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On one hand, it made me feel special and kind of distinguished. On the other hand, it was kind of shocking
I think that there needs to be a more consistent effort to have dialogues around diversity
I’m already kind of used to be in situations where I am the only black person around.
I wasn’t going to determine my college choice simply based on the number of black people who were here.
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Natalie Friedman Artists, be smart about music apps
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Behind the numbers: Black enrollment hit a record-low 87 students in NU’s class of 2012, but the number of black students has increased in each class since. Two years after a controversial blackface incident on campus, some students say the increase is not indicative of a more inclusive community.
Black enrollment up, but issues remain In Focus By Safiya Merchant
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This week marks the two-year anniversary of Northwestern’s blackface incident, when two students used blackface in their
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When University President Morton Schapiro and Provost Dan Linzer unveil Northwestern’s strategic plan Nov. 1, Schapiro’s two signature fields of scholarship — higher education and economics — will meet. And if Schapiro is lucky, they’ll hit it off. After two years of planning, revising and soliciting input from the Northwestern community, Schapiro and Linzer are beginning the extensive process of courting the academic and economic market; attempting to translate the
University’s prospective 10-year design into donations and, ultimately, implementation. “(The plan) seems to be compelling,” Schapiro said. ”I’m doing 30 dinners with the University’s most loyal friends and supporters ... My job now is to sell.” The pitch will be a plan Linzer said has the potential to ultimately “change the culture” at NU, merging pre-professional and liberalarts mentalities as well as the distinct undergraduate and graduate interests inherent to a university reliant on research dollars. Within Linzer’s overarching goal of streamlining the NU identity, sources
say the plan could include more residential housing, an increase in aid for international students, expansion of NU’s international partnerships and campuses and a focus on co-curricular undergraduate education. The challenge in the planning, Linzer said, was preempting community members to think about the schools’ collective, rather than individual, goals. Even once the plan is presented next week, there is no guarantee the ideas included will ultimately be realized. Schapiro said though the plan is more “strategic” in See PLAN, page 5
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mentality held by a multitude of people at NU.” In the wake of the incident, the University hosted a forum to address the history of blackface. Students at the forum voiced additional concerns, including racial profiling, and newly inaugurated University President
Morton Schapiro pledged to create a more inclusive campus environment. Two years later, despite increases in minority enrollment, Lewis and other black members of the NU community said they See RACERELATIONS, page 5
NU’s strategic plan aims to NWMC satisfied unify, shape school’s identity with ComEd bill By Katherine Driessen
With Thompson and Jaeschke gone, NU basketball presses on.
Halloween costumes, igniting a campus-wide controversy and triggering a discussion about race relations at NU. About a week after the incident, then-Weinberg sophomore Kellyn Lewis wrote in a letter
to The Daily that the episode reflected a troubling racial climate on campus. “Images like these not only serve to dehumanize all members of the black community at NU and abroad," he wrote, "but it points to the lack of respect for one’s peers and illuminates a
about income inequality 12:15 to 1 p.m. Friday at the Kellogg School of Management’s Allen Center, 2169 Campus Drive. Goldberg said MoveOn participants will likely join other protesters along nearby Sheridan Road. Other demonstrators appearing Friday will represent Occupy Northwestern, Occupy Chicago and Occupy Evanston, according to their respective spokespeople and Facebook postings. MoveOn members have also been encouraged to participate in Friday night’s Occupy Evanston protest outside the downtown Chase Bank, Goldberg said. Cantor was slated to deliver a similar speech last week at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School but backed out after Occupy protesters and other progressive activists gathered outside the venue.
The more than 500 members of the Illinois 9th District MoveOn Council have been notified of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s on-campus speech Friday, the progressive group’s local leader confirmed Thursday. MoveOn regional coordinator Larry Goldberg said there are “already a number of emails going around” among similar-minded groups and his members will only add to that growing protest. However, Friday’s mobilization is not an official MoveOn event, he added. “We want to show a presence against what Cantor stands for,” Goldberg said. The No.On: 2 Republican in 2011 the House — Patrick Svitek Output October 25, 1:58 will PM speak High-Resolution PDF - PRINT READY
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Evanston mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl joined other northwest suburban mayors and council members Wednesday on a trip to Springfield to lobby for better storm response from electric company Commonwealth Edison. Tisdahl and other representatives from the Northwest Municipal Conference initially arrived to lobby against SB 1652, which would allow ComEd to raise rates in order to pay for a project to build new “smart” power grids in the state. However, an 11th-hour agreement between ComEd and the NWMC finalized Wednesday night led the NWMC to withdraw its opposition to the bill and instead endorse a position of neutrality. “We initially wanted the bill to have language that would address the storm response,” city spokesperson Eric Palmer said. “There were major power outages during the storms this summer, and we really wanted that to be addressed in the language of the bill.” Ultimately, both chambers passed the bill Wednesday with enough votes to override Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn’s veto, which he issued Sept. 12. “The consumers of Illinois
are deeply disappointed today in the General Assembly’s action to give Commonwealth Edison and Ameren guaranteed annual rate increases for each of the next 10 years, and so am I,” the governor said in a prepared statement his office issued Wednesday afternoon. A ComEd spokesperson said Thursday only two people in the company were authorized to discuss this “sensitive issue,” and both were unavailable for comment. State Sen. Jeff Schoenberg (D-Evanston) voted against the bill. Shiva Mohsenzadeh, his chief of staff, said Schoenberg is a strong opponent of raising electricity prices on consumers. “The state senator has historically not been supportive of rate hikes and has voted against them because ComEd was not investing the money into upgrading and updating its infrastructure,” Mohsenzadeh said. State Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston) broke with her colleagues and voted in favor of the bill after learning about a late breakthrough in negotiations between ComEd and the NWMC. “I spoke with Mayor Tisdahl, and the deal was that unless ComEd came to an agreement See SPRINGFIELD, page 6
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