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Speaker 3 00:07:27 Live from w Nur news I'm PABA. You're listening to the six of o'clock news on w N U R 89.3, FM HD one Evanston Chicago it's Friday, April 22nd, 2022 tonight on w N R news N news club crew team wins. Big thoughts on Rosa Leah's new album, Moto mommy, and Bob's trivia. These stories coming up tonight on w N R news at six. You're good. Thanks for tuning in click catch exhale, send, click recover. Inhale. This succession of sounds is the rhythm of rowing. It's conducted by members of Northwestern crew team. As the sun rises just about every day on the Skoki channel. The club teams are hard work paid off last weekend when it won the Illinois state championship reporter and rower, Angelina KA has the story.
Speaker 4 00:08:28 One stroke like stroke. My heart's pounding. We were like, okay, this is our race. Everything we got. Let's go hand down my stroke seat. I Olivia you will tell MES the FLAS coming up or not trying to get my point as best as I can a about give me a stroke. And then I'll be like, okay, half, half, three quarters, LinkedIn, go, let's go.
Speaker 5 00:08:55 Senior. Luca WEO is a coxswain for the Northwestern university crew team. Her boat crossed the finish line first at the Illinois collegiate growing invitational in farmer city. Last weekend,
Speaker 4 00:09:08 I tried to like bring out the raw power out of the rowers. Okay. I'm at fourth, you Chicago. I'm at the, for Illinois. Let's follow down link through
Speaker 5 00:09:22 Link through. This is the first time the student run club team has won the state championship. Since the regattas start in 2012, the Gold's typically goes to the university of Illinois, one of N U Cruz's biggest Riv. What's your favorite call to make,
Speaker 4 00:09:38 I guess I don't make this dream practice, but I guess the crush crush their souls in Chicago hollow. Now crush their souls. Now crush now crush. Now crush.
Speaker 5 00:09:49 Now five out of nine Northwestern boats won the AGAs marque events. The crew garnered. Most of their are points by winning the varsity men and women's eights and fours rowers in these boats. Each have one or a coxswain sits at the stern to steer the straightest course possible and motivate the boat to finish the race before it's competitors
Speaker 4 00:10:10 Open water with you, Chicago, let's get, say byebye to them. Bye bye.
Speaker 6 00:10:15 We showed just a little different caliber speed than the rest of the competition.
Speaker 5 00:10:20 This is 27 year old Colin Darden's first year coaching. And you crew the Midwest native rode throughout high school and graduated the university of Michigan in 2017, where he rode for four years. He attributes last weekend's success to the team's growing commitment to attend pro actors and pull harder workouts than ever before.
Speaker 6 00:10:40 I think, you know, the difference in this year between, uh, you know, this year and past years before I got here has just been, um, you know, giving the team a more challenging, um, you know, set of workouts and giving them the opportunity to rise to the occasion, right? It's just a matter of, you know, you can only pull the workouts that you're being assigned and, you know, you can only do the work that you're being given. And, um, you know, when this team was given the opportunity to work a little harder and, you know, get a little better results, uh, they rose to the, to the challenge.
Speaker 4 00:11:10 Two strokes are Andy and pickles. That's one, two on the front end,
Speaker 5 00:11:15 Senior Sarah pickles is the president of Northwestern crew. She says Darden's workouts has the team rowing almost double the number of meters that it would row during practice. When she was a freshman,
Speaker 7 00:11:26 This winter, we really built our endurance, a lot of steady states. So a lot of one hour pieces. Um,
Speaker 5 00:11:35 So you'd be on the rowing machine, the U for
Speaker 7 00:11:38 See, be on the, the I for an hour and every stroke. Right. You're trying to go as hard as you can. Um,
Speaker 5 00:11:46 Now, is that something that you did in the past or not really?
