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‘Selma’ director discusses film’s themes By Matthew Choi
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When the director of the film “Selma” visited campus Monday, she told the crowd of more than 700 there is a tendency to emphasize achievements of marginalized communities, which can distract from the pervasive problems of minority representation and leadership in media. From racism in the United States to film production, director Ava DuVernay discussed a variety of topics Monday night after a showing of her film “Selma” at Alice Millar Chapel on the one-year anniversary of the first day of shooting the film. Many films about the civil rights movement are from perspectives other than those fighting for their own rights, DuVernay said. “Some of the controversy (around “Selma”) was that it was a different way of telling a civil rights story. It was a different way of telling a story about that movement more as liberators, as freedom fighters, as warriors than as beggars,” she said. “We are the center of our story.” “Selma” is based on the 1965 voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, which was led by civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Hosea Williams. The cast includes award-winning actors including David Oyelowo as King and Oprah Winfrey as Annie Lee Cooper. The film was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy
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feature film Ava DuVernay discusses her film, “Selma,” after it was screened at Alice Millar Chapel on Monday night. “Selma,” directed by DuVernay, depicts the 1965 voting rights protests.
Awards and won Best Original Song at the Golden Globes for the song “Glory.” DuVernay, known for directing TV shows and documentaries including “Venus Vs.” and an episode of “Scandal,”
Harley Clarke proposals presented By Marissa Page
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More than 100 Evanston residents and city officials gathered Monday evening to discuss five proposals from the public for the future of the Harley Clarke mansion. The proposals included the city renovating the mansion, demolishing the building and selling the property to a third-party owner who would repurpose the building and take care of all costs associated with it. The Harley Clarke Citizens Committee, a group of five Evanston residents and two city officials, organized the workshop at the Civic Center to present the ideas. Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl assembled the committee in January to address the mansion’s fate after the Evanston Art Center, which has occupied the space since the 1960s, announced it would vacate Harley Clarke by the end of May. The committee held seven meetings prior to Monday’s workshop to discuss options for Harley
Clarke’s future, drawing upon public opinion and its own research of the property’s history. Steve Hagerty, the committee’s chair, led the workshop, as people spoke and attendees split into breakout groups to discuss potential downsides to the proposals. Five community members detailed their visions for the different propositions for the mansion, although no one stepped forward to support razing the building. Sheila Sullivan, president of the Southeast Evanston Association, advocated that the city retain ownership of the property by using funds in Northwestern’s $5 million gift to the city to renovate the mansion. “This will benefit the many, from all Evanston walks of life instead of just a few,” Sullivan said. “When you have a precious commodity like Harley Clarke that everyone in the city can use and enjoy, wouldn’t you absolutely want to make that happen?” » See harley clarke, page 6
is the first black female director to have a film nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. After the screening, Medill Prof. Charles Whitaker, who is also a board
University issues new weapons policy
Northwestern issued a new policy Monday explicitly prohibiting the possession, use or storage of firearms regardless of the existence of a concealed carry permit. The policy, in compliance with the Illinois Firearm Concealed Carry
NU to devise global engagement strategy task force
Northwestern announced the formation of a new task force Monday that will help devise a global engagement strategy following the more than $100 million donation from Roberta Buffett Elliott (Weinberg ’54). The committee, which Provost Daniel Linzer created, will evaluate the University’s current offerings and propose recommendations for the next decade. Sally Blount, dean of the Kellogg School of Management,
member at Students Publishing Co., The Daily’s parent organization, moderated a Q&A session with DuVernay. Topics discussed included the changing role of women of color in entertainment,
DuVernay’s personal journey in the film industry and her experience working on “Selma.” Audience members also asked her about the challenges of making a historically-based movie and working as an artist. The film draws important parallels with contemporary events, DuVernay said, including the recent protests in Baltimore and the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. “It feels there’s this echoing between the film in 1965 and (now),” DuVernay said. “It’ll be really interesting to see what art comes out of this time.” The event was hosted by A&O Productions, the Multicultural Filmmakers Collective, Inspire Media and multiple University departments. “Every year, we bring a spring speaker who comes from an underrepresented community and we bring them to talk about their identity and how that has affected their sort of path in the industry,” said Communication sophomore Danielle Harris, president of Multicultural Filmmakers Collective. “We collaborated because we thought we would be able to maximize both events and it worked out really well.” The film was intentionally screened in Alice Millar Chapel for its connection to the content of the film, said Dan Hoffman, A&O’s co-director of films. One of Northwestern’s chaplains was in Selma as an activist for civil rights, Hoffman said. » See duvernay, page 6
Act, aims to set clear expectations and guidelines on the University’s ban on weapons, the University said in an email to the NU community Monday. The ban extends to University property and vehicles and Universitysponsored events on- or off-campus and to any employee conducting University business. The exceptions to the policy include law enforcement personnel and persons whose work requires lethal and non-lethal
weapons. In addition, weapons can be used for educational purposes, university-sanctioned athletic programs, public ceremonies, parades and theatrical performances. Last year, NU placed signs on all University buildings explicitly prohibiting guns to comply with state law. Colleges and universities are one of 23 types of locations where “concealed carry” is not allowed under the law.
and Nim Chinniah, executive vice president, will chair the task force. “Northwestern, like many universities, tries to balance the creative initiative out among individual faculty, departments … within a more coordinated University-wide approach that maximizes the impact of those initiatives,” Linzer said. “Finding that balance point is really important.” The global strategy will focus on integrating NU’s various international initiatives and strengthen its ability to recruit faculty and students from around the world. The task force includes representatives from most of NU’s 12 schools, but only one student representative: SESP junior Sanchita Kanthadai.
