The Daily Northwestern – February 25, 2016

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Asian-American studies major created after faculty passes proposal

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MORE THAN 20 YEARS IN THE MAKING Protesters (left) demonstrate in front of Rebecca Crown Center in 1995 demanding an Asian-American studies major. Charles Chun (center) fasted for 12 days in 1995 during a hunger strike protesting the lack of a major. Students (right) rally at The Rock in 1998 in favor of the major’s creation.

By FATHMA RAHMAN

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The proposal for an Asian-American studies major was approved at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences faculty meeting Wednesday afternoon, officially making the major an option for all students at the start of the 2016-17 academic year.

Presented by three core faculty members from the

Asian American Studies Program, Professors Ji-Yeon Yuh, Nitasha Sharma and Shalini Shankar, the proposal came in light of recent student demand for the major as well as 20 years of campus activism pushing for its addition.

The proposal for the Asian-American studies major was voted on and passed with an overwhelming majority in the span of five minutes, Sharma said.

“After we voted it in, I started to clap and the room followed,” Sharma said. “But then when the legal studies major was passed right after, people clapped again.

People didn’t understand that I was thinking of the hunger strike, I was thinking of student activism — I was thinking that this is momentous.”

Weinberg’s major proposal guidelines include a two-part process to officially add a major to the school. The first part requires a reading of the proposal at a faculty meeting, which took place Jan. 13.

Sharma told The Daily last month that there was no negative sentiment toward the proposal at the January meeting and surmised it was likely to be passed at the next meeting.

The second part of the major proposal requires a vote at the next faculty meeting, which took place Wednesday afternoon, at which time the major was officially added to the list of Weinberg majors. The proposal included the official contents of the major, providing the general overview of the major’s necessity, as well as the specific courses that students will take and the list of requirements they will have to meet. » See MAJOR, page 6

Council approves Divvy bikes Medill gives laptops

By NORA SHELLY

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Divvy bike-sharing stations will officially come to Evanston this summer after City Council approved their

installation in a 5-4 vote Monday.

The vote allows for the city to engage in an intergovernmental agreement with Chicago to expand the bike-sharing program to Evanston. Eight stations with ten bikes each will be purchased in part using a grant from the Illinois Department of Transportation and will be installed by

July 1 of this year, along with two additional stations to be placed on Northwestern’s campus.

Evanston, in conjunction with nearby suburb Oak Park, received the grant as part of a larger effort to expand the Divvy » See DIVVY, page 6

Unshackle NU presents ASG bill

By ERICA SNOW

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Unshackle NU introduced legislation Wednesday at Associated Student Government Senate to pressure the University to divest from companies the group says promote the prison-industrial complex and to create a socially responsible investment committee.

The proposal comes one year after a Northwestern Divest resolution narrowly passed Senate, calling for the university to cease investment in companies the group said violate Palestinian human rights.

Unshackle NU members presented the resolution after a protest at The Rock on Tuesday. Currently, NU has less than $1 million invested in G4S, the largest security corporation in the world, and also likely has indirect investments in Caterpillar, William McLean, NU’s chief investment officer, told The Daily. The resolution names other corporations Unshackle NU believes the University

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DIVESTMENT RESOLUTION Members of Unshackle NU present legislation Wednesday night at Associated Student Government Senate that would call on the University to divest from corporations they say benefit from the mass incarceration of people of color.

may be invested in, such as the Corrections Corporation of America and the GEO Group. McLean said NU has no investments in the other companies named.

“Northwestern’s importance and proximity to Chicago is something that needs to be one of the main focuses of the reality of why Northwestern really should

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not be involved in violations that occur in private prisons and correction centers,” For Members Only senator Gwendolyn Gissendanner said.

The SESP sophomore added that the prison-industrial complex and mass incarceration disproportionately affects » See SENATE, page 6

to students for SES

By CHRISTINE FAROLAN

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A donation of 13 laptops from the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications is the latest in a series of efforts by Student Enrichment Services to provide resources to students on campus.

Dorina Rasmussen, director of student life at Medill, said she serves on a faculty advisory board for SES and learned that students often come to the office when their equipment has failed and they can’t immediately afford to replace it.

The donated computers will be loaned out to low-income and first-generation students.

“Especially knowing that a lot of our students utilize their laptops and software, we know what it’s like to have that need,” she said. “We want to make sure that students don’t lack the access to technology needed to be successful here.”

The laptop loan program started last year in response to student need, SES director Kourtney Cockrell said. SES and NU Information Technology began with five laptops. About 10 more were donated by the School of Education and Social Policy and a subsequent handful were given by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, she said.

“As I was interacting with students … laptop access was a big issue,” she said.

“We started really small and we’ve grown

now with this new gift from Medill.”

Cockrell said students request laptop loans at least two to three times a month.

The laptop is given to them for a quarter, then returned to NUIT over break to wipe them and check for viruses. Students can then “re-check out” the laptop the following quarter if needed, she said.

Laptops are the most in-demand item for low-income and first-generation students, followed closely by general academic supplies and textbooks, Cockrell said. The office also offers new winter gear to these students.

“If we’re not able to provide basic needs to all students from the beginning, how can we expect to create a truly inclusive environment?” she said.

SES is the product of organizing by students from Quest Scholars Network in response to student need. The office was created in October 2014 after Quest Scholars shared their experiences and struggles as low-income or first-generation students with administrators. SES regularly meets with Quest Scholars to discuss student needs and how students can become more involved with the administration, Cockrell said.

Amanda Walsh, president of NU’s chapter of the Quest Scholars Network, stressed the continued close relationship between the Quest Scholars and SES, noting that any gift to SES directly benefits students who need it.

