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Greek leaders look to increase inclusivity By alice yin
the daily northwestern @alice__yin
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conservative conversation Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum speaks in Fisk Hall on Wednesday night. Santorum, who ran for president in 2012, spoke on American foreign policy.
Santorum talks national security
Haley Smith said she never thought that much about race until she walked into her first sorority recruitment event. The African-American Medill sophomore said there were few women of color in Norris University Center that day in Winter Quarter 2014, when she and hundreds of other students were split into potential new member groups for recruitment. “I remember looking around and feeling a bit intimidated,” Smith said. “It just made me more aware. Being in a whitemajority campus, you’re always aware you’re a minority.” However, Smith, now a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, said she is glad she joined Greek life and does not feel out of place. She said diversity in Greek life is a topic she is still figuring out. This month, Panhellenic Association is also reflecting on diversity and inclusion, with plans to add new positions and resources to its 12 sorority chapters. Impetus for change The initiatives were first introduced in
PHA president Frances Fu’s public apology regarding Kappa Kappa Gamma’s canceled “Jail N’ Bail” philanthropy event. In the statement, Fu asked the student body to forgive the Greek community for any harm caused by the event’s planned mock jail imagery, which students criticized online for being insensitive on socioeconomic and racial grounds. Letters to the Editor published in The Daily in response to “Jail N’ Bail” pointed out PHA and Interfraternity Council’s 71 percent white demographics, collected from a winter 2014 Student Affairs assessment. In contrast, Northwestern’s total undergraduate population was 54 percent white last academic year, according to the Office of Enrollment. Relative to their proportions to the NU student body, black students were the most underrepresented, followed by international students, then Asian and Pacific Islander students, then Latinos, which were almost equally represented. The PHA and IFC community as of Winter Quarter 2014 comprises about 35 percent of NU’s undergraduate population, according to the Student Affairs survey. About 2 percent of students are in the other two Greek councils for multicultural-interest fraternities and sororities. Smith said she is one of the few black
students in Theta and that it is “obvious I don’t look like a lot of the other girls in my chapter.” She said she realized during recruitment that most minority students don’t join PHA. “I think it matters,” Smith said. “Does it make me feel like I don’t belong? No. But it does make me feel like there could be more of an open discussion amongst all of us why that is.”
New initiatives In an interview Tuesday, Fu told The Daily that PHA is working to address diversity in its chapters. A memo distributed to all PHA presidents at a meeting Tuesday outlines a preliminary plan to establish a diversity and inclusion chair in each chapter. The chairs will be tasked with evaluating inclusivity in the chapters and their public relations. The document also encourages the diversity and inclusion chairs to work on aligning each chapter’s values with other organizations on campus. Though the recent controversy was centered around race and socioeconomic status, the memo addresses many different types of diversity, Fu said. It begins by defining diversity to include race, » See greek, page 7
Former U.S. senator draws bipartisan crowd for NUCR fall speaker event on Wednesday By Tyler Pager
daily senior staffer @tylerpager
Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum spoke Wednesday night to more than 200 people in Fisk Hall on how America must take leadership on national security issues. Santorum, a former Republican senator from Pennsylvania and 2012 U.S. presidential candidate, came to campus as College Republicans’ fall speaker. He outlined four key points for successful American foreign policy. He first discussed the importance a strong economy to support the nation’s military. He then emphasized the need for America to
regain its military strength, which in turn, would serve to deter threats from other countries and lead to peace. “We need to send out a signal to the world that we are strong, we are capable,” Santorum said. “We are in a situation that makes us much more vulnerable to foreign threats … We need to re-engage and better fund our military capability.” Santorum’s third point was the need to understand and clearly define threats that America faces, which he said both former President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama failed to do. For example, Santorum said, the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood and other similar acts of violence » See santorum, page 9
ASG disputes drug policy on Ski Trip By olivia exstrum
daily senior staffer @olivesocean
Two emergency resolutions raised at Senate passed Wednesday night, one challenging Northwestern’s policy on student marijuana use on Ski Trip and one condemning the overnight disappearance of a Students for Justice in Palestine banner. The banner resolution, proposed in response to the disappearance of
a banner about Palestinian displacement in Israel, passed after a lengthy debate. The marijuana resolution was proposed in response to the University’s ban on using the drug during Ski Trip, despite its legal status for people over 21 in Colorado. The resolution asked for Senate support to challenge the University’s policy. Weinberg senior Daniel Hurwitz, author of the resolution and » See senate, page 9
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FAMILY FEUD Sarkis Cafe, an Evanston restaurant, is located at 2632 Gross Point Road. Marla Cramin, the owner of Sarkis, filed a lawsuit against her brother saying he is claiming a false affiliation with the cafe in a new restaurant he’s planning to open.
City cafe owner sues brother By rebecca savransky daily senior staffer @beccasavransky
The owner of an Evanston cafe and her brother reached a tentative settlement agreement Wednesday in a Cook County court following a dispute over the opening of a new restaurant. Marla Cramin, the owner of Sarkis Cafe, 2632 Gross Point Road, filed suit against her brother, Scott Jaffe, last week for claiming a false
affiliation with her cafe in a new restaurant he’s planning to open in Highland Park. She said he is using the cafe’s concepts and signature dishes for his future restaurant, Order Up Diner. “He is trying to harness my goodwill and my name and reputation into something profitable for him without paying for the name or any of the other goodwill that comes with it,” she said. Cramin said Jaffe created a Facebook page where he posted pictures of himself in Sarkis’ T-shirts and
with the original Sarkis owner, Sarkis Tashjian, who opened the Evanston location in 1965. Jaffe posted on the Facebook page that his new restaurant will bring customers “old favorites,” according to the suit. Facebook users have also commented on the page making the connection between the two restaurants, saying, “Sarkis fave in HP!!! Welcome to HP,” according to the suit. “I’m not sure how you have an » See sarkis, page 9
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