Elliott’s gift — the single largest in NU’s history — was designated to expand the University’s international programming, scholarships for international students and the Buffett Institute for Global Studies, which is also named after her. “It’s a particularly important moment for Northwestern to be undertaking this type of thinking because of the establishment of the Buffett Institute and the new resources that we have,” Linzer said. “We want to think collectively now before we make big, long-term commitments on what we’re going to be doing globally.”
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Evanston is supporting a local program that will help community members make their yards more eco-friendly and manage stormwater better, the city announced Monday. The city is providing administrative support to the Livable Landscapes program, which was created by the Evanston Environmental Association and by Nature’s Perspective Landscaping, an Evanston based landscaping design, installation
and maintenance firm. The initiative is meant to aid residents in creating water-absorbing and habitat-friendly landscaping, Patrick Deignan, the city’s community engagement specialist, said in an email to Evanston media. Those who participate in the program can choose from a list of plants that work well in flood-prone areas and landscape design plans for rain garden installations, Deignan said in the email. A minimum purchase of $50 is required to join the program, he added. Rain gardens are gardens that work with existing location conditions to take advantage of rainfall and stormwater runoff, according to a document from the Illinois Landscape
Contractors Association. Benefits of installing a rain garden include water conservation, improved drinking water and reduced maintenance costs once created, according to the ILCA. To provide locals with more information on the program, two workshops will be held at the Evanston Ecology Center, 2024 McCormick Blvd. Organizers will discuss factors to consider when designing a rain garden, such as determining the appropriate size for a garden and how to maintain long-term care. The workshops will be held May 21 and June 2. — Tori Latham
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Evanston day care kitchens checked quarterly, officials say
Officials said Monday that kitchens in Evanston day care facilities are checked quarterly after the Chicago Tribune reported Chicago health inspectors failed to check hundreds of day care centers that serve food in 2014. In a May 15 article, the Chicago Tribune said about 300 day care centers — which make up more than 40 percent of day care centers in Chicago — were not inspected last year due to “human error.” “It may have been human error that lead to this issue, however the lack of staff is a major issue,” Carl
about $19.2 million on payments to pensions and about $13 million for medical and life insurance benefits. The city’s 10th largest bill was nearly $2 million on credit card purchases, a figure city staff is currently analyzing, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said in an email to local media. “It is a lot of money spent on credit cards,” Bobkiewicz said in the email. “The city discloses every transaction made on city credit cards, but we need to figure out ways to be even more transparent.” — Julia Jacobs
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Someone robbed a 21-year-old Evanston resident Sunday night at an intersection next to Evanston Township High School’s campus, police said. The man was walking in the area of Dodge Avenue and Lake Street around 9:15 p.m. on Sunday when another man approached him and demanded the 21-year-old give him “anything he had,” Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. After the Evanston man gave up his Samsung phone, valued around $400, the other man fled on foot eastbound on Lake Street, police said. Police are unsure if the 21-year-old is a Northwestern student, Dugan said.
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Caneva, Evanston’s assistant director of health and human services, said in an email to local media. “Less than 30 inspectors for all of (Chicago) means there is no realistic way to achieve the state’s minimum standards.” Day care facilities must be inspected at least twice a year because they are Risk 1 establishments, which means they are considered to be high-risk and have riskier food handling practices, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health. Caneva said in the email that local day care kitchens are checked quarterly because young children are a “vulnerable population.” He added that Evanston also does annual inspections, including food inspections, of the roughly 50 home day cares in the city.
Police arrested a homeless woman last week in connection with theft at CVS Pharmacy. The woman was charged with felony retail theft because she had a prior conviction, Dugan said. Officers responded to the CVS , 1711 Sherman Ave., around 4:40 p.m. Wednesday to a report that the 28-year-old woman had stolen hygiene and food products, police said. She hid the items, valued a little over $23, in her pants and coat pockets before leaving the store without paying, Dugan said. The woman is scheduled in court June 8.