Speaker 7 00:11:50 Not, not for that long? No. Um, I'd say the longest study state I would do typically before this winter was like 30 minutes or 40 was long. And then this winter, we were having hour pieces and then on some Saturdays were like an hour 20
Speaker 5 00:12:09 Pickles won gold and the women's varsity four, just an hour later, again in the eight
Speaker 7 00:12:15 In pastor God's, maybe one boat would do well, um, at each race. And right, that was exciting at the time we were like, oh my God, this is great. But to all of a sudden have pretty much every single boat winning or right getting fourth or second, still placing really high, like whoa,
Speaker 4 00:12:38 Dry. It
Speaker 7 00:12:39 Was a really proud feeling. Just everyone in that boat, knowing that everyone gave it their all, we had, um, a novice rower in, in our boat. And I was just so happy for her
Speaker 4 00:12:53 Great job Catrina
Speaker 5 00:12:56 That novice rower was five, one Weinberg, freshman Catrina, Claude.
Speaker 8 00:13:01 I remember like hearing Luca just make all her calls, like the most aggressive I've ever heard her. And it was actually amazing. I was like, okay, we gotta go. We gotta go.
Speaker 5 00:13:12 <laugh> being the shortest member of women's team. Hasn't stopped her from being one of the fastest. Since joining last fall, Claude has competed in three regattas and she's medaled at every single one of them.
Speaker 8 00:13:24 I think just showing up at practice, putting in the work, just trying to figure out technique and stuff. Once we got back out, um, after winter, it was just a lot of, of like being able to wake up and show up to practice. And definitely just like having a bunch of people around me to just like support me, correct me, you know, all those good things.
Speaker 5 00:13:45 The Northwestern crew team will compete in the MidAmerica collegiate rowing association championships in Michigan on May 1st until then you can find them training on the north shore, a channel in Skoki from six to eight in the morning, six days a week, rain or shine finish for w Nur news I'm Angelina camp finish,
Speaker 4 00:14:05 Pull away. Now,
Speaker 3 00:14:08 What is a fun Tuesday night event in Evanston, where you can test your knowledge and get dinner with your friends answer Tribune night. I at Bob's pizza reporter, Katherine OUM put her trivia skills to the test this week.
Speaker 11 00:14:27 Tuesdays are the busiest night of the week at Bob's pizza in downtown Evanston said general manager, Mike KHI that's because Tuesdays are trivia nights where patrons compete for gift and free drinks
Speaker 9 00:14:38 Every week we're packed, uh, usually has to turn away, uh, a few dozen people, unfortunately, but, uh, it's our, it's our busiest dining room night and, uh, lot of
Speaker 11 00:14:48 Energy as an avid jeopardy fan and a former member of my high school's quiz ball team. I wanted to see what the hype was all about. So I recruited a group of friends to go play some trivia. We heard tables go quickly. So around five 30, my friend, Evie, and I showed up to secure our seats. When we first got there, it was next to empty. Classic rock was playing over the speakers and a few groups were dining or sitting at the bar. Not long after we sat down, though groups began to file in. So we're here at Bob's. It is about six 15. People are starting to file in. We got here around five 30 and it was pretty empty Evie. And I did some homework while we waited for trivia to start and we discussed our teams strategy for the night. What do you think your best subject is?
Speaker 13 00:15:34 I think, um, traditional French cooking techniques, ancient Rome project runway,
Speaker 11 00:15:43 Looking around the room. I saw plenty of other students working on laptops and reading books as they held down their tables
Speaker 11 00:15:53 By seven o'clock. The dining room is almost full and Hayashi was turning people away at the door. Okay. So it's about seven o'clock it's an hour before trivia is starting and things have definitely picked up in energy. The music is louder, less classic rock and people are really filling in. I, the soundtrack is from soft classic rock to loud nineties hip hop, and every table seemed to be gearing up for the main event around seven 15. The third member of our team showed up. Julia, what do you think your biggest contribution to the team is gonna be tonight?
Speaker 14 00:16:24 My science expertise, what's
Speaker 13 00:16:26 A buoy
Speaker 14 00:16:28 As a true or false value.
Speaker 11 00:16:30 Our team was looking strong so far through more. Teammates showed up around seven 30. What are you gonna contribute to the team?
Speaker 9 00:16:36 No, I think I'm just a generalist of a team. I have a lot of random knowledge. I think I can really contribute with my sports knowledge. Hopefully. Good
Speaker 11 00:16:43 Vibes. We ordered some pizza and did some practice questions before the round started, which country produces the most coffee in the
Speaker 13 00:16:50 World. Oh yeah.
