Seen Not Heard: Part One

Welcome to part one of the Seen Not Heard series. For the past three years, Impact had been a subsidiary of Cru at Northwestern. But on a national level, the two groups work in partnership with one another. Unlike Impact, whose members are black, Cru’s members are mostly white. After growing tensions, those ties ended in summer 2019 when the two chapters parted ways on Northwestern’s campus. In the months before, meetings between members of the groups would go awry, students would feel manipulated by full-time staff members, and communication would go from strained to nearly nonexistent.