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On Campus BarLift aims to improve student experience at bars By ALICE YIN
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A team of Northwestern students is bringing barhopping to students’ smartphones. BarLift, an Apple and Android application, launched its second version Monday morning. The developers, a group of NU students, timed the release with its NU Bar Week, a series of daily discounts at nearby bars and pubs beginning Monday night. Students will receive real-time updates of bar deals and of their friends’ plans each night through the app. BarLift currently has almost 1,800 downloads as of Monday evening, said the creator, Dom Wong (Weinberg ’14). BarLift hopes to expand its reach to other colleges soon, he said. For students with the application turned on, BarLift will send push notifications this week of multiple promotions in various bars in Evanston and Chicago. Users log in through Facebook and can use the application’s “nudge” feature to invite friends to their next destination for the night. They can also RSVP to bars they are interested in stopping by, allowing students to plan their nights, Wong said. “(Students) make decisions spontaneously,” Wong said. “The idea is to get people to reveal their preferences the given night … That’s supposed to be social
Stereotypes associating science with men persist, study shows
Stereotypes associating science with men more than women remain strong across the globe, according to a new Northwestern study. The gender-science stereotypes study, the largest of its kind, showed participants more strongly associated science with male-gendered words than female ones. It was conducted by NU psychology Prof. Alice Eagly, psychology
mobilization.” The team has improved the application since its trial version launched during BarLift’s Spring 2014 NU Bar Week, said Shikhar Mohan, one of the application’s developers. BarLift streamlines barhopping for students and provides marketing analytics to bars, including demographics, frequency and peak times. “There’s a pretty big social factor,” the McCormick junior said. “You want to know who else is going out and you want to go out with your friends. That’s when the most memorable experiences are made.” The application is launching at DePaul University next week and the team plans to branch out to other campuses in the future, Mohan said. Nonetheless, the application has a place in NU’s bar scene, said Oskar Melking, a member of BarLift’s marketing team. “Hopefully it can make people want to go out more,” said Melking, a Communication senior. “We discovered people don’t have a good sense of what deals are going on in Evanston … the other reason is they assume other people don’t want to go out because it’s hard to quickly get a sense of who’s going out.” The launch week at NU began Monday night at Tommy Nevin’s Pub, 1450 Sherman Ave., featuring the pub’s Monday $3 specials. “The last couple of years Northwestern students
haven’t been coming out as much,” said Brian Davenport, general manager of Nevin’s. “(BarLift is) rebuilding that relationship to come out and have a good time.” In addition to the daily promotions, BarLift is also adding a competition this week for students to follow a fake persona dubbed “Schorty Mapiro” on the application. Students can add the persona’s Facebook profile and send a nudge to whatever bar they believe “Schorty Mapiro” will be attending that night. Participants will be entered in a raffle for a total of $1,000. BarLift has been in the works since last spring’s NU Bar Week, when it was presented as a texting service to students. About 700 signed up then, Mohan said. Last quarter, BarLift had an initial launch during Dance Marathon, featuring a competition for an up to $1,000 donation to the team that had the most downloads of the application the week before the event. Davenport said there was an increase in younger visitors when Nevin’s promoted deals on BarLift in February. “It’s a cool way to get people to go be in a place together while utilizing the social media aspect that we’re so wrapped up in now,” Davenport said. “It’s a great idea.”
graduate student David Miller and University of California, Berkeley Prof. Marcia Linn, and included data from almost 350,000 people in 66 nations. “These stereotypes are important because they can contribute to outcomes such as biased hiring decisions according to prior studies,” Miller said in a news release. The study, titled “Women’s Representation in Science Predicts National Gender-Science Stereotypes: Evidence From 66 Nations,” had participants rate how much they associated science and science-related words like “math” and “physics” with males and females. It did not ask participants whether they thought men
or women were more capable in science. Researchers found that stereotypes were strongest in nations where fewer women pursued scientific education and careers, such as the Netherlands and Scandinavian countries. In nations with more female science majors and researchers, however, gender stereotypes were weaker. Related research suggests that college experiences may influence changes in gender-science biases, Eagly said. “Stereotypes should erode more quickly for individuals who see many female science majors in their classes, for instance,” she said in the release. Eagly cautioned that simply taking classes
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taught by female instructors is not enough to change people’s preconceptions — women need to be integrated into various aspects of the scientific community, including pop culture portrayals, to effectively combat these stereotypes. “Changing these persistent beliefs likely requires seeing female scientists across diverse sources such as news articles, television shows and textbooks,” she said in the news release. The study, already available online, will be published in the Journal of Educational Psychology in the fall. — Madeline Fox
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NU architecture should follow tradition, not trends LUCAS MATNEY
