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SIGP receives record apps By Tyler Pager
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Students submitted a record 411 applications for the Summer Internship Grant Program this year. The program, which accepted applications until Tuesday night, is in its ninth year of existence and provides financial aid for students pursuing unpaid summer internships. Due to increased funding from alumni and the administration, Mark Presnell, executive director of Northwestern Career Advancement, said the program
is projected to increase grant amounts by $500, totaling $3,000 per student this year. It also plans to provide more total grants. “Our goal is to fully meet need,” Presnell said. “Our hope this year is to make this a process that really dramatically increases the number of awards given out.” The program, originally organized by Associated Student Government, Northwestern Alumni Association, Undergraduate Financial Aid and NCA, continues to receive an increasing number of alumni donations, grants and gifts, in addition to funding from the administration.
The program aims to select students demonstrating sufficient financial need and interest in a certain career path to receive compensation for living costs that might otherwise make internship opportunities impossible. In order to apply, students submitted three essays focusing on their career interests, their potential internships and their financial need, in addition to a resume. “The one thing that makes the application fantastic is that you don’t need to have a certain internship in mind when you actually apply, which means that that » See SIGP, page 10
ASG ballot has coal referendum By Tyler pager
daily senior staffer @tylerpager
This year’s Associated Student Government ballot includes a referendum asking students whether they believe Northwestern should divest from coal companies. Fossil Free NU, which sponsored the referendum, is looking to gauge student interest on the issue. Formerly known as DivestNU, the group has been calling on the Board of Trustees to remove the University’s investments in coal companies since 2012. This is the first ASG referendum in at least five years, said Christina Cilento, ASG’s vice president for sustainability. “Climate change is affecting everyone and it’s just getting worse,” said Natalie Ward, the head of communication for Fossil Free NU. “A vote for divestment will show the administration and the Board of Trustees that we really should do something to positively affect climate change.” Both ASG Senate and Faculty Senate passed resolutions in support of divesting from coal in 2013, Cilento said. Fossil Free NU met with a trustee during Fall Quarter and had a productive meeting, according to Cilento, who is the group’s head of public relations. However, Cilento said there was no decision about how the trustees would proceed. She said divestment makes sense “financially and morally.”
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The subject of next year’s selection for the One Book One Northwestern program is focused on the history of Native Americans, following a recommendation from the Native American Outreach and Inclusion Task Force. The task force released its report in November proposing a series of recommendations for NU to improve its relationship with Native American communities. The task force suggested NU select a book on genocide or colonialism for the One Book program. Next year’s book, “The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America” by Thomas King, examines the troubling relationship between whites and Native Americans throughout U.S. history. All incoming freshman students will receive a copy of the book, and there will be a series of programs next year centered around the book’s themes. “This is a very concrete step toward reconciliation, and it shows that this is something (administrators) are concerned about and is a priority of theirs,” said Forrest Bruce, co-president of the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance. “It’s really important to preface a student’s time on campus with the fact that Northwestern has had a terrible relationship with indigenous people.” The SESP junior said NAISA was asked to give feedback on the book choice after the committee had narrowed it down to two books. The book takes an in-depth look at Native Americans’ experiences since
Suit filed against State’s Attorney’s Office over FOIA
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ROCK THE VOTE Students march to a Board of Trustees meeting in November to ask NU to divest from the coal industry. Students can voice their opinions on coal divestment through an ASG referendum on this year’s ballot.
“We want to renew the test and see if students on campus still care about this issue,” the Weinberg sophomore said. “If the vote is in our favor, it would really show that look our students really care about. That would kind of put pressure on the Board of Trustees.” The referendum, which needs a simple majority to pass, was added to the ballot because Fossil Free NU obtained the needed 200 signatures, said Dana Leinbach, ASG’s elections commissioner said. “I think it’s really exciting that there is a referendum happening,” the Weinberg senior said. “It hasn’t been utilized
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in student government in a really long time.” Leinbach said only one referendum is allowed per quarter, and if this one passes, it is considered binding student opinion for two years. The results of the referendum will be posted on ASG’s website shortly after the polls close at 5 p.m. Students are also voting for ASG president and executive vice president. Weinberg junior Noah Star and McCormick junior Christina Kim are running against Medill junior Haley Hinkle and SESP junior Chris Harlow. tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu
The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office is being sued by a Chicago activist who claims it refused to comply with his request for documents under the Freedom of Information Act. The lawsuit was filed Thursday against the state’s attorney’s office on behalf of Freddy Martinez, an activist concerned with privacy and First Amendment issues who has previously sued the Chicago Police Department for similar reasons, according to a news release from Loevy & Loevy, a civil rights law firm, the firm representing Martinez. “A culture of secrecy leads to abuse,” Martinez said in the news release. “This lawsuit is a step toward understanding how evidence is gathered and whether the means by which it was obtained is being kept from the accused and the public.” Martinez filed a FOIA request with the state’s attorney’s office Dec. 31 for documents pertaining to the use of “stingray” spying equipment, according to the news
their first contact with white settlers, looking at how Native Americans have been depicted in pop culture and attempts at cultural assimilation. It also looks at present-day issues such as violence, stereotypes and failed treaties. “The One Book committee came up with what they said was a great book that is really going to provoke great discussion,” University President Morton Schapiro told The Daily in March. “I’m looking forward to reading it.” Medill Prof. Loren Ghiglione, the faculty chair of next year’s program, described the book as “history with humor, passion, perceptive analysis.” “It will raise questions about American history as it is learned in schools, possibly suggest a different narrative about the colonial experience, settlers and American Indians,” he said. “I hope it will help diminish our ignorance about American Indian experience and contribute to a discussion that will go well beyond this year.” In 2013, NU formed the John Evans Study Committee to investigate the role Evans, one of the University’s founders, played in the Sand Creek Massacre. More than 100 Cheyenne and Arapaho people were killed in the massacre, which occurred in the Colorado Territory during Evans’ time as governor. The committee concluded Evans was not directly involved in the massacre, but the University ignored his moral failures both before and after Sand Creek. The task force, which was formed in April 2014, made more than 50 recommendations including » See ONE BOOK, page 10 release. Stingray technology allows local police to obtain information from the public through the use of fake cell phone towers, Martinez’s attorney, Matthew Topic, told The Daily. “I hadn’t heard about this type of technology up until about a year ago,” Topic said. “It’s become a lot more prominent as people learn that law enforcement can use it to listen to the content of phone conversations, look at call logs, force software onto the device and get identification on the user.” In response to Martinez’s FOIA request, which asked for records related to the presentation of evidence attained by stingray technology, the state’s attorney’s office said they did not have to look for the records because it would have been “unduly burdensome,” Topic said. “There is no way this outweighs public interest,” Topic said. “There has been huge interest in disclosure of these types of documents, especially with the history of illegal surveillance by the Chicago Police Department.” The state’s attorney’s office had not responded to requests for comment as of Thursday night. — Tori Latham
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