“This service in particular is hugely » See SES, page 6

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Around Town Abdul-Jabbar sells rugs in city store Minasian said. He expects to receive about 20 more rugs from Abdul-Jabbar and said they will cost between $3,500 and $100,000. Carnig Minasian said Abdul-Jabbar refused to sell his rare, tricolor silk rugs, but he decided to sell the others to make room for future purchases.

Many of the pieces in Abdul-Jabbar’s collection are 19th century Turkmen and Caucasian carpets with exquisite, finely woven designs, Carnig Minasian said, and the vast collection varies from nomadic, tribal rugs to prayeroriented Muslim rugs. “(Abdul-Jabbar is) more knowledgeable than most dealers that are selling rugs,” he said. “He recognizes quality; he recognizes things that are unusual.”

Carnig Minasian said many of the buyers know of Abdul-Jabbar outside of his career as a professional basketball player, taking interest in his writing and activity as a scholar.

Jabbar visited Northwestern in November to speak about his identity as a Muslim. Born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, he changed his name and converted to Islam more than 40 years ago.

Abdul-Jabbar’s rugs have increased national interest in the shop, he said.

“There’s a lot, a lot of interest,” Carnig

By VICTORIA CABALES

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Although more commonly known for his prowess on the basketball court, the National Basketball Association’s all-time scoring leader and Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar also has a passion for collecting decorative rugs.

Abdul-Jabbar will be selling part of his collection through the Minasian Rug Company, 1244 Chicago Ave. The store began promoting the partnership in mid-December.

Store co-owners and brothers Carnig and Armen Minasian recalled meeting AbdulJabbar in the 1970s, when he began collecting rugs while playing for the Milwaukee Bucks.

When he was younger, Abdul-Jabbar visited rug shops as he traveled to different cities, Minasian Rug Company salesman Mehdy Douraghy said. Starting with a few small ones, Abdul-Jabbar delved deeper into the trade and began studying rugs, Douraghy said.

“He had knowledge of how to buy, what to look for, age and different things,” Douraghy said.

The store is selling about 60 of Abdul-Jabbar’s rugs, marked by the letters KAJ, Carnig

Police Blotter Evanston man arrested for attempting to steal alcohol from Jewel-Osco

A man matching the description provided by the employee was stopped by a responding officer soon afterwards and arrested, Polinski said.

A 29-year-old Evanston man was arrested for attempting to steal $1,175 worth of alcohol from Jewel-Osco, 2485 Howard St., on Saturday afternoon, police said.

The man was spotted by the store’s loss prevention manager walking past the last point of purchase with four cases of whiskey in his shopping cart, Evanston Police Department spokesman Perry Polinski said.

The employee confronted the shoplifter, who then fled on foot, leaving the shopping cart which still contained the whiskey, Polinski said.

Man charged with battery for hitting resident who didn’t clean up after dog

A 58-year-old Evanston man was charged with battery Tuesday afternoon after he hit a 21-year-old man who had failed to pick up after his dog, police said.

The victim sustained minor facial injuries, Polinski said.

The man is due in court on March 31.

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Minasian said. “I’m getting calls every day, all day long from people who want to come see the rugs, or see the pictures, from all over the country.”

Carnig Minasian said he believes AbdulJabbar likely chose the store because the owners try to educate their customers about the style and the history of the rugs they purchase.

The shop has had a long history of educating the public about antique rugs, starting from its founding in 1897, the owners said. Carnig Minasian, whose grandmother was a weaver in Armenia, said his family’s involvement in the rug business goes back many years.

The brothers’ grandfather, Sam Jorjorian, taught a class about carpet design at NU during the 1920s, Carnig Minasian said. He added that he followed in his grandfather’s footsteps and taught at NU’s School of Continuing Studies to certify individuals who wanted to become rug appraisers.

Carnig Minasian said he is honored to now be working with Abdul-Jabbar.

“He is such a nice person to be with,” he said. “We learned a lot from him. … It’s been really a great thing.”

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By EMILY CHIN

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For Communication freshman Chloe NadonEnriquez, performing work by Garth Fagan — who choreographed Broadway’s 1998 production of “The Lion King” — makes her nervous.

“It gives me that feeling of ‘Am I going to fall? Am I going to land this?’” she said. “There’s always that element of surprise.”

Twelve Northwestern dancers will perform the first piece Garth Fagan choreographed after he finished choreographing “The Lion King,” in “Danceworks 2016,” the Dance Program’s annual performance. The show opens this weekend and will feature works by five choreographers.

Fagan originally choreographed “Two Pieces of One: Green,” the piece that will be featured, in 1998 for Garth Fagan Dance, a dance company that he founded.

“His goal for the piece was to be very different than “The Lion King” because he was trying to create a piece of abstract art on the plain stage, where the music didn’t necessarily match the choreography so the rhythm is in the dancer’s music,” Nadon-Enriquez said.

Fagan said the music for his piece is a juxtaposition of 20th century and 16th century music. He added that these are two very different types that incorporate jazz rhythms and classical rhythms.

“It’s an impressionistic piece,” he said. “We dance with the music, we don’t dance to the music. There are some things in sync with the music and some things that are not in sync with it.”

Fagan saw students perform his piece for the first time on Friday night at a talk that he gave to the public.

He said he enjoyed seeing the students perform because he often works with professional dance companies and appreciates the new style that students put on the piece.

“I remember how difficult it was for the dancers,” Fagan said. “And when I see how beautiful the students have gotten, and I know the work, it just inspires me.”

Nadon-Enriquez said his style is very different from anything she had been exposed to, as she trained in only classical ballet for 10 years. She was unsure of it at first because of the different style, but soon learned to appreciate it.

“It’s much more grounded,” she said. “Ballet is really light and is all about your posture and there’s not a lot of upper body movement, whereas with this every movement takes your entire body.”