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No matter how many times campus tour guides spin the design of Northwestern’s library as “attempting to capture the feeling of books being pulled off a shelf,” most NU students would conclude that the brutalist late-60s building is a major eyesore in contrast with the neo-Gothic Hogwarts aesthetic of Deering Library. Indeed it’s always easy to tell the decade, or century, when each campus building was built, something that one could argue contributes to a feeling of diversity on our campus, but I would say this reflects the short-sightedness of campus administration in creating design guidelines to champion NU’s legacy and rich history. I’ll start with a disclaimer: I think the new Segal Visitors Center is really quite beautiful,
and I’m very impressed with the architecture firm that put it together. But no matter how “timeless” it appears right now, the Bauhaus, Apple Store look is bound to look out of place when popular opinion and design trends shift elsewhere. Sweeping glass surfaces, exposed steel beams and smooth limestone exteriors seem to be the most recognizable features of today’s university design arsenal, yet they seem sharply out of place when looking to so many of the Gothic-influenced designs of many of NU’s older buildings. Even the typefaces that compose the signs for the university department buildings down Sheridan represent the more resolute Gothic style. NU’s Design Guidelines and Technical Standards document is 510 pages of text and diagrams for architects and engineers to reference when designing and implementing plans for university structures. The document is extensive in its minute descriptions of everything from the preferred vendors of glass vent piping to the preferred mounting
methods of urinals in the restrooms. What the document is severely lacking is major guidelines for the architects to maintain consistency with other visual styles across campus. Right now, one of the few unifying threads of most of the building designs on campus is merely the recommendation to use limestone taken from a quarry in Bedford, Indiana, that maintains the specified “standard buff color.” When the University created the Arch in 1994, they chose to employ the same neoGothic style as a means of calling to the past and conveying NU’s extensive history. Most students are surprised to hear how new the Arch and the traditions, like March through the Arch, that surround it are, but that is as good an indicator as any for how well the University can capture its perceived soul when pursuing on-brand design strategies, rather than catering strictly to the latest trends. NU has always had a bit of a branding crisis. Logos and seals across campus are
inconsistent, each specific school at NU has pursued its own visual style and, as a result, there’s often a pretty severe disconnect when approaching what “Northwestern” as a whole means conceptually. Our campus buildings are meant to be stalwart physical reminders of the progress our esteemed institution promotes, and the University really needs to work harder to create guidelines that are mindful of that. Looking to the future is always an important criterion when considering design, but in the field of architecture, educational design plays by different rules. Maintaining continuity and promoting legacy in the structures we build is critical for fostering a history at NU that so many of the prestigious schools we often look to have preserved far more successfully. 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.
Students from small towns face unique challenges TREVOR STOIMENOFF Daily columnist
As somebody from a hometown with fewer than 10,000 people, I understand the struggle that students from rural towns like mine face when transitioning to college. I grew up in Grand Ledge, Michigan, a town surrounded by corn fields, where people drove tractors to senior prom and diversity was a foreign concept. I was lucky to have parents who pushed me to explore the world beyond the tiny bubble so many of my peers never broke out of. However, just because I was fortunate enough to have parents who supported my aspirations to leave our small town doesn’t mean it was easy transitioning to college. I remember moving into Northwestern and feeling extremely overwhelmed, despite being ready to begin my college career. There were always people around me – every aspect of my daily life involved being part of a crowd. Despite how cliche it sounds, things
moved much faster in Evanston than in my hometown. I look back now and laugh, as being here for three years has acclimated me to the pace of the city, but at the time it was an immense I know the feeling of chaos. Now, struggle of Evanston no longer coming from feels chaotic, but when you’re faced a tight-knit with moving from community to a small town, along a place where with the pressures of planning classes and it seems as if making friends, it everybody is can seem much more so much bigger daunting. What makes kids and better than from rural towns different than those you. from urban settings is their ideas of what constitutes a social atmosphere. I knew everybody in my hometown, and everywhere I went I always ran into a friend or acquaintance. If something
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happened to one person, it felt like its reverberations were felt by the whole town. Things spread like wildfire, and although this had its positives and negatives, there was always somebody around to make you feel better. When you move to college, you have to come to terms with the fact that you might not immediately have a group of friends to fall back on. It’s especially hard for students from rural backgrounds to let go of their close support group back home long enough to find a new one in college. Despite the challenges, I was incredibly happy with NU’s approach in accommodating students from all backgrounds. Wildcat Welcome gave us an automatic group of friends and, although we all might not have become best friends, it did create an immediate connection that made the transition a bit easier. The Fall Activities Fair was also a great resource to find groups that would facilitate the integration into NU. Organized events like these are the key to making everybody feel welcome, and as a whole, NU does a very good job of providing these events for students.
