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Five Illinois legislators — all Democrats at local, state or national levels — forecasted Monday morning grim outcomes for Evanston and the state’s vulnerable populations as a result of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposed state budget. State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston), U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston), state Rep. Laura Fine (D-Glenview), state Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston) and Cook County commissioner Larry Suffredin spoke in a panel discussion at the Annual Legislative Business Leaders Breakfast. The politicians spoke to an audience of around 50 — many of them leaders of Evanston organizations — at the Hilton Garden Inn, 1818 Maple Ave. Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl set the tone for the discussion by opening with what she said was a “call of desperation” for the legislators to find a solution to Rauner’s proposed budget, which would cut funding from Evanston city services, non-profit organizations and public schools. “It would come, if disaster struck totally, to as much as $19 million (from) the city of Evanston,” Tisdahl said. “We cannot afford to take that kind of hit, so we are looking for our legislators to lead us out of the mess that we’re in.” The Illinois General Assembly has until the end of the legislative session on May 31 to approve Rauner’s “turnaround” budget. But, when a part of it was put up for a vote in the House last week, every Democrat
voted against the plan while every Republican voted “present,” which has the effect of an abstention, Biss said. “We’re going to have to do a lot better than that proposal to find a budget that can pass, but much more importantly, to find a budget that meets our responsibility as a state,” Biss said. Gabel said the agenda’s slashes to human services hit the state’s vulnerable populations hard, particularly people with disabilities and the elderly. The budget proposal would disqualify one-third of people with disabilities from services entirely, and also reduce the portion of special needs children in early intervention programs, she said. The number of senior citizens who can receive services in their homes to stay out of nursing homes would also likely be cut by one-third, she added. The agenda’s built-in 31-percent cut to higher education funding would not only result in fewer classes for students, but also fewer jobs for people in the community — and those losses will reverberate back to local governments through less consumer spending, Fine said. She said it is necessary to understand the potential impacts of these cuts down the line and plan for those losses with solutions, such as raising taxes. But “tax increases” are fighting words in Illinois, Suffredin said. “Most people are against just random tax increases — we’re for fair taxation,” Suffredin said. “What’s going on right now is wherever the governor has allies, he’s trying to create a vice to squeeze local » See Legislative, page 7
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homelessness HELP Kathleen Nadler greets a full room Monday night at Evanston’s First Congregational Church. Nadler, the president of Interfaith Action of Evanston, joined in discussion with other community members on how to act on the city’s homelessness crisis.
City housing plan slammed By Alice Yin
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Some Evanston community members say the city isn’t doing enough to help its homeless population. Interfaith Action of Evanston, a religious advocacy group, hosted its Spring Gathering on Monday night to advocate for the homeless and for proposed amendments to city code that would expand affordable housing opportunities. More than 40 people met at First Congregational
‘Selma’ director to speak at NU By Mariana Alfaro
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Ava DuVernay, the first female African-American director to be nominated for a Golden Globe and for the Academy Award for Best Picture, will give a talk May 18 following a screening of her award-winning film “Selma.” The 2014 film will be presented by A&O Productions, the Multicultural Filmmakers Collective, Inspire Media, the Women’s Center and six Northwestern academic departments, and will be shown at Alice Millar Chapel, where the University’s vigil for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is held every year. » See A&O, page 7
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selma comes to evanston Actor David Oyelowo plays Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2014 film “Selma.” The film’s director, Ava DuVernay, will speak at Northwestern on May 18 following a screening of the film.
Church of Evanston, 1417 Hinman Ave., to examine the homelessness situation in Evanston. “There has been a shift in values from community values to capitalist values,” said Evanston resident and nonprofit worker Joe Flint, one of the speakers at the event. The city’s Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance aims to increase housing opportunities for those with low and moderate income levels. As Evanston’s stock of affordable housing units dropped drastically in the past decade, the housing committee is now reviewing
Police: Student assaulted near Sargent Hall
A Northwestern student was assaulted early Friday morning in the Sargent Hall parking lot, police said. Police received a call around 12:45 a.m. Friday that two men were fighting near the Donald P. Jacobs Center, University Police Deputy Chief Dan McAleer said. After the responding officers couldn’t locate the two men in the area, they viewed video from a camera on the corner of Sheridan Road and Noyes Street that showed two men who matched the caller’s descriptions shoving each other, McAleer said. When police arrived on the scene, they found one of the men, a student, who said he was assaulted,
proposed amendments to the city’s 2009 Affordable Housing Plan. The ordinance sets aside a certain share of units at below-market prices in new developments, and developers must pay a fee to bypass the requirement. The proposed amendments, introduced in July 2014, would increase the number of designated affordable units and shift the income requirements. The fee for developers to avoid the affordable housing requirements would also » See homeless, page 7 officials said. The student told police he was walking northbound on Sheridan Road when he overheard someone he knew as “Mike,” refer to someone else as a “f—ing Jew” and use a homophobic slur, McAleer said. The student confronted the man, who said he didn’t want to be kicked out of school for what he said, police said. The man then kneed and punched the student, who suffered a bloody lip, police said. The man then ran north toward Bobb Hall and the fraternity quad, McAleer said. The student told police he was willing to file a complaint against the person who assaulted him, police said. Police have not found any other witnesses and are still investigating the incident, McAleer said. — Emily Chin
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Around Town City delays Curt’s Cafe grant decision By Michelle Kim
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City Council delayed Monday a decision to give Curt’s Cafe a grant of up to $42,000 to continue to provide at-risk youth it employs with job training, GED courses and other programs. Aldermen decided to postpone the vote until the next meeting on May 26 so questions could be addressed about how the grant would be used and which employees would be eligible for a stipend. Curt’s Cafe, the Evanston nonprofit that provides jobs and life-skills training for at-risk youth, is seeking money from the city to be reimbursed — up to $3,000 for each stipend — for the job training programming it provides to employees who are Evanston residents. Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) raised concerns that the city was not providing the same kind of support to other local businesses, and questioned if it was fair to single out Curt’s to receive funding. Curt’s has two locations: one at 2922 Central St. and one at 1813 Dempster St., which opened at the end of March and focuses on helping at-risk young women and teenage mothers. Executive director Susan Trieschmann said she has been trying to acquire $21,000 worth of funding for each location to help the people she employs.
