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Deru: a tradition in distress By lydia ramsey
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When Heather Menefee joined a secret honors organization, she went in with no intention of keeping her membership private. So on March 6, the Weinberg senior posted a public Facebook status detailing her experience in Deru, a secret honors society composed of 22 members of Northwestern’s senior class. The post listed three changes Menefee said the group agreed to make in meetings: making the collection of Deru documents in the University Archives public, forgoing honors for seniors and connecting with students rather than administrators. So far, none of the agreements have come to complete fruition. Deru aims to provide a space for student leaders across campus to talk about different issues affecting their student organizations and to communicate with administrators. During Winter Quarter, members raised concerns about that purpose, as well as the group’s lack of transparency and representation of the NU community. These meetings in the winter prompted Menefee to publicly voice her complaints about the group, including suggesting Deru be dissolved. None of the students who spoke with The Daily for this article said they had any knowledge of plans to recruit the next class, even as Spring Quarter winds down. Several members of the group denied requests for comment. There has been no discussion among all 22 members about recruitment. Members say if recruitment is happening, it is in a much different way than in year’s past. An 120-year-old tradition Founded in 1896, Deru is on its 119th class. Because the group has entirely new membership each year, each class is open to interpret its own mission. “You’re basically just put into the organization, told you can do with it as you wish, whether it’s end it or change the way you go about whatever,” said Liliana Bonilla, a current Deru member and Weinberg senior. “Everything was in our hands.” It began as a men’s honors society and since then has admitted women and cycled through phases of being
public and private, most recently returning to secrecy around 2000. The group functions without much of a hierarchy: There’s generally a facilitator or two who run the meetings and a president and treasurer who are given those titles mainly for the purpose of accessing a Student Organization Finance Office account. In conversations with The Daily, alumni pointed to successful campuswide events hosted in part by Deru as signs of its benefits — anything from major donations to new campus buildings, to a forum on race organized after a blackface incident in 2009. Sofia Sami (Weinberg ‘14), a member of Deru’s 118th class, said the group is indicative of larger campus issues. She said Deru’s foundation on white male privilege is problematic, and the group serves as a window into the issues caused by the University’s white, male origins. “At any point when Deru is looked at, Deru shouldn’t be considered in any way shape or form an isolated example,” Sami said. “Because it’s so old, 120 years now, and because it literally lives on tradition, it’s like a preserved relic of Northwestern’s past that doesn’t have marketing schemes built on top of it.” A year in review After a year of negative experiences leading the group as a facilitator, Sami and the rest of her class began recruiting the next Deru class. Instead of using her energy to find a way to change the group that year, Sami instead advocated for rising seniors who could work to drastically transform the group into a more accessible space. But during recruitment, Sami said she found herself frustrated with conversations that were going on with other Deru members. She recounted one late night conversation in which a Latino member of the group was asked to pick the best candidate out of three Latino students. “I was like, that was A-B-C racism right there,” she said. “That happened over and over again: ‘Well this person who protests and this person who protests seems like the same person.’ I’m like, ‘Oh that’s fascinating, all of these 18 white students in the group, they all seem like the same person too. Should we kick » See deru, page 6
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ASG calls for more student say By shane mckeon
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ASG’s president and executive vice president launched a campaign at Wednesday’s Senate meeting to pressure Provost Daniel Linzer to include more students in a faculty task force examining the undergraduate academic experience. The three-hour meeting began with Associated Student Government President Noah Star and Executive Vice President Christina Kim asking senators to email Linzer and publicize a petition calling on the provost to increase the number of undergraduate students on the task force from one to five. As of Wednesday night, about 500 people have signed the petition. “If we pay,” Star said, “we should have a say.” The last time a similar task force convened was in 1988, Star said, and five students sat on the committee. Star, a Weinberg junior, said the task force could push for reforms student government has advocated for, such as credit requirement reform and a Social Inequalities and Diversities requirement. “All of these things are on the table,”
Dillo Day main stage moved to Lakeside Field
Dillo Day’s main stage will be moved to Lakeside Field because the usual stage location is unusable due to inclement weather and construction. Mayfest and University officials surveyed the area Wednesday morning and determined the stage needed to be
he said. “We don’t really see how it’s legitimate to discuss the undergraduate experience with such a limited set of perspectives.” Kim said a task force like this doesn’t come around often, so it should include student voices. “Whatever comes out of this report will affect students for the next 20, 25 years,” the McCormick junior said. “It’s imperative we get more undergraduates on (the committee).” Weinberg junior Riko Ohashi, ASG vice president for academics, is currently the only undergraduate student on the task force. The task force launched in March and is tasked with spending this quarter and Fall Quarter collecting data and drafting recommendations before presenting to Linzer in Winter Quarter 2016, neurobiology Prof. Indira Raman, the task force’s chair, told The Daily earlier this month. Raman told The Daily on Wednesday that students do have a say in the task force’s actions, and noted that both an undergraduate and a graduate student are participating. She also said the task force was “convened by the administration out of concern for students.” “The Task Force’s first responsibility has been to absorb a great deal of
data from many surveys of students (present and past), including those conducted by ASG,” she told The Daily in an email. “Additional student input (or faculty or staff input) can be shared with the Task Force through the ASG member, or through any other member of the Task Force.” Later in the meeting, Senate approved nearly $1.1 million in A-status funding for the 2015-2016 school year after allocating almost $6,000 in amendment pool funding. Senators spent more than two and a half hours debating how to spend the $58,925 amendment pool, the supplemental funding Senate can allocate at its discretion. Members of the A-status finances committee spoke against every motion to dip into the amendment pool and give a group extra funding. Communication senior Sean Earley, a member of the committee, told senators the committee spends more than 80 hours deliberating and forming a funding proposal. “You should let that influence your discretion,” he said. “Because if you’re going to use discretion to overturn (our) reasons, then you should have a really strong, logical reason.”
relocated due to recent rainstorms, severe weather forecasts and the nearby construction of the new athletic facility. “Thanks to quick support from the administration, the Dillo Day stage has been moved and will be built on the Lacrosse field just north of its previous location,” said McCormick senior Allison Schloss, co-director of production for Mayfest, in a news release. “Aside from the new shift in location, we don’t anticipate any other major changes to the layout.”