One suggestion I would offer is for NU to host an event during Wildcat Welcome geared toward students from small, rural towns. It would be an opportunity for these students to understand that there are others here who aren’t used to the going-ons of a big city. This might seem somewhat silly, but I distinctly remember feeling I was out of my league, surrounded by students who have achieved so much more than me and had opportunities I didn’t have. This event would ease the minds of students who feel the same way I did. I know the struggle of coming from a tight-knit community to a place where it seems as if everybody is so much bigger and better than you. We may be at a slight disadvantage coming from these rural areas, but it doesn’t mean we can’t transcend our roots and become a part of a new community. Trevor Stoimenoff is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at trevorstoimenoff2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Why I love socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders WILLIAM KIRKLAND
Daily columnist
Let’s be upfront about it: Bernie Sanders is a pretty weird guy. First off, he describes himself as a “grumpy old” democratic socialist, an anomalous independent in the hyper-partisan Senate. And when he announced he was running for president at the end of April, he didn’t go for the usual big speech at a uniquely personal historic site as is routine for most candidates. Instead, he wandered out of the U.S. Capitol Building on a lunch break and delivered an off-the-cuff 10-minute speech to a handful of reporters, saying, “We don’t have an endless amount of time,” and wandered back into the building to finish his work for the day, work more important in his mind than running for president of the United States. Then there’s the fact that he’s running as
a democratic socialist for the nomination of a centrist political party, in order to win the presidency of a center-right country. Bernie Sanders is not only a socialist, he’s a proud and unabashed socialist. When George Stephanopoulos (who, as it happens, is a big-time Clinton supporter) told Sanders on his show, “I can hear the Republican attack ad right now. He wants America to look more like Scandinavia,” Sanders deadpanned “That’s right. What’s wrong with that?” The good news for Fox News is that Bernie Sanders is not going to win the presidency, let alone the Democratic nomination. But Bernie Sanders isn’t in it to win it; he’s got a different plan. And so far it’s working. As the far left candidate in a race for the nomination of a center-left party, Sanders is single-handedly shifting the playing field of the Democratic primary. He’s opening up ground for his opponent (who will be the nominee and, with any luck, the next president) to move to the left. He’s Hillary’s great foil, and can make her look like a centrist even as she positions
herself far to the left of where she did in 2008. As the co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee said, “Having Bernie Sanders in the race, calling for populism, will help open the political space for people like … Clinton and others to take bold stands.” And so far, it’s working. Clinton’s first policy speech was a bold call for police demilitarization, racial justice, the end of mass incarceration and serious efforts to fight economic inequality. Meanwhile, her support is only growing. I don’t know where Clinton’s sympathies really lie on the spectrum of the political left, but I will say that she has sounded her most authentic and passionate in recent weeks as she’s discussed her commitment to progressive causes and issues. I give a lot of credit to Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who is not running for president, for making that possible. There’s also the fact that Sanders energizes young voters, like his many supporters at Northwestern, to get more involved in the
political process. At a time when many millennials are more and more apathetic about U.S. politics, he infuses the staid and predictable electoral process with his “grumpy old guy” charm and powerful message of democratic socialism. On Tuesday, Sanders is expected to announce new legislation that would make college tuition at public colleges and universities free. It’s a great idea. Germany did it, and Denmark and Sweden have been doing it for a while. Everyone knows Sanders’ proposals will not leave committee, let alone pass the Senate. But they’re shifting the conversation and broadening the boundaries of our mainstream political spectrum. And, with any luck, a critical mass of his progressive enthusiasm and at least a handful of his policies will make their way into the White House, one way or another. 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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The space is also regularly used for Martin Luther King Jr. memorial services. “This chapel has a lot of connections not only to Martin Luther King but also to Selma,” the Weinberg senior said. “And plus, this is such a striking, visual building it just seemed obvious this would be a great
Across Campuses University grapples with statues of Confederate generals, officials 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. “Davis must fall,” it said of the Confederacy president. In March, UT’s student government voted to seek the removal of the Davis sculpture, one of seven statues that line the main mall on campus. That requires the approval of the administration, which has said further action probably will be up to incoming President Gregory Fenves. But the dispute has landed UT in the national discussion of racial issues on university campuses. “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,
choice.” Whitaker asked DuVernay for advice for aspiring filmmakers on how to become “the next Ava.” “Don’t be the next anybody,” she said. “There’s no one path. There’s no right thing you have to do. You can change, you can move, you can always decide. Follow your passions.” matthewchoi2018@u.northwestern.edu a student was accused of hanging a noose around a statue of James Meredith, the school’s first black student. UT’s school newspaper, The Daily Texan, then wrote an editorial questioning whether statues of civil rights leaders, such as former U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., can coexist with those of Confederate heroes at UT. The Jordan and King statues were erected in the last 15 years after student initiatives. The Confederateaffiliated statues, besides Davis, are Gens. Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston, and John Reagan, a postmaster general. In a second editorial, the paper called on the university to give Davis the boot: “Removing the statue would not cause students and others to not learn about Davis; rather, it would allow them to learn about him the right way, critically and in a classroom.” Mandalapu, 21, of Sugar Land, said confrontations on other campuses, coupled with events at UT, such as a racist border-themed frat party in February and a series of bleach bombings in 2012 and 2013, have fueled a more serious discussion about race relations. “People are standing up and protesting and speaking about what is wrong and what is right, and the Jeff Davis statue goes hand in hand with that,” he said. While the statues have stirred fissures, some in the UT community say they likely go unnoticed by most students. Clark Patterson, a 1988 UT alum and photographer who responded in the campus newspaper, said the context of the statue and its history on campus should be considered. But he’s not convinced removing it would change the environment. “I bet if you gave a pop quiz to students and alum, less than 3 percent could even name half of the statues on the mall,” he said. The setting of the statues came about in an unintended way. George Washington Littlefield, a university regent and major UT benefactor, hired a popular Texas artist, Italian sculptor Pompeo Coppini, to design a memorial on campus, now known as the Littlefield Fountain. The sculptor’s intent was to show, after the divisions of the Civil War, the “reconciliation between the North and South” during World War I, said Don Carleton, executive director of the UT-Austin Briscoe Center for American History. — Marissa Barnett (The Dallas Morning News/TNS)
