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Evanston reacts to licensing punt By amanda gilbert
the daily northwestern
Kaitlin Svabek/Daily Senior Staffer
SENATE SPEECHES Associated Student Government Speaker Ani Ajith addresses senators Tuesday night during the first ASG meeting of the school year. ASG plans to focus its efforts on student interactions this year.
New year, new goals for ASG By Cat Zakrzewski
the daily northwestern
Northwestern’s Associated Student Government intends to improve connections on campus this year. Under the leadership of President Victor Shao and Vice President Brad Stewart, ASG will focus on a series of short-term and long-term projects. The first ASG Senate meeting of the year was on Wednesday.
“It’s all about bringing students together with other students, Evanston, the University administration and other student groups,” Stewart, a Medill senior, said. At Wednesday’s meeting, legislation was passed to change the 5K Initiative, a program that allows students to submit proposals for how ASG should spend $5,000. The program brought WiFi to the Lakefill this fall following an online poll of students last spring. The legislation proposed to increase
the $5,000 to $10,000. Shao, a Weinberg senior, said the new initiative would also expand the timeline for the initiative, allowing students to spend Fall Quarter brainstorming, Winter Quarter researching and streamlining ideas and Spring Quarter implementing the proposal. Funding for the new legislation was the subject of a heated debate at Wednesday’s meeting. Funding for the 10K Initiative this year came from the ASG » See ASG, page 7
Evanston residents and Northwestern students expressed mixed reactions to the Evanston City Council’s decision Monday night to postpone voting on a proposed rental licensing ordinance. As written, the ordinance would require Evanston landlords to register with the city for a license to operate. Shortly after the council announced its decision, Steven Monacelli, Associated Student Government’s vice president for community relations, took to Facebook to air his frustrations. “Spent three hours listening to a room full of angry people only for nothing of significance to happen,” he wrote in the public post. “Thanks Evanston City Council!” Monacelli, a Communication senior and former Daily columnist, represented NU students on the city’s Rental Unit Licensing Committee, which helped draft the original proposal in June. Currently, just over 30 percent of Evanston landlords are not registered with the city, Monacelli said. This has caused some students to feel ignored by the city because they are being housed in poor and unsafe living conditions. “A number of the houses the students are living in are in terrible condition,” Monacelli said. “This puts students between a rock and
hard place because they are afraid to call the city for a problem.” Monacelli said his goal is for the ordinance to protect NU students from absentee landlords and to take a positive step toward occupancy reform. City officials indicated that they will consider amending the over-occupancy rule, colloquially We known just want to as the “brothel make sure law,” if they the ordinance license creates a landlords to follow better living regulaenvironment tions. At every for students. meeting, city offi- Peter Braithwaite, 2nd Ward cials have alderman said they cannot change occupancy rules until the landlords start following the law. Monacelli said he wanted officials to pass the ordinance but now accepts that voting is being postponed to allow city staff to review the ordinance another time for clarity. Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) said the point of the ordinance is to provide city staff with the resources they need to deal with problem landlords, including those who don’t
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» See LANDLORD, page 7
Affirmative action NU remembers Medill lecturer case goes to SCOTUS By Cat Zakrzewski
the daily northwestern
By Zachary Elvove
the daily northwestern
The Supreme Court began hearing arguments Wednesday in the latest high-profile affirmative action case, and Northwestern joined nine other institutions in filing an amicus brief regarding the case. An What’s amicus at stake is the brief is a document legality and is filed constitutionality that to a court of race-based by someone not affirmative directly action. related to the case. Anthony Chen, SpeakNU political ing about science prof. the filing in August, University President Morton Schapiro explained, “It is important that Northwestern be ‘on the record’ about the connection between these policies and our mission to pursue diversity and institutional excellence.” The high court agreed to hear arguments in Fisher v. the University of Texas at Austin after the Fifth Circuit
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Court of Appeals sided with the university, upholding their admissions process, which includes affirmative action based on race. Affirmative action has been a controversial topic in the U.S. for decades. In 1978, the court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke that the use of racial quotas was unconstitutional but using race in admissions decisions was allowed. More recently, in 2003, the justices upheld the University of Michigan Law School’s affirmative action policy in Grutter v. Bollinger. In the current case, Louisiana State University graduate Abigail Fisher alleges that she was discriminated against on the basis of her race by the University of Texas at Austin when she was denied admission in 2008, violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The university has stated that she would not have been accepted into the school, regardless of her race, because she did not meet admissions standards. “What’s at stake is the legality and constitutionality of race-based affirmative action, and the question is whether it will survive in some form or whether it will be eliminated altogether,” said NU political science Prof. » See SCOTUS, page 7
Serving the University and Evanston since 1881
Bill Jauss, an adjunct Medill lecturer from 1964 to 1979, died Wednesday at the age of 81. The Northwestern community remembers Jauss (BSJ ‘52) as a groundbreaking sports journalist, beloved professor and passionate Wildcat. “He always came across as a top-notch professional with high standards who also had this deep love of sports,” said Roger Boye (MSJ ‘71), professor emeritus. Jauss is remembered in sports journalism as one of the first reporters to work across media platforms in newspapers, radio and television. He worked for the Chicago Tribune for 37 years, according to the newspaper’s obituary. He also achieved fame on the “Sportswriters on TV” panel. During his 15 years at Medill, Jauss taught freshman and sophomore writing labs, said Boye, who worked with him during the 1970s. “You would just hear the highest accolades about Bill Jauss,” Boye said. “It was the quality of journalism that he practiced on a day-to-day basis and then brought back into the classroom.” According to Boye, Jauss was known for his “creative” teaching exercises, including rotating rewrites, an assignment still used today in the Medill Cherubs Program, a summer journalism program for high school students. During the rotating
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IN MEMORIAM From 1985 to 2000, Bill Jauss appeared on “The Sportswriters on TV,” pictured above, discussing hot sports topics.
rewrites exercise, a student must write and rewrite a lead until it is approved by the professor, which can take more than 20 attempts. Carl Schierhorn (BSJ ‘71, MSJ ‘73) said Jauss was his professor in his first newswriting class. He remembered the rotating rewrites assignment from his time at Medill and said it taught perseverance. “Bill taught me to be exact, be accurate, and if you can, have fun writing,” Schierhorn said. Schierhorn, now a professor of
journalism and mass communication at Kent State University, said Jauss’s assignments were always fun. “I remember mostly feeling he’s a teacher who was very good, who cared about us, and who grew to a point where he was a friend, someone who we were close enough to invite to our wedding,” Schierhorn said. Boye said Jauss’s legacy would continue through Medill alumni. » See JAUSS, page 7
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