The set times and capacity for the festival will not change. Burgwell Howard, assistant vice president for student engagement, told The Daily that University officials wanted to make sure all students and guests were safe and comfortable. “We just wanted to make sure people didn’t have to stand out there listening to their favorite bands wearing a pair of Wellies,” he said.
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Dillo’s second stage lineup announced By EMILY CHIN
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WNUR and Mayfest unveiled Wednesday the five acts that will perform on Dillo Day’s second stage. Hip-hop artist K Rizz, rock band Archie Powell & The Exports, DJ Ben Aqua, rapper Cakes Da Killa and hip-hop duo Sicko Mobb will be performing, in that order. The WNUR stage aims to introduce upand-coming artists of different backgrounds and demographics to try to appeal to a larger audience, said Mayfest co-chair Justin Wolf, a Communication senior. This is the second time the student-run radio network will host Dillo Day’s second stage. WNUR collaborated with IndieU, a music website, last year to put on the second stage. Because of the success of its phone-a-thon fundraiser, WNUR is presenting the stage by itself this year, WNUR general manager Brian Campbell said. While the Mayfest lineup includes mainstream artists, the WNUR stage has artists students may not have heard of, said Campbell, a Weinberg junior. “ We’r e i nt e r e s t e d in p l ay i n g
Police Blotter Three arrested in connection with fight near Evanston Township High School Police arrested three men last week in connection with a fight in the front yard of an Evanston home, officials said. The two men who were involved in the physical altercation — a 23-year-old and a 24-year-old, both Evanston residents — were charged with reckless conduct and a third Evanston resident was charged with aggravated assault, police said. A police officer was on patrol May 21 around 9 p.m. when he saw two men fighting in the 1800 block of Lyons Street as several other people watched the altercation, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. When
underrepresented music, stuff that wouldn’t get airplay on commercial radio stations, or you might not find in traditional avenues of music,” he said. He said that WNUR also tries to include artists that are of marginalized social demographics. Though many students last year didn’t know the artists on the second stage, many were still drawn to it because it was located between the mainstage and Norris University Center’s East Lawn, the festival’s only entrance, Wolf said. This year, the second stage will be in a similar place, said Jenna Powell-Malloy, music director for The Rock Show on WNUR. “It’ll catch people’s attention walking by and it’s something that people will like without having heard it before,” said Powell-Malloy, a McCormick junior. This year, the partnership between Mayfest and WNUR has complemented each other well, Wolf said, because the groups are able to target different audiences and fill in each other’s gaps. “The Dillo Day mainstage has traditionally been there to cater to more of a mainstage audience and the WNUR stage … is really there for the purposes of reaching out to the the officer tried to break up the fight, the two men refused to listen and people who were watching prevented the officer from stopping the fight, Dugan said. After backup arrived, one of the officers used a taser on the 23-year-old man and was able to stop the fight, police said. The man was treated at Evanston Hospital for an asthma-related condition and was afterwards charged at the police station, Dugan said. The two other Evanston residents were also subsequently charged, he said.
Chicago man punched multiple times in Jewel-Osco parking lot Someone hit a 62-year-old man repeatedly last week in front of a Jewel-Osco in Evanston, police said. Officers responded May 22 around 5:30
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audiences that the mainstage wasn’t reaching out to,” Wolf said. “We’re now providing programming for a much broader scope of our student body than we were able to before.” Coincidentally, one of Sicko Mobb’s larger collaborations was with A$AP Ferg, one of the mainstage artists. Choosing the two acts done completely separate of each other, Wolf said. Freshii, a restaurant new to Evanston, is sponsoring the stage, as part of WNUR’s effort to partner with community organizations.
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dillo ready Acid Trap, the winner of Mayfest’s Battle of the Bands, will perform at Dillo Day on Saturday. The band is rooted in jazz with a mixture of R&B, soul, hip-hop and pop.
