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Tuesday, November 4, 2013
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Denver finds Evans at fault
Election Day
By Jeanne kuang
daily senior staffer @jeannekuang
the break at South Mid-Quads Hall and North Mid-Quads Hall. D’Arienzo said housing all students who are staying over break in SMQ and NMQ allows the University to consolidate resources, such as energy usage, resident assistants and University Police staffing. “If we let everyone stay in their original dorms it’s inconvenient,” D’Arienzo said. “You’d let one person stay in the building themselves. This is an opportunity to pool resources.” Last year, international students stayed in the Foster-Walker Complex. Prior to the 2013-14 school year, NU did not offer any student housing over Winter Break. All other residential students were required to evacuate their rooms by 12 p.m. on Dec. 14, the Saturday after finals, and to return no earlier than noon on Jan. 4, the Saturday before Winter Quarter. D’Arienzo said that this year, 160 bed spaces are available, in either single or double rooms. The total cost of a staying for
The University of Denver’s John Evans Study Committee released a report Monday that finds Evans, the founder of both DU and Northwestern, “deeply culpable” in the Sand Creek Massacre, an 1864 event in which American soldiers killed about 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho people. The DU report disagrees “strongly” with portions of NU’s own report on the topic, released in May, which concluded Evans was not directly involved in the planning of the massacre and would have opposed the attack. The NU report also said the University has ignored Evans’ “significant moral failures,” including his refusal to criticize the attack. Evans, who was governor and superintendent of Indian affairs in the Colorado Territory where the massacre occurred, has been the subject of scrutiny from committees at both universities since 2013. NU’s John Evans Study Committee was appointed by Provost Dan Linzer in February 2013 after students pushed the University to address its history. An NU faculty member then contacted a DU colleague asking about similar efforts at the school. DU faculty members then formed their own study committee with the support of the university’s administration, according to the DU report. DU’s report, which focused on events leading up to the massacre, concluded that Evans shared responsibility because he failed to promote peace, claimed Native American tribes were planning to fight with white settlers in the region and directly influenced conditions in the territory that made attacks on Native Americans appear justified. Nancy Wadsworth, chair of the committee and a DU political science professor, told The Daily the DU committee “defined culpability in a broader sense whereas Northwestern defined culpability in a narrow instrumental sense” that focused more on whether Evans knew about the attack or co-conspired in it with Col. John Chivington, the military official who planned and carried out the massacre. “If we pull back to the broader question of who was the top official, in the top civil and political authority in the territory,” Wadsworth said, “what were the patterns of action and decisions that led up to the massacre? We believe there’s more than enough evidence to demonstrate that John Evans shared culpability for the fact that the massacre occurred.” The DU report disagreed with the NU report’s claims that Evans would have opposed the massacre if he had known it was being planned. The DU
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Graphic by Ghichong Lew/The Daily Northwestern Source: Cook County Clerk’s office
‘Voter Van’ to take students to polling stations
NU Votes, in collaboration with other campus offices, will be providing transportation to city voting locations Tuesday to give members of the Northwestern community the opportunity to vote in the midterm elections. For the first time this year, Illinois is allowing same-day voter registration. Students who have not yet registered or have registered in their hometowns but have not voted via absentee ballot will be able to vote in the election. The free shuttle, dubbed the “Voter Van,” is organized by NU Votes, the Center for Civic Engagement and the Center for Student Involvement. It is part of NU Votes’ effort to mobilize voters and encourage political participation. The van will leave from Norris University Center about every 20 minutes from
10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday. For students who have already registered, voting will be available at both Parkes Hall and Patten Gym. Same-day voter registration will take place at the Civic Center. The idea for the van stemmed fwrom an NU Votes meeting where the team talked about voting barriers for college students. “We’re very excited about the doors opened by same-day voter registration,” Weinberg senior Larry Svabek, an NU Votes co-coordinator, said in a news release. “But the Civic Center can be a far walk, and we realized that a lot of students don’t even know where it is.” Burgwell Howard, assistant vice president of student engagement, sent an email Monday afternoon from NU votes to the NU community encouraging students, faculty and staff to vote and to take advantage of the free shuttle services. The email specified what information voters must bring to the » See van, page 7
More than 5K turn out to vote early in midterm election
As Evanston residents and Northwestern students head to the polls Tuesday, more than 5,000 people have already submitted their votes in the general election. Voters registered in Evanston were able to submit their votes in a variety of elections, including the Illinois gubernatorial race, through early voting at the Civic Center held from Oct. 20 to Nov. 2. The total number of Evanston early voters for the 2014 general election was more than 4,000 votes less than the number of early ballots cast in the 2012 presidential election. The 2014 early voter turnout was about 2,000 votes more than the previous midterm election in 2010. Comparing voting numbers between 2012 and 2014 is difficult, as there are always significantly more voters who turn out when a president is being elected, said Jim Scalzitti, the Cook County clerk’s office deputy communications director.
More Evanston voters turned out to cast their ballots early in 2014 than in the previous gubernatorial election four years ago when Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn was elected. Quinn first took office in 2009 after former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was removed from office. Only about 3,500 people came out for early voting in 2010, according to the Cook County clerk’s office. Early voting is an important part of ensuring votes are cast, by giving prospective voters more opportunities and flexibility, Scalzitti said. When general voting opens at 6 a.m. Tuesday, city voters will have more than 30 locations to choose from to vote. Illinois residents will be able to, for the first time, register to vote at certain locations on Tuesday when they show up to cast a ballot. People will vote in a variety of elections, not only in prominent races, such as the state governor and U.S. and state General Assembly members, but also for candidates for positions in Cook County and the state, such as the secretary of state » See voting, page 7
Res Services revamps break housing By alice yin
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Sean Su/Daily Senior Staffer
holiday housing South Mid-Quads Hall will reopen this Winter Break. All students living on campus can stay at either SMQ or North Mid-Quads Hall over the break for the first time.
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All undergraduate students living on campus can now apply to stay in Winter Break housing for the 2014-15 academic year. This is the first time Northwestern is offering housing to all residential students during the break. The plan was announced over the summer. Last year, Residential Services only allowed international students to stay over Winter Break. “In conversations with other members of the Residential Services team, it was seen as a way to provide more of a service to all residential students,” said Mark D’Arienzo, senior associate director of University Housing Administration. Applications are open until Nov. 28 and students can request to stay for any amount of time on campus during Winter Break. Students are approved for a spot on a firstcome, first-serve basis and will stay during
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