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During the breakout sessions, many Evanston residents voiced concerns that the city would not be able to financially sustain the building in the long run. Three of the presentations outlined a plan for the city to sell the property to a third-party company. Peter Greene, a longtime Evanston resident and vice president of CBRE Hotels, suggested converting Harley Clarke into a bed-and-breakfast or a larger boutique hotel would be the most economical approach. Evanston resident Chris Oakley proposed redeveloping the mansion into an assisted living home — a more ideal use for the building than a hotel, he said. Both Greene and Oakley said turning Harley Clarke into a commercial outlet would generate enough revenue to maintain the building’s upkeep, as well as create jobs. “The hospitality industry is really an entry-level position for what a lot of people do when they get into this business,” Greene said during his presentation. “My first job was washing dishes.” Greene also spoke of creating a job-training program in coordination with Evanston Township High School to provide Evanston youth with trade skill education and potential employment opportunities. Some residents said they worried selling Harley Clarke to private developers would lead to further commercialization of Evanston’s lakefront. City residents Patrick Donnelly and David Jennett vividly described Harley Clarke’s potential use as a public oasis privately owned by a nonprofit or other foundation, which would use the space for cultural and educational purposes. “We’ve been using the term ‘cultural center,’ but
‘cultural center’ doesn’t quite fit,” Donnelly said. “To me, that sounds like a place maybe no one goes. … What we propose this place be is a place where all of the community can come together.” Attendees criticized Donnelly and Jennett’s plan as idealistic. The two presenters outlined a fundraising goal of $3 million, a sum they said should be easy to raise. Despite their assurances, the audience remained unsure. “A big comment on that one is how realistic is it that a community group can raise the kind of money that’s necessary to renovate this building,” Hagerty told the group based on feedback he received from the breakout sessions. When no one stood up to speak on the fifth solution, Hagerty cut in to discuss the proposal to demolish the property and repurpose its land as publicly owned park space. He highlighted key arguments residents in favor of demolition had previously outlined to committee members. Hagerty said some said it would save the city from spending money to keep the mansion, while others said the mansion’s land would be better used for public events. One of the Harley Clarke committee’s goals is to obtain public input. Previous meetings have included time for public comment, and the committee has an email address through which they’ve already received several suggestions and proposals, Hagerty said. “We have worked hard to develop a transparent and an inclusive and public process,” Hagerty said. “That has been the cornerstone of what we’re doing. It’s really, really important that everyone have a say in this.” The committee will collect remarks made at the meetings as well as those from email and an online survey. It will present its final recommendations based on feedback to City Council on June 8. marissapage2018@u.northwestern.edu
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in place to guide student-athletes into careers. It also provides employer engagement — the defining attribute of the program, Hammer said. Much of Hammer’s job involves forging relationships with employers that she can leverage to help student-athletes. “I’m working with these companies … to build pipelines and build relationships on behalf of the student-athlete skill set,” she said. Among the most prominent of those partners is the Chicago Cubs. The athletic department signed a contract in 2013 to play five football games and several other Cats contests at Wrigley Field, and the Cubs organization and its subsidiaries have previously hosted NU student-athletes as interns. “(The partnership) is really going well because there’s other things we’re doing with them,” athletic director Jim Phillips told the Daily in March. “We’re doing promotional, and marketing. We’re doing internships. … All of that is not nearly as visible.” Hammer said The NU For Life curriculum focuses on building a “professional IQ,” which includes industry exploration and encouraging student-athletes to identify their passions. The biggest part of that preparation is teaching athletes to make their experience playing a college sport appealing to an employer. “You may not have five internships on your resume like an engineering student might,” Hammer said, “but these are the things you do have, and this is how you articulate and sell it to an employer.” Another aspect of NU For Life is its mentorship program, which matches current sophomore athletes with letter-winning alumni in a career field related to the athlete’s interests. Hammer said NU For Life currently has most of its connections in Chicago but will look to spread out in the future. She’s relying on an expanding cohort of young alumni who will grow as the program ages. With so much of the student-athlete experience at NU focused on what happens off the field, NU For Life also serves as a recruiting tool. “I talk to recruits on a regular basis,” Hammer said. “The parents are excited, but the student too. It’s part of the bigger package that you get when you come here.” bpillote@u.northwestern.edu
THE CENTER FOR THE WRITING ARTS presents
3rd Annual Graphic Novel Event:
SEX AND GENDER EMPOWERMENT IN THE COMICS
Wednesday May 20, 2015 6:00 PM - 7:30 pm
Annie May Swift Hall, Peggy Dow Helmerich Auditorium-1st floor 1920 Campus Drive FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
An evening of lively discussion with some of the most popular artists on the Chicago and national scene of graphic novels and comics. They are all members of The Ladydrawers Comics Collective. The collective is made up of members that are women, men, and non-binary folks (people that identify as they/them). They will discuss their work and how it is changing the conversation of sex and gender empowerment in a variety of stances within their artistic genre. Join artists: Delia Jean, Morgan Claire Sirene, Ray/Rae/Reigh Swanson, and Sheila Lugtu; moderated by renowned cultural critic Anne Elizabeth Moore. Q&A to follow, plus books and merchandise will be sold.