By kimberly go
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Acid Trap is no stranger to the Dillo Day main stage. After joining rap duo Appomattox Traphouse to win Battle of the Bands last year (under the name Syndicated Traphouse), Acid Trap is returning to this year’s Dillo Day to perform for the Northwestern community again. The band played a 20-minute set last Thursday at 27 Live, competing and winning against five other student bands for the chance to play at Dillo Day. This year, the band has a new lead vocalist: Communication sophomore Sage Ross. Alex Gandolfo, who plays tenor saxophone, said prior to the addition of Ross, the band’s instrumentalists would perform the vocals for their songs. However, the band, formerly Syndicate 119, felt the need to specialize the role
because it wanted other members to focus on playing their instruments. Aside from Gandolfo and Ross, Acid Trap comprises Kamila Muhammad, Michael Jones, Cameron Keri, Julius Tucker, Alex Warshawsky and Curtis Boysen. Gandolfo, a Weinberg and Bienen junior, said all the members of Acid Trap are either in or were once part of the jazz program at NU. “The music we were playing there was very much dictated by our professors and a very traditional jazz style,” he said. “Forming this group kind of allowed us to branch out from what we would ordinarily do and pursue things we couldn’t in the classroom.” Julius Tucker, who plays keyboard in the band, agreed. “We wanted to create a group where we could express ourselves not through the standard, just jazz medium,” the McCormick and Bienen junior said. Gandolfo said their sound may be rooted in jazz, but it is also a mixture of R&B, soul,
hip-hop and pop. Its influences include neosoul artist Erykah Badu and hip-hop producer J Dilla. “We’re definitely trying for a funkier type of hip-hop,” said Michael Jones (Bienen ’14), who plays the trumpet. “When I say funkier I mean there’s more horn line. We’re throwing it back to the 70s, a little bit, and 60s … not a lot of bands have that going on, on campus at least.” Tucker said the members of the group are very close and all know one another individually and musically. During rehearsals, everyone contributes to the composing and arranging of songs, with Tucker writing most of them, Gandolfo said. The group is very collaborative — people will bring in arrangements of an original or a cover and band members will voice their opinion on how a certain part can be played. “A lot of what happens in rehearsals,” he said, “is playing the same part of a song in different ways according to one person’s
recommendation and seeing what sounds best.” When the group won, Tucker said he was already thinking about how the band would prepare for Dillo Day. “I got a chance to perform at Dillo Day last year so performing again, I was just thinking about how we could improve,” he said. “I was thinking about what music we would be able to play and get together within a week.” Tucker added the band will most likely be playing a combination of original music and covers. Jones said the band is excited to perform at Dillo Day and top its Battle of the Bands performance. “Dillo’s going to be an awesome performance opportunity for us,” he said. “The performance that we had at Battle of the Bands was good, but I think we’re going to up it at Dillo.” kimberlygo2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Reality show follows Evanston dad’s gender transition By Rachel Yang
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When Ben Lehwald first learned his father was transitioning to become a woman, he had a difficult time coming to terms with the change. “At first it was very fresh so it was a little bit confusing,” the 17-year-old Evanston resident said. “I would get all the pronouns (messed up). It really just took a little bit of time to get used to the change.” To manage his emotions surrounding his father’s transition and to help others who are dealing with similar circumstances, Lehwald said he decided to share his family’s story. This idea sparked the creation of the new show “Becoming Us,” a documentary-style series premiering June 8 on ABC Family that looks at how Lehwald and his family dealt with his father’s transition, among other challenges. Friends of the Lehwald family were producers and eventually connected them to the network. For Ben Lehwald, it was not easy at first to accept the changing roles of someone who once served as a father figure. “It was really hard to cope with the thought of losing your father,” he said. “That was the biggest struggle, just because I grew up 13 years having a father figure in my life, and it just got poofed away.” However, he said filming for the show has allowed him to accept what was happening with his father — who now goes by “Carly” — and process his emotions in a healthy way. Ben Lehwald now sees her as “Carly,” instead of a mother or a father. “I learned to just be in touch with your emotions because you just don’t want to your hold your feelings in,” he said. “(Carly and I) both talk about how we feel about things. We can figure it out if there’s conflict at hand, we sit
down, we talk about it and we get it out of the way and keep on working.” Carly Lehwald, who used to go by “Charlie,” said being part of the show also brought her and her son closer despite some challenges. “The filming of the show brought up a lot of emotions for both Ben and I,” she said. “We had to redo a lot of the work we had already done, so that was difficult. But I think in the end, it brought us a lot closer … We’ve had a really open door communication between he and I, since an early, early age.” Ultimately, B en I hope kids see said he hopes it and see that Lehwald his family’s story will transgender appeal to a variety people are just of people, especially those who are also equal... We have dealing with a gender transition. fairly normal “I think there’s a lives. character in this show for anybody. There’s Carly Lehwald, Evanston resident parents in the show, there’s grandparents in the show,” he said. “It appeals to basically any demographic. I just think that it’ll help people either deal with … someone becoming trans in their family or it will help someone wanting to become trans or it will just help someone get through their daily life.” Although Carly Lehwald said people’s overall responses to her transition have been positive, such as in Evanston, she said there is still stigma surrounding transgender individuals and hopes the show will help break stereotypes. “I hope kids see it and see that transgender people are just equal,” she said. “I hope they can glean from that, that there’s really no reason to bully kids that are trans … We’re parents, we have jobs, we work, we live fairly normal lives.”
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family adjustment Ben Lehwald and Carly Lehwald star in “Becoming Us,” a documentary-style show on ABC Family. The series will premiere June 8 and focuses on how the Lehwald family, who lives in Evanston, dealt with Carly’s gender transition.
Carly Lehwald also said she hopes the show will allow more transgender individuals to share their stories. “For the trans community, it’s just really important to me that people understand that this is my story,” she said. “And not everybody has my story and there are communities,
groups within the trans community, that have just been really, truly marginalized and dehumanized, and we all deserve a chance. That goes for women for color, and everybody else.” weizheyang2018@u.northwestern.edu
City organization celebrates 40 years of healing with art By Amanda Svachula
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The Institute for Therapy through the Arts, an organization that combines harmonies and healing, will celebrate its 40th anniversary June 9 in Evanston. The ITA, part of the Evanston-based Music Institute of Chicago, has evolved into a larger organization since it was founded in 1975. It now serves 2,000 clients throughout the Chicago area. The ITA is especially unique because instead of specializing in one type of art therapy, it offers therapy through four different art mediums: drama, music, art, and dance and movement. “These therapies are effective because they access our emotions in a different way,” ITA executive director Jenni Rook said. “Clients can express how they are feeling without putting words to emotions. … Then, the therapist is there to communicate with them through the art, and help the client better understand his or herself throughout the process.” The organization will hold a gala next month at the Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave., to celebrate its anniversary. At the gala, it will honor Carrie Ann Inaba, a “Dancing with the Stars” judge, and Harriet Wadeson, an author and educator, for their involvement in promoting art therapy. With the gala, the ITA hopes to emphasize the power and usefulness of music therapy, Rook said.
