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$90,000 settlement to end suit against EPD City settles a lawsuit against EPD cheif Demitrous Cook By ALEX HARRISON
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City Council approved a $90,000 settlement Monday to end a class-action lawsuit filed against Evanston Police Department chief Demitrous Cook after he publicly posted multiple residents’ private information last February. The lawsuit alleged that Cook’s actions violated the plaintiffs’ rights to due process and equal protection, and stemmed from an incident where Cook uploaded booking photos of over 30 individuals to his public Snapchat story. The photos contained subjects’ private information, including full names, birth dates and home addresses along with written notes including “in custody,”
» See SETTLEMENT, page 6
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Northwestern University Graduate Workers released a petition last March calling for a universal, one-year funding extension for all students. Despite pandemic-related delays to research, The Graduate School has only granted a blanket extension on degree deadlines.
#OneYearOut, NUGW demands support
In a petition last March, graduate students called for funding extensions, worker protections
By MAIA PANDEY
the daily northwestern @maiapandey
Every morning, Ph.D. student Rose Werth wakes up
unsure whether she will feel “paralyzed and overwhelmed” because of the responsibilities that come with her education. A third-year graduate student, Werth is taking a full course load while also
participating in a research assistantship. However, she only has two more years of guaranteed funding from Northwestern — even though the average student in her field takes seven years to complete a doctoral
degree. Funding has always been a stressor, Werth said, but pandemic-related delays have compounded her anxiety over the last year. Despite these delays to research, NU has yet to issue
Dorothy Headd honored with street name
City celebrates Dorothy Headd, school crossing guard and environmental justice advocate
By YONJOO SEO
the daily northwestern
Dorothy Headd, an elementary school crossing guard, environmental justice advocate and devoted church member, will be celebrated with an honorary street designation on Prairie Avenue, City Council voted on Monday. The section of Prairie Avenue between Grant Street and Colfax Street will be named “Miss Dorothy” Headd Way. The city’s
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street name designation program was established in 1996, and honors residents who have generously contributed to their communities. Headd only learned about the news once she listened to the voicemail from Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th), she said. “I thought, ‘Recognition? Am I getting ready to die?’” Headd said, prompting laughter from those at the Monday meeting. “I’m just a down-to-earth person. I don’t try to be any more than I really am. I am so floored, believe me.”
Revelle knew Headd from her environmental activism. Headd’s church members recognized her generous service. But Revelle said the parents who requested the street name designation knew Headd as the beloved crossing guard who took exceptional and loving care of their children on their way to and from school. “I was really delighted when the parents approached me with a request to recognize (Headd) with an honorary street name
» See HEADD, page 6
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Dorothy Headd (second from the right). The city of Evanston honored Headd by naming a street section after her.
any blanket funding extensions — which has placed many graduate students in an emotionally and financially precarious situation.
» See ONE YEAR OUT, page 6
Evanston pauses J&J vaccine rollout Evanston’s Health & Human Services Department is temporarily discontinuing the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID19 vaccine until further notice per federal and state recommendation, according to a Tuesday news release. Of the more than 6.8 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered in the U.S. as of April 12, six have led to reported cases of a rare
» See JANSSEN, page 6
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