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Dance Marathon set for 44th year 30-hour event to support Cradles for Crayons By GABBY BIRENBAUM
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On Friday, over 1,000 Northwestern students will pour into a tent on the East Lawn of Norris University Center to dance for 30 hours. The 44th annual Northwestern University Dance Marathon will raise money for Cradles to Crayons, an organization that provides supplies for low-income kids in the Chicago area. The Evanston Community Foundation is NUDM’s secondary beneficiary. Though NUDM is an annual event, executive cochair Daniel Nussbaum said the difference in beneficiaries from year to year impacts the event and tone of the fundraiser. “We have a new beneficiary every year, (so) the whole atmosphere of the tent changes,” the Weinberg senior told The Daily. Nussbaum also said there are many surprises planned
that will take place throughout the 30 hours. The different cause and small changes it inspires will make NUDM 2018 a unique experience from prior dance marathons, he said. Sofia Kuta, NUDM marketing and media co-chair, said NUDM aimed to mirror Cradles to Crayons’ mission in its broader message for the year. “This year, we’re really trying to focus on the idea of people supporting each other and coming together to have them reach their full potential,” the Communication senior told The Daily. “Cradles to Crayons helps to do this with kids by providing them (with) everyday essentials. In doing that, they’re able to set kids up for success in helping them to focus and confidently pursue their dreams and ambitions.” Nussbaum, Kuta and NUDM marketing and media co-chair Nicole Bankowski also offered both practical and deeper advice to firstyear dancers. On the practical side, Nussbaum said all dancers should remember to bring deodorant, while Bankowski recommended dancers get adequate sleep in the days leading up to NUDM. » See NUDM, page 7
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Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) discusses the removal of arrest records from the city’s website at a Human Services Committee meeting on Monday. The records are available on the Evanston Police Department’s page on the website.
City examines arrest record policy Information could temporarily come down from official website By SAMANTHA HANDLER
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Aldermen discussed temporarily taking down arrest records from the city’s website at Monday’s Human Services Committee meeting, after an alderman noted the records are currently
searchable online. Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) requested a review of the city’s posting of the Daily Crime Bulletins and the length of time they should be made available to the public. Arrest records are open to the public unless they regard an ongoing or active investigation, according to the memo, but are supposed to be blocked from
search engines. Fleming said she searched several names from 2015 and 2016 bulletins, and the documents came up in her search. Noting Evanston already publishes the bulletins in emails and provides them to the media, Fleming said she would like the city to rethink the current system. She added that many of those
people may have had the arrests expunged or pled guilty, and that there is no way to tell the case’s resolution from the bulletins. She also expressed concern that the searchability of bulletins could be harmful for someone searching for a job. “I’m a big believer in once a » See RECORDS, page 7
Latinx group seeks to tackle self-care Seminars look at SANA SANA designed to build community, address mental health
Community leaders also talk white privilege
By ALAN PEREZ
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Latinx students can heal together over pan dulce and hot chocolate in a space established last month by Counseling and Psychological Services. SANA SANA, which meets twice a month in the Women’s Center, is open to all Latinxidentifying students. The name is a reference to a Spanish song widely used by the Latinx community as a cultural custom for healing. Rosemary Magaña and Stephanie Carrera, licensed clinical professional counselors for CAPS, said they created the space so students can heal from the struggles they face as Latinx students. “Right now we’re living in a time — politically, socioeconomically, socioculturally, even on campus — where there are points of authority telling Latinx students or Latinx members of the population what to do and how to do it,” Carrera said. “This is an opportunity to gain some of that power back.” Carrera said the space will give students influence over their own lives and challenge the “culture of perfectionism.”
racial inequality By ADRIAN WAN
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The Women’s Center at 2000 Sheridan Rd. Counseling and Psychological Services counselors started a healing space for Latinx students that meets twice a month at the Women’s Center.
Students won’t be held to expectations, she said, and can use the space when and how they need. In addition to the political climate, the two also pointed to the feeling of exclusion that Latinx and other students from marginalized backgrounds experience at elite institutions. The
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difficulty of navigating a predominantly white college can be exhausting, Magaña said. Latinx students also face barriers to self care, such as pressure from family expectations and emotional violence inflicted by prejudice and microaggressions, she said. Overall, identifying as Latinx
can feel “lonely, very different (and) very othering,” Magaña said. The healing space will give students a chance to share their experiences and temporarily forget the stress, violence and pressure in their lives, she said. » See SANA, page 7
Organizers of a seminar series aimed at deconstructing white privilege and racial inequality introduced a curriculum and objectives for future discussion at an event Monday evening. About 80 Evanston residents and members of faith-based organizations attended the first part of the month-long seminar series Transforming White Privilege, organized by Unitarian Church Evanston, Beth Emet Synagogue, Grace Lutheran Church and Lake Street Church of Evanston. At the event, held at the Unitarian Church, attendees shared their interpretation and personal experiences related to white privilege. Elaine Robbins-Harris, a professional learning and development consultant, and Rina Campbell, a social educator and trainer, coordinated the event. Campbell said the bias
toward particular social groups was not an “innate characteristic” of human beings, but that it originated from people’s unwillingness to interact with those who have different backgrounds. The lack of understanding what other social groups value limits people’s ability to empathize and can often “escalate into prejudice and discrimination,” she added. Consequently, Campbell said, the curriculum of the seminar was designed to help participants identify and reflect upon existing racial disparities, which are reinforced by institutions — ranging from healthcare system to media outlets — that neglect the need of underprivileged groups. “When all these layers of bias, prejudice and discrimination go unchecked, they become structural,” Campbell said. “It becomes cemented in our institutions … and it churns out inequality.” Pointing to the case in which a 60-year-old Evanston man mistaken for an armed robbery suspect was forcibly handcuffed by Evanston Police Department officers, the seminar’s facilitator, Susan Carlton, said she believed » See INEQUALITY, page 7
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