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NU developing new courses for diversity proposal By JEANNE KUANG
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ACCESSING CARE Panelist Dr. Avery Hart, from the Erie Family Health Center, speaks to a group of around 20 people Tuesday at the Evanston Public Library. The three health officials discussed the local health resources available to the community.
Officials talk health care By JULIA JACOBS
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The Evanston Public Library hosted a panel Tuesday that focused on the growing amount of local care available and how the community can access it. The discussion was the first in a series organized by Hircules Health
Hub, a project that brings together a new conglomerate of community health organizations, said Northwestern global health lecturer Michael Diamond, who helped develop the project. The group will host talks related to public health in order to expand knowledge of information and available resources, he said. Titled “Evanston and Skokie: In Sickness and In Health,” the event consisted of a panel featuring Evonda
Thomas-Smith, director of the Evanston Health Department; Dr. Catherine Counard, director of the Skokie Health Department; and Dr. Avery Hart, chief medical officer of Erie Family Health Center. About 20 community members attended the event. In spring 2015, the Evanston and Skokie public libraries will both open health information resource desks at » See HEALTH, page 7
More than 18 months after the University Diversity Council proposed the Social Inequalities and Diversities requirement, two of the six Northwestern undergraduate schools have implemented the requirement in their curricula, while other schools are awaiting the creation of enough courses to consider it. The February 2013 proposal from the University Diversity Council’s Academics/Education working group asked the six NU schools to include Social Inequalities and Diversities as a distribution requirement by Fall Quarter 2015. If approved by faculty in all six schools, it would be the first University-wide undergraduate academic requirement. The academic component of the requirement would mandate students take a course designed to achieve four learning outcomes, including demonstrating the ability to think critically about social inequalities and the diversity of social, political, cultural, economic and scientific experiences. The requirement also includes an extracurricular component involving Sustained Dialogue discussions.
In an interview with The Daily in February, Dona Cordero, former chair of the University Diversity Council, said the requirement’s goal is “to interact with people who have different life experiences, who come from different cultural backgrounds in order to one, work together in the academic environment, but two, to work together in the larger society.” The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications implemented the requirement for its freshman class this academic year, Medill Prof. Patti Wolter said in an email to The Daily. Wolter, chair of Medill’s curriculum committee, said faculty are developing more courses that would fit the new requirement. The School of Education and Social Policy adopted the academic requirement in Spring 2013 for students who entered the school that fall, Susan Olson, SESP assistant dean of student affairs, told The Daily in February. The requirement’s approval in Weinberg is pending the hiring of a new dean. Weinberg faculty are developing courses that would fit the potential requirement, said Mary Finn, associate dean for undergraduate academic » See DIVERSITY, page 7
Ski Trip to Colo. raises NU, city to offer ultra highdrug policy questions speed Internet to researchers By EMILY CHIN
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Marijuana use will be prohibited on Ski Trip despite the drug’s legal status in Colorado, a Northwestern administrator told The Daily. The trip, which is sold out for the first time this year, will take more than 900 students to Copper Mountain in Colorado, a state where marijuana use is legal for people over the age of 21. However, the Student Handbook’s stance on whether use of the drug is permitted on the trip remains unclear. The Student Handbook states the use of illegal drugs is prohibited “except as expressly permitted by law.” The handbook also states in a separate passage that marijuana usage “at University-related activities is and shall remain prohibited.” Despite the drug’s legality in Colorado, NU’s drug policies “are enforced no matter where students are,” said Tara Sullivan, director of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution. “We expect that if (students) are on a school-sponsored trip, that they are not participating in drug use,” Sullivan said. Ski Trip President Harris Goodison
said the group is not funded by the University, but it is an Associated Student Government-recognized organization. Tickets were sold through Norris Box Office, and students must sign a University waiver before participating on the trip. Students for Sensible Drug Policy co-president Daniel Hurwitz said students should be allowed to use marijuana on Ski Trip if they are over 21. He said smoking marijuana in Colorado is safer than in other states because the state can regulate the drug. “I feel that if students are going to be in Colorado and they follow the law in Colorado, they have the right to do that,” the Weinberg senior said. “I feel that individuals have the right to decide whether they’re going to use drugs or not.” A Weinberg sophomore going on the trip, who asked to remain anonymous, agrees that marijuana use during the trip should be allowed. “I’d say if it’s ‘expressly permitted,’ Northwestern students on Ski Trip should be allowed to smoke with no consequences if they’re over 21,” she said. Goodison, a Weinberg senior, said when students are on the trip, they are » See MARIJUANA, page 7
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By PAIGE LESKIN
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Northwestern and Evanston officials are working to use their $1 million state grant to bring ultra high-speed Internet to University researchers by July 2015. Gov. Pat Quinn announced the awarding of the grant to Evanston in January 2013 to be used to turn the city into a “gigabit community” that would appeal to entrepreneurs. Made possible through the Illinois Gigabit Communities Challenge, the money must be used by July 2015 to help make Evanston a more innovative community, Jose Calderon, the city’s division manager of information technology, told The Daily on Tuesday. “We want to keep and retain businesses here, so I think that’s part of the draw of implementing gigabit technology,” Calderon said. “Not just continuing businesses here, but also attracting businesses from Chicago as well.” The access points to the high-speed Internet service will be installed throughout the NU campus and the city’s Chicago-Main area to create an “innovation corridor,” Calderon said. The Illinois Gigabit Communities Challenge aims to increase employment
opportunities in the future and encourage technological development throughout the state, ensuring businesses stay in Illinois, according the the effort’s site. NU officials are currently working to establish the locations throughout campus where the ethernet access cords will be available, NU Information Technology director Wendy Woodward said. Woodward said staff hopes to finalize the access locations by the end of December in order to start the installation Winter Quarter. Although the majority of NU students and staff will not have access to the super fast Internet, the placement will be based on maximizing the University’s resources, Woodward said. The University community already has access to a network that has great speed and will not benefit as much as researchers will from the improved service, she said. “We need to deploy the technology in a way that brings the technology to a specific researcher,” she said. “This is taking a significant step for our researchers and providing them with speeds they need to accomplish the important research.” The gigabit ports in Evanston will be centered in the area of Main Street and Chicago Avenue, where the city wants to create a “high-tech hub” for businesses and residents, Calderon said. City officials are in the process of
speaking with owners and tenants of the buildings to ensure they’ll sign up for the Internet service, making the access ports in the area worthwhile, Calderon said. “The project is not going to go anywhere,” he said. “It’s not going to succeed unless we have residents actually sign up for the service.” City Council voted at its meeting on Sept. 22 for city manager Wally Bobkiewicz to negotiate with the network provider onShore Networks, which is leading the implementation of the project. Since the approval, the firm has started to speak to building tenants to sell to them the Internet service, Bobkiewicz said in an email. The specific locations that will be able to take advantage of the faster network include 900 Chicago Ave., 515 Main St., 737 Chicago Ave and the Chicago-Main mixed-use project coming to the intersection — an area home to creative space and startups, Calderon said. He estimates about 40 percent of the project is complete. Of the $1 million that Evanston received, about $100,000 of the grant will have been used by the end of 2014, the city’s budget manager Ashley Porta told The Daily in an email. The remaining $900,000 will carry over to 2015 to finish the the project. pl@u.northwestern.edu
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