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Schakowsky talks hate speech in U.S. Congresswoman joins speakers at ETHS for event By SPENCER ALLAN
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Stacey Abrams speaks at Cahn Auditorium. Abrams discussed the importance of the 2020 Census and her plan for free and fair elections.
Stacey Abrams calls on students NU College Democrats hosts the former gubernatorial candidate By JAMES POLLARD
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Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said though she knows she’s not the governor of Georgia, she still “won the election” — and now she needs the help of college Democrats across the country to ensure future elections are free and fair. “Leadership matters,” Abrams
said on Thursday to a sold-out crowd at Cahn Auditorium. “Speaking truth to power matters … 2020 matters. We are a nation in peril. We are a nation in crisis. And you are the solution.” Abrams, Northwestern University College Democrats’ fall speaker, discussed her plans to “recreate” American democracy. She lost her 2018 gubernatorial bid to Republican Brian Kemp — who would become the new governor — by less than two
Students struggle in Orgo sequence Some f ind alternatives to diff icult classes By ZINYA SALFITI
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The organic chemistry sequence offered at Northwestern — notorious among Northwestern students for its difficulty — has forced some students to resort to re-taking the course at other universities or taking it over the summer quarter to complete it. Organic chemistry at Northwestern is a three-quarter path that undergraduate students on the pre-med track or pursuing specific majors involving chemistry are required to take after completing or placing out of the general chemistry sequence. Fariha Ahmed completed the second semester of organic chemistry at Loyola University Chicago. The Weinberg junior said she dropped the sequence after one quarter at Northwestern because she was unsure of whether she was going to continue on the pre-med track.
Northwestern does not recognize organic chemistry credits from other colleges and universities, but Ahmed said she chose to complete the sequence at Loyola because her major — cognitive science — does not require Northwestern’s organic chemistry sequence credits. “The way it lined up was my first quarter at Northwestern covered everything they covered in Loyola for that one semester, with the exception of a couple of concepts here and there,” Ahmed said. She added that the third quarter of Northwestern’s sequence consists almost entirely of material beyond Loyola’s two-semester sequence, but because most medical schools require one year of organic chemistry, most students on Northwestern’s sequence complete the third quarter as well. Prof. Nathan Gianneschi is teaching the first course in the sequence this Fall Quarter. He said that although general chemistry feeds into organic chemistry, the type of learning required for organic chemistry differs from that of general chemistry, which students tend to be more familiar with. » See ORGO, page 6
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percentage points after the former Georgia Secretary of State wrongly purged over 340,000 voters from registration rolls. Motivated by her loss, the former Georgia House Minority Leader founded Fair Fight, an initiative dedicated to encouraging voter participation and educating people on their voting rights. As the first black woman to be nominated as a major party’s candidate for governor, Abrams
touted the “new playbook” her campaign used, which involved centering on communities of color and visiting all 159 counties in Georgia. That playbook resulted in the tripling of both Latinx and Asian Pacific Islander turnout rates and a 139 percent increase in youth turnout rates, Abrams said. White participation among Democrats in Georgia increased for the first » See ABRAMS, page 6
On Thursday night, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston), emphasized the dangers of hate speech locally and nationally. Schakowsky was one of four speakers at “Fighting Hate Speech in the United States,” an event sponsored by the Democratic Party of Evanston at Evanston Township High School. The speakers, including Schakowsky, saw President Donald Trump as a key factor for the rise of hate speech and hate groups in the United States. “President Trump is the proliferator of hate speech himself,” Schakowsky told The Daily. “He has excused not only hate speech but action.” Speaking alongside the congresswoman was Lecia Brooks of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Kelley Szany of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Dr. G. Kwesi Logan, a consultant for workplace diversity and culture. Brooks began the forum by discussing the hate groups her organization tracked. Thirty-one of those hate groups had been identified in Illinois, some of them part of the recent and rapid rise of white nationalist
groups in the United States. In 2018, the Southern Poverty Law Center recorded a 50 percent increase in the number of white nationalist groups in the United States. “Hate is in every state in the country,” Brooks said. “There were 1,020 active hate groups we identified.” Szany shifted focus, addressing global cases of hate speech, including the recent proliferation of hate speech directed toward Rohingya Muslims on Facebook. Logan, meanwhile, discussed his efforts to bring awareness of hate speech to the Evanston/ Skokie School District 65, after his son was the target of a racial slur. “Hateful language spoken by our children in District 65 is prevalent,” Logan said. “We have a problem at the staff level, we have a problem with our parents and we have a problem with our district.” Schakowsky rounded out the speakers by discussing her own motivations for pursuing legislation against hate speech, referencing a CNN article which she co-authored with U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Published after a public apology Omar gave for what were considered anti-Semitic remarks, the article reconciles her and Schakowsky in the fight against religious hate speech. » See DPOE, page 6
Evanston declared a “hipsturbia” PwC study names Evanston as prime example of hipster suburb By EVAN ROBINSON-JOHNSON daily senior staffer @sightsonwheels
A quick google search of the word “hipster” brings up almost exclusively images of a white men with well-groomed facial hair and flannel shirts. This is just one type of millennial stereotype, but a new study by the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers is using the term in conjunction with “suburbia” to describe cities, including Evanston, as “hipsturbias.” According to the report, Evanston is a prime example of this 2020 trend, with millennials increasingly choosing to “live, work, and play” in the northern Chicago suburb. Fountain Square epitomizes this balanced vibe and has been one of Evanston’s greatest successes, said Mayor Steve Hagerty, who gives the $6 million redesign credit for “reactivating” the city’s downtown district. Hagerty also said some of Evanston’s new coffee shops, like Newport Coffee House and Colectivo Coffee,
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Northwestern students Molly Liu and Irem Ozturan enjoy Colectivo smoothies in downtown Evanston’s vibrant Fountain Square. A recent PwC report listed Evanston’s vibrancy as an example of “hipsturbia”: a national trend of revitalized suburban centers.
have added to the city’s recent economic growth. According to the report, “hipsturbia” — a combination of “hipster” and “suburbia,” — links Evanston to other vibrant communities like Santa Clara, California, and Yonkers, New
York, which are known for their vibrant arts scene and balanced retail spaces. However, some say Evanston is too generic and expensive to be hipsturbia. Molly Liu, a Weinberg junior, said a city needs cheap spots with “$2 teas” and “artsy
venues” with conceptual themes to be considered a hipsturbia. Her $7 berry booster smoothie from Milwaukee-based chain Colectivo Coffee, she said, did not fit her qualifications. » See HIPSTURBIA, page 6
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