“This is a nice way to get our names out there in a bigger way, as we would like to increase awareness about art therapy,” she said. “We have a really great team, and it’s a great environment to work in when you have a lot of people excited to work and constantly trying to learn more.” The ITA serves clients of all ages who come in with varied needs. Since every client is different, each person is assessed in order to determine which therapy would work most effectively. The therapist then makes a plan based on the assessment. Many of the therapy sessions are very hands-on and allow clients to fully explore their artistic abilities in a way that also helps them express themselves. “Therapy sessions are really detailed to patients,” Rook said. “We may use musical instruments and singing, where the client is actively participating in music process. … The creative arts just provide them with another way to communicate and develop skills they may not have with other types of therapies.” Keith Whipple has worked with the ITA since 2002 as a drama therapist. One of the best parts of being a drama therapist at the institute is connecting with the patients on a unique level, Whipple said. “It’s a way of working that is both endlessly challenging and creative,” he said. “It is endlessly cooperative and collaborative. It is of words and beyond words, and it’s about discovering things that seem stunningly obvious just by looking at them in a different way. “ Whipple said he hopes the gala will give the ITA and the clients’ work in the arts the
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Creative Growth The Institute for Therapy through the Arts is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a gala on June 9. The organization helps more than 2,000 clients throughout the Chicago area.
attention it deserves. “Oftentimes, this is one of these places where so much creative work is going on but it’s for health and healing,” Whipple said. “It doesn’t have the same attention as it might get
as something that is very product-oriented. It’s great to have that opportunity to tell people what we’re doing.” amandasvachula2018@u.northwestern.edu
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New club hosts show for Alzheimer’s awareness By RaCHEL DAVISON
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Some say improv comedy is one of the best forms of entertainment for people with Alzheimer’s disease. Because of this, members of They Forget, We Remember, a new Center for Student Involvement-recognized student club, are producing their first improv comedy show Friday in Ryan Auditorium. The show will feature performances from The Titanic Players as well as the Playground Theater and ComedySportz, two Chicagobased professional improv comedy groups. “Improv comedy is a way for Alzheimer’s patients to live in the moment,” said Jordan Gross, president of They Forget, We Remember. “It’s light and fresh and keeps them smiling.” They Forget, We Remember was co-founded by Weinberg juniors Gross and Will Rosenthal. Both had family members diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and have worked with Alzheimer’s patients as volunteers at Symphony of Evanston, previously known as Mather Pavilion. They saw a void of undergraduate student groups for Alzheimer’s awareness, despite the Alzheimer’s research being done at NU. “Beyond our personal connection, there was a pressing need for establishing a group on campus,” said Rosenthal, the vice president for finance. The organization met for the first time in April. Now, the club raises money to increase awareness about Alzheimer’s and members
hope to create discussion about a disease that people still know very little about. Instead of donating funds to a nonprofit organization, They Forget, We Remember gives all money raised to the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center at the Feinberg School of Medicine to help with its greatest needs. “Obviously it’s great to donate to the Alzheimer’s Association,” Gross said, “but why not allocate money to the people that need it and effectively use it?” The CNADC is one of the leading research centers in Alzheimer’s research. “There’s an apprehension to giving (to nonprofit organizations) because you don’t know where the money’s going to go,” Rosenthal said. “All the money that we raise goes toward financing (CNADC’s) most pressing needs.” Gross has worked closely with Kevin Connolly, the business administrator at CNADC, and members of They Forget, We Remember have made visits to the center on the Feinberg campus. Speakers from CNADC have also come speak to the club about their own experiences. “They’re a key part in the education effort of what we try to do,” Rosenthal said. Though some members of They Forget, We Remember have no previous connection to Alzheimer’s, there are also club members who volunteer at Symphony of Evanston, have been affected by the disease and who work on undergraduate Alzheimer’s research. Friday’s improv show will hopefully become an annual event, Gross said. In the future, they hope to also put on a concert with musicians
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Humor for a cause Members of They Forget, We Remember, a new student organization focusing on Alzheimer’s awareness, at their Storyteller’s event along with Ben and Robyn Ferguson. The group is hosting an improv comedy show Friday.
from Northwestern, Evanston and Chicago, as music is also beneficial to Alzheimer’s patients. Rosenthal, who coordinated the performers for the show, said he has found that groups and donors are very supportive of They Forget, We Remember’s mission and want to help. Communication sophomore Allie Levitan, a
member of The Titanic Players, says the group was eager to perform in the show. “It’s rare that you mix comedy and philanthropy,” Levitan said. “It’s always great when you can give more meaning to something that you already love.” racheldavison2018@u.northwestern.edu
Evanston librarian chosen for Caldecott Award committee
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love of literature Brian Wilson was selected to be a part of the 2017 Caldecott Award Selection Committee. Wilson has worked at the Evanston Public Library since 2001.
