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Profs voice support for Klein accusers Faculty write letter, commit to improving Medill

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A group of Medill faculty members promised the 10 former students and employees who last week accused Prof. Alec Klein of harassment that they will “search for ways to help provide a safer, healthier environment free of any form of predation or bullying” in a letter last week. In the letter, which was sent to media Monday morning, 15 tenured professors from the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications told the women their allegations shook many of them “to the core.” The allegations against Klein, they said, have sparked conversation and reflection among Medill faculty and staff. “We respect you, and express our deep personal regret for any harm suffered,” the professors said in the letter. “We do hear you. We’ll continue to listen.” Last Wednesday, the 10 former Medill students and employees sent a letter to Northwestern administrators accusing Klein, director of the Medill Justice Project, of sexual harassment, bullying and verbal abuse. In the letter, they described various situations in which Klein displayed “controlling, discriminatory, emotionally

and verbally abusive behavior.” Klein “categorically” denied the allegations made against him in a Wednesday statement to The Daily. In their response to the former students and employees, the Medill professors said that, as faculty members, they “clearly have plenty of urgent work to do.”They added that they are committed to make changes that “ensure no student or employee experiences abusive treatment, sexual misconduct, or discriminatory behavior.” Medill Prof. Donna Leff, who mainly teaches graduate students, said the professors decided to write the letter after discussing the allegations made against Klein. “We clearly and emphatically … want to say that we won’t tolerate this behavior among ourselves or our colleagues,” Leff said. “This is not any climate that we would tolerate at all. Not at all.” Leff said the group of professors made the decision to write and send the letter fairly quickly and easily after having their conversation. Leff said several of the women who signed the original letter were former students of hers, and that the faculty wrote the letter directly to them because they “felt that they needed to hear from us.” Medill Prof. Douglas Foster also signed the letter. The role of faculty, Foster told The Daily, is to ensure the “underlying problems of the culture” in Medill are being addressed. The goal of the women » See KLEIN, page 6

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Director of parks, recreation and community services Lawrence Hemingway speaks at Monday’s City Council meeting. Hemingway said the department’s website crashed over the weekend due to too much traffic.

Camp registration crashes website City form shut down Saturday, leaving thousands of spots unfilled By SAMANTHA HANDLER

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Online registration for the city’s summer camps encountered a snafu over the weekend that resulted in a high number of vacant registration spots, as the Parks, Recreation and Community Services website experienced

technical difficulties, city staff said at Monday’s City Council meeting. The online registration forms for Evanston summer camps originally went live at 8 a.m. Saturday, then crashed due to the large number of people trying to register. It was finally shut down entirely by city officials by 9:45 a.m., according to a city news release.

People were still able to register in person at the Levy Senior Center, and the department has processed all 748 of those applications, department director Lawrence Hemingway said at the meeting. He said when registration opened, there were only around 58 people at the center to register, but an hour later there were more than 300 people trying to

register in person, with more “coming in the building every minute by the dozens.” “Of course people weren’t happy that the online system wasn’t working, but we didn’t anticipate having that as an issue,” Hemingway said. “Last year, that wasn’t an issue for us. So there was no reason for us to » See WEBSITE, page 6

MSA director begins tenure at NU Student files racial Daviree Velázquez Phillip fills vacancy after stint at Georgetown By ADRIAN WAN

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As a self-identified student activist in college, Daviree Velázquez Phillip said she often criticized her undergraduate school for the lack of mentorship and services provided to firstgeneration students and students of color like her. However, Phillip said she eventually realized critiquing without providing concrete solutions was not enough, leading her to pursue a career in higher education. “I thought to myself, if I’m going to critique higher (education) or ... identify injustice in the world, then I certainly need to see myself as part of the answer,” Phillip said. Phillip began her tenure Monday as the new director for Multicultural Student Affairs, filling the position which had been vacant for four months since former director Charles Kellom left for Ohio Wesleyan University in October. Prior to coming to

Northwestern, Phillip worked as an assistant director of diversity education in Georgetown University’s Center for Multicultural Equity and Access and as a diversity and inclusion specialist at its Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship. A search committee comprised of students, faculty and staff reviewed application materials and interviewed potential candidates, said Social Justice Education director Robert Brown. Brown, who headed the committee, added that three applicants were invited for an oncampus interview in December before Phillip’s appointment was finalized. Brown said Phillip stood out in “a very competitive pool of applicants” because of her strong commitment to social justice and inclusion in education and beyond. “She had experience working directly advocating for minoritized groups of students and she has direct roles working with black and Latinx communities,” » See MSA, page 6

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inequity complaint Freshman alleges bias in home high school suspension By MADDIE BURAKOFF

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Daviree Velázquez Phillip. Phillip, who assumed her position as the new director for Multicultural Student Affairs on Monday, plans to support marginalized students at NU.

Growing up in the public school system in Princeton, New Jersey, Jamaica Ponder said she often saw issues of racial inequity, even in a town that largely professed itself to be liberal. “It’s really difficult to make that a problem to put on the table because everyone is so educated,” the Medill freshman said. “We have Princeton (University) right there, and so you talk to these parents who have x amount of degrees, and they’re like, ‘Well of course we’re not racist. We’re far too smart to be racist.’” Recently, Ponder and her father filed a discrimination complaint against Princeton Public Schools in response to a school suspension system which they see as racially biased.