Speaker 11 00:16:53 It's Brazil. Finally at 8:00 PM. It was time to get started. We
Speaker 12 00:16:57 Are playing bar trivia. It's we
Speaker 11 00:17:00 Prizes tonight. That's trivia moderator, Matt bird Bob's trivia is run by, go for entertainment in Aurora, Illinois, they provide all the questions except for the music round, which bird writes himself. The format of Bob's trivia is fixed for rounds of three questions and one tossup. Plus a round of 10 name, not tune questions. The first three questions in each round are traditional trivia questions and teams choose a point value for each one. For instance, in the first round, the options for point values were one, two and three points. The tossups are questions with numbers as the answers like
Speaker 12 00:17:32 How much money did the ice girls earn in 1998 enough for them to make it into the Guinness book of world records,
Speaker 11 00:17:40 The answer was 49 million and we were off by a lot after each question. There's a song that is supposed to give a hint at the answer like miss you much by Janet Jackson, which was a hint for a question with the answer, Mississippi, there's a 15 minute halftime and the event runs for about two and a half hours. The main rule of the game is that no phones are allowed.
Speaker 12 00:18:00 Put your cell phones away, put 'em in your pocket or upside down on the table. Right
Speaker 11 00:18:04 Before halftime was the song round. The host played clips of 10 songs that all something in common. The theme this week was mono artists like Adele, Shakira, and prince. By the end of halftime, we were losing steam, but we were still having fun. At this point, we were tied for 12 plays out of about 35 teams with 59 points. There were three more rounds of questions followed by a final jeopardy style round where teams could wager between zero and 40 points. This is the only question of the night where teams can lose points. Unfortunately, the final question was outside of our team's wheelhouse and age demographic
Speaker 12 00:18:43 Category is video games. The question in the original Pacman AADE game, what item is worth? 5,000 points. If eaten by tact, man,
Speaker 11 00:19:01 We had no idea. Star
Speaker 12 00:19:03 Could like a star. It could be like a,
Speaker 11 00:19:08 The answer was a key. We still finished strong though with 100 points, which landed us in eighth place. <laugh> we got eighth place. Yeah,
Speaker 12 00:19:17 We
Speaker 15 00:19:17 Got eighth place. I was really happy about that.
Speaker 11 00:19:19 I talked to bird on my way out. He said his favorite trivia question is which state is closest to Africa. The answer is Maine from Bob's and Evanson. I'm Katherine Odo, w N U R
Speaker 3 00:19:40 Moving on to arts and entertainment campus, local editor, Maria, Jim, and Agon and arts entertainment editor, Maria Kaman look into Rosa's new album, Moto mommy, and give us their thoughts.
Speaker 16 00:19:58 Mommy,
Speaker 17 00:20:05 Moto mommy, noun, a biker chick or a singer. Rosalia describes it an energy. If you've never heard of the word Tami, don't worry. I hadn't either, but the word will definitely be making its mark as it is the title of the third studio album of Spanish singer Rosa released on March 18th, 2022 by Columbia records. Tami is a 16 track experimental pop and Al Reggaton album. The album had its fair share of hype since singer Rosalia had not released an album since 2018 in the us Tami debuted at number 33 on the billboard hot 100 with 17,000 album units sold in its first week. The album also was number one in the top Latin pop album chart and had the largest opening week for a Latin pop album in the year 2022. I sat down with WN neuro News's campus, local editor, who also happens to be my friend Maria hum, to discuss our thoughts on the album and how we reacted to it.
Speaker 18 00:21:03 My expectations before the album came out were actually really bad. Like I thought, I don't know, Rosa, the way that she's going as an artist is a lot of auto tune and different things like that. I was just not very excited for this album. And then specifically when she dropped, um, chicken teki I was like, girl, kiss up a Sando what are we doing?
Speaker 19 00:21:25 HERI lives in my nightmare.