Fagan describes his style of dance as “a jazz man’s approach to choreography.” He said he uses improvisation, leaps and turns to surprise the audience so they never know for sure what movement is coming.

“Movement invention is my strong suit,” he said. “I love coming up with new moves that you haven’t used before that are unusual combinations that are sometimes difficult but refreshing.”

In his general choreography, Fagan puts a South African spin on well-known dance styles, such as ballet and modern, said artistic director and Communication lecturer Joel Valentin-Martinez. This polyrhythmic style of dance, with two or more rhythms not necessarily on the same meter, contradicts traditional rhythms, he said.

Valentin-Martinez, who selected Fagan as a choreographer for “Danceworks 2016,” was originally introduced to Fagan’s work when he was 16. He said Fagan’s choreography changed his perception of what dance could be.

“When I saw his work I thought, ‘What is this movement?’” said Valentin-Martinez, who is also director of the Dance Program. “It blew my senses of what movement is, what dance was at that time.”

When he was 19, Valentin-Martinez was offered a scholarship to train with Fagan in a two-week workshop. Fagan surprised Valentin-Martinez at the workshop and asked him to join his company.

Valentin-Martinez then trained and toured with Fagan, and got exposure to other artists.

“Touring, performing and engaging with Garth and his artistry really has informed me about the field of dance, who we are as humans, who we are as artists, and has had a huge impact on the way I form ideas about dance,” Valentin-Martinez said.

Years later, Valentin-Martinez is coming back to his dance roots and described “Danceworks 2016” as a “thank you” to his former mentor.

Valentin-Martinez also selected contemporary choreographer Rosy Simas, Hedwig Dances artistic associate Maray Gutierrez and Communication lecturer Jeff Hancock to each choreograph a piece for “Danceworks 2016.” ValentinMartinez choreographed a piece as well.

“Danceworks this year is an open canvas where I could allow each choreographer to choose whatever theme or idea or choreography or revival that they wanted to bring to the table,” he said. “It took me a while to figure out what choreographers would work for this concert, and it’s mostly based on trying to get some of the best choreographers that I could find

and know.”

Simas choreographed a piece that deals with skin and perception and how people internalize judgment and perception, she said. This is her first time participating in Danceworks, and like Fagan, her work involves improvisation.

“The piece that we’re presenting is probably the most experimental work in the show,” she said. “The show has a nice balance of contemporary, modern and experimental work.”

The piece Valentin-Martinez choreographed is reflective of his California background and how the ocean affected his views on movement and dance.

He said he is thankful for all of the work the choreographers and dancers have put into the show and feels especially privileged to share the work with Fagan.

“It’s a community effort,” he said. “It’s not one person; it’s not two people. It’s an accumulation and it’s a process. For the dancers to have Mr. Fagan present — it’s a treat and we in the dance world really cherish it.” emilychin2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Student play on terrorism to premiere Q&A: Combs

By DARBY HOPPER

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After seeing headlines in the news about Americans attempting to join the Islamic State terrorist group, Communication senior Selina Fillinger questioned the cause of the phenomenon.

“They can’t all be crazy,” Fillinger said.

“What is lacking right now in young American lives that would cause someone to try and fill that hole with ISIS?” In order to explore the issue, she wrote a play, “Faceless,” which will be performed as a staged reading on campus in April and premiere at Northlight Theatre in Skokie in 2017.

Fillinger was selected as one of two students in a playwriting class to be a part of working commission with a local theater. Though the project was supposed to end with a professional reading, Fillinger said BJ Jones, Northlight artistic director, decided to fully produce the play in January 2017.

“No one could have anticipated that. I mean, that’s crazy,” Fillinger said. “That doesn’t happen, and I was over the moon. I don’t think I’m going to sleep until next year.”

“Faceless” follows the trial of a 18-year-old white woman from the Chicago suburbs who is arrested for trying to join the Islamic State and the Muslim woman who is prosecuting her. Fillinger said she hopes it will impact the assumptions people hold about terrorism and the faces behind it.

“It’s a lot about fear and faith and what terrorism actually is,” she said.

For the play, Fillinger said she has been doing research “around the clock” to learn more about people who try to join the Islamic State. She added she spends hours studying news articles, reading about Islam and

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interviewing people in the legal profession.

“I’m pretty sure the government has a tab on my computer given how much I’ve Googled al-Qaida,” Fillinger said.

Fillinger said that through her years at Northwestern, Communication Prof. Laura Schellhardt has been one of her biggest mentors. Schellhardt said that Fillinger has been a cornerstone of NU’s playwriting program since her sophomore year.

“She has an incredible imagination and she always grounds it in something she feels passionate about,” Schellhardt said. “She writes plays that demand to be staged.”

Although this is the first time Fillinger’s work will be fully produced, she has been in

the spotlight before for playwriting. Fillinger is a two-time winner of Northwestern’s Agnes Nixon Playwriting Festival and the 2015 recipient of the Judith Barlow Prize from History Matters/Back to the Future, a group focused on promoting female playwrights.

But she said she also has passion for another facet of the arts — acting. She acted in her first play in second grade and said it was at that moment that she knew what she wanted to do with her life.

“I fought it for a long time because I didn’t grow up with a ton of money,” Fillinger said.

“The struggling artist trope held no romance for me. I was like, ‘I’m too practical to go into this.’ But I find that if it’s something you’re meant to be doing, it tends to find you anyways.”

Fillinger said she points to Communication Prof. Gail Shapiro as one of the most influential people in her life. Shapiro said Fillinger’s parallel passions for acting and writing allow her to make better connections between the two crafts.

“She’s able to see acting through the eyes of a playwright,” Shapiro said. “Both have made her stronger in both areas.”