Man exposed himself, masturbated in front of children, police say
Police arrested a Chicago man in connection with exposing himself to two girls at the McGaw YMCA, officials said Monday. Tony Allen, 33, was charged with three felonies, including two counts of sexually exploiting a child, police said. Officials also
“Most of our kids are in safe housing after the stipend,” Trieschmann told The Daily. “They’re getting off the streets so they’re not selling on the street and they’re able to eat, and all that is part of the stipend.” As part of the grant, each person who goes through the job-training program would have to be employed less than two months after its completion, Trieschmann said. Curt’s would be reimbursed on a case-by-case basis, she said. Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said the success of the cafe’s program shows the city should support the restaurant. “We need something that’s there and supportive of the most difficult cases,” Wilson said. “I’m very hopeful and will be very disappointed if we can’t get this going along.” Aldermen also discussed plans for a theater on Howard Street. Efforts have reemerged to transform vacant city-owned property in the 700 block of Howard Street to a storefront theater, after talks with two theater companies looking to occupy the space fell apart in 2012. Aldermen approved city manager Wally Bobkiewicz to begin requesting theater companies to submit their qualifications to be considered as occupants for the property. A focus group consisting of performing arts representatives from the community was formed to discuss the prospects of bringing live theater to the Howard Street property, Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said. The group will interview potential found that Allen was previously a sex offender, but was not registered because he had not updated authorities to his current address, police said. Two girls, ages 15 and 16, saw a man last month exposing himself and masturbating at the YMCA, 1000 Grove St., as they were using exercise equipment, officials said. The girls reported the incident to YMCA staff, during which the man ran away, police said. With the help of staff, EPD juvenile detectives obtained surveillance video of the man,
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hold up City Council decided Monday to delay a decision to vote on a grant of up to $42,000 for Curt’s Cafe. Aldermen also discussed the city’s search for a theater company to relocate to city-owned property on Howard Street.
candidates, who will be vetted by the League of Chicago Theatres, Rainey said. “I hate to admit this, but we really didn’t have a handle on the theater world when we started out,” Rainey said. “Now we have a handle on it.” yeareekim2018@u.northwestern.edu police said. Last week, a detective saw the man he recognized from the video and arrested him in the 1500 block of Sherman Avenue, police said. The Cook County state’s attorney’s office approved the felony charges against Allen two days after his arrest, officials said. Allen is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday, according to the Cook County Sheriff ’s Department of Corrections. — Paige Leskin
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Student groups elect ASG VP for student activities By Shane McKeon
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In the first direct election of an ASG vice president for student activities, student groups elected Weinberg junior Parag Dharmavarapu, the only candidate on the ballot, to the position Monday. The vote follows Associated Student Government Senate’s decision to amend its constitution May 6. Before the amendment, nominees for the position were confirmed by Senate. Now, student groups are each allowed two votes to choose an officer. Dharmavarapu, whom Senate confirmed in March before the amendment passed, stepped down voluntarily to run and said the vote was “symbolic.” “For my specific position, because I am an advocate for student groups, it makes the most sense for me to gain the trust of those groups,” he told The Daily. Dharmavarapu said he worked on the student activities committee for more than a year before being confirmed. He used to be
2 NU professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Two Northwestern professors were elected to the 2015 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary society that often supports independent policy research. English Prof. Chris Abani and Kellogg Prof. Timothy Feddersen will be inducted in a class that includes Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Brian Kobilka, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Nike co-founder Philip Knight. Abani, who teaches creative writing at NU, is a poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright
co-president of the South Asian Student Alliance and previously served as its treasurer. ASG President Noah Star proposed the amendment during his campaign. “If you’re going be an advocate for a constituency, that constituency ought to have a say,” Star told The Daily. Student groups voted online between 8 p.m. Sunday and 8 p.m. Monday. In the future, Star said, groups will consider potential officers at the Student Organization Symposium each Spring Quarter, following a two-week application period open to students both in and outside ASG. The amendment, though, was passed only four days before this year’s symposium, held Sunday, so there was no two-week period. Star said he and fellow ASG members stressed during the symposium and on social media that anyone could run for the position. No one did, however, and the choice was between Dharmavarapu and “no confidence.” But this year’s vote was important, Star said, because it sets a precedent that should make next year’s election more competitive.