Speaker 1 00:21:37 <laugh>
Speaker 18 00:21:38 And then I saw the like track list and things like that. I was like, uh, I'm not sure I'm too excited for this album, but you know, you have to give it a chance. So I, when it dropped, I actually listened it through and I was pleasantly surprised. There are some gems, there are also not so much gems, but I definitely enjoyed my time listening to it. And now there are some songs that I do play and I'll show my friends and they're like, like, what is this? Like super excited. Um, so yeah,
Speaker 19 00:22:09 She's doing something very experimental mm-hmm <affirmative>. So I think that a lot of people really like the songs where she kind of goes back to her roots, like with the flamenco, like SA and like
Speaker 18 00:22:21 That's my favorite Hundred percent reminds me of like what I kind of fell in love with her music. So was like one of my Fs. And then, um, there was like other ones that she has.
Speaker 19 00:22:33 What's your least favorite song on the album?
Speaker 18 00:22:37 I say hand time. I don't know. Like, it sounds very melodic and super nice and very like, oh cool. But then like hear the lyrics and I'm just like, no ride bike, like that's not oh like that. So I think that was my least favorite
Speaker 19 00:23:04 Mm-hmm <affirmative> so speaking of what are your favorite songs from the album?
Speaker 18 00:23:09 I got you. I wrote a list. The lady get on list says number one, for sure. I like south Sal's very, I don't know. Exciting. Like people will kind of just like vibe to it.
Speaker 1 00:23:30 So, so, so, so,
Speaker 18 00:23:40 And then, oh my God, my favorite Mo mommy, like, okay. Ferell is on this track, right? We know that his producer tag are those four beats in the beginning, but Mo mommy, you'll just like be standing here just like doing homework and you'll be like, look at mommy, Mo mommy, what the mommy, what the mommy, like, it is the best thing in the world. And I just, I don't know. I've been stuck in my head right now.
Speaker 19 00:24:02 I remember like texting you when I, I heard it for the first time, like through being like, oh my God, this is actually like, not terrible.
Speaker 18 00:24:11 Yeah. Because we were just teased. Okay. That's also another, another conversation she teased with like the weirdest lyrics and the songs that are like, weren't the best on the album. Yeah. And it got conversation happening, right? Like it got people to be like, uh, uh, like got people. Cause people love to hate things. Right. They love to hate songs. They love to hate artists, but then it gets you listening and then you're like, wait a second. Your impression was incorrect. So I don't know. I think, I think it was very effective for Rosalia, but I would definitely love for her to go back to her, her roots, her Flaco roots. Cause I think that's what made her so different now it's like super auto tune and like she's tapping into different genres, you know that, you know what I mean? So
Speaker 19 00:24:57 I agree. I think that it was very smart of her because I remember listening to seeing the chicken, that yucky music video and being like, I hate this so much. I hated so much, so much. I'm not listening to this album. And then I did because I wanted to see if all of them were bad and then they weren't. So it was like, oh, okay. That's nice.
Speaker 18 00:25:16 Oh, I think another thing that I really enjoyed from this album was her collaboration with the weekend, um, to hear him sing in Spanish and like do it pretty well. I was pleasantly shock,
Speaker 20 00:25:31 Smile, farm. I know I get it.
Speaker 18 00:25:38 I think it's something that we haven't heard from the weekend. I really did help him as well to kind of tap into that, that market. And then also she collaborated with O Keisha. I love
Speaker 19 00:25:45 Her. I
Speaker 18 00:25:46 Love, yeah. I would love to see more collapsed on her end because again, with Farrell producing Tami, having the weekend and PHA on the album, I think that there's, she can really tap into that in future projects.
Speaker 17 00:26:00 Although the album has costed fair share of controversy since Sal's a Spanish artist placed in the Latin category, despite not being Latina herself of Tami has been a trail blazer in the development of new experimental sound for the Reggaton and Latin pop genre this week, Rosa, she will be going on the Tami world tour across Europe, north America and Latin America from July to December of this year, tickets will be going on sale today for w news. This is Maria Manami
Speaker 1 00:26:28 Tami money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money.