Fillinger plans to audition for showcases in New York and Chicago and to keep working on “Faceless” and other projects until the show debuts in 2017. After that, it’s kind of up in the air, she said. She added that as long as she’s both writing and acting, she’ll be happy/ “I have so many things I want to try,” Fillinger said. “I want to write a Disney movie — I have an idea for a Disney lesbian princess, but that’s another thing. I want to voice a villain.

I want to do stand up. I want to try improv. I want to do Shakespeare. I want to do festivals.

I also want to try doing contemporary television. I want to be a Bond woman.” darbyhopper@u.northwestern.edu

discusses musical production

Country musician performs at Evanston SPACE for tour, talks creative process

By RACHEL HOLTZMAN

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Country musician Andrew Combs performed at Evanston SPACE on Sunday night while opening for musician Anderson East as part of the Devil In Me tour. The Daily sat down with him to talk about his second album, released in 2015, and what he likes about writing.

The Daily: What was the creative process behind your second album, “All These Dreams”?

Combs: I didn’t really think about it too much.

I’m sure there was some sort of idea growing in the back of my brain. I didn’t go into it thinking about what I should write. Now once I wrote a bunch of songs, then I chose songs that I felt fit a mold and what I wanted to say. It fit a certain musical vibe, as well as lyrical, maybe a touch of melancholy. I focus a lot on the spiritual side of looking at art.

The Daily: I noticed there were a lot of soul influences in your country music.

Combs: Yeah, I grew up listening to my parents’ records, which ranged from folk music to soul music, which influenced a lot of what I did and what I still do.

The Daily: What is a main theme in the album?

Combs: I’m a pretty average middle-class white kid, but I was always drawn to film and literature and music that, you know, touched on that kind of melancholy vibe. I think there’s a lot to be said about sadness. There’s a line in “Rainy Day Song,” which is the first track on the [album] … “laughing ain’t a pleasure ‘til you know about crying.’” And I think that really sums it up what I was trying to pinpoint with the record.

The Daily: How did you first start working with music?

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BLOODY BRAWL Communication senior Joshua Issler rehearses for an upcoming production of “Titus Andronicus.” The show will feature fight choreography, audience immersion and gore.

Shakespeare play uses violence as art

By ANIKA HENANGER

the daily northwestern @AnikaHopeee

With fight choreography, audience immersion and gory action, a student production of “Titus Andronicus” seeks to advocate for modern day justice with a Shakespearean twist, said producer Mahek Tulsiani.

Opening this weekend, in the Louis Room at Norris University Center, the show will shake up the traditional theater experience, said director Michael Fleischer, a Communication senior. The show will be produced by Lovers & Madmen, a Northwestern student theater board a special emphasis on Shakespeare.

“Titus Andronicus,” Shakespeare’s first revenge-tragedy, follows the character Tamora as she takes her revenge on the Andronicus family for having sacrificed her oldest son and the character Titus, as he slowly loses his grip on reality, said Tulsiani, a Communication senior. The main crime in the play is the rape of Titus’ daughter, Lavinia.

With the presence of sexual violence and other controversial subjects, the show tackles emotional issues relevant to college students, Fleischer said.

“Part of the beauty of this play is that it deals with so many things,” Fleischer said.

“It’s not just sexual violence. It also deals with grief, the consequences of war, mental health, race relations.”

The show includes intense fight choreography, Tulsiani said, and some actors have been injured during rehearsals.

One actor fractured his wrist, one cut open a finger and several dealt with knee and ankle injuries, Fleischer said.

The brawling will be brought to life in the audience with a “bloodzone.” Here, audience members will be sprinkled in fake blood or will witness severed body part props flying near their faces, Fleischer said. He added the gore is designed to shock, and the amount of stage combat in the show lasts a full 14 minutes.

“You can’t have ‘Titus Andronicus’ without fight choreography,” Fleischer said. “You can’t have the show without blood. You can’t have the show without the incredible emotional intensity and the depths to which the actors have to go.”

The play’s topics were addressed behind the curtain as well, Tulsiani said. By constantly checking in on the well-being of the actors, the production team ensured that performers felt safe and valued while working with sensitive material, she said.

“We have really integrated social responsibility into our production process in a way that

Combs: I grew up playing piano because my dad was a piano player. And I hated it and said, “I want a guitar.” And my cousin, who’s a great guitar player down in Austin, Texas, gave me my first guitar. And my dad taught me the first chords.

is really exciting and refreshing,” Tulsiani said.

Fleischer added that this dedication to social awareness was not left at rehearsals.

The crew partnered with the Red Cross to sponsor a blood drive and with Rape Victim Advocates, a nonprofit based in downtown Chicago that offers counseling and legal advocacy to sexual assault survivors.

Fleischer said the organization will have talk backs after each show, discussing rape in the play and on college campuses and how to prevent it.

Communication senior Courtney Quinn, who plays Marcus in the show, said she hopes the show also helps to ignite a dialogue on how sexual assault is handled today.

“We need to be exploring, why as a society we are still dealing with these problems 400 years later,” she said.

Fleischer added that one of the reasons he chose the show in the first place was because he felt that it hits different taboo topics that need to be discussed on campus in an accessible way.

“I just feel that theater should be an event,” Fleischer said. “Not just a high-class, elitist, bourgeois, ‘I am a fancy millionaire, so I’m going to buy tickets to this’ thing. That’s not what theater is. Theater is for every person.”

The Daily: What’s your favorite part about being on stage?

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Combs: It’s tricky for me because what I really love about this business is writing, and it’s not necessarily the performance. I haven’t really figured it out; there are nights when I thoroughly enjoy it and there are nights when it frightens me, and I’m still trying to figure that out. I’m learning to love performing — it can be a really rewarding thing, but it can also be very discouraging.

