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Portrait of a Ward
BALANCING TWO COMMUNITIES 7th Ward looks for common ground between university, city
Daniel Tian/Daily Senior Staffer
WARD UNITED Northwestern University sits in Evanston’s 7th Ward, the city’s northeastern region bordering Wilmette and Lake Michigan. City and University officials said they are constantly working toward a strong relationship between the two.
By TORI LATHAM
daily senior staffer @latham_tori
Evanston’s 7th Ward could be its own city. “I used to joke that the 7th Ward could almost secede from Evanston because we’ve got a hospital, a university, a really vibrant business district, schools,
transportation,” said former 7th Ward alderman Jane Grover. But there’s just one problem. “It wouldn’t survive. It’s too much part of this larger community,” Grover said. The 7th Ward lies in the northeast corner of Evanston, bordering Wilmette and encompassing Northwestern’s campus. Many residents say the ward, while not home to the city’s downtown district, has all the benefits of that area with a more
suburban, neighborhood feel. Because many residents said they feel enmeshed in the 7th Ward community, they actively seek solutions to problems large and small in the ward. Residents said these problems range from tension caused by University decisions to an apparent lack of diversity. And although many said they care deeply about their own ward, they also highlighted that the issues they
experience in the 7th Ward are problems that exist in all of Evanston — not just their geographic region.
A renewed partnership
Grover, a 7th Ward resident since 1994, said one of the ward’s most valuable assets is the University, an opinion not all residents share. However, many residents acknowledged that the University and the city have made great strides in improving
their relationship over the past few years. Historically, the connection between the University and city has been characterized as tense. In 2012, The Princeton Review listed the town-gown relationship between NU and Evanston as the 4th “most strained” in the country. By 2015, however, they no longer made that list. Residents say the problems » See 7TH WARD, page 6
Bay Area program Anderson .Paak set to play Dillo launches in winter By EMILY CHIN
daily senior staffer @emchin24
By KELLI NGUYEN
the daily northwestern @kellipnguyen
Engineers and journalists will come together to study the intersection of design and media innovation as part of a new quarter-long, San Franciscobased immersion program beginning next Winter Quarter. The Bay Area Immersion Experience will send 24 students — 12 from the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications and 12 from the McCormick School of Engineering — to San Francisco to explore the Bay Area’s entrepreneurial culture. “San Francisco and the Silicon Valley (are) the center of the technologyinnovation culture in the United States and probably the world,” said Medill Prof. Owen Youngman, a program faculty member. Students who are accepted will take four courses designed to incorporate skills in both journalism and design innovation as well as participate in cocurricular activities. The courses and programs are still under faculty development but will be
specifically formulated to benefit both engineers and journalists, said Bruce Ankenman, co-director of the Segal Design Institute and a program coordinator. All engineering and journalism students will take the courses together, he added. “The goal is to have them work together on topics that are of interest to both, have them work together to see the benefits of the other discipline, and to do it in the Bay Area (and) Silicon Valley area where they can take advantage of the tech ecosystem,” Ankenman said. Two courses will focus on media and the other two on design. One of the design courses will be a practicum, in which students will work together to apply the design process to specific challenges posed by clients. “The way journalists and engineers think are different, and exposing them each to different varieties of linear and nonlinear thinking — different ways of problem solving — just broadens their ability to pick the right solution to the problem when they encounter one,” Youngman said. Two fall courses will be recommended as preparatory courses for the » See SAN FRANCISCO, page 6
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Hip-hop and R&B artist Anderson .Paak and his band, The Free Nationals, will perform at Dillo Day this year, Mayfest announced Monday night. A genre-blending artist, .Paak released his first album, “O.B.E. Vol. 1,” in 2012 under the name Breezy Lovejoy, and gained more popularity with six features on Dr. Dre’s 2015 album, “Compton.” He released his latest album, “Malibu,” in January. Mayfest director of concerts Yumiko Mannarelli said .Paak’s high energy made him an attractive artist for the festival. “We did a lot of research on artists that we thought would be relevant and on the rise, and he struck us as someone who is extremely relevant,” the Communication junior said. “He’s just blowing up, and we thought that would be the perfect vibe for a Dillo Day performance.” .Paak’s March performance at South by Southwest, an annual music, film and interactive festival held in Austin, Texas, also boosted his popularity, Mannarelli said. He was also recently profiled by GQ and appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” “It was such good news to see that he was so well-received at that festival,” she said. “We caught him at a good time
before he would be out of our reach as a potential artist.” .Paak will also perform with a live band, Mayfest spokeswoman Elisa O’Neal said. “When you think about the value of bringing all the musicians to the stage, rather than just someone who’s playing recorded tracks, you get the live-band effect, which is part of the appeal of a music festival,” the SESP senior said. O’Neal, who has known .Paak’s work
for a few years, said she’s excited to see him perform on the Lakefill. “We’re going to have a performer who is very, very dynamic, who can really command the stage and bring together a lot of spunk and rock and rap and all these different influences, but can also have a more classic rock kind of thing with a lot of funk and jazz behind him,” she said. Dillo Day will take place May 21. emilychin2018@u.northwestern.edu
Source: Anderson .Paak on Facebook
SOUL MAN Anderson .Paak performs on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in February. Mayfest announced Monday night that the R&B artist would perform at Dillo Day in May.
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