During her senior year at Princeton High School, Ponder faced a one-day suspension because of her senior collage photo in the school’s yearbook, which features her and a group of friends in her basement. The part of the photo that caused the retaliation, she said, was the backdrop — behind the 17 students hung works of art created by Jamaica’s father, Rhinold Ponder. Rhinold Ponder said the works in the photo are part of an exhibition on race and the N-word. One painting has the phrase “N----- Rich,” and another depicts a lynching of three famous figures. The paintings had been hanging in the family’s house for years, and often served as a “conversation piece” for Jamaica’s friends, Rhinold Ponder said. So when Jamaica Ponder was called into the principal’s office to discuss her yearbook collage, she said she was surprised. The fact that the word is in the painting » See COMPLAINT, page 6

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Art, design school to open in Evanston in spring By CATHERINE HENDERSON

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The One River School of Art + Design will soon open the doors of a new campus for Evanston’s future Picassos and amateur artists alike, providing art classes for all ages and a gallery for local artists to display their work. The school, which will open on Davis Street in May 2018, will be the organization’s eighth overall location and its first in the Chicago area. It plans to build six other sites within three years, said Paige Peavler, vice president of operations for the One River School in Chicago. Peavler said Evanston will be a good fit for the One River School because of its large population, central location among Chicago suburbs and thriving art scene, with one of the largest communities of working artists in the country. “Evanston and the North Shore are very supportive of the arts, and there’s a very large art community,” Peavler said. “We love Evanston. It’s a beautiful suburb and it’s very friendly towards art and businesses.” Peavler said the space will include a gallery area and three classrooms. In the gallery, local artists, art teachers and students from the programs will display their work for other community members. Two of the classrooms will be designed for fine arts

POLICE BLOTTER Blotter: 19-year-old Evanston man reports sidewalk robbery

A 19-year-old Evanston man reported being robbed of his phone and $800 in south Evanston. The Evanston resident said he was walking in the 300 block of Asbury Avenue toward the Red Line at 2:45 p.m. Saturday when four men approached him. Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said one told the man “run your pockets,” which he told police he took as a robbery and fled. He said the men chased him to an alley near Kirk Street and Asbury, where they took his phone and

classes ranging from watercolors and realistic drawing to sculpture, Peavler said. The last classroom will be a digital design space, she added, a space for the One Art School to teach documentary, animation, photoshop and fashion. Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said he is excited for the school to move into his ward and that he hopes to see more opportunities for the community to engage with art, especially as the city has cut back funding for public art projects. “Seeing the positive impact of being able to go to a safe place, learn how to create something and feel like you’re in a safe space in doing that, it helps you as a human being,” Wilson said. One Art School’s vice president of operations Agnes Zabawa said that since helping found the school in 2012, it has worked on “perfecting” its curriculum and operations. Zabawa emphasized the high demand for art classes, especially with both public and private schools cutting funding for fine arts. She said parents with creative kids sought out programs like the One Art School and that adults enjoyed getting involved as well. “We introduce contemporary art and we’ve got an amazing curriculum,” Zabawa said. “The first couple of years allowed us to … teach people how to teach art and validate what we were doing, which gave us the leverage to start to share this with other communities.” Zabawa said the school’s curriculum often focuses money, beat him and then fled. He said one of the men who had approached him dropped his own phone while running away. The Evanston resident then chased the group of men, Glew said. A second altercation occurred when they knocked down the Evanston man, repeatedly kicking and punching him, Glew said. The man said he went back to his house and waited for his dad to get home. His father took him to Saint Francis Hospital, where he reported the incident. Police do not have any suspects at this time.

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A gallery in a One River School. The company will open its first Chicago-area location in Evanston in May.

on modern art created by living artists on display all around the world. She added the emphasis on digital art “really impacted our success,” teaching students skills for the modern workplace. Peavler said the classes are flexible for teachers and students, and said art teachers from local schools can work part-time during the evening or over the weekend. Busy students also have the flexibility to A 46-year-old Evanston resident said she discovered missing items from her home after her neighbor was at her house earlier in the day. The woman said her 30-year-old neighbor was drinking alcohol in her home in the 1200 block of Fowler Avenue from about 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. After he left, she said she discovered $3,000 in cash and a gold necklace worth $1,000 missing from a jewelry box in her home. The woman reported the theft at 9:25 p.m. the same day. Glew said the neighbor is a suspect. Police do not have anyone in custody at this time. — Julia Esparza

come into a class halfway through, she said, and art supplies are included in the cost of the classes. “Art is an individual thing,” Peavler said. “So each student will be doing their individual project and working at their own pace but in a group setting so there’s still some community there.” catherinehenderson2021@u.northwestern.edu

Setting the record straight An article published in Monday’s paper titled “EPL hosts panel on book tackling identity, injustice,” misstated the association that sponsored the panel on a second reference. EPL applied for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Daily regrets the error.