The Daily: What are the next steps in your career?

Combs: My goal is to go back into the studio in the summer of this year and have a record done by winter of 2017. So far, the songs I’ve been writing lend themselves to be a bit more stripped down, kind of in the vein of like a ‘60s folk record. Now that being said, that could change next week — my vision is always changing. It’s always exciting to me to be able to get into the next record, as like I said before, what I like doing is the creating part. Maybe one day I will be, but right now, I’m not an entertainer.

I’m a guy who’s trying to write great songs and sing them to people.

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Arts Circle website highlights productions, exhibits

By EMILY CHIN

daily senior staffer @emchin24

Students, faculty and Evanston residents will now be able to discover all of Northwestern’s artsrelated events on one website.

The Arts Circle website, which launched last week, is a new initiative that provides a list of all of the university’s arts exhibits, performances and programs. Visitors can browse events on the website based on location, genre and date, said Mary Baglivo (Medill ‘81), chairperson of the Arts Circle committee and NU’s chief marketing officer.

“One of the great things about the website is never before has there been the unity of information in one place,” Baglivo said. “We’re not just talking about music and theater, we’re talking about visual arts, we’re talking about literary arts.

We’re talking about what art theory and practice that Weinberg puts on really inclusively.”

The Arts Circle committee, which includes representatives from all of major art groups and initiatives at NU, was appointed a year ago by Provost Daniel Linzer.

Baglivo said Linzer wanted to create an interdisciplinary committee to optimize the way the university utilizes the geographic arts circle, which includes the Block Museum of Art, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Norris University Center, the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts, Regenstein Hall of Music, Dittmar Gallery

and the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts.

Baglivo said she hopes the creation of the Arts Circle will result in more connectivity between the different arts initiatives on campus. “(My committee likes) the idea that a circle connects things,” she said. “We’re really trying to highlight the interconnective nature of the arts at Northwestern.”

Members of the Arts Circle committee refer to the Arts Circle not only as a website and a geographic location, but a state of mind, said Lisa Corrin, director of the Block Museum.

“It’s about how the arts contribute to the state of Northwestern,” she said. “It’s really an initiative to raise the profile of the importance of the arts to Northwestern students and the raise awareness of more of the offerings.”

Baglivo, a Northwestern alumma, parent and former member of the Board of Trustees, said these three perspectives made her aware of the fact that though NU has stellar art programs, they weren’t as good at communicating these strengths.

“I felt as a visitor to campus and even a member of the community, I didn’t quite know all of the things that were going on,” she said. “It’s something that I felt very strongly about when I arrived at Northwestern as a staff member.”

With the website in place, Baglivo said she wants people to realize the vast offerings the university has in the arts and to take advantage of these events.

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ARTS PLATFORM The Music and Communication Building is one of the buildings that makes up Northwestern’s Arts Circle. Northwestern launched a website as part of the Arts Circle that lists all of the arts-related events and promotes an interdisciplinary approach to the arts.

Center for the Arts Circle committee, said she hopes the website builds awareness of performances at the Wirtz Center and draws more attendees from Evanston and Chicago.

“We have many patrons that are not directly

connected with Northwestern that use the Arts Circle as their arts destination,” she said. “It gives access to the arts and it gives awareness of the arts.” emilychin2018@u.northwestern.edu

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FINAL CUT Students rehearse for an upcoming production of “Smudge” that will be presented in Wave Productions’ Second Annual Director Festival. The festival was created last year to give amatuer student directors a chance to grow.

Three amateur directors will showcase one-act plays in this weekend in Wave Productions’ Second Annual Director Festival on topics ranging from AIDS to political satire to blindness.

The festival was created last year by Hannah Fisher (Communication ‘15) as a chance for inexperienced directors to give directing a try, said Matt Ruehlman, the festival’s producer.

“She created it because directing at Northwestern can be difficult to get into if you don’t have a lot of experience,” the Communication junior said. “Compared to things like acting and other facets of theater, there’s actually very few ways into directing.”

The three 30- to 40-minute plays will be performed back-to-back on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Music Institute of Chicago’s Sherman Avenue Theater. The festival will be produced by Wave, a student theater board.

Communication sophomore Sophia Sinsheimer, who will be directing a show in the festival, said students interested in directing petitioned to take part in the festival through interviews with board members of Wave. After the members selected the three directors, the board chose the plays that would be presented, she added.

Medill sophomore Alyssa Wisnieski will direct “The Yellow Boat” by David Saar, a play about a boy named Benjamin who has congenital hemophilia and dies of AIDS at the age of 8. The play, based on a true story, walks through Benjamin’s life and how he and his family cope with his

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Jewish Theatre Ensemble presents: Wonder of the World at 8 p.m. in Shanley Pavilion

Jewish Theatre Ensemble presents: Wonder of the World at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. in Shanley Pavilion

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at 7:30 p.m. in Ethel M. Barber Theater

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at 7:30 p.m. in Ethel M. Barber Theater Danceworks 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in Josephine Louis Theater

Lovers and Madmen presents: Titus Andronicus at 8 p.m. in the Louis Room DM presents: Battle of the DJs at 8:30 p.m. at La Macchina Cafe

Lovers and Madmen presents: Titus Andronicus at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. in the Louis Room A&O Productions presents Winter Films: The Big Short at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. in McCormick Auditorium Polish Culture Night at 8 p.m. in the Wildcat Room

saturday Jewish Theatre Ensemble presents: Wonder of the World at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. in Shanley Pavilion A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at 7:30 p.m. in Ethel M. Barber Theater Lovers and Madmen presents: Titus Andronicus at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. in the Louis Room Danceworks 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in Josephine Louis Theater

sunday A Funny Thing that Happened on the Way to the Forum performance at 2 p.m. in Ethel M. Barber Theater Danceworks 2016 at 2 p.m. in Josephine Louis Theater

illness, she said.