“This will be set in stone,” he said. “You can think of this year as the first step in publicizing and outreach.” During his campaign, Star, whose slogan was “Listen Then Lead,” stressed that student groups should play a larger role in ASG decision-making. Weinberg junior Kevin Harris, a Dance Marathon co-chair, said he voted for Dharmavarapu. “He definitely has the experience,” he said. “He’s been the president of a major student group, so he knows what it’s like to be in our shoes.” Harris also said he is impressed by the projects Dharmavarapu wants to take on. Dharmavarapu said he’s working to compile a student groups handbook, a centralized document containing information on ASG funding, event-planning and more. Weinberg freshman Anna Radakrishnan, one of SASA’s current co-presidents, also noted Dharmavarapu’s “vision” and said it makes him a great vice president for student activities. “He’s very easy to approach as a leader,”
born in Nigeria. He has participated in TED talks and has published six novels. His work includes research on African poetics, world literature, West African music and African presences in Medieval and Renaissance culture. Feddersen is a professor in the Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences department at the Kellogg School of Management. He is known for his work in the field of managerial economics and decision-making, focusing on how elections are held. They will be inducted Oct. 10 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Mayfest hinted Monday at singer-songwriter Miguel as a potential Dillo Day performer. Mayfest — the student group that organizes Dillo Day — displayed the opening frame of the video for the artist’s Grammy Award-winning song “Adorn” and lyrics to his 2012 song “Do You…” on its website. Miguel, who debuted in 2010 with his album “All I Want Is You,” is the third
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she said. “It’s very easy to get wrapped up in your title, in your position, but he doesn’t. It’s something I aspire to be. I would be happy with being half the leader he is.” shanem@u.northwestern.edu artist Mayfest has teased for Dillo Day 2015. British singer-songwriter Charli XCX and American electronic music duo Odesza have been confirmed by Mayfest to perform in the festival after the group posted hints about both artists on its website. Dillo Day will take place at the Lakefill on May 30. Student wristbands for Dillo Day are still available at the Norris Box Office, the organization said in a Facebook post Monday morning. Students must register for a wristband by May 29. — Mariana Alfaro
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The key to breaking reliance on technology is… Lucas Matney
Daily columnist
The other day, I ran into a friend at Norris University Center who, somewhat selfconsciously, admitted that he had just bought a new Apple Watch. To most, the device seems to embody the spirit of a generation that spends less and less time communicating face-to-face and can’t disconnect from the Internet. As my friend lifted up his sleeve to reveal the slick aluminum smart device, he said the reason he bought the Apple Watch was actually to encourage himself to spend less time engulfed by tech. He’s found having a device to occasionally check notifications with a quick glance, he avoids spending huge chunks of time scrolling through Facebook and Twitter on his phone as he’s walking down
Sheridan Road. This view strongly contradicts the popular narrative that wearables are a sign of some dark dystopian future. Instead, this class of products hopes to tear out the novelty factor of always-connected mobile devices and instead integrate tech directly into our real-life interactions. Even when tech plays a major role in how we operate, it isn’t intrusive until we notice it. Truly intuitive, integrated tech will find its way into every aspect of our lives as society and technology progress, but if it is done right it won’t inhibit our communication skills, only complement them. The Apple Watch isn’t really for typing messages, making calls or otherwise creating anything. It’s a device of rapid absorption, one that lets you know what’s happening in the moment and frees you from having to actively seek out what’s happening. A quick glance at the Apple Watch not only tells you the time, but also shows you your most recent texts, the day’s news headlines and notifications from all of your other mobile apps.