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Profs help combat newborn mortality By ALANE LIM

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Two Northwestern professors are part of a team that recently won $15 million to increase survival rates for newborn babies in Africa. Feinberg and McCormick Prof. Robert Murphy and Kellogg Prof. Kara Palamountain are both members of NEST360°, a global group of experts that was selected as one of four finalists in the national MacArthur Foundation’s first 100&Change competition. The competition’s senior program officer Kristen Molyneaux said it aimed to award an organization that solved any critical problem in the modern world. NEST360° — which also includes team members from Rice University, the University of Malawi, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and 3rd Stone Design — is a collaborative effort that aims to improve the survival of African newborns by providing durable technologies and improving healthcare training, education and access. Murphy said the goal of the project is to improve newborn survival in Africa by at least 50 percent. “This is a project in sub-Saharan Africa where infant mortality, specifically … death before one month of age, is really high, and most of these babies are dying of preventable causes,” Murphy said. Many of these deaths can be prevented with basic care that many places in the region don’t have, he added. Kristen Mack, 100&Change’s communications officer, said the proposals were judged on four criteria: whether the proposal was meaningful, feasible, verifiable and durable. Molyneaux added that although the competition originally aimed to award $100 million to the winner, all the groups were “so strong” that the foundation decided to give $15 million to each of the other finalists as well.

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“The hope from the board was that those additional $15 million grants would be a good catalyst for other donors (to) close the gap between the 15 million we provided and the 100 million that the organization had put forward,” she said. Murphy said team members have worked on almost 20 technologies for NEST360° so far, including a syringe pump that injects fluids into the body at an optimal rate and an airway pressure machine that pumps oxygen to the lungs. He added that the technologies were built to withstand the African environment, so they are sturdier, less impacted by dust and can operate

on a battery if the electric grid is unstable. Other aspects of NEST360° include developing diagnostic tests and training healthcare workers, he added. “You really have to get a team of people in there to show the staff exactly how it works, to troubleshoot and then to be available to answer questions after they implement the devices and the tests,” Murphy said. “(Hospitals) should be able to handle (this) stuff and the reason they haven’t is because they don’t have the resources.” alane.lim@u.northwestern.edu

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Real action is more important than appearing ‘woke’ RUBY PHILLIPS

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This weekend, I was able to see the Wirtz Theatre’s MFA Lab production of White, a theatre production that addresses how everyone is complicit in problematic institutions and the tokenization of people of color. The show delved into how being socially conscious about issues of race has become more so a facet of elite cultural capital than a substantial method of critical consciousness and enacting tangible change. The show really forced me to think about how it has become trendy to feign social awareness instead of engaging with institutional issues around us. It made me wonder why in our campus culture — and that of society at large — accountability, uprooting social norms and pushing ourselves to be uncomfortable has become a competition privy to white people who can put on a #blacklivesmatter button or gloat about how they are not in Greek life. I hate the word “woke.” There’s a certain currency to wokeness that has become popular to spend around college campuses. I have been in far too many classes where anyone who brings up the question of identity or race has been lauded as “into social justice.” But

what’s more important is that we should all be thinking about these issues on different levels, no matter who we are. No sect of people has earned this badge to do so more than others, hold people to a higher standard of engagement and push their thought processes. These conversations are not exclusively for people of color or marginalized communities.

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There is no boiling point where someone will have read enough books, engaged with enough communities or attended enough rallies to be free of the burden of complicity. Of course, learning is for everyone to do at their own pace. But it is crucial to remember that we shouldn’t give up even though there is no clear solution. What does it mean to be successfully engaged and resisting? I honestly don’t know, and I definitely have not gotten there. But I think the problem is that “there” doesn’t exist. There is no boiling point where someone will have read enough books, engaged with enough communities or attended enough rallies to be free of the burden of complicity. I am sick of people using their engagement to shame other people to

prove that they are smarter or cooler. On the flip side of this conversation, I am not asking more people of color or marginalized communities to bear the brunt of explaining how racism, classism and sexism still exist. I understand that some people of color are done with explaining, with screaming, with trying to force change when nothing is working. White people must understand this as well. In one essay by Alicia Garza, one of the founders of the #blacklivesmatter movement, she aptly articulates my feelings on how we perceive wokeness and different levels of social consciousness. Garza talks about how she was not born with the knowledge she now has — rather, someone else taught her and was patient with her. She learned it earlier than most white people, as she says it was beaten into her brain to the point where she felt like she had to act. She says, “I can be critical of white women and, at the same time, seek out and join with women, white and of color, who are awakening to the fact that all lives do not, in fact, matter, without compromising my dignity, my safety and radical politics.” She stresses the necessity of working together at this point in time while still holding white people to a certain standard. Moreover, I want to highlight that everyone is coming from different perspectives and starting points when it comes to these conversations. Recognizing this fact and not belittling people is a responsibility we all

share. If people of color are tired of repeating themselves, than maybe white people can try to make sure they don’t have to. The line between allyship and appropriation is far too blurry these days, and woke culture contributes to that. It is hard to know who is actually following up on their beliefs and doing the work and who is just putting up a facade. But we are at the point where everyone should be thinking about these concepts. Everyone should be trying to know when to listen and educate themselves through ethnic studies classes and teach ins. Wokeness can’t become just another facet of elite cultural capital, a new kind of language that lets you engage in certain kinds of spaces and not others. If being woke means you are awake and you have seen the bad parts of the world, such as racial oppression, sexual assault and ableism, then you shouldn’t feel liberated or redeemed. These things should stick with you. They should sit with you and crawl on your skin. Because even living with that discomfort won’t compare to the years of injustice our society has caused so many. Ruby Phillips is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at rubyphillips2020@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

