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YWCA holds exhibit
Art featured to address race as social construct
By STEPHANIE KELLY
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Neerhof ’s campaign manager Mick Paskiewicz released a statement accusing Drury of responding with a lawsuit anytime he is challenged. “Scott Drury filed this lawsuit because he knows he’s an embattled incumbent,” Paskiewicz said. “Our campaign will carry We on with our posiknow ads like tive mesthis damage sage that people’s has gained traction reputations. throughout That’s why the district, and we do you’re not not and will not tell out- allowed to do it. side groups State Rep. Scott what to do Drury, and not to D-Highwood do.” Neerhof ’s advertisements state that Drury has plans to enact legislation that would take $7 million in state funding away from local schools, which Drury claims as false. He says in the suit that Neerhof ’s false portrayal of his position makes the sitting representative look immoral
The YWCA Evanston/North Shore has partnered with the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center to bring an exhibit about race and its origins to the museum starting Sunday. The exhibit, called RACE: Are We So Different?, focuses on the scientific, historic and cultural perspectives of race, said Eileen Hogan Heineman, the director of racial justice programs at the YWCA. The exhibit will last until Jan. 25. The American Anthropological Association, in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota, created and first put on the exhibit in 2007. The exhibit looks at race as a social construct, Heineman said. Since its creation, the exhibit has been traveling the country to different interested communities. Heineman said the YWCA staff learned about the exhibit almost four years ago. They were interested in it because of the conversation it brought up and because the exhibit lined up with their mission as an organization, she said. “We really wanted to broaden the conversation about the impact of race and create partnerships in the community that would allow people to work on dismantling the effects that race has on our society,” Heineman said. When the YWCA staff spoke to the curators at the Science Museum of Minnesota, the curators told them that the IHMEC was also interested in bringing the exhibit to the area. So, the YWCA and the IHMEC partnered for the project. Because of the high demand across the country for the exhibit, it was not able to come to the area until now, Heineman said. Since staff began making arrangements for the exhibit to come, many events occurred around the world that make people question why race exists, she said. “Fortunately, (the exhibit) is a great vehicle for thinking about what those events mean,” Heineman said. “Why does one group of people experiencing an event view it very differently than another group of people?” This year, Northwestern chose “Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do” for its One Book One Northwestern project to go along with the exhibit, said Nancy Cunniff, the One Book One Northwestern project coordinator. NU is serving as a sponsor for
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STAR SWEARS IN Speaker Noah Star swears in a new senator Wednesday at Associated Student Government’s second meeting of the quarter. Senate passed legislation regarding the Wild Ideas Fund during the meeting.
ASG outlines Wild Ideas Fund By OLIVIA EXSTRUM
daily senior staffer @olivesocean
Associated Student Government passed legislation Wednesday laying out monetary guidelines
Evanston woman dies after being hit by car
A woman who was struck by a car Tuesday night has died due to accidentrelated injuries, police said. The Evanston woman, 60, was crossing the intersection of Oak Avenue and Lake Street at about 7 p.m. on Tuesday when she was hit by a car, police said. The Evanston fire department responded and found her unresponsive at the scene. Paramedics transported her in critical condition to Evanston Hospital, where she died Wednesday morning due to the injuries she had sustained in the accident, police said. Police have not filed any citations or charges against the driver of the car at this time, authorities said. Police said they saw no indication the driver, a 56-year-old woman from Skokie, was impaired or distracted at the time of the accident. The driver did not see the Evanston woman until she had hit her, police said. The accident is still under investigation to determine if the pedestrian was outside of the crosswalk at the time of the crash, police said. Police asked people via Twitter on Tuesday night to avoid the area around Oak Avenue and Lake Street as authorities investigated the accident. — Paige Leskin
for the Wild Ideas Fund, a pool of money that allows students and student groups to request funding for their projects. Funding requests less than $150 will be evaluated by the future Wild Ideas Fund committee without Senate approval. Requests between $150 and $500 will be presented to Senate without a
vote, and requests of more than $500 will be sent to Senate for a vote. The Wild Ideas Fund committee will see student and student group pitches for money on a rolling, case-by-case basis. Unlike the Senate » See SENATE, page 10
State rep sues challenger By PAIGE LESKIN
daily senior staffer @paigeleskin
State Rep. Scott Drury (D-Highwood) is suing his opponent in the upcoming election — an Evanston doctor — and others, claiming they advertised and published defamatory and false information about him to the public. Dr. Mark Neerhof and his campaign team distributed a television commercial and mailed out advertisements that misrepresented Drury’s stance on political issues, the state assemblyman said. “We filed a lawsuit to make sure that right is done in this situation,” Drury told The Daily. “We know ads like this damage people’s reputations. That’s why you’re not allowed to do it.” The suit, filed Sept. 6 with the clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, comes less than a month before the general election on Nov. 4 when voters will choose if Drury will return to his spot in the Illinois General Assembly. In the lawsuit, Drury calls for injunctive relief not only against Neerhof and his campaign, Neerhof
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for Illinois, but also against Liberty Principles PAC, the group who sponsored the mailer, and the company’s chairman Dan Proft (Weinberg ’94). The suit also names Comcast Corporation as a defendant for its role in allowing the advertisement to air on television. Drury alleges in the suit that the defendants wrongfully stated his position on an Illinois Senate bill, known as the School Funding Reform Act of 2014, that would cut state funding to the public schools in his voting district. “With defendant Neerhof trailing in the polls and supporting views unpopular with voters in the legislative district defendant Neerhof seeks to represent, defendants … disseminated false information about plaintiff and sitting State Representative Scott R. Drury,” the lawsuit says. The suit accuses Neerhof of circulating advertisements that have statements that are defamatory and present Drury in a false light. Neerhof and his campaign used Comcast’s cable network to televise the commercials and used the Liberty Principles PAC, ran by radio personality Dan Proft, to sponsor advertisements that Neerhof distributed in the mail to prospective voters, according to the lawsuit.
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