Rather than spending our time walking down the street and ignoring everyone we pass as we stare down into our phones, tech companies are hoping to further develop tech that fades into the backgrounds of our lives while simultaneously increasing our efficiency. Products like the Bluetooth headsets of the early 2000s promised interconnectedness, but their visual abrasiveness and nerdiness didn’t allow them to secure their natural place in popular culture. Google Glass learned this lesson the hard way and was met with a ton of backlash and ridicule, despite exciting so many people in the tech industry. Tech giants like Apple, Samsung and Google have placed such an initial emphasis on watches now because they are seen as a safer, more familiar option for consumers. The latest slew of advertisements for the Apple Watch seems to focus heavily on what they see as the inevitable future where tech is unobtrusive and seamless. In the ads, users’ emotional lives flourish and recede as they communicate with their loved ones,
with technology acting only as a medium for their most genuine feelings. It’s a pretty bold proclamation for the future of wearables that’s either goosebump-inducing or eye-rollinducing, depending on your views of the future of technology. Technology is engrossing sometimes, and as much as I hate it when people decry how millennials have forgotten how to communicate in real life, it’s important to keep our usage in check. But technological progression is a one-way stream, and it’s fascinating to see how the advent of more and more seamless consumer technologies might seemingly reduce our dependence on them. The Apple Watch is a first step forward toward deeper tech-integration into our lives, but also backward from our ever-increasing dependence on our smartphones. Lucas Matney is a Medill junior. He can be reached at lucasmatney2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Student voices crucial to political conversation Will kirkland
Daily columnist
Last week, I wrote on the need for a serious nationwide debate about inequality in America in wake of the protests in Baltimore. My main point was that although everyone seems to have identified economic, racial and political inequalities as serious problems facing the country, very few have ventured any real, hardhitting solutions. The column was pretty standard fare in terms of the columns I’ve been writing since I joined the paper in January: obviously and unabashedly liberal, with an admittedly insufficient sprinkling of bipartisan concessions. Given the topic and the argument I made, I was not surprised to find a few critical emails in my inbox the day my article was printed. As a partisan college student writing for a campus newspaper, I’d be naive to expect everyone to agree with my article, let alone read it. One particular email caught my eye, however. In six organized paragraphs, the sender unloaded an incendiary takedown of my article that was at once offensive, racist and condescending. The racism, punctuated by disgusting use of the term “them,” invalidated every aspect
of his argument and dispelled any respect I might have had for him as an intellectual sparring partner. But buried beneath his ignorance and offensiveness was one argument that I’ve reflected a lot on this past week. Essentially, his point boiled down to this: You’re a spoiled college kid who’s never worked a real job a day in your life and you should stop jabbering away on issues you know nothing about. Both parts of his argument brought on reflection. In the course of condescension and ignorance, he’d raised a lot of interesting questions relevant to college students everywhere, and to this third-year Northwestern student in particular: What is the role of a university or college student in the public discourse? Do we deserve a voice, despite our inexperience and idealism? If so, what weight and what caveats should that voice carry? Is there a value to inexperienced idealism in itself, or am I really just “mouthing off ” as he so colorfully explained? I hate that I am in a sense validating his email by posing these questions here, but I thought they would make for an interesting discussion and, hopefully, yield a moment of reflection. I don’t have an answer to these questions. On one hand, I definitely agree that my three years of political science courses and my two introductory economics courses don’t give me
the intellectual authority to preach politics or to dictate national macroeconomic policy. Reading Foreign Affairs doesn’t grant authority to my solutions for global geopolitical crises. Do I really know better than a Nobel Prizewinning economist how to solve inequality in America? Of course not. Can I predict better than the mainstream political punditry who will win the presidency in 2016? No. Does my privilege as a college student cloud my assessment of the intelligence of my ideas? Probably. But that’s not the full story. College students deserve a voice, despite inexperience and idealism. That voice has an important role to play in public discourse. My individual columns don’t deserve much weight, but the collective voices of my generation do. We will be the ones to inherit the mess of the present and take on the task of rebuilding it. College students are young but engaged. We haven’t, for the most part, developed the jadedness of experience that some in older generations have, or the disillusionment of others wrought by decades of political and institutional failures. We spend most of our days thinking, engaging with new ideas and fresh content, learning new perspectives and listening to new narratives. Our youth and inexperience means we can be sponges for new information and new experiences. We can change our minds when confronted with new evidence, a pretty
refreshing concept in this political climate. Are there limitations to the weight our voices should carry? In some cases, definitely. To state the obvious: My columns don’t have the influence of David Brooks or Ezra Klein, and with good reason. They are brilliant, respected professionals, and I’m pretty much just winging it. In other cases, though, student voices should carry as much or more weight than any others. This is especially true of marginalized voices, which mine is not among. Who better to speak on education issues than a first generation college student? Who better to argue for immigration reform than a DREAMer pursuing their passions in higher education? To say college students don’t have a voice worth listening to discredits a whole generation of thinkers and leaders who will one day take on the mantle of responsibility. And it discredits millions of voices that often have a unique and important perspective to bring to the table. I don’t know the answers to the questions I posed above, and it’s possible my thinking will change as I continue to reflect on them. In that spirit, as college students do across the world, I encourage you to reflect on them yourself. William Kirkland is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at williamkirkland2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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2 NU students receive Goldwater scholarship By Mariana Alfaro
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Two Weinberg sophomores will receive a prestigious congressionally-funded scholarship, the University announced this month. Vincent Rinaolo, a chemistry major, and Kimberly Clinch, an integrated science program major, will receive funding from the The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program for their interest in science and potential to pursue research careers. Sara Anson Vaux, director of Northwestern’s Office of Fellowships and the Goldwater faculty representative, said the award is for sophomores and juniors of great distinction in their fields. “It’s fairly unusual to get a Goldwater as second-year students,” Vaux said. “It’s a research-heavy scholarship for scientists and engineers.” About 300 students across the country receive the award each year. Each recipient can receive up to $7,500 for eligible undergraduate expenses such as tuition, fees and textbooks. About 60 NU students have received the award since its inception, Vaux said. “It’s a fellowship where the selectors will look at the depth of what the students are studying, and then they’ll combine that with the intrigue of research a student is already undertaking — the longer you’ve done it, the better,” she said. “Although it doesn’t really matter if you’ve been doing it since high school … if you have a really exciting research question and you’re deeply immersed.” Rinaolo conducts research in organic chemistry and seeks ways to use efficient and lowwaste chemical reactions to aid the production of important pharmaceutical drugs. He decided to apply for the scholarship because Vaux and his research advisor Regan
Thomson encouraged him. “Right now, I intend to go into some kind of Ph.D. program so I can do further research,” he said. “I still have two more years, so what will happen I don’t know, but that’s the plan right now.” Vaux said the award is usuIt’s fairly ally given to students who unusual to get express a desire a Goldwater as to continue their second-year research and make valuable students ... It’s a contributions research-heavy to their scientific fields in the scholarship for future. scientists and Clinch, who engineers. a l s o m aj o r s in mathematics, said the s up p or t s h e Sara Anson Vaux, received from Goldwater faculty Prof. SonBinh representative Nguyen, former director of t h e i nt e g r at e d s c i e n c e p r o g r a m , helped her a lot during the application process. “He asked me about the application, how it was going,” she said. “Before I really had a chance to say that I was thinking about not doing it, he told me that if I sent him a request within a day or something he would get me a letter of recommendation before the due date. And that just kinda blew me away and so I changed my mind and I decided to go for it.” Clinch, who also received a scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this year, focuses her research on space, solar power and alternative energy medicine and nutrition.
