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Students upset over Kanazawa Holloway signals controversial researcher will stay By CAMERON COOK
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Students are voicing their concerns about the impact of controversial visiting scholar Satoshi Kanazawa’s presence and research after Northwestern signaled it would not remove Kanazawa from campus. Kanazawa — whose works bear titles such as “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?” — is spending his year-long sabbatical from the London School of Economics on Northwestern’s Evanston campus. Provost Jonathan Holloway said Kanazawa is not being paid, teaching or collecting research data, but did not clarify what Kanazawa is doing. Once students became aware of the subject matter of Kanazawa’s research, calls for his removal spread fast. Weinberg junior Deborah Shoola posted a Change.org petition during Fall Quarter
which received over 5,200 signatures. The petition stated that if the University was committed to maintaining a safe environment for all students, Kanazawa should be asked to leave. In response to student concerns, Holloway sent an email Dec. 13 clarifying that while Kanazawa’s views are “antithetical” to Northwestern’s values, he will remain on campus for the remainder of the academic year because he is “entitled to express his personal views.” Communication junior Melia Agudelo said it was “crazy” that the University allowed Kanazawa to conduct research on campus in the first place. However, she said she more frustrated when she read Holloway’s email about why the University chose to let Kanazawa stay. “The way they made it seem like they were supporting the student body and then saying ‘Oh, we’re going to keep him on campus’ was pretty counterintuitive,” Agudelo said. “By saying to the students that they hear them but not actually doing anything about it, I thought » See REACTION, page 8
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Clayton Thorson after Northwestern’s December victory against Utah. After an injury scare earlier this fall, Thorson is expected to head off to the NFL with high prospects, but the same won’t be said for NU’s star coach.
Fitz leads NU to Holiday Bowl win Despite Packers’ interest, coach reaffirms commitment to Northwestern By BEN POPE
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SAN DIEGO — Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald stood in pouring rain here, the
victor of a game his team once trailed by 17 points, his third bowl win in as many years at a program that had previously won only two in its history. He was living a real-life juxtaposition. The coach then delivered
eight words that may have even more significance to this Wildcats program than Monday’s stirring Holiday Bowl win. “I’m not going anywhere,” he said. “This is home forever.” Rumors that the Green Bay Packers are interested in
Fitzgerald to become their next head coach have swirled for weeks, and even though the 13-year-and-counting NU boss has rebuked inquiries from blue-blood college programs like » See FITZGERALD, page 8
Patterson resigns, Ash to NU voices opposition to step in as ASG president stricter visa regulations Former president will focus on well-being, education
Brief: Rules would make the U.S. ‘less welcoming’
By ELIZABETH BYRNE
By CATHERINE KIM
Sky Patterson has resigned from her position as the Associated Student Government president. ASG announced Patterson’s resignation on Thursday. In a resignation letter dated Dec. 16, the Weinberg senior said she resigned to focus on her health and academics. “I am resigning today to take care of my own well-being, to focus on my work and education, and to give myself the freedom to explore my passions outside of Northwestern,” Patterson wrote. In the letter, Patterson wrote that too often students sacrifice their own well-being for their organization and that student leaders should set the example and establish well-being as a priority. She added that her resignation should signal to the administration that it needs to take students’ mental health more seriously.
Northwestern signed an amicus brief along with 65 schools last week opposing changes to visa policies that make it easier to bar international students and scholars from reentering the country. The amicus brief supports Guilford College in its lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s move to change rules that govern how visaholders violate the terms of their visa. This new policy would make it easier for students to receive unlawful presence status, which would hold “destructive and harmful consequences,” according to the brief. “The Policy Memorandum thus confronts international students and exchange visitors with severe and disproportionate penalties for any regulatory violation,” the brief read.
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» See RESIGNATION, page 8
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Sky Patterson was sworn in as the Associated Student Government president in April. She resigned earlier this month.
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Prior to this policy, unlawful presence began after the visa-holder was notified of an alleged violation of status. This new policy, however, allows the government to retroactively start dates for unlawful presence, such as the day after the completion of one’s degree. This can lead to visa-holders unknowingly being banned from the country due to technical and administrative errors because they were not notified in advanced. This change would affect about 4,000 international students and 1,600 visiting scholars at Northwestern. Foreigners who violate the terms of their visa can be barred from the country for up to ten years. This can hurt international students’ ability to stay and work in the country, said Ravi Shankar, director of the International Office. “International students and scholars are under heavy compliance burden,” Shankar said. “And this really is such
an added stress to everything else they have to deal with.” The brief argues that such changes will lead to “significant and destructive uncertainty,” which threatens a system that depends on stability and orderly administration. As international students and scholars continue to face such uncertainty, the U.S. will no longer be a desirable destination for the world’s best talent, according to the brief. “Rule changes such as this make the United States a less welcoming place for international study and have a demonstrable impact on international interest in American higher education,” the brief said. Such loss of international talent is a harm to higher education institutions and the larger U.S. economic society, the brief argued. International students and scholars bring diverse perspectives to conversations » See VISA, page 8
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