sophomore Roie Dahan’s family tradition begins Seder with chraime, a Moroccan fish dish

Hip-hop and R&B musician Swae Lee will headline Northwestern’s 52nd Dillo Day, Mayfest Productions announced Wednesday.

The artist, known for the hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd and songs like “Sunflower” with Post Malone and “Unforgettable” with French Montana, epitomizes this year’s festival’s summer camp theme, Mayfest wrote in a Wednesday news release.

“No other artist would be able to simultaneously take us all back to our summer camp days and perform current hits in the way that Swae will, with a nonstop set of songs everyone knows the words to,” Mayfest Booking Director and SESP senior Armaan Ajani said.

Lee has written songs for artists including Beyoncé and Travis Scott. With 14 years in the industry, Mayfest wrote, Lee still has more to come.

“It’s rare, I think, that we get to feature an artist who has such an extraordinary legacy and still so much ahead of them,” Talent Buyer and Weinberg junior Nathan Dent said. “We’re getting the best of both worlds in the sense that Swae Lee has given us so many classics and is still only beginning to show us what he’s capable of as a solo artist.”

Dillo Day wristband registration for the May 18 festival is now open. Northwestern students get free admission and can pay $25 for an undergraduate guest ticket. Alumni can pay $30 for tickets.

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Students enjoyed a Passover Seder with the NU Hillel community.

ball soup, eggplant schnitzel and chocolate chiffon cake.

Shamah said food is central to the celebration.

“Passover food is a way for me to connect with my heritage,” Shamah said. “I’ve taken that opportunity in that platform to share with

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only NU students, faculty and staff be allowed in the demonstration area, unless otherwise authorized by the University.

In exchange, the Northwestern Divestment Coalition, which organized the encampment effort, will commit to leaving only one aid tent on the lawn. Though students will still be able to organize under a permit granted by NU, they will use only approved devices to project or amplify sound.

The encampment, organized

by the NU Divestment Coalition, comes as students across the country are protesting their universities’ involvement in Israel’s war in Gaza, with some facing arrests.

Israel’s military action in Gaza has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to Palestinian officials. Israel’s ground and air offensive follows the militant group Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel which killed about 1,200 Israelis, according to Israeli officials.