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Fifth annual event celebrates culture with music, dancing By RUIXIN ZHANG and SASHA BAUMGARTNER

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’Cats clinch fourth straight conference championship By JONAH MCCLURE and ISAIAH STEINBERG

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When graduate student midfielder Annabel Child secured the ground ball, five seconds remained in overtime of the Big Ten Championship. She ran toward the top of the 8-meter fan as the seconds painfully ticked away. As Child slid to the ground, she slotted a shot into the back of the net between two Maryland defenders, clinching Northwestern’s fourth consecutive Big Ten Tournament title. The Wildcats (15-3, 7-1 Big Ten) defeated the Terrapins (16-3,

6-2 Big Ten) 8-7 at U-M Lacrosse Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Sunday afternoon. The win marks NU’s seventh straight victory over Maryland. Seventy seconds before Child’s game-winner, graduate student Jenika Cuocco corralled her 18th save, matching her career high. Cuocco was named Most Outstanding Player of the tournament after posting a 65.9% save percentage, recording 27 saves and allowing 14 goals in NU’s two games. “We leaned on each other,” Cuocco said postgame. “We knew that the team that was going to stay the most composed

was going to win the game, and we leaned into that. We knew that we were in the driver’s seat.” NU led 7-3 early in the fourth quarter, just 11 minutes away from putting the contest on ice, until Maryland rattled off four unanswered goals to level the game. During the run, the Terrapins won four of the five draws and outdrew the ’Cats 10-6 in the game. It marked just the second time in the last 12 games NU lost the draw — the first of which also came against Maryland, on April 9. The Terrapins had possession of the ball with a chance to win

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the game and ran the clock down to less than 30 seconds. In an aggressive play, redshirt sophomore midfielder Madison Smith ran toward Terrapins attacker Jordyn Yong-Yu Huang/The Daily Northwestern

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Nor thwestern’s Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance hosted its fifth annual Spring Pow Wow at Welsh-Ryan Arena on Sunday, drawing about 1,500 attendees from both Indigenous and nonIndigenous communities. “It is an opportunity for us to come together, to celebrate our cultures, traditions and relationships with our fellow students and Indigenous peoples across the nation,” Weinberg senior Kaya Payton, cochair of the Spring Pow Wow Planning Committee, said during opening remarks. Following an acknowledgement that Northwestern sits on the traditional homelands of the Council of the Three Fires, the Pow Wow commenced with the Grand Entry. Led by army veterans, the ceremony included dancers, Pow Wow royalty and NAISA committee members. Led by the head dancer, the performers lined up based on age and dance category. Pow Wow attendee Kayla Christjohn, a member of the

Oneida tribe, said that the gathering represented a celebration of love and happiness for her. “Once you hear the heartbeat of the drum, everyone comes together to sing,” she said. “You can see lifelong friends and family that you haven’t seen in a while.” Christjohn said her son was a drummer for Indian Community School Eagle Singers, one of the four drum groups at the Pow Wow, playing music for dancing. Throughout the event, attendees were invited onto the arena to dance to the beat of the drums. This included spot dancing, where members who ended up at a specific location when the music stopped won $10. Students and a teacher from the Indian Community School in Franklin, Wisconsin, a school that provides education to Native children in grade school, also performed various songs and dances. Carol Muskin (SESP ‘83, TGS ’91), a volunteer at the Gichigami in Ind igenous Nations Museum, said she has attended NAISA’s Pow Wow every year and enjoys actively participating in the festivities. “I really love coming and dancing and seeing the

» See POW WOW, page 11

City extends aid to Churches offer sanctuary from ICE displaced tenants Faith groups spearhead protests, support immigrant communities Former Wesley residents to receive $63K in subsidies By TIA BETHKE

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In a unanimous vote Monday night, City Council decided to extend aid to displaced tenants of three Wesley Avenue apartment buildings. The city will allocate $63,229.50 in rental subsidies from the City Emergency Assistance program and the Affordable Housing Fund to provide up to 12 months of additional support.

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“We have put them in a situation that’s our responsibility to take care of them for at least one more year, ” Ald. Matt Rodgers (8th) said. Two years ago, the city deemed 2014, 2018 and 2024 Wesley Ave. at risk of collapsing and immediately relocated 18 households consisting of 32 people to an extendedstay accommodation funded by the city. Though Ald. Krissie Harris (2nd) ultimately voted in favor of the extended aid, she was hesitant to give her support. She suggested that continued recipients of the funds

» See COUNCIL, page 10

By ALLISON KUESTER

assistant city editor

W hen First Congregational Church of Evanston first found out about the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the city, church members hung up signs on the outside walls of the building saying “ICE cannot enter here,” and “Immigrants are welcome, ICE is not.” The church wanted to ensure that immigrants in the community were aware that it would stand with them and protect them, Jason Coulter, the church’s senior pastor,

said. “This is a congregation that could be seen as a sanctuary, as a safe space, as an ally and as someone who will take risks to defend others,” Coulter said. “We think that is part of the way we live our faith in the public square, by practicing our values in real time.” During Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s federal immigration crackdown targeting undocumented immigrants in the Chicago area, some Evanston churches announced that their faith communities could serve as sanctuaries for immigrants. In January 2025, Lake Street Church of Evanston, which

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Evanston clergy members established an emergency phone contact line to notify residents about the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

Coulter described as “the real leaders on this movement,” declared itself a sanctuary by providing short-term emergency shelter to immigrants

in need. The move came despite an announcement from the

» See CHURCH, page 11