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Journalist talks overcoming busyness By Madeline Fox
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Award-winning Washington Post reporter and author Brigid Schulte urged people to prioritize their happiness and use their time more consciously in a speech Monday at New Trier High School sponsored in part by the Women’s Center at Northwestern. Schulte said she began looking into why Americans struggle with leisure time after a time-use researcher identified nearly 30 hours of leisure time per week in her schedule she was not enjoying. She told an audience of about 200 to “flip your to-do list” and do the things that make them feel content first. “You cannot manage time, but what you can manage are your priorities and your expectations,” Schulte said. “The decisions you make for what to do with your time … that’s what adds up to what your life is in the end.” Schulte’s talk was hosted by the Family Action Network, a local organization that puts on a free public speaker series at Northwestern and other area schools. The speech was held in partnership with the Women’s Center. Schulte was the final speaker in this year’s human development speaker series, which began in September. Lonnie Stonitsch, the executive director of the Family Action Network, said she became interested in bringing Schulte in to speak after reading her book, “Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time.” Stonitsch said the book, which she read in front of a computer monitor plastered with multicolored stickynote reminders, hit home for her, and she hoped Schulte’s talk would have a similar effect on the speech’s attendees. “I hope people will be able to take away some information that will allow them to have the courage to pause,” Stonitsch said. “I’d like them to
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Police arrested four people early Sunday morning in connection with interfering in an arrest, officials said. The people, ranging in age from 25 to 26, were charged with various misdemeanors — two for battery, one for obstructing arrest and one for resisting arrest, police said. Police responded around 1:30 a.m. Sunday to investigate a physical altercation after a party bus dropped people off in the 700 block of Florence
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think about serving themselves.” The Women’s Center also brought Schulte to campus in October where she talked about moving from “time confetti” to “time serenity,” terms she also highlighted in her Monday night talk. Schulte also emphasized the importance of play in adult life and said downtime is essential to productivity as well as mental well-being. “(Imagination) is what distinguishes us as humans,” she said. “Play helps us imagine the future and to imagine what can be possible.” Another focus of Schulte’s talk was translating this mindset to parenting. “Kids need just what we need, unstructured time for play,” Schulte said. “You can parent for achievement and you may or may not get happiness, but if you parent for happiness, achievement
will come.” Schulte said researching her book inspired her to change her own practices. She said she wrote the book in 80-90 minute pulses and made time to play. “I’m a huge believer in breaks now,” she said. Pediatrician Alma Guzman, who attended the talk, said she particularly liked Schulte’s comments about parenting. Guzman, a child of immigrant parents, said she was pushed toward success, but wants to take Schulte’s “parenting for happiness” approach with her own children. “I have achieved, but I haven’t really felt as happy sometimes,” said the mother of two. “I don’t want that for my kids.”
Ave., Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. When officers tried to take one of the people involved to a police car, others started to interfere, Dugan said. Police at the scene called for backup to help the officers arrest the four interferers, Dugan said. All four people are scheduled to appear in court June 10, officials said.
waited at an Evanston bus stop, police said. As a 32-year-old woman sat at a Chicago Transit Authority bus station at the corner of Davis Street and Maple Avenue, the Chicago woman approached the stop, talking to herself loudly, Dugan said. The 46-year-old then attacked the 32-year-old woman “for no reason,” Dugan said. The 32-year-old woman suffered scratches to her chest, back and arm, Dugan said. Police charged the Chicago woman with misdemeanor battery, officials said. She is scheduled to appear in court June 10.