Military parade would be counteractive to U.S. policy LEO SAINATI

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After witnessing the Bastille Day parade in France last year, President Donald Trump said he wanted to bring the festivities, notably the excessive displays of military power, to the United States. Remarking that the parade “was military might,” Trump declared that “we’re going to have to try and top it.” While Trump was not trying to replicate France’s national holiday, a celebration of democracy and citizens’ rights, he did surely seem more interested in displays of military strength, which are characteristic of dictatorships and not democracies. Whether or not Trump truly wants a full-scale military parade or whether it will even happen, his attraction to it and the underlying messages nonetheless merit attention. Parading military strength to the world stems from the need to assert a country’s

dominance and power to its citizens, allies and enemies. Eliot A. Cohen, director of the Strategic Studies program at John Hopkins University, writes that “military parades with lots of hardware appeal to countries that have something to prove. For Israel in the 1950’s and 1960’s, it was that the tiny state had the muscle to survive; for France in the late 19th and 20th centuries that defeat and ruinous victory had not dimmed her martial prowess … ” A parade in the U.S. seems out of place — what do we have to prove? Under pressure from a rapidly developing China and an aggressive North Korea, it is understandable that Trump may want to assert dominance, but it would send a message contradictory to US foreign policy goals. The U.S. has built its role as a global superpower through economic clout and the ability to provide economic and military security. Robert Kagan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, writes that our military power and ability to maintain open trade routes are essential to a stable international order. Kagan’s claim is not a unique one, but it highlights an important point that

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A military parade will diminish the U.S.’s image to a country constantly reaching for global influence, and be counterproductive to its ability to act as a global power. in the current world order, and we don’t need a parade to go about touting this. A hegemonic U.S. is essential to maintain a stable order of liberal trade. A military parade will diminish the U.S.’s image to a country constantly reaching for global influence, and would be counterproductive to its ability to act as a global power. Military parades can be held to honor troops, but this is also flawed. The parade’s superficial role as an event to portray a certain national image would undermine an

authentic appreciation of service. As Cohen articulates, “parades say more about those who order and watch them, than those who participate in them.” Ultimately, Trump’s desire for a military parade is representative of a larger problem. From exaggerating his own inauguration crowd size to taking credit for an already upwardly destined economy, his presidency has consistently demonstrated a need to prove. Whether Trump feels the need to stave off China’s rise to dominance or to counter North Korea’s threats, a military parade is far less effective than a simple acknowledgment of the U.S.’s role in the global economy. Trump certainly seems to favor the ostentatious, but in this case the subtle is much more powerful. Leo Sainati is a SESP freshman. He can be contacted at leosainati2021@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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Event honors impactful black Evanston residents By JULIA ESPARZA

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Evanston residents gathered to celebrate the lives of black “history makers” at a meet and greet event held at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center on Monday. The event, hosted by Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre and Shorefront Legacy Center, featured a meet and greet with former mayor Lorraine H. Morton, former 5th Ward alderman Delores Holmes, teenage music conductor Howard Godfrey and award-winning writer Parneshia Jones. The four spoke at the Civic Center in a room of about 40 people. Shorefront Legacy founder Dino Robinson, who was one of the event’s coordinators, told The Daily that the meet and greet was intended to highlight important figures in Evanston’s history, as well as today’s rising community figures. He added that coordinators chose to highlight people of various generations in order to bridge the gap between age groups. He said he wanted neighbors to “get to know each other” to foster better communication. “I’m looking around the room right now and people are talking to each other and sharing ideas and learning about each other,” Robinson said. “That’s what communities are supposed to do.” During the presentation, the residents discussed their role models’ influences on their lives’ work and the legacies they hope to leave behind. They all said their role models set important examples about devotion to

District 65 teacher becomes finalist for Illinois teaching award

Kristin Mitchell — a kindergarten teacher at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Literary and Fine Arts School in Evanston — is a finalist in the annual Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Teaching & Leadership.

a cause. For Morton, some of her role models are children within the Evanston community. She said even at the age of 99, she learns from children constantly. The event was meant to have a very casual feel, Robinson said, as if attendees were “visiting your family member and sitting in their living room.” He added the relaxed atmosphere lended to the event’s impact in building community. Robinson said he hopes the event was first of many, as the organizations continue to feature black Evanston residents to recognize people who may otherwise get “lost in the mix.” Godfrey, a freshman at Evanston Township High School, told The Daily he was surprised to be featured at the event. Godfrey wrote and conducted a 21-piece orchestra while in eighth grade at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Literary and Fine Arts School last year. He said he was honored to be noted alongside the other women who had “done so much.” “For (the event) to be all African Americans, it’s people from the same community of different ages but people who also look just like you,” Godfrey told The Daily. “It’s awesome to see.” Godfrey’s grandfather, Roosevelt Askew Jr., attended the event and told The Daily he was “very proud” his grandson was featured. He said Godfrey is not only excited about music, but also about life. “(The celebration) says a lot to folks, especially in the black community, that goals can be achieved even through adversity,” Askew said. “We should never give up.” juliaesparza2020@u.northwestern.edu Golden Apple is a Illinois non-profit that aims to celebrate and support teachers, particularly at underachieving schools. For the 2018 awards, the organization received more than 650 applications from kindergarten through 3rd grade teachers, a record number according to a news release from the organization. They selected 30 finalists, 10 of which will be announced as winners in the spring. Northwestern provides each winner with a chance to study at NU for a quarter free of