Wisnieski, who acted in middle school and high school, said she has never directed before and decided to petition for the festival after she took a playwriting class Fall Quarter.

“They were like, ‘You’re not a playwright, you’re a director,’” she said. “So this opportunity popped up and I was like, ‘OK, we’ll see if i’m not a playwright and actually a director.’ I think they’re probably very right.”

Communication sophomore Danny Kapinos will direct a political satire, Tony Kushner’s “Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy,” while Sinsheimer chose to direct “Smudge,” by Alex Bulmer. “Smudge” follows a woman who finds herself going blind and explores how she copes with this burden while in the midst of a burgeoning relationship with her girlfriend, Sinsheimer said.

“I chose this play because as a queer woman, it’s really important to see queer narratives represented in theater on this campus,” Sinsheimer said. “It is what interests me as an artist.”

In preparation for the festival, Ruehlman said each student took part in a mentorship program in which they were paired with a more experienced undergraduate director. He added that they also took part in public master classes with faculty and graduate students who specialize in directing.

“Part of what is so different about this process is that it is process-oriented,” Sinsheimer said.

“And what that means is that the focus is on the directors having a learning experience, whereas another StuCo process is focused on product and creating something that is going to appeal to a lot of the StuCo community, and have ‘x’ number of actors, and it’s a little more formulaic.” kelleyczajka2019@u.northwestern.edu

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people of color.

“Actively investing in things that are terrorizing communities of people of color on this campus is not a good thing,” Gissendanner said. “It brings into question the way Northwestern supports its students and the way it wants to be involved in Chicago should not be in human rights violations.”

The resolution, which will be voted on next week, was sponsored by 21 student organizations, including NU Divest, Students for Justice in Palestine and For Members Only.

The resolution also calls on the University to create a task force with elected student representatives to increase transparency about investments and cease investments that Unshackle NU members say oppress people of color.

ASG has a responsibility to represent the interests of students of color and pass the resolution to hold the University accountable, Muslim-cultural Student Association senator Yusuf Kudaimi told The Daily.

“I really hope that people see the reasons behind Unshackle putting forth this resolution,” the Weinberg sophomore told the Daily. “They just don’t want us as a university to be complicit in these systems that a lot of the students are affected by.”

Later in the meeting, legislation to create a Senate reform committee passed, and three senators — Weinberg junior Anna DiStefano, social justice coalition senator; Communication senior Amanda Walsh, Quest Scholars senator; and Weinberg sophomore Nehaarika Mulukutla, Panhellenic Association senator — were elected from eight nominations.

The committee will also include four voting members from the ASG executive board, as well as five students not involved in ASG to provide an outside perspective, said ASG president Noah Star, a Weinberg senior. The independent committee will look for ways to implement reforms in Senate.

Following representation reform that failed last week, legislation that would increase Multicultural Greek Council and National Pan-Hellenic Council representation and combine the on- and off-campus caucuses into one residential caucus was presented.

Greek representation would give three seats each to Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association and two seats each to MGC and NPHC. Student groups would gain five seats for a total of 20 seats, and off-campus representation would be limited to five seats.

“This is something that can be passed before elections so we don’t need to wait another year for these to take effect, time during which interests of marginalized students will continue to be underrepresented,” said SESP freshman Ben Powell, co-author of the legislation. ericasnow2019@u.northwestern.edu

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WHEELS TURNING Ten Divvy bike-sharing stations will come to Evanston this summer.

City Council voted 5-4 in favor of installing the bike racks, two of which will be located on Northwestern’s campus.

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“It’s another layer to our sustainability efforts and it provides for a bike transportation for those who either don’t want to make the investment in a bike for themselves or don’t have the ability to do so,” said Mark Muenzer, Evanston’s director of community development.

Muenzer said Evanston has been working on the project for two years, and the location of the eight stations in the city was determined by proximity to bike lanes, heavily-trafficked areas and public transit sites.

The eight stations are spread throughout the city, with one at each of the Davis, Central and Main CTA stations, and others in West and South Evanston.

Apart from the two stations on NU’s campus, there will be a third near NU at the corner of Chicago Avenue and Sheridan Road.

Kumar Jensen, acting head of sustainability for the city, said the bike-sharing stations would allow for Evanston residents to travel east and west across the city more easily, and the initiative aligns well with Evanston’s sustainability efforts.

“It allows commuters and travellers some flexibility in the way they’re choosing to move,” he said.

“It’s just supporting the idea that Evanston is a place where people can get around in a lot of different ways.”

Jensen also said he hopes the stations will allow for Evanston residents to be more connected to other public transportation systems as well as give them an alternative mode of transportation for

getting into Chicago.

Divvy stations are spread throughout Chicago and the surrounding neighborhoods. Customers can purchase either yearly or 24-hour passes, and Evanston will retain some of the revenue from the passes bought by Evanston residents, Katherine Knapp, the city’s traffic and mobility coordinator, said.

Knapp said during Monday’s council meeting that each bike station costs around $58,000, and the grant of $320,000 — combined with money received from sponsorships from NU and two local hospitals, among others — would cover most of the initial costs. The city will have to invest $80,000 into the program in order to receive the grant, some of which will come from sponsorships and the rest out of the city’s parking fund.

Although the costs through 2016 are covered, several aldermen expressed concern at Monday night’s meeting that the bike-sharing program was not worth the investment.

“Divvy bikes are awesome, Divvy bikes are fun, but I just feel like they cost too much for what they are,” said Ald. Donald Wilson (4th), who voted against the intergovernmental agreement.

