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The class of 2016 has Northwestern’s highest proportion of black students in 23 years, the University announced Sunday. The class is made up of 7.8 percent black students compared to 7.2 percent We for the class currently have of 2015 and 6.9 percent to bring in for the class people from of 2014, said different walks Mike Mills, of life, different associate provost for unibackgrounds, versity enrollment. The different percentages experiences. have been increasing Tarik Patterson, For Members Only fairly steadily over the years, spokesman starting at 5.3 percent in 2001, according to NU data. Mills said this is the highest percentage NU has had since 1989, when 8.4 percent of the incoming freshman class
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was black. Though Mills noted the admissions office was not intentionally trying to increase the number of black students in particular, he said the University is excited to share the new statistics. “Given the sensitivity and discussion on the campus over the last year over race and ethnicity, we thought it was really important to emphasize that part of the class,” he said. Mills said he attributes the change to the fact that more black students applied and more of them were highly qualified. NU had 32,068 applications for the class of 2016, about 1,000 more than the previous year. The University also experienced its biggest yield ever last year, 41.6 percent, but because fewer students were admitted this year, the incoming class of 2,037 freshmen is relatively small compared to the 2,107 students in the class of 2015. There are 159 black students in this class of 2016, compared to 152 and 146 in the classes of 2015 and 2014. Mills said the past four freshmen classes have included some of the highest numbers of black students at NU in more than 25 years.
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Source: Office of the Provost; Infographic by Christine Nguyen/Daily Senior Staffer
Sexual assault policy examined NU hospital reaches transplant milestone By LAUREN CARUBA
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Several of Northwestern’s sexual assault resources teamed up to host a discussion Monday evening in response to the personal account of an Amherst College student’s rape that was published online earlier this month. The story, which received national attention over the past few weeks, prompted student desire to understand NU’s response protocol for cases of sexual violence. Laura Stuart, sexual health education and violence prevention coordinator at NU Health Services, led about 20 students in the discussion, “NU Active Minds Talks Back: A Discussion of Sexual Assault,” in a Fisk Hall classroom. The event, hosted by NU Active Minds, Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators and Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault, largely focused on how the University’s sexual assault procedures compare to those at Amherst and other universities. The column of former Amherst student Angie Epifano, published Oct. 17 in the school’s student newspaper, related how Amherst officials allegedly forced her to take a leave of absence and be treated in a psychiatric ward after she shared she had been raped. Since then, Epifano’s story has inspired college students from across the country to come forward with their own experiences of sexual assault, including an NU student who is currently on leave. In a Facebook status posted Oct. 18, the Weinberg senior wrote that University Police escorted her to the Evanston psychiatric ward after she told a professor that she was raped
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TALKING BACK Laura Anne Stuart (left), sexual health education and violence prevention coordinator at NU Health Services, speaks at a discussion about sexual assault policies on campus.
over the summer. She also wrote that the administration told her she could either go on voluntary medical leave or withdraw from NU. Katie Sanford, co-president of NU Active Minds, said members of the organization wanted to start a campus dialogue after learning of both the Amherst and NU cases. “We realized that hearing about the tragedy that occurred to that poor girl at Amherst and how they treated her that it would not be out of the realm at Northwestern for people to wonder, ‘Is that going to happen to us? Could that happen to me?’” the Weinberg senior said. During the discussion, Stuart informed students about NU’s current resources for victims of sexual assault, which include the NU’s new Center for Awareness, Response and Education, which was established in April. She also talked about some of
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the procedures for reporting rape and accessing counseling services. Stuart discussed how sexual violence procedures differ between the University and criminal court proceedings, as well as new federal initiatives to hold universities accountable when instances of sexual assault occur on campus. She explained how the Office for Civil Rights’ “Dear Colleague” letter, released in January, essentially told schools they had an obligation to investigate sexual violence. She mentioned the Clery Act, which requires colleges to publish information about campus crime. “There’s a lot more on the national level,” Stuart said. “Suddenly there’s been a lot more saying, ‘No, universities can’t ignore this. They can’t just pretend this isn’t happening anymore.’” » See TALKS BACK, page 7
Northwestern Memorial Hospital reached an important milestone last week when its surgeons completed their 100th kidney paired donation transplant. The surgery is a method of matching donor-recipient pairs that decreases the average wait for a kidney from six years to 73 days. Dr. John Friedewald, transplant nephrologist and co-director of the incompatible kidney transplant program at the hospital, founded the living donrkidney paired donation program that reached this notable benchmark. “Everything that we do and everything that we’ve done is either in response to a shortage of organs or, for a variety of reasons, people who have a live donor
Police identify man in connection with vandalism spree
Evanston Police identified an Evanston resident as the man responsible for a string of criminal damage incidents over the past two weeks. According to a news release, EPD identified the man, 22, through video surveillance at an El station in Evanston. The footage shows the resident cutting an electrical wire and extinguishing a light in the station’s stairway. EPD was familiar with the man and was able to identify him using the footage. EPD is not releasing the name of the 22-year-old because he is receiving psychiatric treatment, Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. According to the release, the man has been admitted to a psychiatric care facility in the
may not be compatible,” said Dr. Michael Abecassis, chief of transplants and director of the comprehensive transplant center at Feinberg School of Medicine. “So what we have tried to do is find a way to get these people on the transplant list.” When a dialysis patient needs a kidney, he or she is added to the wait list for organs from deceased donors, but that list is so long that most people die while still waiting. Even when a patient has a live donor who is willing to give a kidney, many people have incompatibilities, either because of blood or because of antibodies contained in the kidney tissue. A situation with a kidney paired donation would include a patient with blood type A who has a family member who can donate but has blood type B. Another » See TRANSPLANT, page 7 past for treatment. He was not institutionalized at the time the incidents occurred, Parrott said in an email Monday. It remains unclear whether the recent rash of wire-cuttings and tire-flattenings throughout Evanston are related, but police suspect they were committed by the same person. A total of 32 criminal damages occurred, according to the release. Flattened tires comprised 21 of these incidents. Affected cars were parked on the street, in residential driveways or in alleys. The remaining 12 incidents were reports of cut phone and cable wires on buildings during the same time frame. The Second Baptist Church, 1717 Benson Ave., reported cut wires, and the phone wires of Union Pizzeria, 1245 Chicago Ave., and Blind Faith Cafe, 525 Dempster St., were also cut. — Ciara McCarthy
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