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FIGHTING FOR EQUAL FOOTING Fifth Ward residents advocate for neighborhood school in historical building By RYAN WANGMAN and COLIN BOYLE daily senior staffers @ryanwangman, @colinbphoto
In the 1960s, Jerome Summers was among the first group of students bussed from the only neighborhood school in the historically black 5th Ward to a majority-white school outside of the ward — an effort to further the school district’s goal of eliminating de facto segregation. As part of that goal, Foster School, the ward’s neighborhood school, began transitioning to a laboratory model in 1967. But just 12 years later, the building closed and its educational programming was moved to a different ward. The area hasn’t had an Evanston/Skokie School District 65 school since. Decades later, children in
the neighborhood are still being bussed to different locations throughout the city. Summers, a longtime 5th Ward resident, said the ward’s children are feeling the ramifications: The lack of a neighborhood school wasn’t fair or equitable then, and it isn’t now. “Our children are being harmed,” he said. “When I went to Foster School, every child knew what it was to be the brightness and the hope for the future for everybody they ever saw. Just like all the other kids that go to school in their own neighborhoods.” Now, Summers said, when classes end, many black and Latinx children board buses to go back to their neighborhood, unable to stay back in their schools’ playgrounds like the children who call those wards home. » See FIFTH WARD, page 8 Colin Boyle/Daily Senior Staffer
Hagerty reflects on first year as mayor Communication, fiscal responsibility key for Evanston By KRISTINA KARISCH
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Chase Stokes (left) stands beside his roommate, Communication freshman Julia Mann. She and Stokes, a transgender man, met on a Facebook page for students seeking female roommates.
BEYOND THE BINARY
Northwestern transgender students navigate NU’s housing process By CHRISTOPHER VAZQUEZ
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When seeking a roommate before his first year at Northwestern, Weinberg freshman Chase Stokes turned to a common resource: a housing Facebook page. However, Stokes, a transgender man, found his roommate in a Facebook group for people seeking female
roommates. “I just felt like it was a bit safer of a play and I didn’t have to go through the bureaucracy of Northwestern or anything like that,” Stokes said. When designating housing assignments, Northwestern uses records received from CAESAR, University spokesman Bob Rowley told The Daily in an email. While The Common Application and the Universal College Application typically ask
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students for both sex assigned at birth and gender identity, Rowley said Northwestern will “pull over sex data” from CAESAR for undergraduate students and send it to Residential Services. Students also fill out a housing application before receiving room assignments. On his application, Stokes said a “gender” field automatically labelled him as “female,” and he was unable to change it. For the 2017-18 academic
year, gender open housing was offered in two wings on the third floor of Foster-Walker Complex, an all-singles residence. However, vice president for student affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin said she is “reluctant” to place firstyear students there and prefers placing them in buildings she believes are more social in an effort to ease students’ transition into college. » See HOUSING, page 7
More than a year after taking office, Mayor Steve Hagerty said he is fully realizing the “all-encompassing” nature of his job. From overseeing City Council meetings to focusing on the city’s finances and interacting with residents from all walks of life, Hagerty said his tenure has been a “very rich experience” so far. “You get a sense of community that’s hard to understand unless you’re in a role that’s as broad as this,” he said. “And I’ve never been in a role this broad before.” Assuming the position of mayor is Hagerty’s first foray into elected office. He narrowly won the mayoral election in April 2017 — finishing only 115 votes ahead of his opponent, former 6th Ward alderman Mark Tendam. He ran on a platform focused on strengthening the city’s economy and youth development, as well as placing an emphasis on affordable housing. Hagerty’s background is in emergency consulting: He founded an Evanston-based crisis management firm that specializes in helping communities recover from disasters like the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy. His experience in the field
translated well to his role as mayor, which similarly combines managerial tasks with community outreach, he said. And in crisis situations, Hagerty said, his experience allows him to ask the right questions at the right time. After Northwestern’s campus went on lockdown for about two hours in March due to reports of an active shooter on campus — a fabricated incident that was later determined to be a “swatting” hoax — Hagerty said he was able to apply his crisis management skills when analyzing and debriefing the hoax with city officials and University administrators. Beyond individual emergency situations, Hagerty said he tries to be approachable in his role — both for residents and city staff. As mayor, he said he has come to appreciate the “human dynamics” of Evanston and the particular viewpoint his role has afforded him. “I took this job in part because I’ve, for the last 24 years, had an incredibly rewarding experience helping communities recover after disasters,” Hagerty said. “I want to see if I can help the community that I live in every day and feel that same sense of satisfaction four years from now.”
Finding financial footing
The mayor works in tandem with Evanston’s city manager, Wally Bobkiewicz, who oversees » See HAGERTY, page 7
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