Other aldermen were concerned the revenue the city would receive from user fees would not cover the upkeep fees, and that the city would end up having to pay more for the bikes going forward than anticipated. Knapp said during the meeting they were unsure how much money would be generated in user fees.

“I don’t think they’re bad or that they’re a bad idea,” Wilson told The Daily. “It’s just an awful lot of money for 80 bicycles.”

On April 12, 1995, students camped at The Rock for 23 days as part of a hunger strike to push for the establishment of an Asian-American studies program.

The University established a program four years later, which only included a minor — until Wednesday.

Sumun Pendakur (Weinberg ‘98) participated in the hunger strike during the spring of her freshman year alongside other students pushing to establish an Asian-American studies program.

“I don’t think I have enough words — I’m overjoyed, I’m speechless, I’m incredibly proud of the stewardship that the Asian American Studies faculty has demonstrated, and the passion of the current students is amazing — not just the passion, but their dedication,” Pendakur said. “I am beyond thrilled.”

In 1998, Vishal Vaid (Weinberg ‘01) participated in a large-scale rally that included a petition of students ready to declare the minor if it were offered. He continued to engage in the ensuing conversations until the minor was finally created, and was one of the two students to first graduate with the minor in 2001.

“The school didn’t think this was something important for a very long time,” Vaid said. “There was a lot of unfairness and injustice to that, so to see the minor develop into a major shows that the school has matured and makes it an even more rewarding place for people to go and gain these experiences and knowledge.”

Before the program is able to teach the major, Sharma said it plans to make three new hires — a tenure-track hire, an assistant professor of instruction and a postdoctoral fellow. She said she hopes that, in the future, further recognition of the major will allow for more hires.

“We’re going to pause and celebrate this victory now and then later we can talk about the next pressing issue,” Sharma said. “Programs like ours need to have the ability to hire and tenure our own people without having to pair with the department that grants tenure — and that has to be the next step.” fathmarahman2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Cockrell said schools’ support for SES is “inspiring,” though the office’s services are merely the first step. In the future, she would like to see laptops being included in the financial aid package, a policy change she is currently working on.

“There’s still so much to do,” she said. “We know that this laptop loaner program is a Band-Aid solution for a much larger issue.” christinefarolan2017@u.northwestern.edu

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Men’s Tennis

Daily file photo by Leeks Lim

TENNIS CANCELED UNIVERSITY Alp Horoz readies a backhand. Northwestern’s Thursday match against TCU was canceled due to inclement weather.

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the break.

But after leading by as many as 13, the Cats’ shooting dried up and the team found itself scoreless for a four-minute stretch as Michigan guard Derrick Walton Jr. carried his Wolverines into striking territory. Freshman forward Aaron Falzon had opened the contest with a pair of 3s, but failed to score again in the first period while senior guard Tre Demps and sophomore guard Bryant McIntosh combined to go 1-of-6 from deep, the latter failing to score until after the break.

“They were selling out on McIntosh and Demps,” Collins said. “They trapped them on everything … and that’s why Alex and Aaron and Gavin (Skelly) had open shots, because their whole game plan was to try to take our guards away.”

Demps and McIntosh would eventually tally 14 and 4 points, respectively.

The second half began in similar fashion.

Falzon — who finished with 14 — hit his first

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Northwestern’s match with TCU canceled due to inclement weather

two 3s as NU extended its lead.

But once again, the Cats failed to capitalize off the momentum and allowed Michigan to slash the deficit until guard Aubrey Dawkins connected from deep with just over 11 minutes remaining to tie the game at 44.

And when an NU foul put Michigan in the bonus and at the line, shooting for the lead, the Cats’ hot starts to both quarters were rendered meaningless.

The teams went back and forth in a finish that recalled elements of last year’s nail biters between the squads. But down the stretch, the Wolverines held NU’s scorers in check and consistently found their way to the charity stripe, sealing their revenge and further bolstering their tournament resume.

Meanwhile, the Cats will head into Saturday’s contest against Rutgers having once again let a prime opportunity slip through their fingers.

“We had our chances,” Collins said. “We put ourselves in position to win. We just couldn’t make the plays down the stretch.” garrettjochnau2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern’s match against Texas Christian University has been canceled due to inclement weather in the Chicago area, the program announced Wednesday evening.

The No. 15 Wildcats (11-1) were scheduled to played the No. 8 Horned Frogs (6-2) on Thursday in the first match ever played between the two schools. TCU was unable to make the trip from Fort Worth, Texas, to Evanston and there was no time when the teams would be able to make up the match.

NU has never beaten a top-10 team since the ITA began ranking teams in 1981, and would have gotten a chance to do so had the poor weather not affected its match with TCU. The Cats’ next opponent will be Harvard (8-4) on Sunday when the team will look to extend its 8-match winning streak before the start of Big Ten play against Illinois on March 12.

“But the bottom line is a win’s a win and a loss is a loss, and hopefully we’ll get a win.”

After the Cats’ match at Illinois, they come back to Evanston to play Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets came into Sunday off the heels of two tough losses to No. 2 Ohio State and No. 5 Georgia.

Although Georgia Tech has shown that it can dominate weak competition this season with wins over Mercer and Kennesaw State, it has struggled against top-ranked teams. The Yellow Jackets’ best win was over No. 42 William and Mary in a 4-1 result.

Many players said the difficult schedule has toughened them up and prepared them for matches this weekend.

“The tough matches we’ve played against the top teams have been really close, and they’re going to help us get through the Big Ten season with a really good record,” junior Maddie Lipp said. “We’ve been really close with our matches, and we’re gonna get some wins this weekend.”