AUSTIN, Texas — They’re a short walk from Martin Luther King Boulevard, four bronze statues of Confederate leaders at the University of Texas. Many students rush by without a second look, but for years the tributes have marked an emotional split between critics who see them as commemorating slavery and defenders who want a key part of Texas history preserved. Lately, the clash has gotten louder. Red spray paint was splashed last month across the near-century-old Jefferson Davis statue near the famous UT Tower. In March, UT’s student government voted to seek the removal of the Davis sculpture. That requires the approval of the administration. “A statue in its intrinsic nature is meant to commemorate a historical figure and represent the ideals and values that the person stood for,” said Rohit Mandalapu, student body vice president and a sponsor of the anti-Davis effort. “He fought vociferously for maintaining the system of slavery, and we don’t think that it should be part of the campus climate.” Others say that getting rid of the sculpture would be an overreaction and that it should be viewed as a monument honoring the sacrifice of soldiers and their families. “It’s political correctness gone crazy,” said former Georgia Congressman Ben Jones, spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a historical group. Banishing the statue would be a “massive insult” to freedom of expression and Southern heritage, said Jones, who played Cooter on the TV series, “The Dukes of Hazzard.” The student vote comes amid increased national attention on race relations, a dynamic caused in part by police shootings of black men in Missouri and South Carolina, the death of a black man in Baltimore from injuries suffered while in police custody, and a video of fraternity members at the University of Oklahoma singing racist chants. Also this year, at the University of Mississippi, a student was accused of hanging a noose around a statue of James Meredith, the school’s first black student.
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busy body Award-winning journalist and author Brigid Schulte urges an audience of about 200 to reassess how they think about time. Schulte spoke about her book, “Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time” at the event.
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increase. With the City Council slated to discuss the plan in June, community members are taking the issue into their own hands. Jim Picchetti, statewide organizer for Chicago Coalition for the Homeless and one of the event’s speakers, said doing charitable acts and building relationships with those in power are important in addressing homelessness. “These are two sides of the same coin,” Picchetti said. “If someone shows up hungry and naked, you need to feed them and clothe them. On the other hand, we need to ask, ‘Why are you hungry in the first place’ and ‘Why do you have no clothes.’” Sue Loellbach, director of development for Connections for the Homeless, addressed concerns of real estate competition between affordable housing and private developers. In fact, she said, the inclusionary ordinance would actually encourage development if handled correctly. She said the ordinance is not acceptable
as is, and criticized City Council for not moving forward with the amendments introduced almost a year ago. Loellbach said there has been a loss in affordable housing during the delay. “A big development was approved on Maple Street that would have resulted in 10 new units of affordable housing,” Loellbach said. Loellbach also initiated dialogue with the audience about the multifaceted crises of homelessness. The audience discussed issues of caseworker salaries, mental health services, income inequality and other deep-rooted disadvantages. “It’s been a rumbling in the community for some time,” Loellbach said. “It’s the elephant in the room. How do we address this?” Interfaith Action member Georgia Evans said she came from a subsidized housing background and criticized the lack of upward mobility due to bureaucratic delays. “People who want to apply can’t because they don’t comply,” she said. “They don’t have papers. They can’t prove who they are. So good will and good works doesn’t bridge that gap. …
There’s no system to buy into.” Picchetti said he saw Evanston’s reputation as a well-off city is not quite what it seems. “Evanston has a reputation for being really wealthy, really progressive, yet there’s areas in which there’s a lot of poverty,” he told The Daily. The event also focused on the intersection of faith and social justice. Both Picchetti and Loellbach agreed with audience feedback that the church should move beyond charity and begin pushing policy reform. Picchetti brainstormed routes for people to get involved, such as petitions, rallies and boycotts. Kathleen Nadler, president of Interfaith Action, said she is especially concerned that Evanston does not have an emergency shelter. “There’s not one emergency bed in this town for a homeless person or somebody on this street,” Nadler told The Daily. “We need to keep up the Council with the fair housing issues. That’s so important.”
units of government like Cook County.” Although Illinois is the 18th richest state in the United States, according to WalletHub, the government is operating within a framework of scarcity, Schakowsky said. The problem is not income itself, but an extreme income inequality that is “devastating” the state’s economy, she said. “I saw a panel that was generally worried,” Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) told The Daily after the event. “It is the most worried I’ve ever seen them.” But despite what he called the “rhetoric of despair,” Biss said a solution is achievable. With some compromise, the state has the resources — both financially and culturally — to get through these difficult times, he said. Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) said Evanston residents often question local city officials about solutions to cuts to services like child care, but they don’t realize the source of the problem is at the state level. The solution, she said, will have to come from the legislators in Springfield. “For them the next 20 days are going to be very difficult,” Holmes said. juliajacobs2018@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 1 “Selma” depicts the 1965 voting rights campaign King led and the march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery that highlighted racial injustice in the South. The film garnered four nominations for Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Award nominations, winning Best Original Song at both ceremonies for “Glory” by singer John Legend and rapper Common. A&O usually has two big speaker events a year, but DuVernay’s visit will be a “special” third speaker event. This will be the largest co-sponsorship A&O has ever been part of, Communication senior Emily Howell, the group’s co-director of marketing and media, said during a press conference. “For my committee, we’ve had an interest in doing something different this year,” said Communication senior April Quioh, director of the A&O speakers committee. “I already knew (Multicultural Filmmakers) did a spring speaker so we kind of just started a conversation a couple of months ago.” Communication sophomore Danielle Harris, president of Multicultural Filmmakers, said this event is especially exciting because the group tried to book DuVernay to speak at Northwestern last year, but she was busy filming “Selma.” Communication senior Ashley Mills, programming chair for Multicultural Filmmakers, said the group was aware of the costs of bringing DuVernay to campus, which is why they joined forces not only with A&O but with the Communication Studies, RTVF, African American Studies, American Studies, Asian American Studies and Latina & Latino Studies departments. “We really wanted to bring in other groups to assist us with that, but as well we wanted to reach as many communities as possible,” she said. This will be the first time DuVernay speaks at a college campus, said Communication senior Abiola Aderonmu, A&O’s co-director of marketing and media. A&O hosted comedian Nick Offerman and actress Laverne Cox as its other two speakers earlier this year.