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National News San Diego Zoo, conservancy consider ‘elephant orphanage’ in Kenya
SAN DIEGO — With elephants facing possible extinction because of poaching, San Diego Zoo officials and the operator of a wildlife conservancy in Africa are discussing starting an “elephant orphanage” in Kenya. Although no agreement has been reached, Ian Craig, founder of the Kenya-based Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, discussed the idea with zoo officials last week while he was in San Diego to attend the Endangered Species Day Celebration at the zoo’s Safari Park. The zoo, with conservation projects worldwide, has a long history with Kenya’s Northern Rangelands Trust, also founded by Craig. Over nine years, the zoo has contributed more than $500,000 to community-based conservation efforts in the region. Craig said he envisioned an exchange of elephant keepers between the San Diego Zoo and Kenya, with each side learning from the other. In the end, however, it will take greater action by more African nations to stop poaching, he said. “There’s a chance we can avoid extinction, but there is no quick fix,” he said. “We need to get on it quickly.” Kenya has made significant progress in blocking poaching, Craig said, but other African nations, including Tanzania, Mozambique and Uganda, have not. “It’s very bad there,” he said. A study published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences estimated that poachers killed 100,000 elephants across Africa between 2010 and 2012. A decade ago, 25 percent of elephant deaths were due to poaching, now that figure is 65 percent, which could lead to extinction, the study concluded. “Elephants are under siege throughout Africa,” said a recent story in the New Yorker. “Demand for ivory is increasing in Asia: once prized by Chinese aristocrats, it is now sought by members of China’s growing middle class, who buy ivory cigarette holders, chopsticks, and even carved miniature elephants.” In Hong Kong, ivory can sell for $3,000 a pound, a pair of carved tusks for $200,000, the story said. Much of the poaching, the story by Peter Canby in the magazine’s May 11 edition said, is done by organized crime figures with links to terrorist groups, armed with military weapons. — Tony Perry (Los Angeles Times/TNS)
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Academic, career services define Cats experience By bobby pillote
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For student-athletes at Northwestern, the college experience extends well beyond sports competition. Wildcats must balance the rigors of being Division I athletes with the challenge of NU’s academic requirements. The NU For Life program, the athletic department’s career services wing, works in tandem with the department’s Academic Services and Student Development to help Cats have a successful four years in school as well as a thriving career after graduation.
Winning in the classroom Data from NCAA’s Academic Progress Report, which measures a team’s retention and eligibility of their players, showed in May 2014 that NU’s teams have some of the highest classroom performance ratings in the nation. Kristin Kane Herbison, associate athletic director for Academic Services and Student Development, oversees the department — comprised of seven full-time staff members — dedicated to guiding student-athletes through course registration, study skills and everything in between. “Our job is to help student-athletes balance all of their athletic, academic and social responsibilities,” Kane Herbison said. “We’re working with the students to combine, balance and manage both areas of their life.” That balancing act starts freshman year, when student-athletes are required to meet once a week with their adviser, who will work with them throughout their time at NU. These meetings aim to help student-athletes adjust to the demands of college life. Advisers discuss class progress, develop time management skills, review grades and set an academic plan for the week.
NU alum Abby Steketee named next coach
Abby Steketee (SESP ’03) has been named the coach of the women’s swimming and diving team, the athletic department announced Friday. She replaces Jimmy Tierney, who left the team in April for undisclosed reasons after leading the program
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game plan for life Northwestern student-athletes and industry professionals participate in the Wildcat Professional Excellence Program, a networking event hosted by NU For Life. The career services branch of the athletic department organizes many events specifically for student-athletes entering the workforce.
All freshmen student-athletes also must participate in mandatory study hours in the NU libraries. Like the weekly meetings, Kane Herbison indicated this requirement is designed to make sure athletes adjust to a college workload. Unlike other schools with dedicated academic facilities for athletes, NU emphasizes that its athletes work in the same spaces as the rest of the student body, Kane Herbison said. “We really like to have our studentathlete population incorporated with the rest of campus,” she said. “We want them to be able to work with other students in their classes who aren’t athletes.”