By Rachel Yang
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The Evanston Public Library announced this month that Brian Wilson, a children’s librarian, was chosen to be a part of the 2017 Caldecott Award Selection Committee. The award has previously been given to acclaimed works like “Where the Wild Things Are” and “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” and
is considered one of the most prestigious prizes for picture books. Wilson said this accomplishment is a “career dream” for him, as he has always had a passion for children’s books and has been working in children’s libraries since 1990. His current responsibilities at EPL, where he has worked since 2001, include selecting and buying books for the children’s department, running a preschool storytime and additional programming. Wilson said he learned of his selection in early May, after being first nominated and then voted
for by members of the Association for Library Service to Children. He will join the other members of the committee to select the winner of the 2017 Caldecott Award, which will be announced that year in January. Wilson said there is a long list of criteria for choosing the final book, but there are key elements the committee looks for. “The thing that jumps out at me is, ‘Does it respect the child?’” Wilson said. “’Does it not talk down to the children, to the young people?’ … ‘Does it respect the emotional intelligence of the child?’ Children and tweens are very sharp and they know when they are being talked down to.” For Wilson, the significance of picture books transcends the images. He said picture books help inspire children, and he is happy to see the Caldecott Award celebrate their important role. “What makes (the Caldecott Award) special is it celebrates creativity,” Wilson said. “Books like ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ … it inspires children who want to be artists. For a community like Evanston, the arts are so important … (and) the artists are really great role models for (children) to become artists.” Wilson’s colleagues also attested to the qualities that make him a fitting choice for the Caldecott committee. “He’s got a deep and wide knowledge on what makes a good picture book,” said Karen Danczak Lyons, EPL’s library director. “What distinguishes it from an average book, what will appeal to children. Children’s books are an important part of how we tell stories. So he’s really an expert in this area.” Martha Meyer, a librarian assistant at EPL, said Wilson’s thoroughness makes him a great
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librarian and a fitting choice to be on the Caldecott selection committee. For example, in the past, when he was selected to be on a national committee to select a winning audiobook, Meyer said Wilson went above and beyond what was expected of The most reviewers. “You have to listhing that ten to all these audio jumps out to books, like hundreds me is... ‘Does and hundreds,” Meyer said. “But what he did it respect the was, while he listened emotional to them, he had the book in front of him intelligence of and he was tracking the child?’ whether the actor read every word. So Brian Wilson, not all the people sitEvanston ting on … the com- children’s librarian mittee would check to see whether all the words were said properly … and he sat there, with the book, for every single one of them. It’s just incredible dedication.” Despite the accolades and the supportive response from the community about his accomplishment, Wilson said the best part of his job, at the end of the day, is still the interactions with kids and seeing their love of reading blossom. “I’ve been (at EPL) for so long now, you see kids who I knew as babies,” he said. “Now they’re coming in as tweens or teens, and coming in and taking out armfuls of books. And hearing that the library meant a lot to them, I feel like we’re making an impact.”
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From page 1 them all out?’” Menefee said members of the 118th Deru class prepped her for the recruitment interviews. She was inducted in Spring Quarter 2014 with the standard kidnapping ritual that ended at Ryan Field. During one of the ceremonies, she said the members carrying out the induction read from the founding myth, which she said she found problematic. The myth behind Deru, according to documents obtained by The Daily, is that a wise man named Ceridwen came to the United States from Britain thousands of years ago and settled under an oak tree. The legend speaks of “aborigines” or “simple natives” who “greeted (Ceridwen) as a god.” “The first meeting we had last spring was a joint meeting between our class and last year’s class,” Menefee said. “At that meeting, I just talked for like 10 minutes about all the problems I saw with the group and just said, ‘I don’t think it should exist.’” Coming back to campus in the fall, Andrew Green (SESP ‘15) said he grappled with his feelings toward Deru. As a member of the Wildcat Welcome board of directors, he invited staff from the Office of New Student and Family Programs to Deru’s Homecoming reception. The staff later playfully questioned him about his involvement in Deru and “reframed” the way he saw it. “Then what brought me back was our retreat in the fall, when we all were really open about the fact that we didn’t want this group to do a lot,” he said. “We wanted to use it as a space to bounce off ideas but then ultimately work through existing groups or avenues so that if we produced anything or anything came out of it, it would be public, open to criticism and accessible to other students.” By the end of Winter Quarter, conversation surfaced in Deru about what to do for next year. Menefee started attending meetings and reaching out to other students in the group to discuss dissolution. She said the group agreed on the three changes she later publicized in her Facebook status. But once she posted her status, she was removed from group communication and couldn’t follow up on the decisions. After members notified alumni that the class of 119 was considering dismantling the group, Menefee and Green said alumni contacted them and encouraged them to change their minds. “I got a lot of Facebook messages from people I’d hardly ever spoken to trying to shame me out of it, which was funny,” Menefee said. “I got a couple messages from people I haven’t spoken to saying, ‘Good for you, the more I thought about it the worse this group actually is. But I wouldn’t say that publicly.’”
Green said members of this year’s class received a compiled PDF of letters from different alumni. Of those letters, he said only one supported dissolution. Michael Gebhardt (Weinberg ‘11) said he was shocked to hear that the class of 119 was so interested in ending the group. To him, he said, there’s little downside to having the group. “Every year when a new class comes together there’s so much potential,” he said. Gebhardt said some years don’t amount to much, but others are defined by fundraising or forums that affect the whole campus.
resources and access the group has. “To be honest, I felt like a guest in that space,” Sami said. “Despite the amount of time and effort that I put into it, I always felt like an annoyance. ... I never left those meetings happy ever and very frequently felt like I was the sole person in that room that wanted to justify (what) we were given.” Presence on campus One of Deru’s main functions as a group is to connect administrators with student leaders, said Ron Braeutigam, the associate provost
“I felt like a guest in that space. Despite the amount of time and effort that I put into it, I always felt like an annoyance ... I never left those meetings happy.” — Sofia Sami (Weinberg ‘) ‘Guest in that space’ For members of the group, particularly students of color, Deru can seem like a space in which they feel the need to pass along their position to people of similar backgrounds or their voices won’t be represented, Bonilla said. Although many members said spots are not designated for specific student groups, Deru does try to draw from the major leaders on campus, which tend to be from similar groups year to year. Bonilla, a former president of Alianza, the Hispanic and Latino student alliance, said she never felt that attached to the group, and her experience on campus in a marginalized community has been much different than that of other Deru members. As a facilitator, Sami said she was once referred to as “diversity girl” by a member, resulting in laughter from others. Sami said other members of the group didn’t take seriously her attempts to find a positive use for the
for undergraduate education and an adviser to Deru. He does meet with students in Deru, but he said those meetings are generally because of students’ other leadership positions on campus. He said he doesn’t have a roster of Deru members year to year and is not involved with the group’s internal discussions. “They perform a very valuable function,” he said. “But I feel the same way about (Associated Student Government). Because I work with so many student groups, I would hate to see any group that’s very active in helping to build community and communicating what’s going on across campus go away.” Throughout his six years at NU, University President Morton Schapiro said he could only recount two times he met with members from the group: once at the Hilton Garden Inn and once at the Celtic Knot. “I’m sure I know a lot of the members, and I’m sure they’re trying hard to make our great university even better,” he told The Daily. “But I remember I was asked … would I do a dinner for them, and I said, ‘With all due respect, no.’
