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Massage rules sent for revisions City Council asks for changes to language of ordinance By NORA SHELLY
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SEX EDUCATION Electra Rayne juggles life as a Northwestern student, left, and a burgeoning adult entertainer. The Weinberg sophomore is involved in this year’s Sex Week during which she will speak about her experience as a woman in the sex industry.
NU sophomore balances academics, porn career By MARIANA ALFARO
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Electra Rayne doesn’t want to be called a porn star. “I don’t like using the word ‘porn star’ because I’m really new to the scene and I haven’t had a lot of recognition yet,” the Weinberg sophomore said. “It is not that the word bothers me, like when other people call me a porn star, I don’t care; it’s because I don’t feel entitled to that word.” Rayne, 19, who requested to be only identified by her stage name for privacy reasons,
aspires to be a forensic scientist someday — but the day she turned 18 she started looking for work in the adult entertainment industry. She said she had wanted to enter the industry for a long time, and last summer she began her foray into the business as a nude model for artists. Her first modeling gig, she said, happened almost by accident. “I heard about this modeling website and so I made a profile there and figured nothing would really happen and I woke up with 61 messages and emails from the site,” she said. “So I just started booking freelance jobs.” After last summer, Rayne said the demanding travel the job entailed — most of the adult film industry is based in California, and she
is from the Chicago area — made it hard for her to keep shooting material, which she had been doing up to four times a week. Rayne started as a full-time student at Northwestern this fall. Today, she balances majoring in physics and linguistics, a work-study job, and an adult film and modeling career, shooting stills in the Chicago area “once every other week.” Both of the times she has flown to California to shoot films in the last few months have been during Reading Periods, a time she said she finds very convenient. “As a freelancer I can just work around my » See RAYNE, page 6
City Council moved to send an ordinance addressing massage establishments in Evanston back to committee for a rewrite Monday night, citing concerns with language. The ordinance, introduced to council on March 28, would require massage establishments to license with the city, meet various building and operational requirements and prohibit sexual activity in the massage establishment. The ordinance received complaints from massage establishment owners and massage therapists. In response to the large amount of complaints that raised concerns about the wording of the ordinance, Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) moved to send the ordinance to be reworked. “We wanted to look again at some of the language,” Holmes said. “It was never the intent to harm anyone’s business, that is not what it is about. We’re just educating ourselves better to give you something better.” In addition to requiring massage therapists to register with the city, the original ordinance would require massage establishments to post their prices in the reception area, provide separate changing rooms for male and female employees and prohibit rooms in which massages are performed to have a locking » See MASSAGE, page 6
Admins outnumber students at third dialogue event By KELLI NGUYEN
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Administrators more than doubled students at an open community dialogue at Norris University Center on Monday night, setting off a conversation about how to improve communication between students and administrators. The third installment of the community dialogue series focused on University operations and was attended by 10 students and more than 20 University administrators. Students and administrators sat side-by-side to discuss the details behind a new socially responsible investment committee to advise University President Morton Schapiro and Chief Investment Officer Will McLean on NU’s investments. The group also talked about transparency with University Police, how NU names buildings and the renewing of Sodexo employee contracts.
Following the discussion, the group discussed how to increase student participation in events such as the dialogue. Students said announcements for the dialogue were lost in the shuffle — buried in mass listserv emails. “I hear students saying the administration isn’t reaching out, and then I go and look for it (and) it’s staring me straight in the face — it is there,” SESP senior Chris Harlow said. “I’m just frustrated over and over with hearing those sort of things and feeling like all of us aren’t listening to each other.” Student attendance was similarly low at the second community dialogue, which was held in March. Of the 50 people who attended the event at Sargent Dining Hall, most were administrators or faculty. Kelly Schaefer, assistant vice president for student engagement, said administrators are working to overcome the communication gap between them and students. “We’re in institutional, administrative spaces and students are on social media, word-of-mouth types
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of spaces,” Schaefer said. “If you’ve got ideas for how we can coexist in spaces together … we are definitely interested in the balance with that.” Medill junior Scott Brown, a former Daily staffer, said administrators can seem unapproachable at times to the average student. “When I saw the email I thought it would be (Executive) Vice President (Nim) Chinniah,” Brown said. “I walked in this room and there’s every administrator, and President (Morton) Schapiro is over there, and I think that my gut reaction in general at Northwestern to high-level administrators is intimidation.” Chinniah said administrators are eager to engage with students and events like these let students see who runs their University. “We’re all open to engage with you,” Chinniah said. “One of the ways for us to overcome that intimidation factor is to continue to be in dialogue with each other, so find us, track us down. » See DIALOGUE, page 6
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TALKING POINTS Philip Harris, Northwestern’s vice president and general counsel, talks about the naming of spaces on campus during the third community dialogue held in Norris University Center.
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