Speaker 3 00:26:40 Tonight, we have a special presidential edition of state of the end union reporter. Margo Amal gives us a rundown of the election
Speaker 21 00:26:49 On April six On April 16th, Weinberg Jr. Jason Hael Meer and Susy sophomore Donovan Cusick won the associated student government presidential election with were 70% of the vote. Jason and Donovan ran against Weinberg Jr. David grow and Weinberg sophomore Camilla Vincent today on state of the end union WNU R's news segment about ASG. We will provide an overview of how this election went down and what to expect for the future Made sophomore. Maya Pandy was one of two moderators of the ASG presidential debate on April 13th, between contenders, Jason and Donovan against David and Camilla. Maya says a few moments stuck out to her during the debate that she believes underline the key moments of this year's election.
Speaker 22 00:27:41 I think actually student groups, student activism played a big role in the debate. Both of the candidates were sort of on the same page about putting student groups and being in touch with student activists. But I think the main difference there was that David grow and Camilla license, the grow license plate kept discussing how they would want to listen to student groups by like sending out some sort of survey. And for like a lot of things like abolishing university police and N U C C demands, they were talking about looking into making sure that the majority of students want that and sort of the 51%, um, on that point, particularly Jason Heckel Donvan Cusick the he QIC slate. Um, we're talking about how we don't need to send out a survey because students, particularly students of color have already made it clear that they don't feel safe with university police on campus. So I think that was like one of the big tension points. Another thing that came up was Greek life. So there was talk of how much Greek life presence should there be an ASG cuz ag abolished its Greek life seats. There's also a lot of discussion about how much power does ASG actually have and how much visibility it has in as an organization and the feasibility of different slates demands.
Speaker 21 00:28:55 Another important piece of the election, the violations on April 10th, David and Camilla had their campaign suspended for 12 hours from Sunday to Monday due to violating ASG policy. The candidate started promoting themselves on Instagram, under Gross's name during the pre-campaign period, and then rebranded that page as a campaign account, no one is allowed to formally campaign or declare their candidacy during the pre campaigning period, especially considering that slates are still collecting the signatures needed to officially get on the ballot. During that time, this led them Toure. Their first strike.
Speaker 22 00:29:25 It's been a little bit of a journey. Um, and at least, I mean, as the election was crazy last year, the slates kept dropping out. But as far as I've covered issue, like I've never quite seen anything like this.
Speaker 21 00:29:37 And then the situation intensified within just a few days, the Grove Vincent slate racked up two more election violations. According to ASG policy, if a campaign has three strikes, they get disqualified from the election. One of those two strikes occurred due to a lack of respect, which both teams actually ended up getting it started when Vincent's reported discrimination and harassment in social media posts against her identity to ASG. She then is she to report to the office of equity saying them screenshot of social media posts that contained offensive references to her Latinx identity. The commission did not find these posts to be violations of election guidelines. However, they did end up issuing strikes for both parties due to a lack of mutual respect, largely triggered by general social media behavior, election commission chair, Joe Galey said it's as hardening to see a, of this happening to the daily Northwestern.
Speaker 21 00:30:23 The other strike was a case of defamation, which the Hegel IER QSA campaign alleged against the gross Vincent's campaign regarding the same social media identity post debacle, the election commission initially ruled that the same post was not defamation. However, they ended up reversing this choice after the Hegel IRA CSA campaign appealed this decision to the rules committee. However, the gross Vincent's campaign successfully challenged one of the three strikes against them, allowing them to stay in the race. They successfully challenged the lack of mutual respect, strike Jason and Donovan. Now elected though, wanna move past these violations.
Speaker 9 00:30:52 It, it happened, it was in the past. You know, I think we made, I made mistakes and I, I feel like it's just more important that we just like focus more on like the future and like what stem is done. The election is over. Like it's a clear contestants. I think people are tired of hearing about the election and the election commission in strikes and the two slaves. I think it's just, it's probably just more important that we probably should just move on and just focus on P on like platform and policy cuz that's what students really care about in the end, I think.
Speaker 21 00:31:21 But the impact of social media can still not be underscored.
Speaker 22 00:31:24 I think it's all to say that it's just become a bit of a social media election, which makes sense. And I think in some ways that's good. Like I think the debate got traction on social media and that was exciting because we saw people engaging with a student government election. So that's really cool to see, but I think also like with candidates on social, like sort of working on their own engagement, they're tweeting from their personal accounts, but now that's a campaign account. It's been really interesting to see how that falls under the purview of election policy.