I just don’t do secret societies, and I’ve never been into that.” This year, Deru received $4,500 from the Office of the Provost, said Green, who serves as the group’s treasurer. Green said the group spent more than half of the budget on the Homecoming reception for faculty, administration, Deru members and alumni. Green said this was the only money that’s been spent out of this year’s budget. Green, who was involved with student group funding as part of ASG, said no group gets funding in the same way Deru does. He said all ASG-funded groups have to itemize their budgets with what they plan to spend the money on speakers, marketing and other costs. Outside of ASG funding, student groups can request funds from a number of offices around campus on a project-by-project basis. “For Deru, we received our money from the provost, to my understanding, far easier than student organizations receive their money,” he said. “We simply told them the total amount of money we wanted and what things it would go towards … and then we were granted that money.” Looking ahead Every year, students have the chance to learn which members were in Deru when the group is recognized at the University honors ceremony in June. Menefee, Green, Bonilla and other members of this year’s class said they will opt out of receiving honors through their membership in the group. “I don’t want honors from this,” Green said. “It’s not honorable.” Bonilla said she was invited to the honors ceremony but is following up to see if it is related to Deru. “Yes we’ve contributed to campus but because we want to, not because we need to be recognized by (honors),” she said. In April, Deru launched a project called Purple Pipelines to try to garner topics for discussion during the group’s recruitment process. Any student could drop a piece of paper in one of the purple pipes across campus with a proposed topic. But, Bonilla and Menefee said the campaign didn’t get much feedback. With several members still in the dark about recruitment, it’s possible there will not be a 120th class. If there is, the recruitment process will have left a number of members out. “It’s not something I felt like was worthwhile for me overall,” Bonilla said. “I met great people on campus and I’m glad I met them. ... But the way I see it now is that the idealized purpose of the organization is very contradictory to how the process has been going about.” lydiaramsey2015@u.northwestern.edu
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time having Tom’s great outlook on life.” Middle school was also the first time Mike McMullan volunteered in a Special Olympics event, and he continued his involvement with a few Special Olympics Chicago events during his time at NU. He then joined the organization and soon learned about Special Olympics’ Polar Plunge fundraiser. He took part this year, raising his goal of $500 and jumping into the cold water in March. He said his family was very supportive throughout the process and that they said they all want to participate next year. Tom McMullan is thriving 24 years past his original prognosis, but no individual with a disability comes without complications. McMullan’s physical issues prevent him from completing any task on his own, and he requires a nurse to be with him all times at Melmark. Similarly, his behavioral problems necessitate a behavioral analyst to always be present. Mike McMullan said when his brother doesn’t take his medication, his behavior can be high strung — or worse. “He’s jumped out of a second-story window several times, he’ll go out into traffic, he’ll open the door of a moving car,” Suzanne McMullan said. “He has no concept of safety.” And Tom McMullan, while generally happy in his decade at Melmark, has run away from the facility at times trying to make his way to California. Although scary, this behavior does have its amusing side. “Tom left his room at night and went into this really nice neighborhood next door and knocked on someone’s door and said, ‘Can you take me to California?’” Mike McMullan said. “And they’re like, ‘What the hell’s going on?’” Other issues persist, like the family having to decline certain social functions for Tom McMullan’s sake, as well as dealing with neighbors that don’t talk to the family because of his outbursts. But his siblings have always stood by him. It’s been an effort led by his parents and Joe McMullan, who harnesses a special connection with him as a twin. Mike and Joe McMullan said their brother’s high character has never changed and that he has found a good spot at Melmark. He is cared for at every waking moment on the college-like campus and is given academic stimulus five days a week. But sometimes the aid he receives in non-academic hours can be hit or miss. Mike McMullan
said he gets irritated that certain people in the medical industry neglect those with disabilities. He said a specific instance just weeks ago comes to mind. “Recently Tom was in the hospital because he had pneumonia and my brother and I went to visit him and there was a guy from Melmark there monitoring Tom while he was in bed,” Mike McMullan said. “We walk in and the guy’s on his phone, which is fine, but then we told him who we were and introduced ourselves and he just went back to his phone and the only thing he would say is, when Tom was rolling around, to keep still and keep your legs straight. He just kept saying that and he didn’t have any interest in getting to know us or more about Tom.” Regardless, the family generally feels Tom McMullan is in the right place and hopes he
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continues to remain happy at Melmark. In fact, he continues to reach higher, possibly taking on a job at Wal-Mart. With his new schooling, Mike McMullan is planning to move back to Philadelphia with Joe McMullan and connect more often with Tom McMullan nearby. The wrestling All-American at NU will forever be proud of and grateful for his eldest brother no matter what. “For someone who wasn’t supposed to live past 2, he’s been doing well long past then,” he said. “He has a ‘conquering the world’ mentality, but I’m glad to see Tom keep doing what he’s doing. It’s been incredible.”
played the back nine later got more shots at birdie. The Cats lose senior Hana Lee, who tied for 73rd, next season, and Fletcher waxed about her contribution to the program’s rise. Otherwise, every significant player returns. It’s easy to see then why the Cats weren’t fretting over a missed opportunity at match play. “I wouldn’t say we played our best golf out there, but everyone fought hard down the stretch,” Tangkamolprasert said. “Just seeing that I could totally see us in the match play next year given the team we have and the confidence we have in each other.”