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NOT SO FREE Tre Demps tries to keep up with a Michigan player. The senior guard was the only Wildcat to make all of his free throws Wednesday, going 2-for-2 from the line.

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opponents’ numbers.

Nevertheless, better performances at the line throughout the entirety of games could have allowed NU to avoid such deficits altogether.

Collins, disappointed after the hard-fought loss Tuesday, summed up his team’s free-throw struggles succinctly. “(When) we got to the line, we missed,” he said. benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, 7:30 p.m. (3 p.m. on Sunday) The servants Susanna and Figaro are planning their wedding, but their master, Count Almaviva, has his eye on the pretty young maid and attempts to delay their marriage. Complicating matters are a jealous countess, an amorous teenager, a scheming older woman, and her beleaguered lawyer. Enjoy this classic comic tale of love, intrigue, morals, and mischief. Performed in Italian with English supertitles.

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Double-digit lead erased as Cats collapse in second half to Michigan

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With five minutes remaining in Wednesday’s road contest against Michigan, the score sat tied at 54. For the third time in two years, the Wildcats found themselves locked in a nail-biter with the Wolverines, who were eyeing revenge

after dropping the previous contest against Northwestern in a double-overtime spectacle.

But the Cats (17-11, 5-10 Big Ten) never mustered the magic necessary to pull through in this installation of the classic matchup. Coach Chris Collins and company watched another winnable contest escape their collective grasp as Michigan (20-9, 10-6) pulled away in the closing minutes to win, 72-63.

“I just thought the game came down to the last five minutes

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Scoring from the floor hasn’t proven a problem for Northwestern lately. But scoring from a thin line of paint exactly 15 feet from the basket has been a challenge , and it’s repeatedly costing the Wildcats in tight games.

NU (17-11, 5-10 Big Ten) has outscored its opponent from the field in six straight games, including Wednesday’s 72-63 loss at Michigan and dating back to the team’s 85-71 loss to Iowa on Jan. 31.

However, a vast disparity in the ability to draw free throws and then convert them — during the stretch, the Cats have been throttled by a whopping 114-44 margin at the charity stripe — has cursed the team to four losses in those six contests.

On Tuesday, the Wolverines (209, 10-6) made 20-of-25 attempts while NU converted just 5-of-9.

The loss, in which the visitors yet again crumbled late in a winnable, quality road game, continued a cringeworthy overall trend in terms of efficiency. Over the four-week time period, the Cats have sunk just 61.1 percent of their free throws while their foes have drained 76.0 percent.

“Quite frankly, Michigan’s guys were tougher than our guys … just putting their heads down and

driving and getting to the free throw line,” coach Chris Collins said. “We missed 1-and-1’s or made 1-of-2.”

NU has little direct control over opponents’ free-throw shooting rate, although a gameplan to reduce fouling and limit the opportunities for opponents to get to the stripe may have reduced the deficit. But the blame can be dealt out fairly for their own inefficiency, and it rests particularly heavily on the centers.

Senior Alex Olah is 6-for-13 at the line over this stretch, equating to a 46.2 percent conversion rate.

Graduate transfer Joey van Zegeren is incredibly below that rate for the entire season and hasn’t made a single free throw since Jan. 19 (he’s 0-for-4 since). And although he hasn’t been to the line in four consecutive games, freshman Dererk Pardon is actually shooting at a higher rate from the field (66.2 percent) than from the free-throw line (.535) this year.

Those struggles are adding up.

Entering Tuesday, the team ranked No. 285 out of the 346 Division I clubs in free throw percentage — and their performance in Ann Arbor only worsened that percentage.

Score effects have undeniably been a factor in the troubling statistic. Trailing by single digits entering the final minutes of several games lately, NU has been forced to play the fouling game, inflating their » See FREE THROWS, page 7

and quite frankly I just thought that Michigan’s guys were tougher than our guys,” Collins said. “When the game was there to be won, I thought they made the plays that they had to make.”

In dire need of a win, NU exploded out of the gate to claim the game’s first ten points. Senior center Alex Olah paved the way from the onset, scoring 14 on 6-of-11 shooting at » See MICHIGAN, page 15

NU needs rebound, gets Illinois Women’s Tennis

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MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH Jillian Rooney eyes to return the ball. The junior took her Alabama opponent to the third set last Sunday but couldn’t pull out the win.

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Although Northwestern has dropped its last five matches, the team is keeping its spirits high as it heads into a pair of matches against Illinois and Georgia Tech this weekend.

Illinois and Georgia Tech will be the Wildcats’ lowest-ranked opponents of the season thus far, so NU is hoping to get back on track with a pair of dominating wins.

The Cats begin the weekend with their first conference game of the season at Illinois on Friday. Since the 2004-2005 season, NU is 15-0 against Illinois, including two wins over the Fighting Illini last season, and the team

Northwestern vs. Illinois Champaign, Illinois 6 p.m. Friday

Georgia Tech vs. Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 11 a.m. Sunday

is hoping to capitalize on this previous success as it looks to rebound from some tough losses.

“We’re just trying to get out there and think on a clean slate,” freshman Lee Or said. “The conference record is 0-0, and we just want to start out hot with a good win.”

Although NU’s record and ranking

indicate they are having a lackluster season, their schedule tells a different story. The Cats fell to 1-5 overall after the Alabama loss last Sunday and dropped to No. 53 in the collegiate rankings, yet all six of NU’s opponents so far are currently ranked inside the top 30.

Furthermore, in matches the Cats have lost this season, a good number have come right down to the wire.

Two of the three doubles matches NU played against Alabama were decided by tiebreakers, but the Cats ended up dropping both matches.

“Our record isn’t indicative of how well we’ve really played, and how good we really are,” said coach Claire Pollard. » See WOMEN’S TENNIS, page 7