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Former Evanston mayor Lorraine H. Morton speaks at a meet and greet event. The event aimed to honor the legacies of four prominent black Evanston residents.

tuition. Each winner also receives a $5,000 cash award and becomes a fellow of the Golden Apple Academy, according to the release. “This year’s award finalists … represent accomplished educators who are embracing very complex assignments to enrich and advance the lives of students,” Golden Apple president and CEO Alicia Winckler said in the release. “These awards shine a bright light on the incredible work happening in our

schools.” Last year, two Chute Middle School teachers were finalists for the Golden Apple Award, though they were not selected as winners. Mitchell teaches math, reading, writing, social studies and science to kindergarteners. Golden Apple will observe each teacher in the classroom and review them again during the next few months. — Catherine Henderson

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From page 1 who wrote the letter “align” with the goals of the faculty, Foster said. “(We’re) … determined to not just be shaken, but to be moved to participate in various ways to make the environment better,” Foster said. “We know that the former students on that list who were co-authors of that complaint, we know that they’re motivated the same thing we’re motivated by, which is to take what is a deeply disturbing circumstance, and use it to change the culture.” Prof. Rachel Davis Mersey agreed with Foster, saying Medill is at the “very beginning” of thinking

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From page 1 Brown said. “We’re really excited to have a new person of the position who can speak to a broad and diverse array of needs that show up in our community.” Pointing to her college experience at DePaul University — which she said lacked an “integral” place that offered counseling and support for groups of different identities — Phillip said educators within modern universities failed to address the needs of the full breadth of the student body. Consequently, she said, institutions continue to perpetuate marginalization by holding “onto the dominant narrative.” Alejandro Magaña, an assistant director of MSA, said MSA is currently working with Phillip to flesh out plans for community events that help students explore their social identities and navigate their college lives. Phillip will hold an open lunch Wednesday in

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assume that would be an issue in 2018.” There are a total of 9,715 spots in Evanston summer camps and 2,104 of those spots are now filled, Hemingway said. He added that “every single camp” has openings and the department will offer a second time for online registration. The department’s Twitter account originally said online registration will reopen Wednesday morning, though Hemingway said they will delay that time until 8 a.m. this coming Saturday. He said this will be a more convenient time for people who work and give staff time to retest the system. Hemingway added that they are “trying to make the best of a bad situation,” and that he still believes the online system is the best tool to use for registration. “We have the technology,” Hemingway said. “We just have to make sure the technology works in the future. Hopefully we can get this thing right this coming Saturday.” The city’s chief information officer, Luke

about the ramifications of the allegations made against Klein. “Even just in my classes today, we began a conversation about power dynamics and the role of faculty and students in a classroom,” Mersey said. “I’m hoping that the level of conversation and attention to making our students feel comfortable … really becomes something that we put at the center of our conversation and our thoughts moving ahead.” Medill Dean Brad Hamm could not be reached for comment. Meribah Knight, one of the writers of the original letter to Hamm and Provost Jonathan Holloway, declined to comment. alfaro@u.northwestern.edu the first floor conference room in the Multicultural Center for students to communicate their concerns. “(MSA) is really here for the students and to help students … to translate the experiences that they are having at Northwestern into the workplace, community and broader,” Magaña said. To tackle the problems marginalized groups are facing, Phillip said she strives to foster students’ understanding of the intersections between race, gender and religion. She said she plans to attend student gatherings and learn more about how historical incidents, such as the Sand Creek Massacre and Bursar’s Office Takeover, continue to shape the NU community. “I don’t think it’s fair for educators to show up in student’s spaces and say … ‘How do I improve my practice,’ without having a relationship with them first,” Phillip said. “It really requires me to figure out how to build … (students’) efficacy and capacity to feel comfortable sharing the good and not-so-good.” limingwan2021@u.northwestern.edu Stowe, said staff has identified the factors that likely contributed to the technical difficulties and will come up with some action steps to prevent future incidents. Stowe said staff will look to increase the server’s processing power and have been working with the software vendor to further prevent the system from crashing again. He said they will do a “full stress test” this week with a third party before the next round of registration. Mayor Steve Hagerty said he appreciates that the department will delay the registration time from Wednesday to Saturday since it will be more convenient for a large number of people. Camp registration may already be a stressful time for families who are trying to get their children into certain programs or classes before the spots fill up, he said. “The bottom line is the city of Evanston ought not add to people’s stress and we did on Saturday,” Hagerty said. “It’s unfortunate, but we have to learn from it and make sure this does not happen again.” samanthahandler2021@u.northwestern.edu