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McMullan finds strength in bond with his brother By kevin casey
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Four-time All-American. Big Ten champion. Northwestern grad. Those are the words that describe Mike McMullan’s accomplishments in just his undergraduate years alone. The former NU wrestler now embarks on a new set of endeavors, enrolling in the University of Pennsylvania’s graduate program starting this fall. McMullan will be after a degree in criminology and hopes to someday work for the FBI. It’s an enviable list of achievements and goals for someone in his early 20s, but it’s Mike’s older brother Tom who he sees in an exalted light. “I’m proud of what he’s accomplished,” Mike McMullan said. “He’s already proved a lot of people wrong and inspired a lot of people.” Tom McMullan is held in similar high regard by his twin brother, Joe McMullan. “For Tom to beat the odds and be so loving and caring daily, it says a lot about him and his integrity,” he said. Tom McMullan, 25, is the oldest of eight children in the McMullan clan, and likes to take part in everyday activities like bowling and roller skating and trips to amusement parks. He can solve difficult math equations in a snap and name all of the state capitals and presidents in order. He’s constantly described as outgoing and a person who listens to and feels for others. In these ways the one of the two eldest McMullans leads a fully functional life. But he also wasn’t expected to live past his first birthday. Tom McMullan has cerebral palsy, a neurological disorder that leads to loss or impairment of motor function and affects body movement, muscle control, muscle coordination, muscle tone, reflex, posture and balance. CP can also cause a number of other physical or cognitive
issues. Some with the disorder may drool, be unable to eat or drink, have a mental disability, be visually or hearing impaired or experience epilepsy, behavioral or communication issues. Tom McMullan has some of these impairments. The 25-year-old is mentally disabled, needs to be fed through a surgically-inserted tube in his stomach, experiences behavioral outbursts, has slight visual impairments and sometimes drools. He exhibits trouble speaking, although his twin describes him as very communicative. As for physical issues, Tom McMullan can walk and has competed over the years in Special Olympics — earning several medals in golf, bowling and track and field. But he does have scoliosis, shakes at times and wobbles and falls a lot. He is diagnosed with respiratory failure, which forces him to sit down and rest after a short time walking. All of the extra work this respiratory condition entails has saddled him with an enlarged heart. “Since the early years of my life, I’ve put in perspective that as a twin, having CP and all of these assorted issues could’ve happened to either of us and it’s unfortunate that it happened to a loving guy like Tom,” Joe McMullan said. “But you learn to accept it and use it as motivation and it humbles you when you think about it every day.” Acceptance is easier when Joe McMullan, Mike McMullan and other family members think about a simple fact: Tom McMullan could have been gone a long time ago. The struggle to live goes back to the 25-year-old’s first seconds on Earth. Born to John and Suzanne McMullan on January 24, 1990, Tom McMullan appeared he would be a healthy boy throughout the pregnancy process, but immediately after he got into the outside world, the troubles commenced. “I could tell from the tone in the doctor’s voice and in his eyes that something was wrong,” Suzanne McMullan said.
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IRON MIKE Heavyweight Mike McMullan battles an opponent on the mat. The senior still shares a close relationship with his brother Tom McMullan despite not being able to see him much.
“They rushed the baby out. It was surreal, it was like a movie but we were actually living it.” He was whisked away so fast after birth that his mother did not know the problem. Her son was not breathing. The doctors soon told her that her son was being transferred to a different hospital for special attention and to run some tests, but otherwise she was kept in the dark on the true issues for two days until she was discharged and could visit him. It was there she learned he had cerebral palsy. The doctor treating him told her he would only live one year. “She said to me, ‘Do you want to let him go or us to keep treating him? He’s never going to be normal,’” Suzanne McMullan said. “And I just went, ‘How can I make this decision to end someone’s life? I’m a mere mortal. I don’t know what kind of deficits he’ll have, but I don’t have the right to decide that.’” Tom McMullan was kept in the hospital for three months, and when it was clear he still couldn’t fully breathe on his own and had other serious delays, he was
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The Wildcats couldn’t quite reach their final destination, but they still made history in the process. No. 14 Northwestern secured its highest-ever finish on Monday at NCAA Championships, placing 10th in a 24-team field at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida, after placing 15th back-to-back at Nationals in 2013 and 2014. The Cats cruised past the 54-hole cut that chopped the field to the top 15, sitting in 10th and hanging onto that spot in a treacherous final round. For the first time in women’s golf, NCAA Championships had a match play component, with the top eight teams at the end of 72 stroke play holes advancing into the head-to-head format. In that regard NU fell agonizingly short, coming in a mere four shots worse than eighth-place Washington. The tone appeared it would be of the downbeat variety. Instead, NU struck the opposite cord. “It’s all really positive,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “Going into this event, our goal was to control our own destiny in the race for the eight on the Monday. And we were certainly in position.” The cheery attitude made sense in light of a program that continues to climb on the national stage, and may have a claim to elite status following a third-consecutive robust showing at NCAA Championships. “Your goal is to make it to match play and you come up short and you start thinking ‘Oh, what could you have done better,’” Fletcher said. “And we talked
