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The Daily Northwestern Tuesday, October 6, 2015
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CARE hires men’s staffer By DAVID FISHMAN
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‘LET THESE PEOPLE LIVE’ State Rep. Laura Fine (D-Glenview) speaks alongside Ald. James Cappleman of Chicago’s 46th ward at a demonstration Monday morning against the closure of affordable housing in north Chicago for senior citizens. More than 60 people protested outside the Evanston headquarters of Presbyterian Homes, which announced in August the upcoming closure of three subsidized developments.
Citizens rally for affordable living By JULIA JACOBS
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Senior citizens and local politicians converged outside an Evanstonbased retirement community Monday morning pleading for the survival of its affordable housing program in Chicago after threats of closure. About 60 people gathered outside the corporate headquarters of Presbyterian Homes in west Evanston to demand CEO Todd Swortzel maintain three Chicago retirement communities as affordable housing for low-income seniors. Presbyterian Homes announced in August that it would sell three properties in Lakeview and Rogers Park to developers, which would displace more than 100 seniors. Speaking at the demonstration along with other politicians and community leaders, state Rep. Sara Feigenholtz (D-Chicago) asked Swortzel
to consider offers from affordable housing developers that could allow the low-income seniors to remain in their homes instead of those from developers that would raise rents. “Let these people live and stay in their homes,” Feigenholtz said. “Please reconsider — I am pleading with you.” Presbyterian Homes, headquartered at 3200 Grant St., is a religious nonprofit with residential and health care programs in Evanston, Chicago, Lake Forest and Arlington Heights. Sale of the three affordable housing developments in north Chicago — Peter Mulvey Place, Crowder Place and Devon Place — would effectively end the organization’s subsidized housing program. Ald. James Cappleman from Chicago’s 46th Ward said he was informed of the closures the same day the residents were notified. Cappleman said he and other local politicians then spoke with affordable buyers willing to purchase the properties
at market rate, but Swortzel refused to work with them. Although Swortzel was not available for comment, Bob Warden, a spokesman from Presbyterian Homes, told The Daily the organization considered selling to affordable housing developers prior to the summer announcement. Warden said that type of agreement was not possible due to a lack of public funding sources available to partner with affordable housing developers. Elaine Sonkin, a 77-year-old resident of Mulvey Place, an affordable housing development slated to close in Lakeview, said the residents of the home were told they have one year to find alternative affordable housing. But Sonkin, who has been living in the development for eight years, said the wait list for other subsidized housing for seniors in the city is between two and five years. “I’m at a point where I can’t
Paul Ang has been attending Buffalo Bills games since he was nine years old. He’d sit in the stands, surrounded by friends and watch No. 22 Fred Jackson run back and forth across the field. But after beginning to discuss sexuality in college, Ang started to notice homophobic slurs, sexist remarks and crude language pervasive in the football stadium. “After a certain point it didn’t sit well with me,” he said. “I felt inclined to say something because I knew no one else was going to. It’s kind of been my role to be the person who says ‘Hey, shut the f— up.’” As Northwestern’s first coordinator of men’s engagement, part of Ang’s job will be to help others see the world as he does. The position, created late 2014 with a U.S. Department of Justice grant, is “filling a need that’s been there for a very long time,” said Erin Clark, assistant director of the Center for Awareness, Response and
Education. “It goes hand-in-hand with the acknowledgement that prevention is vitally important for addressing sexual violence on campus, and prevention means engaging men in the conversation,” Clark said. Ang didn’t always want to be in advocacy. Initially, he planned to be an engineer, until he realized after graduating college it wasn’t his passion. “For me, it wasn’t like a lightswitch changed,” he said. “It happened over the course of several years. There are these signposts or markers I can identify, like going to my first Take Back the Night, or a conference in Boston. It became something that I would wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night thinking about.” While attending a Mentors in Violence Prevention conference in 2012, Ang decided advocacy would be his life’s work. “I realized that maybe I could do this seriously, versus doing it on the volunteer spectrum to fulfill something that was missing in my » See CARE, page 6
City looks to support at-risk residents By NICO RIVERO
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Aldermen will likely vote this month to create a workforce training program to place at-risk Evanston residents in jobs with local small businesses. The Evanston Small Business Workforce Development program would provide an initial $24,000 to reimburse businesses that offer
“earn and learn” training to Evanston residents considered at-risk — including ex-offenders and those without stable housing or not on a traditional career path, said Paul Zalmezak, an economic development official. The idea for the program came from the success of Curt’s Cafe, which employs and trains at-risk youth at two locations in Evanston, Zalmezak said. » See WORKFORCE, page 6
» See RALLY, page 6
MSA launches two dialogue groups By MARIANA ALFARO
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Multicultural Student Affairs is unveiling two new programs this year, “Real Talk” and “I Am Northwestern,” with the aim of creating safe spaces for students to explore and share their identities. “Real Talk,” the brainchild of recently hired MSA assistant director JT Turner, is a four-part series workshop created with the goal of educating students about “queerness from an intersectional lens.” The workshop, which was test-run by Turner during Resident Assistant training before school started, will begin to be offered in Winter Quarter 2016 and will create conversations on homophobia, transphobia, heterosexism and
cisgenderism, among other topics, to both NU’s LGBT community and the larger student population. Turner, who identifies as gender-queer and uses they-them-their pronouns, said they came up with the idea to create “Real Talk” after looking at another NU program, “Safe Space.” They took aspects from it as well as aspects from other schools’ programs that would work for the NU population. Turner thought “Safe Space” was too information and statistic heavy, which discouraged participants from continuing to learn about issues regarding the LGBT community. “Really what ‘Real Talk’ is aiming to do is have people produce knowledge for themselves,” Turner said. In “Real Talk,” definitions and data are just one part of the program, Turner said. Participants will be able to ask themselves
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and other participants questions relating to inclusion, the LGBT community and identity, among other topics, Turner said. “How do our own identities play into how we experience the LGBT community?” Turner said. “Everyone can participate on these conversations, that’s ‘Real Talk.’” “I Am Northwestern” aims to teach students how to express their life stories, such as background history, present experiences and future aspirations, and relate them to their own identities. During Fall Quarter, students will meet in one of two small groups and learn how to express their stories. They will also be able to share the stories with other participants. The groups will meet for two hours » See MSA, page 6
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COUNCIL DELIBERATIONS Aldermen on the city’s economic development committee approved a new job training program last month focused on employing at-risk Evanston residents. City Council will vote on the issue at the end of October.
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