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“doesn’t even register” with her anymore, she said, and the paintings were largely obscured by the students in the photo. Administrators still issued Jamaica Ponder a oneday suspension. In a statement from the Princeton Board of Education — on which Jamaica Ponder’s mother currently serves — the board said her photo contained “what could reasonably be interpreted as offensive and profane statements and/or imagery.” On a personal level, Jamaica Ponder said the suspension was “not a big deal.” She was not new to conflicts with the district — throughout her high school career, she had been calling out perceived issues in both administrators and fellow students through her online publication, Multi Mag. And though she had to alert Northwestern, she was eventually able to get the suspension removed from her record after submitting a reflection about the experience, she said. The real concern, she said, was that her suspension was reflective of wider racial issues in the school district. Jamaica and Rhinold Ponder filed a complaint with the recently formed Princeton Civil Rights Commission stating Jamaica Ponder was suspended on the basis of “her race, gender and advocacy for racial justice and equity.” The complaint also alleges that Princeton High School has a history of issuing out-of-school suspensions “disproportionately” to students of color and disabled students. “Although we were vindicated, we don’t believe in leaving others behind,” Rhinold Ponder said. “We believe in leaving a system behind that is better for everyone.” As one of about 11 black students in a class of about 350, Jamaica Ponder said she saw many of her fellow students of color receiving fewer opportunities and harsher disciplinary measures than their

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Medill freshman Jamaica Ponder. Ponder and her father filed a discrimination complaint against Princeton Public Schools alleging their suspension practices are racially biased.

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white peers. Though the Ponders had the resources to help their daughter “benefit from the system,” Rhinold Ponder said the public schools generally have perpetuated a strong racial divide ever since they were integrated. Superintendent Steve Cochrane did not respond to a request for comment. In its statement, the Board said it understood the concerns of racial disparity “from a broad perspective as to discipline in school settings” but did not believe “race played a factor in this decision (or that the District disciplined students of color differently than other students for similar offenses).” The Civil Rights Commission eventually decided it would not pursue the complaint. In an email sent Feb. 1, the commission said the publicity around the complaint’s filing “undermined the commission’s ideal of facilitating a (dialogue) through the means of conflict resolution” and could have a “chilling effect” on others who may now fear their concerns would similarly be presented in the media before a dialogue could occur in a “safe space.” Despite the commission’s dismissal, Rhinold Ponder said he plans to continue putting pressure on the district to address racial inequity in “more than a cosmetic way.” As a result of recent activism — including her own — Jamaica Ponder said she thinks the district is taking some steps, but hasn’t fully committed to implementing real changes. She said she wants the complaint and the publicity surrounding it to compel the district to make further moves toward equity. “I hope … there’s more transparency … (and) that everyone is just treated equally,” Jamaica Ponder said. “It’s just really frustrating when you watch the people you grew up with get specifically targeted and not given the same opportunities, and you know exactly why.”

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Cats’ struggles against ranked opponents continue By BENJY APELBAUM

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Northwestern cannot seem to get over the hump against ranked opponents, but continues to beat unranked foes. Last weekend, the Wildcats (3-5) suffered two losses against top 25 competition. NU lost a competitive 4-2 match against No. 9 Oklahoma State (8-1) on Friday and fell to No. 22 Notre Dame (7-0) by a score of 5-1 on Sunday. And to cap off the busy slate, the Cats swept Chicago State (2-5) by a 4-0 score later Sunday. NU has played a difficult schedule this season, with half of its eight matches coming against ranked opponents. The Cats are winless against those teams, but predictably are 3-1 against unranked opponents, with their only loss being a narrow 4-3 defeat to North Carolina State last month. “The schedule is tough, but we’re a good team. I know that,” coach Arvid Swan said. “We’re growing, and we’re improving each match, so for us it’s

about building with a young team and improving.” Against the Cowboys, NU played its most competitive match against a ranked opponent this season. In doubles, the Cats played three close sets, but lost two of the three, handing Oklahoma State a one-point advantage. In singles, NU’s deficit increased to 3-0 due to quick straight-set losses at No. 1 and 6 singles by freshman Antonioni Fasano and sophomore Chris Ephron, respectively. After those two, the rest of the singles matches were tightly contested and an unlikely sweep of them could have resulted in a win. Wins from freshman Nick Brookes and junior Ben Vandixhorn brought the score to 3-2. However, sophomore Dominik Stary narrowly lost a second-set tiebreaker 9-7 to seal his team’s fate. Junior Jason Seidman was in the middle of a close third set when the match was clinched. “It obviously wasn’t the result we wanted, but they’re a top-10 team, and we showed some good fight there,” Brookes said. “It gave us a little bit of confidence and motivation.” Against Notre Dame, the Cats put in a strong performance in doubles, but lost five singles

matches, often in close sets. In doubles, Swan mixed up the pairings and gave the 0-3 duo of Brookes and Fasano new partners. The changes paid off, as the hosts won the doubles point against Notre Dame in what Swan said was the best doubles performance of the season. Vandixhorn said he wished the team could have used the strong doubles performance to come out with wins in singles. “We’ve got to come out with a little more energy and use the momentum of doubles,” Vandixhorn said. “A few times and on almost every court, when the sets got tight towards the end they were the team that stepped up and took advantage of it.” Later that night, NU easily won its match against a shorthanded Chicago State team that had to forfeit one singles and doubles match due to a lack of players. The Cats played their usual lineup and lost just one total set during the match against the Cougars. Quick singles wins by Vandixhorn and freshman A.J. Joshi ended the match, which lasted barely over an hour. benjaminapelbaum2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Michael Lorenzini strikes a forehand. The junior and the Wildcats went 1-2 on a busy weekend.