about that and we emphasized just how far our program has come even in the last three years.” The Cats did indeed have a chance to control their fate down the stretch, as NU was one shot out of eighth place with nine holes to play Monday. It was also quite a journey to get there. NU fell a bit into recent starting woes on Friday and Saturday, plopping down to a tie for 15th during a delayed first round that bled over two days. Displaying the energy ignited a month ago, the Cats surged up during the second round and by its conclusion on Sunday morning, sat in a tie for seventh place. Still, even at that point everything was taking its toll. Nevermind constant delays — the weather was so hot and humid all week that one player jokingly crouched in a full-sized freezer. The wind was also pretty persistent throughout, and those multi-tiered green complexes Fletcher keyed on ahead of the event were more difficult than anyone could ever imagine. “This may have been the toughest course I’ve played in my life,” junior Suchaya Tangkamolprasert said. “If you put it into the wrong area of the green, you were basically screwed.” And that was from the leading Cats player through two rounds. Fletcher noted that the team at times failed to minimize their mistakes, but that even the prudent play out to 30-40 feet could easily lead to three putts. Through 36 holes, the Cats had collectively carded 19 birdies along with 15 double bogeys or worse. Yet NU fought on. The Cats dropped to 10th through 54 holes but found themselves in that tantalizing position ahead of the final
nine. In the aftermath, Fletcher commended her team’s ability to conserve energy, stay hydrated and remain focused, a trio that would serve the Cats well as the interminable week wore on. There were several examples of this. Freshman Hannah Kim opened in a demoralizing 86-84 but turned it around with a 74-76 finish that still left her in a tie for 76th but gave the team important counting scores during the final two rounds. “The week was very disappointing at first,” Kim said. “I was able to get my speed down, and I focused more on my putting than the shots into the green and that worked out.” Sophomore Kacie Komoto pieced together a 73 and a 74 in her second and fourth rounds respectively for a tie for 29th. But, as usual, nobody embraced the carnage more than Tangkamolprasert. “I don’t know why, but when it’s harder, I think more about each shot,” she said. “It’s more fun this way to me.” The junior relied on a killer short game in a rousing tie for 10th which netted her the highest NCAA Championships finish among the Cats for the third consecutive year. Alas, it wasn’t enough to reach the match play. NU made some late birdies but mixed them in with just enough higher numbers to place outside the cut. The Cats started their rounds on the back nine, and Fletcher said the team simply did not make enough birdies on that side, specifically on the par-5s. She said it also didn’t help that the wind died down late, so the teams who » See Women’s Golf, page 7
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Women’s Swimming and Diving - 1000
Women’s Soccer - 1000
Men’s Golf - 1000
Women’s Tennis - 1000
Cats place 10th at Championships By Kevin casey
then transferred to a rehabilitation hospital for a year. He would be brought home after that, but hospital staff still said he would live to just three years old. It was clear throughout his early years that there were no resources to aid his parents. “There were none, you had to navigate on your own,” his mother said. “I used every ounce of free time I had to search for parent support groups and to evaluate different school districts.” In the end, though, it would all work out. The Voorhees Pediatric Facility in New Jersey opened up at just the right time to service children with medical and behavioral disabilities like Tom McMullan, and he thrived there from ages 5 to 15. He moved on to Melmark in Pennsylvania, a group home where he has remained to this day. Tom McMullan has lived away from home since enrolling at Voorhees. Mike McMullan admits that at 5 years old visiting his eldest brother, he was uneasy about the condition of the school’s residents. “I was uncomfortable the first couple
of times we went to visit just because of the other people who had issues that I had never seen before,” he said. “So it was kind of adjusting to that and realizing it was okay. It took me a few times.” Joe McMullan agreed that after that, Mike McMullan quickly caught on and always made sure to keep their brother included rather than excluded. Mike McMullan went to boarding school from age 13 on, and with Tom McMullan away from home, they mainly only saw each other on the holidays. But it didn’t stop the future Wildcats wrestler from forming a close bond, or intervening when somebody used words demeaning those with mental disabilities. “At first, I would get really mad and a couple times I would lash out and yell at them and tell them it’s insensitive,” he said. He recalled an incident after 2005 film “The Ringer” was released, which features a character who pretends to have mental disabilities. “People were like, ‘Mike, why don’t you go see this movie?’” he said. “And it was very frustrating to me that my friends could be insensitive like that, but it’s not their fault because they weren’t around the culture.” McMullan said he’s calmed down on that point and believes children nowadays would be more understanding. But, he added, he still judges people pretty hard when he hears them use derogatory words. It was also simple to come to his brother’s defense because of his personality. “People just gravitated toward him, he stole the show,” McMullan said. Joe McMullan said his twin is “like the mayor” every place he goes. “He knows everyone on a first-name basis and he knows their business because he’s loving and caring,” he said. “There’s a lot of people in this world with no disabilities and they have a difficult
Women’s Golf - 1000 Softball - 1000 Field Hockey - 1000 Lacrosse - 998 Men’s Soccer - 997 Women’s Basketball - 996 Football - 992
Cross Country - 1000 Wrestling - 1000 Baseball - 1000 Fencing - 994 Men’s Swimming and Diving - 997 Men’s Basketball - 974 Volleyball - 1000
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Record 12 Wildcat programs receive perfect APR score
Twelve of Northwestern’s 19 varsity sports received perfect scores in the NCAA’s most recent Academic Progress Rate report, setting a school record. Men’s tennis, wrestling, women’s golf, volleyball, women’s tennis, women’s swimming and diving, women’s soccer, cross country, softball, field hockey, men’s golf and baseball all had scores of 1000, the highest possible mark, and NU’s other programs were not far behind. Lacrosse received a 998, men’s swimming and diving and men’s soccer a 997, women’s basketball a 996, fencing a 994 and football a 992. Men’s basketball was the lowest rated among NU sports with a 974, but still was 13 points above the NCAA average for men’s basketball.
The Wildcats improved from a year ago, when just 10 programs received perfect scores. Football improved its scored by one point from last year, while men’s basketball dropped six points. APR is an aggregate measure of each team’s ability to maintain the eligibility of its athletes and successfully retain and graduate them over their careers. A score is calculated for each Division I program based on its performance over the previous four years. Teams below a threshold score of 930 are prohibited from participating in postseason play the following year. Last week, the athletic department announced NU was the Football Bowl Subdivision school with the highest percentage of programs to receive APR public recognition awards for placing among the top 10 percent of teams in their respective sports, with 15 of the 19 varsity teams earning the honor. — Khadrice Rollins