Speaker 21 00:31:54 Jason says he wants to be more conscious of his social media presence moving forward.
Speaker 9 00:31:58 And just like now that we're elected, I'll probably take a step back from that. Probably just focus more on the actual like ASG Twitter, or just like actual stuff in ASG. I think now that you know, I'm, you know, I've represented of, of the students. I think it's more important that I'm more conscious of what I say. Um, the internet I probably should have been before that, but just, you know, digital folk print is a thing and I wanna make sure that like everything that I say is like representative of something that I believe in that students. And I'm not like I wouldn't be like afraid to show students
Speaker 21 00:32:32 Another consideration in the election was how political views would impact their standings. If elected David, for example, has participated in college, Republicans
Speaker 22 00:32:41 Grow was sort of like I have these personal political affiliations, but they won't affect at all. Like I'm in, I'm in college Republicans, but that's not what this campaign's about. And Hegel Maros, like I am in all these groups like I'm in FMO I'm in AZA. Um, I've protested on campus like that is affecting how <affirmative> were approaching this campaign because they do have like the first pillar they sort of rolled out in their first, most public pillar was all about supporting students of marginalized identities.
Speaker 21 00:33:09 I was also curious how Jason and Donvan planned to reach out to students who did not vote only around 24% of the undergraduate student body cast ballot.
Speaker 9 00:33:17 There was like a, a slight uptick in turn out compared to last year. But like still 24 is a pretty dis moment number. We wanna have that position where like a liaison or like a external affairs or like a someone's job is just reaching out to a student groups on campus. So like we're really gonna be spending like reaching student groups, not just on the campaign trail, but like right, our entire like administration, like, and continually getting feedback and checking in and like making that like we're advocating and having policies and platform that like aligns with what they want.
Speaker 21 00:33:45 And at this time next year, what should students expect to have been accomplished? Jason and Donovan said they wanna have expanded ASGs connection and communication to the student body through social media and attending club meetings have uplifted and marginalized voices have provided PPE for students have tracked the effectiveness of Greek life reforms and articulated concerns to admin. All of this will be with the help of their cabinet, of course, which they're currently working on establishing, ultimately, according to Maya, Jason Donovan and Megan, this election matters.
Speaker 22 00:34:11 These students who are elected will have the year of administrators like they meet with administrators regularly and being able to talk to people at this campus that not many other students can means a lot. So when they say they're going to listen to students and listen to student groups, that sounds vague, but also like it could mean something. If they're gonna bring that stuff into their meetings with high level people at Northwestern, the fact that we will have an incoming president, Rebecca bla replacing president Mor Shapiro, that's gonna be an enormous source of change. And I, I don't know what her style might be going into this, how she relates to how she will relate to the Associa government. And I know that a lot of the roles of the president and vice president will be meeting with the administration
Speaker 21 00:35:00 That was Megan Liebowitz and Nadel C and news director, reporter and anchor at Northwestern news network. Megan was the second moderator of the debate. Jason and Donovan certainly felt this too.
Speaker 23 00:35:09 Ultimately I want to improve the lives experiences of the individuals in the community, in which I'm a part of. And right now that's Northwestern. The people who work here, the people that interact with campus and the university on a daily basis,
Speaker 9 00:35:24 It's mostly be for the students. I guess that's what we're gonna be continuing and like uplifting and prioritizing, I guess, the entire year
Speaker 21 00:35:37 Reporting for w N your news. I'm, Marmal
Speaker 3 00:35:42 A look at the weather for tonight. There's a small craft advisory. So be careful of the strong winds. Tomorrow's weather is looking much better with sun and a high of 81. That's all for w N R news at 6:00 PM. For more news updates and reports. Follow us on Twitter at w Nur news. You can listen to these and other stories of the day on our website, w nur.news that's w nur.news. Find us on apple podcast, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Our producer today is Seger gray, and our reporters are Angelina compel, Maria AMAG, and Katherine OUM from all of us here at w N U R news I'm PABA. Thanks for listening. Catch our next newscast on Monday, April 25th at 6:00 PM. Now back to schedule programming.