Aldermen quash proposed soft recycling program By RYAN WANGMAN

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Aldermen trashed a proposed recycling program at an Administration and Public Works committee meeting Monday, citing concerns over how the plan would impact local charitable organizations. Aldermen voted 3-1 to deny the proposal, which was recommended by city staff and would have authorized the city manager to execute a contract with Simple Recycling for the curbside collection of soft recyclables — items that weigh less than fifty pounds and can be carried by one person. Ald. Tom Suffredin (6th) dissented. Joan Farrell, vice president and general counsel at Goodwill Industries, said before the vote that

the items Simple Recycling would collect are crucial to their business in Evanston. She said it “pains us” to see donations sitting in bags curbside weathering the elements and not being taken care of. “We were founded 100 years ago on this recycling principle,” Farrell said. “I like to say Goodwill was green before it was even cool to be green.” Farrell said the revenue generated from the sales of the donations in Goodwill’s Evanston location go toward the organization’s mission of helping people in the community who are “disabled and disadvantaged.” She said that the group has also used sales money raised to invest $1.5 million to build a donation center and the store, and that they have hired 45 people at the store — 17 of which are from Evanston. Paul Gardner — director of regional municipal partnerships at a WasteZero, a contractor

responsible for marketing the program in Illinois — said before the vote that the contract would allow Chicago area thrift stores to receive “higher level material,” and that “worn and torn” material would go to create products like insulation and industrial wipers. The contractor collecting the soft recyclables would have paid the city a fee of one cent per pound of gross receipts for those recyclables and had the potential to “divert a large amount of material from the landfill,” according to the city documents. This would have resulted in additional city revenue ranging from $60 to $250 a month, based on a city staff review of other municipalities already using the services. The program would have required no city funding to operate, and would have allowed residents of single family homes or buildings of five or fewer

units the ability to recycle materials not currently handled by the city’s weekly recycling program. Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) told The Daily she decided to vote against the proposal because she agreed with Farrell’s reasoning that the introduction of the new program would have negatively impacted organizations like Goodwill. She said that people would be “throwing their crap in bags” and putting it on street curbs. Rainey added that the city wants to support groups that provide jobs and tax deductions for donations. “(The contract) just diminishes all of the contributions that we all make to Goodwill and Salvation Army,” Rainey said at Monday’s council meeting. ryanw@u.northwestern.edu

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Wildcats cruise to easy victories in icy conditions By ALISON ALBELDA

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The opening weekend for Northwestern was a success with back-toback wins against Canisius and Detroit Mercy. Saturday morning was the season opener for the No. 9 Wildcats and NU cruised to an 18-7 wvvin over Canisius. Twelve women found the back of the net, including freshmen Kate Copeland, Jill Girardi and Taylor Pinzone scoring their first collegiate goals. Sunday morning featured a domination of Detroit Mercy with a 21-2 victory. Once again, the hosts had effective play from throughout their deep lineup, with 13 different players scoring. Freshmen Ally Palermo, Lauren Gilbert and Brianna Stroup put their first career goals on the board. Junior Selena Lasota, who became the fastest player in program history to reach 100 career goals in her

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sophomore year, missed the final 17 games of last season due to a lowerbody injury. She scored a total of six goals this weekend, controlled seven draws and dished three assists. Lasota said she being back on the field was “awesome” and praised the Cats’ freshmen. “We have had a lot of strong classes and our senior class was an incoming class that played a lot their freshman year,” Lasota said. “We want to help build those freshmen up (and) give them a lot of confidence.” NU showed no mercy to Detroit Mercy, with goalies Julie Krupnick and Mallory Weisse, who each played a half, only allowing two goals the entire game. Sunday’s game was the largest margin of victory for the Cats since a 2009 game against Rutgers. Last year, NU lost to Stony Brook in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. This year, senior Danita Stroup said the team is aiming to go all the way in her final season with the Cats. She was the fourth-leading scorer for NU on the weekend, scoring five

goals. Danita Stroup said the Cats are working on improving communication and using the team’s depth. “Our team goal is to make it to the final four and to the national championships,” Danita Stroup said. “And so working everyday and working together as a group to get to that point is kind of our main focus and my focus. … Hopefully we will succeed in the last break of the season.” The weekend was marked with frigid temperatures and a snow-covered Martin Stadium prior to shovelling. Coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said the Cats are excited for the season. She praised NU’s success in draw control with 19 draw wins on both Saturday and Sunday. “We had a lot of contributions from a lot of different people, a lot of assisted goals which is good,” Amonte Hiller said. “We want to go all the way, that is our hope. That is our goal, and we just have to focus on one game at a time.” alisonalbelda2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Cats pick up two key NU looks for bounce-back victory conference victories By JOSEPH WILKINSON