Madalyn Shalter (SESP ‘12, ‘14), an academic adviser for athletes who played volleyball at NU from 2008 to 2012, said the goal is to wean studentathletes off of the mandatory programs by the end of their freshman years. “Students here figure out what they need to do to succeed within their first year,” she said. “We help them create independence.” Even though weekly meetings and study hours aren’t required past an athlete’s first year, advisers continue to work closely with their students throughout their time in school. One of the biggest difficulties is planning around team travel. Some teams, such as football, miss
since 1994. “I am truly honored to return home to Northwestern,” Steketee said in a news release. “It is thrilling to join the legacy of excellence at Northwestern, a place that shaped who I am today.” Steketee’s only head coaching experience comes from Nevada, where she led the program for the past three years. In her final season, the team broke 12 school and four Mountain West conference records. Steketee was selected as
the conference Coach of the Year in 2015. Previously she coached swimming as a graduate assistant at West Virginia from 2004 to 2007 and as an assistant with both the men’s and women’s team at South Carolina from 2007 to 2011. Steketee was not on the women’s swimming and diving team during her time at NU but was a member of the club crewteam. — Bobby Pillote
only a handful of Friday afternoons during Fall Quarter, while others, such as baseball and softball, miss parts of Thursday and all of Friday during some Winter Quarter weekends to facilitate travel to far-flung warmweather states. To help plan around that, as well as practice and game schedules, athletes receive priority during course registration, Kane Herbison said. Advisers also assist student-athletes in planning their coursework for life after graduation and work closely with Julie Hammer, the assistant athletic director in charge of the NU For Life program, to ensure Cats are ready to join the workforce.
diving in Coach Abby Steketee talks to one of her swimmers at Nevada.
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Wu misses NCAA Championships by one stroke
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Paul Stevens coached his last game at Northwestern on Saturday. It was his final chance to joke with umpires, to send runners home at third base, and to shake hands with an opponent’s coach while wearing a Wildcats jersey. Paul Stevens came to NU in 1985, working as an assistant from 1985 to 1987 before taking over as head coach prior to the 1988 season. His nearly three-decade odyssey running the program, which saw more than 650 wins and, at one point, a run of 15 straight 20-win seasons, ended on a nearly perfect afternoon for baseball, with the sun shining on a mostly full Rocky Miller Park. Maryland came out ahead 4-3 in the end, but the mood was mostly celebratory, if bittersweet after the
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We’re very blessed and this place is always going to be extremely special. Paul Stevens, coach
“The greatest privilege I think that anybody can have is to put the uniform on representing this university,” Stevens said after the game. “I’ve met some phenomenal people here over the 31 years.” His time at NU has not always been marked by success on the baseball field. The Cats’ visits to
the Big Ten Tournament have been few and, at times, far between. Stevens’ all-time record at NU is well below .500. Yet, it is clear that the NU baseball is more than just about wins and losses. For Stevens, the team is a family. “You hear a lot about that in coaching now, like, oh this guy’s a family guy, this guy’s a character guy,” said Cody Stevens, Paul’s son and a senior for the Cats. “But (our coaches) actually are.” As Paul Stevens moves on from Evanston, he says the program will always have a special place in his heart. “It’s a part of our family. It always has been. It always will be,” coach Stevens said. “We’re very blessed and this place is always going to be extremely special to the Stevens family.” timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu
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game. While the school celebrated the legacy of the program’s all-time winningest coach, Stevens praised the school whose baseball diamond he watched over for so long.
NU For Life isn’t a typical career services program. The postgraduate arm of the athletic department was created in September 2012 as a revamping of the existing career services department within athletics. It falls under the direction of athletic director Jim Phillips and benefactor David Kabiller (Weinberg ‘85, Kellogg ’87), a former tennis player at NU who is also a University trustee. The program provides traditional career counseling, which Hammer said is enhanced by a four-year curriculum
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Life after sports
When Northwestern learned two weeks ago that its season had come to an end after falling short of an NCAA Regional berth, freshman Dylan Wu switched into offseason mode. That meant cutting down on his practice time, making sure his academics were in order after a long season and prepping for his upcoming midterms. So when he received a text from head coach David Inglis last Monday, his first thought was that he might be in trouble. The reality, however, was a pleasant surprise. “Coach said that an opportunity had opened up to compete in the New Haven Regional as an individual after another player had withdrawn,” Wu said. “So obviously that was a bit of a shocker, but I jumped at the opportunity.” Four days later, Wu found himself in a powerhouse field at The Course at Yale, where he nearly pulled off what had seemed impossible less than a week before.
He missed qualifying for the NCAA National Championships by a single shot after stellar rounds of 68-70-69 saw him finish in a 3-under tie for fifth-place. Wu had been informed that two of his competitors had already posted 54-hole scores of 4-under as he entered the final round’s closing stretch, and he knew that he would need a birdie coming in to have a shot at advancing. “I really hit some solid shots there at the end of the round, I just didn’t get the putts to fall when I needed them,” he said. Despite the disappointment of coming up just short, the strong finish caps off an outstanding freshman season that saw Wu earn his first collegiate tournament victory at UCLA’s Gifford Collegiate and establish himself as one of the Big Ten’s top returning players next season. “It’s been really cool to see how far Dylan has come this year and what he has been able to accomplish,” Inglis said. “He’s shown that he can compete with the very best, and after experiencing the postseason for the first time I know that he’s hungry to get back.” — Tyler Vandermolen