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The biggest difference from earlier this spring is that these girls are not playing scared at the end of rounds. — Emily Fletcher, women’s golf coach
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Wildcats grab 1 more wild win before season ends By KHADRICE ROLLINS
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GAME OVER Junior Alicia Barnett stretches out to reach the ball. The No. 1 singles player for Northwestern wasn’t able to carry her team past a talented UCLA squad.
NU falls in 2nd round of NCAA Tournament By ALEX LEDERMAN
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The No. 26 Wildcats (16-8, 9-2 Big Ten) opened the season with a loss, struggled to get the ball rolling and never quite found their rhythm. Two starters faced season-ending injuries before spring and the team’s streak of 16 straight Big Ten titles came to an end. But now, the season is over. The Cats fell 4-0 to No. 6 UCLA (20-4, 8-2 Pac-12) Sunday in round two of the NCAA Tournament. “The entire season, we didn’t play against any team as good as UCLA,” senior Lok Sze Leung said. “That was the first time we saw a team of that caliber. Even though we fought hard, we were just not good enough.” Before falling Sunday, NU rolled past No. 40 St. Mary’s (California) in the first round Saturday. The Cats swept the Gaels 4-0.
The doubles point was tight. Junior Alicia Barnett and freshman Erin Larner cruised 8-1 at No. 1, but freshman Alex Chatt and Leung lost a tight match 8-6 at No. 3. Freshman Rheeya Doshi and sophomore Brooke Rischbieth broke the tie with an 8-6 nail-biter at No. 2. But singles was all Cats. Barnett, Larner and Chatt all breezed through their matches in straight sets to give NU the sweep. NU leading in two of the other three matches when play was suspended. The next day against the defending national champion UCLA didn’t go so well. Again the doubles point was tight, but this time NU ended up on the bottom. Chatt and Leung dominated at No. 3, winning 8-1, but Barnett and Larner fell 8-1 and Doshi and Rischbieth lost 8-4. Leung said she and Chatt played their best doubles match all year. As for singles, the Cats didn’t pick up a set. Ironically, Barnett, Larner and Chatt — the three players with easy victories one day earlier — fell quickly this time. Once again, Leung, Doshi and Rischbieth’s matches were left incomplete. “We got beat,” Doshi said, “but all of us played really well and we came together as a team.” The loss marks the end of Leung’s career. She is the team’s lone senior. Leung transferred from Middlebury College after her sophomore year and played to a 48-19 record in her two
years at NU. “It was an emotional moment for me,” Leung said of the Cats’ loss. “But for me, I liked the way it ended. I played against a really good player — top 200 in the world. It was an experience to play against someone that good, and I played really well against her.” Leung is returning home to Hong Kong after graduation. She said she plans to enjoy the rest of her time her in the United States, because she doesn’t know when she’ll be back next. “It’s been a privilege for me to end my tennis career as a Wildcat,” she said. But even after a disappointing season, the future looks bright for the Cats. With the five other starters returning — plus Peri and sophomore Maddie Lipp coming back from injuries — NU is ready to return to the top next year. It helps that the injuries gave all three freshmen extra playing time. “Playing all these matches, I learned a lot in terms of experience and being part of the team culture,” Doshi said. “It was a tough season, but it has made me a stronger person.” Leung may not be a part of next year’s squad, but she has more confidence in her teammates than anyone. “This might be the group that can finally bring this team back to the top 10,” she said. alexanderlederman2017@u.northwestern.edu
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It was an unfortunate end to Northwestern’s season in Norman, Oklahoma. Coming into the NCAA Tournament, the Wildcats had hopes of riding strong doubles play to postseason success, but quickly found themselves overmatched by the competition. The No. 28 Wildcats (21-10, 8-3 Big Ten) opened the weekend with a rematch against No. 34 Harvard (19-8, 5-2 Ivy League). The two teams last met Feb. 8 in Evanston. NU had its hands full from the start of the match. The Crimson jumped ahead early by winning the doubles point, just as it did in the first matchup between the teams. And just like before, the Cats came back. “We competed great,” coach Arvid Swan said. “The match against Harvard was a tough one.” With NU down 2-0, sophomores Konrad Zieba and Alp Horoz and freshman Logan Staggs picked up consecutive victories to put the Cats on top, 3-2. But Harvard responded, and the match was tied at 3 with only one match remaining. It was up to junior Fedor Baev to complete the comeback for NU to send them to the next round. But Beav had to deal with more than just the player on the other side of the net: The six-hour match was interrupted twice by a lightening delay and a tornado delay, Swan said. Beav outlasted his opponent in this marathon match and, thanks to his 6-7 (4-7), 6-3, 7-6 (9-7) win, the Cats walked away victorious.
