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Over 100 apply for student leader stipends By Shane Mckeon
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Associated Student Government received 110 applications for its new Student Engagement stipend, a fund that gives money to students with financial need so they can commit more time to pursuing leadership positions on campus. Erik Zorn, who chairs the committee overseeing the application process, said the committee expected only 50 students to apply for one of 20 available $500 stipends. ASG allocated $10,000 last spring for the stipend fund. Zorn, a Weinberg senior, said at least three committee members will read each application. The committee will then rank the 110 applicants based on merit and submit that list to the Center for Student Involvement. The office will review the list based on information about the students’ financial needs from the Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid. The 20 students selected will hear from CSI near the end of the quarter, Zorn said. Applicants responded to three essay questions: how their involvement shapes campus culture, what their involvement means to them
and how a stipend will make their involvement more manageable. Zorn said the committee’s main focus is to “stretch the $10,000 to be the most impactful on campus,” and that it may select a student who is less involved in campus activities over a more-involved student if the stipend can help the former participate more. “If the stipend isn’t necessarily going to change your involvement that much,” Zorn said, “then the stipend might be better used for someone who may be working less hours, but the stipend will be able to achieve greater things within their work.” He also said ASG will look to expand the program in the future, including soliciting funding from alumni. “It certainly shows that there was a lot of demand for this program and that it’s necessary,” Zorn said. “We’re certainly going to be looking into how to expand the program and increase the number of stipends we give out.” Weinberg sophomore Jourdan Dorrell, who is a member of the committee and has held a work-study job, said she hopes the program will aid both low-income students and help wealthier students understand the
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MARCHING IN MEMORY A group of Evanston and Chicago community members march along The Lakefill on Saturday afternoon. The crowd gathered for a commemoration of the Sand Creek Massacre held by the Native American and Indigenous Students Alliance.
NAISA hosts remembrance of Sand Creek Massacre Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment. Hosted by the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance, the commemoration also prompted the community to acknowledge NU co-founder John Evans’ role in the massacre. It was part of NAISA’s programming to observe Native American Heritage Month. Lorenzo Gudino, a Medill sophomore who helped plan the event, said he wanted its impact to reach the NU administration, which received recommendations
from the Native American Outreach and Inclusion Task Force this month on how to better integrate Native American culture and history into the University. “I hope President Schapiro gets to see how this plays out,” Gudino told The Daily. “Hopefully the provost takes those recommendations that were provided by the task force and tries to implement them appropriately.”
By Jeanne kuang
EPA lauds city for sustainability efforts
About 30 Northwestern students from the DivestNU movement demonstrated Friday morning before a Board of Trustees meeting, asking the University to divest its endowment money from the coal industry. “We want solutions, not coal pollution,” they chanted outside the Allen Center, where the meeting was scheduled to take place. Members of DivestNU, a movement calling for the University to re-invest endowment money in more environmentally sustainable ventures, met with part of the Board of Trustees’ Investment Subcommittee on Thursday. According to DivestNU, chief investment officer Will McLean has calculated that $17 million of NU’s $8 billion endowment goes toward the coal industry. Organizer Scott Brown, a Medill sophomore, said the meeting allowed DivestNU to show the subcommittee that students support the issue. “They haven’t made any commitments yet,” said Brown, a former Daily staffer. “We talked about a lot of important points and a lot of their concerns in terms of the economics of divestment. … They’re going to bring some of the points we made back to the next meeting.” On Friday, students marched from
Evanston has been named one of more than 60 communities nationwide that have met a series of sustainability standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The city announced Thursday it has been designated a Green Power Community for its extensive use of green energy. “Evanston has always been a leader in protecting the environment and supporting sustainable living,” Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said in a news release. “Earning the EPA’s Green Power Community designation is truly a testament to the collective efforts of our residents, businesses and staff, and is another step forward in achieving the City’s emissions-reduction goals.” Of the total electricity used annually by the city’s government, businesses and residents collectively, more than 30 percent comes from green electricity, which comes from renewable sources such as wind water and solar power. The city uses 228 million kilowatt-hours of green electricity each year. Although this is a significant percentage, this is just a first step in getting an increasing number of people in the community to use renewable energy, said John Nieuwsma, the vice president of Citizens’ Greener Evanston. The organization’s goal is to have 100 percent of the city’s energy come from
renewable sources, he said. “We, moving forward, want to get more and more residents into that program, which will most save them money and also the environment,” Nieuwsma told The Daily on Friday. The city purchases much of its green electricity through the Community Choice Electricity Aggregation program, a partnership among local governments to provide its communities with less expensive energy. At a meeting in April, City Council approved a three-year contract with Homefield Energy to provide 100 percent renewable energy to residents and small businesses through the program. Nieuwsma said the city still has a way to go in reaching its sustainability goals, which include reducing the city’s carbon emissions by 20 percent in 2016. Aldermen approved the plan in May, after the city had reduced emissions in 2012 by 13 percent from 2005 levels. Working with the city, the aggregation program will continue to find other ways to provide the community with renewable sources of energy, including working with transportation, Nieuwsma said. “We cannot backslide on any of the gains we’ve already achieved,” he said. “Climate change, it’s real, it’s happening now. It’s probably the biggest threat that faces civilization.” In March, Evanston was the second city nationwide to be awarded a 4-STAR Community Rating for its sustainable initiatives, such as recycling and energy efficiency.
» See stipend, page 6
By ALICE YIN
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Members and friends of the Native American community held a remembrance of the Sand Creek Massacre at Northwestern on Saturday. The event was organized a week before the 150th anniversary of the tragedy, in which U.S. soldiers brutally attacked a
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COAL CASH OUT Students march from Norris University Center to the Allen Center, where a Board of Trustees meeting took place Friday. The demonstration was organized by DivestNU to ask Northwestern to divest its endowment funds from the coal industry.
Norris University Center to the Allen Center, waving signs and a banner listing student groups that support the movement. Groups that signed in support include Associated Student Government, EcoReps, Green House, the Taiwanese American Students Club, Real Food at NU, In Our Nature, Wild Roots and the NU Summit on Sustainability. “This is one of the biggest issues of
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our generation,” said Weinberg junior Lucy Blumberg, who participated in the demonstration. Blumberg said although she found a “positive attitude” at the demonstration, she wished more students were aware of the issue. “There’s a general apathy when it comes to climate issues on this campus,” » See COAL, page 6
» See REMEMBRANCE, page 6
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