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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Kellogg student Benjamin Codjoe found dead
Benjamin Codjoe, a 28-year-old Kellogg student, was found dead Friday morning in the McManus Living-Learning Center. Codjoe, a first-year student in the Kellogg School of Management, was found unresponsive in his residence hall room and pronounced dead. Codjoe had a previous medical condition and there were no signs of foul play, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. Dean Sally Blount sent an email Saturday to Kellogg community members notifying them of Codjoe’s death and extending her sympathies to his fiancee and family. “Ben was a fantastic student who cared deeply about the quality and integrity of our community,” she wrote. “He always had a giant smile on his face and we will greatly miss his energy and forward-looking attitude.” Codjoe was from Accra, Ghana. He was vice president for professional development
Affordable housing discussed By Michelle Kim
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City Council discussed Monday whether to adopt changes to an ordinance that would require residential developments to provide a certain number of affordable housing units. The proposed amendments to the current Inclusionary Housing Ordinance would apply to new rental and for-sale properties, as well as planned developments with five or more units. Under the new ordinance, the percentage of affordable units offered by residential projects would increase to 20 percent through public funding that would help pay for the additional affordable units. As of now, the ordinance calls for planned developments with 25 or more units to make 10 percent of units affordable. Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) said changing the ordinance to include smaller projects could be too burdensome, because those properties might not be able to bear the cost of providing more affordable units. “When we lower that number, we make it much more difficult for business to happen,” Wynne said. “We want smaller developments. We don’t want to rely entirely on the very large projects.” Developers in Evanston are not currently required to build affordable units on site, but instead they can pay a fee to fund affordable housing elsewhere in the city. A proposed amendment to the ordinance calls for a higher fee for these developers who decide against building on-site affordable units. Although aldermen recognized the need for affordable housing, they raised » See COUNCIL, page 5
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Weinberg junior Avantika Khatri dies at 21
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for the Africa Business Club. Kellogg held a vigil for Codjoe on Sunday evening outside the Donald P. Jacobs Center. — Tyler Pager
Weinberg junior Avantika Khatri died Monday, Dean of Students Todd Adams said in an email to the Northwestern community Monday night. “The University extends our condolences to Avantika’s family and friends,” Adams wrote in the email. “The loss of any one member of our community affects us all, and it does so in different ways.” Evanston police responded around 1:15 p.m. Monday to the 2000 block of Maple Avenue and discovered a 21-year-old female NU student, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said in an email to The Daily. The woman was found in her bedroom by her roommate and was pronounced dead at the scene, Dugan said. Police said there were no signs of foul play and are not releasing any other information at this time. Detectives were on scene and are handling the investigation, Dugan said. Khatri, who was from Columbia, Missouri, had recently transferred from Medill. She worked
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as a copy editor at The Daily during Fall Quarter 2012 and as an advertising production staffer at Students Publishing Co., The Daily’s parent organization, from fall 2012 through fall 2013. — Tyler Pager and Paige Leskin
Accreditation team holds open forums By Madeline fox
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A team of higher education professionals heard student, staff and faculty concerns during a series of open meetings Monday as part of Northwestern’s decennial accreditation process. Seven representatives from the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, an independent corporation that accredits U.S. universities, arrived at NU on Monday for a two-day visit. During the commission’s time on campus, the HLC will follow up on the University’s report, referred to as its “assurance argument,” and will review that the University is meeting the criteria for accreditation.
The forums, divided among three sections — one for students, one for faculty and one for staff, consisted of open-ended questions about the University and how members of the community interact with it. The HLC has been compiling its report since last summer. “Our goal here is to talk face-toface with the people this assurance argument is written about,” said Jim Bundschuh, former president of Marymount University and a member of the accreditation team who co-facilitated the student forum. Bundschuh and Freddie Wills, a Washington University in St. Louis administrator, spoke with four students at the student forum: one fifth-year Ph.D. candidate, two members of the higher education and administration policy master’s
degree program and an online student in the predictive analytics master’s program who called into the meeting. The two administrators asked students questions about their thoughts on the University’s efforts to engage and inform students, its career services, what students like about NU and their perceptions of the University’s community engagement, among other issues. NU is one of 57 other schools piloting the “Open Pathway” program, a new accreditation initiative from the HLC that intends to create a more efficient and effective assessment process. The program has universities choose a “Quality Initiative,” a major improvement it wants to focus on before its next accreditation. The program also uses existing institutional data for assessments, checks that
data annually and conducts assurance reviews twice in the 10-year cycle. “This is a little bit different because this is a new pilot process, so it’s a little bit more of a condensed visit than they had the last time,” said Jake Julia, NU’s associate provost for academic initiatives and associate vice president for change management. “It’s also a little bit of a smaller team than they had the last time.” The accreditation team consists of higher education professionals in student affairs, central administration, finance, academic programs, student learning and other areas. “The idea is that we’re in the same business, and we know the business of higher education, so all » See FORUM, page 5
Norris reduces spaces for theater groups By Jee Young LEE
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The Northwestern Student Theatre Coalition will again receive fewer performance spaces at Norris University Center next year. The number of spaces has been decreasing since 2013. For the 2015-2016 academic year, StuCo will receive eight week-long Norris reservations. Five reservations are for McCormick Auditorium and three are for the Louis Room. This year, the group had 11 reservations and 14 the year before, said StuCo cochair A.J. Roy, a Communication senior. Roy said the 10 different theater and dance groups that make up StuCo each have different space requirements and Norris is often the
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ideal space for performances. He said McCormick Auditorium is the only space that can support both the set and the size of the audience for shows such as Mee-Ow. Next year will be the first time Mee-Ow will have both its shows in Shanley Pavilion, said StuCo cochair Olivia Probetts, a Communication senior. In the past, the group has held one show in McCormick and one in Shanley. “Our options are a little limited as to where our alternate spaces are, and even this year, we filled Shanley to the brim with StuCo shows.” Roy said. “It is difficult to continue to move shows to Shanley.” The fewer Norris spaces allocated for StuCo are due to the increase in other groups requesting Norris space, said Amy White, director of » See THEATER, page 5
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room reduction The cast of “Next to Normal” performs in the Louis Room in winter 2014.
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