“All the credit for him for being mentally tough enough to come through with a win there,” sophomore Strong Kirchheimer said. “That was probably one of the craziest experiences myself and anyone on the team will ever handle. You can’t prepare for it, just be mentally tough when it happens.” On Saturday, NU did not equal its heroics from the day before. The Cats took on No. 1 Oklahoma (26-2, 4-1 Big 12) in a match that ended NU’s season. The Cats started strong against the Sooners, winning the doubles point to take a 1-0 lead. But from there, Oklahoma showed why it is the top ranked team in the country. The Sooners rattled off four straight victories in singles to win the match 4-1. “Oklahoma is All of the No. 1 us are sick of team in the counlosing to the try for a teams like reason,” Swan said. Oklahoma and “They have Illinois. a chance to win the Strong National Kirchheimer, Champisophomore onship. I don’t think we played any worse against Oklahoma, they just played really well.” NU has only two seniors — Alex Pasareanu and Alberto Zanotti — and for them, this was the finale. But for the rest of the Cats, this is a learning experience. For a team that had aspirations of making the Sweet 16, a dismissal in the second round of the tournament will be fuel going forward. The Cats see themselves being even better next season, and plan on playing deeper into the NCAA Tournament. “All of us are sick of losing to the teams like Oklahoma and Illinois,” Kirchheimer said. “We’re looking for ward to making a jump next year … We’re trying to build a legacy here.”
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Resilient Cats roar into NCAA Championships By KEVIN CASEY
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Twice before at the NCAA Regionals, the Wildcats had cracked the formula: Put the team well behind the curve and then fight back to prosperity. But, even for them, this weekend’s results were astounding. Needing to place in the top six at the NCAA Raleigh Regional to qualify for the NCAA Championships, Northwestern dumped itself in 11th position after 18 holes only to rocket up the leaderboard each of the next two days. The team eventually tied for second Saturday — eight shots behind winner then-No. 4 South Carolina. In a matter of 36 holes, the Cats went from well beyond the brink to cruising past the cut line. “This team is impressing (assistant coach) Beth (Miller) and I with their
ability to compete with their backs against the walls,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “The biggest difference from earlier this spring is that these girls are not playing scared at the end of rounds.” NU is quickly proving its mini-slump in early April is in the past. Over 54 holes and three days at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course, the Cats beat 11 top-50 teams — including No. 7 LSU and then-No. 12 Mississippi State — en route to the team’s third-straight trip to NCAA Championships. In 2013, NU faltered to 10th place through 36 holes at Regionals only to charge back into sixth to make it among the top eight qualifying for Nationals. Last year, the Cats were in 10th after the first day in a top-eight field and used a hot second round to cushion them enough for another trip to the NCAA Championships. But in this trip, the Cats dug themselves their worst hole yet at Regionals with the
11th place start. Aside from senior Hana Lee’s opening 73, none of the other starters portended signs of future fireworks — the remaining quartet all shot 75 or worse on Thursday and combined for just two birdies. Bogeys abounded and the course’s tricky greens, tucked pins and weird bounces were giving the Cats fits. All of this primed conditions for a coach’s rant to light a fire under her squad — maybe call out some players, yell her pupils into a fury. But Fletcher had other ideas. “It’s not like I scolded them or anything,” Fletcher said. “We had a really productive practice after that first round. … Once we left the golf course, I felt the players were done with that round and ready for the next day.” And apparently, the coach read her team right. “After the first day, we weren’t too psyched out about being in 11th place,”
freshman Hannah Kim said. “We were all confident we were going to make it back up to the top six.” The lackluster day one was followed by a fiery Day Two, in which NU rose to fifth behind the third-best round of the day. In position to qualify, the Cats nailed 14 birdies in Saturday’s final round to tie for the best team score of the day. Fletcher pointed to better putting and short game in facilitating the turnaround, along with improved management of the course’s tougher, more wind-exposed holes. No Cats golfer truly stood out — Lee tied for ninth and was the team’s best finish. Junior Suchaya Tangkamolprasert and sophomore Kacie Komoto were next best with a tie for 18th. The best mirror of NU’s upward trajectory was Kim, who admitted to pressuring herself in an opening-day 78. She mellowed her demeanor and followed with a 75. Kim flourished at the
finish with a four-birdie 71 that placed her tied for 22nd. “The first two days, I was having a really hard time with my speed control,” Kim said. “But on the last day, I had the greens figured out and that helped me a lot with my birdies.” The Cats, as usual in recent years, are playing some of their best golf at the right time. Fletcher said there was no magic formula to that, and pointed to a slow cultivation of good player habits. And after one of the team’s most impressive performances under Fletcher’s tenure, NU has no shortage of confidence for Nationals. “Our team is in a good place right now,” Lee said. “We have a pretty good advantage going into nationals from this performance. Finishing second here, we know we’re good enough to play against any team in the country.” kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu