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On the night of Feb. 18, more than 400 people crowded into Norris University Center for an impassioned debate about a resolution asking Northwestern to divest from six corporations the reso-
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Rapper A$AP Ferg will perform at Dillo Day, Mayfest announced Thursday. The rapper, a New York native, is scheduled to perform at 3 p.m. and is the fourth act to be announced, following Charli XCX, Odesza and Miguel. “The energy that he provides and type of music he plays is a missing link in the lineup,” Communication senior Michael Bass, Mayfest’s director of concerts, said in a news release. “It’s something that the campus has been looking for. We know this is going to turn up this campus more than it’s ever been before.”
lution’s sponsors say violate Palestinians’ human rights. More than five hours after the debate began, the resolution narrowly passed in Associated Student Government A$AP Ferg is known for his songs “Work (Remix)” and “Shabba,” both of which are on his 2013 album “Trap Lord.” “Ferg reaches all types of hiphop fans and NU students,” Medill senior Steven Goldstein, Mayfest’s co-chair of promotions, said in the release. “His hits are tailor-made for parties, but his music incorporates so many influences and subgenres. I think he’ll have fans on their heels the entire performance, and of course, the entire lakefill will go wild when the horns for ‘Shabba’ sound off.” A$AP Ferg will perform in the same slot that Chance the Rapper filled for last year’s Dillo Day in 2014. Dillo Day is May 30. — Shane McKeon
Senate, with 24 votes in favor, 22 votes against and three abstentions. More than three months after the vote, the resolution hasn’t resulted in any policy change — or divestment. Contemporary student divestment
movements face obstacles imposed by forces beyond campus. Today, NU’s investments are much less transparent than in years past after a switch to indirect investment in the 1990s made it much more difficult
to know what the University does or doesn’t hold. Reluctance to stray from what some call a politically neutral stance, coupled with a financial responsibility to make a large return on investments also influence investment decisions. » See DIVESTMENT, page 4
DM names 2016 beneficiary By TYLER PAGER
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Blessings in a Backpack, a nonprofit that provides weekend meals for food insecure elementary school students, has been selected as the primary beneficiary for next year’s Dance Marathon. Each Friday, more than 3,700 Blessings in a Backpack volunteers distribute weekend meals for children dependent on federally-funded free and reduced price school meals during the week. The organization can feed one child on the weekend for a 38-week school year for between $80 and $100. “(Hunger) could arguably be the biggest problem that our generation ends
up facing,” said DM executive co-chair Arielle Miller, a Medill junior. “Especially on a really socially active and engaged college campus like Northwestern, we are the people that can start to think about how to solve this problem and start contributing on a grassroots level.” This is the first time since 2010 that DM has not chosen a medical-related organization for its primary beneficiary and only the third time in the organization’s 42-year history. The funds raised for DM will first help expand existing programs in Evanston’s Haven Middle School and Oakton Elementary School, DM announced Thursday. Cook County has the fourth highest rate of childhood hunger in the nation. The money will also support the development of new program sites in other
Chicago area schools and across the country, as well as help recruit and train new volunteers. “Childhood hunger is an invisible problem that has spread across the United States,” said Brooke Wiseman, CEO of Blessings in a Backpack, in a news release. “Being the NUDM 2016 beneficiary will allow these kids to know that people in their neighborhood care about them and are working together to keep them fed.” DM is also starting a yearlong service component through which members of the Northwestern community will be able to engage with the beneficiary beyond fundraising. Although the details of the service project are still being worked out, » See DM, page 7
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Chicago was once the central location for Native American activism, author David Beck said Thursday during his visit to the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian. Co-authors Beck and Rosalyn LaPier talked about and read excerpts from their book “City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago,
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1893-1934” which focuses on the activism of Native American leaders around issues of representation. The book specifically examines the way activist leaders initiated organization around Native American issues. “One of the themes of the book became this idea of native people becoming the actors instead of being acted upon,” LaPier said. “Part of what the activist movement tried to do is change America’s idea of Indians.” Although the population of Native Americans vastly changed during and after World War II, the same issues of representation have persisted, LaPier said. LaPier referenced controversy over the mascot of the Washington Redskins football team to illustrate that the issues have not changed. “Native people have always been concerned about representation, how they’re represented to the larger community,” LaPier said. “We want a say in that representation.” Part of the demands made by Native Americans in the early 20th century pertained to changes in the education system regarding their part in American history, LaPier said. She said the issue of figuring out how to represent Native Americans is relevant to how the contents of the Chicago public school curriculum are decided today. “In terms of providing education about Native misdemeanor retail theft and is scheduled to appear in court June 29, police said. Door broken in Evanston home Someone broke the glass on a door of a south Evanston home during the day Wednesday, police said. The owner of the home, a 75-year-old Evanston woman, said someone broke the glass on the outer part of her door, Dugan said. There were no signs of forced entry to the inner door of the house in the 1500 block of South Boulevard, and no suspects have been identified, Dugan added.
Indians to the rest of the school population — it just hasn’t happened yet,” Beck told The Daily. “Students in Chicago schools aren’t taught about American Indians in a contemporary context … and it’s a nationwide problem.” The authors also discussed how media coverage of Native Americans has decreased since the early 20th century. During that time, most of the Native Americans migrating to Chicago were arriving with a boarding school education and had strong connections with politicians, LaPier said. Many of the activists covered in the book formed an elite native community whose members used their privilege and contacts to advance the movement, the authors said. Since then, there has been a lack of funding and resources going to urban Native American communities, with 80 percent of American Indians in the nation living outside of reservations, Beck said. “(Native American activists of 20th century) became prominent and politicians thought it was cool to know an American Indian,” said Dr. Dorene Wiese, president of the American Indian Association of Illinois. “But, we don’t have any rich or famous people in Chicago. There’s no one to press our issues forward.” yeareekim2018@u.northwestern.edu
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On Campus NU alumni speak about post-graduation activism By Mariana Alfaro
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Alexandra Sims (SESP ’10) told Northwestern students Thursday night she found it really difficult not being able to participate in the Ferguson protests. Sims, director of programs at the City of Chicago and a former student activist, knew many protesters because she had worked with Ferguson residents during President Barack Obama’s campaign. Throughout the protest, she received text messages from her friends about what was happening. “I had to decide, do I go down to Ferguson right now and help my friends, will I be more helpful there or will I be more helpful doing my job registering voters in Chicago?” she said. “And I don’t think I would’ve been very effective help trying to run a movement back in that community.” Sims was one of five Northwestern alumni who spoke Thursday night about activism after graduation and in the workplace at an event hosted by the Department of Campus Inclusion and Community at the Segal Visitors Center. Noor Hasan (Weinberg ‘14), who now works as an inclusive diversity management consultant for Allstate Insurance, said transitioning out of NU was difficult for her because she had to get used to work in a new space. She said students are “customers” of the University because they’re paying for a service and if they feel uncomfortable with something, they can complain
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and act about it. At a job, she said, it’s harder to do that because you are getting paid. “You are the one with a performance review, you’re getting held to standards, so it’s a different dynamic,” she said. “So getting used to that, coming to terms with sometimes leaving my politics at the door was challenging.” Dallas Wright (Medill ‘12), a communications coordinator at Inner-City Muslim Action Network, said to him the toughest challenge after graduation was recognizing the value and meaning of a NU degree. “I didn’t really understand how much is expected,” he said. “You’re kind of immediately thrust into leadership opportunities that other people … aren’t.” The panelists discussed how they continue their activism work in their new careers. Corey Winchester (SESP ’10), a history and social sciences teacher at Evanston Township High School, said students at ETHS students are active in their community and by working there he gets an access to that. “I don’t necessarily think I’ve had to lose my politics at the door,” he said. He added teachers are sometimes told their only role is to teach and not have an opinion, a view he disagrees with. “We all have our own opinions and when you inform your students of that from the get-go, they kinda know what to expect, and we encourage that,” he said. Jonathan Li, a McCormick senior and former Daily staffer, said he came to the event to learn more about
diverse speakers’ experiences after college. “I wanted to see what challenges they navigated in the workspace in order to promote change in the workplace,” he said. Michele Enos, Campus Inclusion and Community’s assistant director and one of the event’s organizers, said when picking the panelists, organizers were looking for a diverse group of alumni who represented
different aspects of activism. “We were really intentional about trying to pick students who you think about (when you think of) activism,” she said. “You think people who are very visible and out there but also getting students who are very involved … who are behind the scenes.”
Marcia Isaacson will be tasked with ensuring NU complies with higher education regulations and policies across its three campuses, Provost Daniel Linzer said. Linzer said NU strives to be fully compliant in order to provide the most safe and effective environment possible. “We feel confident that Marcia and her team will enhance and reinforce an environment where everyone understands his or her responsibility for ensuring compliance on a daily basis,” Linzer said
in a news release. Isaacson will work under Linzer and executive vice president Nim Chinniah, and will regularly meet with the Board of Trustees’ audit, risk and compliance committee. Isaacson said she is honored to work at NU, where she can bring together people from different areas of the University to work together toward compliance. “To effectively comply with many of the regulations that affect higher education, people in different
departments often need to work together and share information,” she said. “I’ve learned that a lot of problems can be avoided through better coordination and, of course, better communication.” Currently, Isaacson works at the City University of New York as the university’s chief compliance officer and senior associate general counsel. She has previous experience in the U.S. Attorney’s Office. She is scheduled to start at NU on Sept. 1.
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Acting out Recent Northwestern alumni discuss activism after graduation. About 15 students, mostly seniors, attended the event at the Segal Visitors Center.
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Decades of Divestment
NUDivest
South Africa 1978: Trustees reject divestment 1984: Anti-Apartheid Alliance forms, begins protests 1985: - Nearly 100 student protesters arrested - ASG Senate passes resolution backing divestment - Trustees vote against complete divestment, recommend review of investments 1986: - NU announces partial divestment of $3.5 million - Students build shanty town by Rebecca Crown Center
Burma 1995: NU students protest the University’s ties to corporations with operations in Burma 1996: University eliminates $15.7 million in PepsiCo and Unocal investments amid transition to indirect investment 1997: ASG Senate passes legislation calling on NU to break all ties with Burma
Sudan 2005: Investment Committee and NU administration instruct money managers to sell all holdings in four companies identified as supporting Sudan regime 2007: - NU Darfur Action Coalition demands additional divestment - University agrees to consider more restrictions, but there is no further divestment
Fossil Fuels 2012: Fossil Free NU, formerly DivestNU, forms and calls for NU to divest from coal companies and eventually, all fossil fuels 2013: ASG Senate and Faculty Senate pass resolutions in favor of divestment 2015: A referendum asking if students support coal divestment passes
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instructed the endowment’s external money managers to sell all holdings in four companies identified as supporting the government regime in Sudan. Students formed the NU Darfur Action Coalition and demanded additional divestment in 2007. The coalition asked NU to divest from almost 30 companies activists believed supported Sudan. NU agreed in 2007 to consider more restrictions amid student pressure. However, there was no further divestment.
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The history of student calls for divestment at NU indicates student activism often has little to do with divestment decisions. Former University President Henry Bienen, who joined NU in 1995, was president during the campaigns to divest from Burma and Sudan. Frankly, he said, it would take a lot more than student support for the University to choose divestment. “I wasn’t personally swayed by issues of student activism,” Bienen said in an interview with The Daily last month. “We have our own policies and way we go about the process of making decisions.”
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A ‘token’ response Amid an international movement against apartheid in South Africa, the first notable push for divestment at NU fell flat when a September 1978 report submitted by a Board of Trustees committee rejected divestment. “We are impressed with the sincerity of the views expressed on both sides of the question,” the committee wrote. “But we are not persuaded that Northwestern’s selling of its investments would have any discernible ameliorative circumstances.” The Anti-Apartheid Alliance formed in 1984 and over the next few years intensely advocated for complete divestment from companies doing business in South Africa. Joshua Lazerson, who received a doctorate in history from NU in 1990 and spearheaded the alliance, said although the group and the administration had a cordial relationship, the University was more interested in the financial returns from investment than activism. “We felt that what we were attempting to achieve was more important than the University’s own agenda,” he said. “There was tension there, no questions about it.” Lazerson was among more than 100 students arrested during protests at the Rebecca Crown Center in Spring Quarter 1985. One of the protests lasted several days, and at one point about 150 students stormed the president’s office, demanding divestment. Soon after the protest, an ASG resolution calling for divestment passed in Senate 30-1. In November, a second trustee committee formed to study issues of divestment released a report rejecting complete divestment, instead recommending review of investments on a case-bycase basis. A few days after the report, NU formed a subcommittee within the Board of Trustees to review the University’s portfolio. In March 1986, the University announced the subcommittee’s decision to divest $3.5 million from two companies out of the more than $166 million it had invested in companies with ties to South Africa. “They did a few token things, but they didn’t take any real meaningful or majority action when it came to changing the University’s investments,” Lazerson said. Bienen said a university will choose divestment only in extraordinary circumstances, such as when a government’s actions are universally
2015: - NUDivest begins calling for NU to divest from six corporations it believes violate Palestinians’ human rights - An opposition group, Coalition for Peace, forms in response - An NUDivestsponsored resolution narrowly passes in ASG Senate - NUDivest representatives meet with the NU chief investment officer William McLean to discuss movement’s goals - NUDivest, Fossil Free NU and ASG representatives plan to meet with McLean by end of quarter to discuss possibility of socially responsible investment committee
condemned. He pointed to Nazi Germany as an example of an exceptional situation that would require divestment. South Africa, he said, was similarly “extreme.” In the case of South Africa, the Board of Trustees followed U.S. government guidance by considering the Sullivan Principles — a corporate code developed to protest apartheid by promoting social responsibility guidelines for corporations — in its investment decisions. However, even as a dedicated student activist, Lazerson said, he never expected total divestment. “It was clear to me from very early on that the board and the president were not going to be easily swayed by this,” he said. Because of the often politically-charged nature of divestment, Bienen said, universities typically follow U.S. government policies when making investment decisions, as NU did with South Africa. He said such a “safe haven policy” helps keep universities from taking a political stance. “People who are on your board tend not to like divestment,” he said. “Their preference is to not have politics attached to investment decisions for lots of reasons.” Donors’ primary interest when giving to universities is maximizing their investment, Bienen said. “They’re not saying, ‘Be political on social issues, be political on issues of foreign policy or domestic policy,’” he said. “They’re saying, ‘We’re going to give you money and we want you to maximize the return.’”
Shifting strategies The Investment Office transitioned from direct to indirect investment about 20 years ago. The university’s in-house investment office stopped choosing the companies in which to invest, deferring such decisions to outside management firms, The Daily reported in July 1996. Today, external money managers handle roughly 95 percent of the about $10 billion endowment, chief investment officer William McLean said. The Investment Office directly manages about 5 percent. The University transitioned to external money managers as students called to divest from corporations operating in Burma, a country accused of violating human rights. The University phased out its $15.7 million in PepsiCo and Unocal investments, both companies that had operations in Burma, today known as Myanmar. At the time, then-President Bienen said it was merely a coincidence and a decision to align with the new investment strategy rather than a political choice. Carwil Bjork-James (Weinberg ‘96), an activist who pushed for divestment, said although the University said it was a coincidence, he considers it politically motivated divestment. “They never said we made a deal or conceded that it happened,” he told The Daily last month. “It’s hard not to read that as an expression of at least concern of criticism they were getting from students or being connected to some fairly ugly events happening overseas.” NU again divested in 2005 when the Investment Committee and the University administration
McLean said if the University wanted to divest, it would instruct the managers to do so. NU’s endowment makes the university one of the richest in America. The endowment largely comprises donations to NU. Student tuition does not go into the endowment. The Investment Committee guides the endowment’s management. There are more than 30 trustees on the Investment Committee. Both the full board and the Investment Committee convene quarterly, but the meetings are separate. He said divestment issues have been discussed at the last three Investment Committee meetings. University President Morton Schapiro said work of the trustees and the Investment Office allows the University to invest in programs like Counseling and Psychological Services and facilities like the new Henry Crown Sports Pavilion. “Those guys are magicians,” he said. “Everybody has to realize that.” Schapiro said he respects student activism but didn’t agree with Senate’s vote on the NUDivest resolution. “The students of Northwestern, the elected representatives did a vote that I might not agree with — don’t agree with,” he said. However, administrator — and student — opinions have limited impact because actors outside the University decide where the money should go. Bienen said only in rare circumstances does the University hold individual stock. In one such instance, he said, the University complied with a donor’s request for NU to hold shares in Pfizer Inc., a pharmaceutical corporation. “That was an occasion where the donor made a very big gift,” he said. “It was a very rare example of holding stock.” Bienen said NU doesn’t want the risk that comes with directly holding stocks. When donors give stocks as a gift, he said, the University almost always sells them. Some funds hold money from only NU. Other funds hold money from multiple universities. Bienen said it is probably more effective for students seeking divestment to target the money managers directly, rather than NU. ‘The most important part is $10 billion’ All five major divestment movements at NU have had resolutions with student government support, but none have resulted in complete divestment. Even campaigns with widespread campus support did not or have not met their divestment goals. Fossil Free NU, formerly Divest Northwestern, began in 2012 and calls for the University to divest from coal companies and eventually, all fossil fuels. ASG Senate and Faculty Senate passed resolutions in 2013 supporting divestment. In 2015, a referendum
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friday, may 22, 2015 asking students if they support coal divestment was included on the ASG presidential election ballot, and passed with 74 percent of voters in favor of coal divestment. The newest initiative, NUDivest, formed in Winter Quarter and is asking the University to divest from Boeing, Caterpillar, Elbit Systems, HewlettPackard, G4S and Lockheed Martin, companies it believes are complicit in the violation of Palestinians’ human rights. McLean said he would be “shocked” if the University didn’t hold indirect investments in Boeing or Caterpillar. “It’s safe to say we own those companies,” he said. “They’re large companies. Whether we’ve got $2 million or $4 million or $6 million, Caterpillar or Boeing is not really the issue. … The issue is if you’re going to sell it.” No campus divestment movement at NU has incited the kind of controversy between students that NUDivest has. Critics of NUDivest have associated the campaign with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which calls not only for divestment, but for boycotts against involved companies and sanctions against Israel. NUDivest maintains that the resolution calls for only divestment, not boycotts or sanctions. The same week NUDivest started its campaign, an opposition group, NU Coalition for Peace, formed in response to the divestment movement. “People get focused on things like a march or a demonstration,” said Margaret Barr, former vice president for student affairs, in an interview with The Daily last month. “Students who do what I call work in the trenches … are just as effective as those who march. It’s not just going to the rally and shouting.” Schapiro said “respectful engagement” is the most effective form of activism. “I don’t think this is a place where disruption or any of that kind of stuff really convinces anybody to do anything,” he said. “Do a respectful presentation … That’s the best way to get what you really want.” Following the Senate vote, NUDivest continues to host regular events and helped stage a mock checkpoint and border patrol demonstration last week during Students for Justice in Palestine’s Israeli Apartheid Week. Fossil Free NU is still pushing for divestment from fossil fuels, despite an Investment Committee vote against coal divestment in November. NUDivest representatives met with McLean on May 8 to discuss the movement’s goals. Weinberg sophomore Marcel Hanna, who was at the meeting, said NUDivest sent an email to Schapiro but did not receive a response. Hanna said not being able to contact Schapiro is a big obstacle for the movement.
“As the president of the University, if students wish to meet with him, especially students in an official capacity that have a passed resolution,” he said, “I believe it’s his duty to meet with us or at least hear us out.” University spokesman Al Cubbage said Schapiro did not receive an email from NUDivest. Hanna said NUDivest plans to reach out to the Board of Trustees next. McLean has met with Fossil Free NU multiple times. Weinberg sophomore Christina Cilento of Fossil Free NU said that although the group has broad support on campus, the main challenge is
so time-consuming,” she said. “It just blows my mind that the people who are supposed to represent the students and be the guiding figures of the University aren’t accessible.” Cilento said McLean has said there is a possibility the board will vote again on coal divestment. Despite regular communication with the group, however, McLean said divestment from fossil fuels is a “slippery slope.” “There are a lot of different issues out there,” he said. “How do you decide which ones have merit and which ones don’t? … It’s not what a university’s here to do.”
getting in contact with the Board of Trustees. Fossil Free NU had a meeting with a trustee in November, after the Investment Committee vote, and plans to submit a formal divestment proposal to the board when it convenes in June. Cilento said the group’s biggest problem is with a lack of transparency from the Board of Trustees. She said because many trustees’ contact information is not readily available, reaching individual members is difficult. “Navigating the bureaucracy of the University is
McLean said he often hears information about what issues students are interested in “third-hand.” However, McLean praised Fossil Free NU for clearly expressing its goals. “(The) group is great because they’re very direct and say, ‘Here’s what the students have passed, here’s what we’re interested in,’” he said. NUDivest and Fossil Free NU have both expressed support for the creation of a socially responsible investment committee. The NUDivest resolution also called for a committee dedicated to greater
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transparency in investments. At an NU Political Union event in April, McLean said he was open to such a committee. “There’s an argument for having one central place where some of these (investment issues) get vetted,” McLean said during the event. “We’re interested in hearing student voices, and maybe a committee is a better way to do it.” Schapiro also said he supports the idea of such a committee. He said there was a similar committee when he was president at Williams College. “It was very productive,” he said. “If (the board asks) me my experience with committees, I would say 100 percent positive.” Faculty Senate supported a proposal to create such a committee in April and ASG created a task force to lobby for a committee in February. ASG President Noah Star, a Weinberg junior, and Executive Vice President Christina Kim, a McCormick junior, plan to meet with McLean, NUDivest and Fossil Free NU before the end of the quarter to discuss the possible creation of a committee. “The plan was always to get as much of the infrastructure in place as we could,” Star said. “What’s most important to me is that I want to do this the right way, the way that the people working for divestment want it to be done.” Hanna said NUDivest and Fossil Free NU have drafted a mission statement about the committee, which they will discuss with McLean before the end of the quarter. NUDivest presented the statement to McLean during their May 8 meeting. McLean said he is happy to meet with students, but there needs to be clear communication. “This is an important part of our job, dealing with students, but it’s not the most important part of our job,” he said. “The most important part is $10 billion. … We’re trying to bend over backwards to meet with people and help them out and discuss these issues because they’re important, but it’s got to be a two-way street.” Hanna said NU’s history with divestment needs to be addressed and points to a larger problem about the University’s values. “We have absolutely no history of socially responsible investment policies,” he said. “If we want to claim to be a progressive institution, we have to have socially responsible investments and we have to care about how we affect the world.” exstrum@u.northwestern.edu Daily file photos by Rick Phillips, Jeanne Kuang and Sean Su.
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New spice shop opens in downtown Evanston with the sugars, co-owner Teri Barton said. After a 35-year career in business administration, Dan Barton said he decided to postpone retirement to start his next chapter in a different area of entrepreneurship. Teri Barton — who has a background as a personal chef and graphic designer — covers the creative side of the business while he operates the financial side. “When we went franchise-shopping and we saw this, it was the perfect mix of both of our business skills,” Teri Barton said. “When we got to The Spice & Tea Exchange I just fell in love with it.” Thinking about the store’s future, Barton said she hopes to host cooking demonstrations for goods such as pizza and barbecue seasoning using the original spice mixes. After six months of operation, the company will allow the Bartons to debut their own locally-themed spice mixes, such as a Northwestern blend or a Chicago Blackhawks blend, she added. Migrating from Connecticut where they raised their family, the Bartons said they chose Evanston as the site for the store because of its high level of foot traffic and lower rent prices compared to Chicago. Dan Barton said he hopes to draw even more traffic to the area with the potential renovation of Fountain Square. “We liked the fact that it’s a business climate that’s encouraging more smaller-retail folks to come in to avoid the big-box stores,” he said. Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said despite the
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A new spice and tea shop opened its doors May 15 with the intention of becoming Evanston’s “go-to place for the ambitious home cooks,” co-owner Dan Barton said. The Spice & Tea Exchange, 1615 Sherman Ave., is the first store of the franchise to open in Illinois. Barton said the heart of the establishment is its collection of 70 original spice blends mixed in the store. Although the shop’s regular customers will likely be amateur chefs with money to spend on high-end spices, the owners are also looking to build connections with local chefs, he said. “Once we get a little more settled, we’ll go around to the restaurants and market ourselves to restaurants who tend to buy more in bulk,” Barton said. “We’ll introduce them to our speciality blends, our best-sellers around the country and encourage them to try them in their recipes.” In addition to its spices, the owners dedicated sections of the store to loose-leaf teas, sugars, peppers and salts, as well as speciality cooking supplies. The store’s products can be used for innovative recipes like meat rubs or curries, but they can also serve as toppers for snacks — like dipping Cheetos in the blended spices or decorating baked goods
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stock up The Spice and Tea Exchange of Evanston has more than 140 spices in stock, with 70 blends mixed in-house, and over 30 loose-leaf teas.
Officers responded Wednesday night to a reported burglary in the 2300 block of Pioneer Road, where the resident whose home was burglarized described to officers the male who broke into her home, police said. Officers in the area soon spotted three people in the area on bikes — one who matched the description the resident has provided, police said. When the officer tried to stop them, they
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Police arrested a 13-year-old boy Wednesday when responding to a burglary in Evanston, officials said.
established competition of The Spice House, 1941 Central St., The Spice & Tea Exchange is a valuable addition to the city because it offers a collection of loose-leaf teas. “I think the whole tea part of this business will
be very successful,” Grover said. “There aren’t many places where you can get fine loose-leaf tea in Evanston.”
all fled. The male who matched the description of the burglar discarded his bike and ran away on foot, police said. The officer caught the 13-year-old in the 2100 block of Darrow Avenue, officials said. Police found in his possession two credit cards reported stolen in January after a car was burglarized in the 2200 block of Ashland Avenue, officials said. For the two incidents, the 13-year-old was
charged with four offenses — one count of residential burglary, one count of criminal damage to property, one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and one count of unlawful possession of credit cards. The teen was transported to Cook County’s Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
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From page 1 DM will give students the opportunity to help pack lunches in backpacks. Additionally, DM organizers said they hope to establish a mentorship program with local Evanston school children as part of next year’s Hero Program. “Adding something like as service component allows us to engage a large part of campus, which is ultimately DM’s goal,� said DM executive co-chair Kevin Harris, a Weinberg junior. “It’s not just to raise a ton of money and fund a great cause every year, but to unite the Northwestern community.� The Evanston Community Foundation will serve as the secondary beneficiary for the 19th year in a row. Additionally, DM will hold an early registration period this month ahead of next year’s event. Organizers hope the early registration, which will take place from May 21 to May 29, will give students more time to fundraise and learn about the beneficiary. The registration fee for DM will also be no more than $37, down from the usual $50 fee, the organization announced. For the second year in a row, students can have the fee waived through the Office of Financial Aid. The lower registration fee comes after Associated Student Government recognized DM as an A-Status group. The final registration fee will be determined after ASG votes on how much funding to give to DM next week at Senate. This year, DM raised a total of $1,130,979 for the Starlight Children’s Foundation and ECF. tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu
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We all want to win. We’re all hungry and ready. We’re all really competitive, and that keeps us on our toes. — Kacie Komoto, sophomore golfer
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Three weeks after a record 14 college freshmen declared for the 2015 NBA Draft, Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips criticized college basketball’s “one-and-done” culture in an ESPN article Tuesday. There has been a growing trend of first-year players declaring for the draft through the last three seasons. Eight went pro in 2013. Nine went pro last year. Phillips’ critiques were mainly directed at the NBA, which requires players to be at least 19 years old and one year removed from high school before entering the league. His argument that the now-10year-old NBA rule should not dictate how NCAA basketball runs is a completely fair claim. But Phillips also told ESPN universities should “do the right thing for our studentathletes.” Although college has several important purposes, one of those is to help students get jobs and be successful when they leave the institution. For most college students, the industry they are interested in requires tons of work in a classroom or laboratory. Being a professional athlete does not require a college degree. Although the one-and-done system may undermine the educational purpose of college, it supports the careerist purpose. Elite college basketball players do not need a piece of paper to make money. They have a genius that lies in their athletic ability and an organization in the NBA that does not require a traditional education. Some one-and-done players become NBA stars and no one questions their decisions, but the one-and-done system gets bashed when a student-athlete’s decision to leave school does not work out as ideally. Although sometimes one-and-done players fall to the second round of the NBA Draft or don’t get drafted at all, most are picked in the first round, which gives them a guaranteed rookie contract. That is why even a player like former UNLV star Anthony Bennett, the No. 1 pick in 2013 who has been labeled a bust after only two years in the NBA, did not make a bad decision by leaving school after one season. It’s hard to say a guy who has made nearly $11 million in two years made a poor choice. Even if a player like Bennett never develops into a star or even a starter, just being a bench player is fine from a financial standpoint. The average NBA salary is around $5 million, and the minimum salary is higher than $500,000. How many industries can provide that? So I have a question for Phillips and any critics of student-athletes who bolt for the professional ranks after their freshman seasons. Imagine you are a college undergraduate presented with the following offer: You get to do what you love and what you are good at with no other obligations. You can devote all your time to your desired craft. You have access to the best teachers of your craft in the world, as well as veterans in your field who can help guide you. Within a few years, you will earn more money than most college graduates will make in their lifetime. Is it really fair to prevent student-athletes from having that opportunity after one season of college basketball? The one-and-done machine can malfunction. Not everybody who leaves after one year of college ball succeeds in the NBA. But most one-and-done players become rich while pursuing their passion at the highest level. What could be more right for these student-athletes than that? jessekramer2017@u.northwestern.edu
Women’s Golf
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PARKED AT HOME Kaitlin Park chips onto the green. While the junior finished fourth at a U.S. Women’s Open Sectional Qualifier, she did not make NU’s NCAA Championships roster.
By Kevin Casey
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The Wildcats have craved recognition as a consistent top-10 program, and it appears now the team is getting what it wants. No. 14 Northwestern enters the NCAA Championships on Friday at the Concession Golf Course in Bradenton, Florida, in a 24-team field that, for the first time, won’t be competing in stroke-play-only format. The tournament will start off in that design with four days and 72 holes of stroke play. After 54 holes, the field will be cut to the top 15 and ties, and at the conclusion of stroke play, eight teams will advance to the match play to decide the national champion. This is the Cats’ third consecutive trip to NCAA Championships, and after two years of garnering little attention at the event, the Cats are getting hype as a potential sleeper pick for the national title. There have been raves about the intense and competitive culture the team has developed, and the idea of NU as an elite program is fomenting strongly ahead of this event. Add in a format that may favor depth-based squads such as the Cats, and the result is soaring internal confidence.
“A year and nine months ago, I said that we wanted to compete for a national championship and I think this format may allow us to do so the quickest,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “That’s because of our depth No. 1 through 5, I’ll match us up there with anyone in the country.” Don’t mistake that proclamation with outsized egos, though. NU doesn’t feel entitled to a spot among the top eight, with senior Hana Lee noting the team is still a clear underdog in an event with the sport’s cream of the crop. And the Cats know the course they must tame is no simple puzzle either. However, the Concession Golf Club has been a familiar layout for the men’s team in past years as the host club for the Big Ten Match Play Championship, and NU is traveling with former men’s head coach and current NU director of golf Pat Goss who can impart wisdom on how to play the layout. Fletcher wasn’t quite sure whether the scores will be high or low at nationals, but said the putting surfaces were of the “demanding modern type” with three or four quadrants that require attention so players find the right tier. The Cats only had one practice round on the course this week, an extra incentive to bring along an expert eye in Goss. Whatever the challenges though, the self-belief is there, and it always
comes back to that depth. The five-player lineup NU will boast at nationals includes three First Team All-Big Ten selections, a Second Team All-Big Ten selection, a Big Ten Player of the Year and an Individual Big Ten Champion. The Cats shuffled the roster throughout the spring because they have too many good players — anyone could have a big performance. In fact, NU will be going to NCAA Championships without Kaitlin Park, despite the junior finishing fourth in a U.S. Women’s Open qualifier on Monday and earning an alternate spot for possibly the most prestigious professional tournament in women’s golf. Lee, sophomore Kacie Komoto and junior Suchaya Tangkamolprasert also competed in the qualifier, and Fletcher previously said if any player appeared to be slipping there or in practice, Park would get that fifth spot. Apparently nobody moved back an inch. The qualifier was actually the reason the Cats arrived late and only completed one practice round, but the players felt that competition would be beneficial for NCAA Championships. “To have that kind of pressure knowing it’s a huge tournament, being comfortable with it, it was a great practice for us,” Lee said. “And I think getting in more competitive
rounds will help us become more comfortable out there.” Aside from that, NU’s preparation for NCAA Championships hasn’t changed from recent years, as the team has kept the same workouts along with extended rest after a busy stretch. Players have been left on their own to practice and continue to build their inner fire. “Our coaches have let us work on whatever we needed to individually,” Komoto said. “We all want to win. We’re all hungry and ready. We’re all really competitive, and that keeps us on our toes.” In order to cruise through the stroke play, the Cats will have to avoid the slow starts they’ve succumbed to as of late. But a greater urgency and fight against trouble has been apparent since Big Ten Championships. And that may be the key factor for NU, especially if they make it to match play. “Part of the resiliency and energy that these girls have shown has to do with the fact that they have been pushed physically by the strength and conditioning folks,” Fletcher said. “It’s hard to create that pressure situation in golf … These tough workouts are something you can draw on in competition and may give us something extra for this week.” kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu
Looking back on the last four years at NU rohan nadkarni
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Nothing quite confronts me with my college mortality more than The Daily. Back in the days before Tinder caught on and you could upload videos to Instagram, I used to be the sports editor of this fine publication, sitting at a desk with a picturesque view of the lakefill. Now I’m just another old person with a bunch of “back in my day” stories. In my Daily heyday, I could order Joy Yee’s Noodles for dinner, watch an episode of Homeland and play catch with fellow Daily staffer Joseph Diebold in the newsroom, all while editing the sports section and
staying up until an ungodly hour on a Tuesday night, and then go right back at it the next day. (This may explain the poor quality of sports editing that quarter.) Last week, I made it through about two minutes of dancing to “Uptown Funk” before I grabbed my hip and stumbled out of the bar and into the welcoming arms of Popeyes, went to sleep before midnight and woke up the next morning incapable of leaving my apartment unless I had some green tea first. What I perhaps lack in youthful energy as I prepare to graduate, I make up for in super-sticky sappiness. It’s hard to quantify how much The Daily has meant to me. It’s the reason I was hired for my first paying journalism job. It’s the reason Alex Putterman and I played hooky for two weeks to cover a union trial in downtown Chicago. And it’s
the reason I’ve been blessed with former Daily sports editor Colin Becht’s smile. Of course, anyone who ever lived in these Daily streets would tell you it’s way more about what happens in the paper. It’s about the nightly trips to Starbucks, or the men’s eating club Diebold and I formed for a brief stretch of Winter Quarter 2013. Looking back on the experience, it’s silly to think I even cared about the sports as much as I did. I was lucky to cover our first bowl win since 1949, travel to schools all over the Big Ten and interview so many interesting athletes. But none of those memories even come close to listening to the legendary Pop2K Top 20 Hits of 2006 countdown on the Daily road trip to Wisconsin, with me, Putterman, John Paschall, Steven Montero and Brian Lee harmonizing on “Money
Maker.” It’s those bonds—forged in late nights, road trips, hot gossip and coffee-fueled editing—that made me stick with this often-crazy job when a sane person would just try to get some sleep. It’s why I never took a night off when I was sports editor, because I hated the thought of missing out on what happened next. There I go telling my old stories again. I’m lucky anyone other than my mom even listened, for these past 500 words or the past four years. I guess it’s time to start my real life, although it feels more like an end than a beginning, like I’m being sent to “a very comfortable farm” with all the other Daily graduates. I’m looking forward to seeing some old friends. rohannadkarni2015@u.northwestern.edu