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This weekend, Northwestern notched two victories against Big Ten foes Purdue and Indiana. Friday night featured a 24-16 victory by the No. 19 Wildcats against the No. 22 Boilermakers (8-7, 2-6). The second match of the weekend ended with a second NU (9-4, 5-4) win by a score of 27-12 against the Hoosiers, wrapping up the Big Ten dual season Sunday morning. The Cats had five individual wins Friday night — by ranked redshirt freshmen No. 5 Ryan Deakin and No. 10 Sebastian Rivera, junior Conan Jennings and sophomores Zack Chakonis and Shayne Oster. Oster, wrestling in the 157-pound division, won by a pin and said his win will help him gain some momentum going into the postseason. “I just have to stay focused in my matches, keep good position the whole time and then, like tonight, capitalize whenever (my opponents) make mistakes,” Oster said. “I want to keep staying more offensive and be in the matches, so I can get them tired and a little worn out at the end.” And capitalize on Purdue’s mistakes NU did. Jennings, who is unranked, beat his No. 15-ranked opponent Shawn Streck in the heavyweight class and Rivera followed up by dominating No. 17 ranked Luke Welch in the 125pound division. By beating the Boilermakers, the Cats grabbed their third victory over a top-25 opponent this season. Chakonis, who also notably won Friday with a pin in the 197-pound weight class, echoed Oster regarding the need to be offensive throughout the bout and said success would come with that plan of attack. “Being more aggressive will definitely open up more angles for me,” Chakonis

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said. “Open up more opportunities, that is just the way I have been used to wrestling. ... Taking more shots and putting more points on the board should definitely help notch some wins in the victory column.” NU picked up its fifth Big Ten victory, its most in a season since 2011, on Sunday at Indiana. The match was marked by seven individual victories including two pins, this time by Deakin and Rivera. Deakin, wrestling in the 149-pound division, had his fastest pin of the year, defeating his opponent in 1 minute and 21 seconds to tally his teamhigh seventh win by fall this season. Rivera pinned his opponent in the second period, with a fall occuring at the 4:11 mark. Coach Matt Storniolo said it is essential for the Cats to be the aggressor in their matches as only one dual against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville remains prior to Big Ten Championships. “We have to worry about the task at hand first, but with that said, every match is building for the postseason,” Storniolo said. “It goes all the way back to November. It is not just about winning those matches or getting the result that you want out of them, it is about bettering yourself for the postseason and continuing to prepare yourself for Big Tens and NCAAs.” alisonalbelda2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Since Rutgers joined the Big Ten for the 2014-15 season, Northwestern has won every game against the Scarlet Knights. The Wildcats (15-11, 6-7 Big Ten) have compiled a 5-0 record over that time, with two of those wins coming by more than 20 points. They’ll look to extend that streak to six straight on Tuesday in Piscataway, New Jersey, against the reeling hosts. Rutgers (12-15, 2-12), quite simply, is a bad basketball program. The Scarlet Knights have finished last in the conference in all three of their full seasons since joining, and they once again occupy the bottom spot at this point in the 2017-18 season. After winning two of their first seven conference games, they have since lost seven straight, including a 31-point loss at fellow bottom-feeder Illinois. The Fighting Illini are the only other team in the Big Ten with only two conference wins. For NU, taking on struggling Rutgers could be just the bounce-back opportunity it needs coming off a disappointing loss at Maryland on Saturday. “We’re … battling it out in the middle of the pack, trying to fight our way up the standings here in the last two weeks,” coach Chris Collins said after the loss. “They played very well, and for us, (it’s) disappointing but we’ve got to get back home and get ready for the next one.” Not every game against Rutgers has been easy for NU, however. Last year’s tournament team only beat the Scarlet Knights by 4 points at home, needing clutch threes from forward Gavin Skelly and guard Bryant McIntosh in the final minutes to finally pull away and escape with the victory. This season, the Cats have been notably worse and Rutgers may

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actually have slightly improved, so there’s no guarantee this will be an easy victory for NU. The Knights allow the secondfewest points per game in the conference, and have allowed more than 70 points just once in their past eight games. Th at isn’t the team’s only strength, however. “We’re a good offensive rebounding team,” Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell said. “We’re a pretty good defensive team. Eventually our defense kind of catches up.” Of course, there’s a reason they sit at the bottom of the conference. Th ey score the fewest points per game, shoot the lowest percentage and average the lowest assist total in the Big Ten. That low-powered offensive output is led by guard Corey Sanders, who averages only 14 points per game, making him the conference’s lowest-scoring team leader. Sanders doesn’t get much support, either. Rutgers is one of only two teams in

the Big Ten without two players in the top 30 in the Big Ten in points per game. In their most recent game, the Scarlet Knights got their fourth- and fifth-leading scorers back with guard Mike Williams and forward Eugene Omoruyi, respectively. “Eugene and Mike are tough. They bring us toughness, they bring us fiber,” Pikiell said. “It gives us more options of the bench. We didn’t have a lot of options without those two. And they play multiple positions, so I can kind of move them around.” Still, the Cats shouldn’t have much trouble containing that rather inept offense. NU has allowed more than 70 points in only three of its 11 games in the 2018 calendar year, and all those teams feature much better offensive attacks than Rutgers. The Cats will need to ensure they don’t have another let down offensive letdown of their own — they have scored fewer than 50 points in three games this year, all against quality defenses — to get back to .500 in conference play. josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Scottie Lindsey gets stripped going up for a layup. The senior guard looks to finish his career undefeated at the Rutgers Athletic Center on Tuesday.