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Youth job fair to be biggest ever By SOPHIA BOLLAG
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The city’s youth employment program will attempt to help a record number of young Evanston residents find summer employment at its annual job fair this weekend, organizers say. The Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program hopes to help 500 local students find summer jobs at the event on Saturday at Evanston Township High School, said Porschia Davis, one of the organizers. Last year, the event helped 260 residents ages 14-18 find jobs with more than 50 employers. “I’ve traditionally seen at least a 40 to 50 percent increase of kids being hired for summer jobs from year to year,” said Davis, who serves as the assistant manager for Evanston’s Youth & Young Adult Division. “We are expecting to see an increase in kids looking for jobs, and we have an increase in employers participating this year.” Many ETHS students find their first jobs through the fair, said Ahmadou Drame, a career and job coach at
ETHS. “I think it’s especially helpful for those who wouldn’t have any options in terms of things to occupy their time during the summer,” he said. “It’s also helpful for students who are looking to get some experience and something to add to their resume before they go on to college.” “For many of the youth, this is their first job experience,” said Lori Siegel, the associate operating officer and senior director at the McGaw YMCA, one of the employers at the fair. “So it’s a learning experience for them from the interview process all the way through the hiring. It’s the first time they’ve ever filled out the paperwork and had to be accountable for a job.” At the fair, employers will conduct interviews with students. To help students prepare for the job fair, ETHS has been offering after-school training sessions on resume building and interview skills, Drame said. ETHS itself will also offer about a dozen jobs at the fair, Drame said. The jobs provided by the high school will be part-time and will involve working » See EMPLOYMENT, page 6
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DIVVYING UP NOTHING Divvy bikes sit at a station in the city of Chicago. Evanston did not receive an Illinois state grant it had sought in order to bring Divvy to Evanston.
City rejected for Divvy grant By PAIGE LESKIN
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While approving funds for a bike path through Northwestern, the Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program denied Saturday a separate application to fund the expansion of a Chicago-based bikesharing service to Evanston. An initiative to bring bike-sharing
service Divvy to Evanston was not granted state funds, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said Monday in an email to The Daily. In August 2013, the Chicago Department of Transportation applied for $3 million in state grants to expand Divvy in Chicago and to the suburbs of Evanston and Oak Park. Bobkiewicz, with permission from aldermen, responded with applications for money from the state in order to show increased interest in the bike program.
During a meeting with the Administration and Public Works Committee in 2013, Evanston sustainable programs coordinator Catherine Hurley presented a vision for Divvy’s presence in the city. She expressed interest in building seven stations around Evanston, including some by the lakefront, two CTA stops and the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. CDOT and the city applied for money » See DIVVY, page 6
Teen fatally shot in Rogers Park University reexamines
Source: William James
Keno Glass
By PATRICK SVITEK
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Whether it was sports or rap, Keno Glass was always looking for his ticket out of Chicago. The 16-year-old boy did not fear a specific threat in the city, but in the words of one classmate, he knew “how it is.” “You don’t have to gangbang in Chicago,” said William James, who played football and basketball with Glass in high school. “They just automatically assume you do by the neighborhood you live in.” Glass’ dream of finding stardom outside the city was cut short early Tuesday morning, when he was shot and killed near the Chicago-Evanston border. The aspiring rapper — he went by “Kay Pee LaShore,” according to his friends — was at least the second person killed in eight days in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood.
Glass was walking at about 2:40 a.m. in the 7600 block of North Ashland Avenue when a gray minivan drove by, and someone inside the vehicle opened fire, according to authorities. Glass suffered a gunshot wound to the head, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Janel Sedevic. Glass, of the 3500 block of West Walnut Street in Chicago, was pronounced dead on the scene about a half hour later, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Police were questioning a person of interest Tuesday evening in connection with the shooting, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Thomas Sweeney. For Glass’ friends, his death was a devastating end to a life focused on chasing his goals. “He loved doing what he needed to do,” said Derrick Craig, a New Jersey emcee who got to know Glass through their music. “He was just trying to make it big.” James said he was friends with Glass since they were freshmen at Nicholas Senn High School in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago. James played quarterback for the team, while Glass was a running back. On the basketball team, James said he played center and Glass was a point guard. Over the past year or two, though, Glass increasingly set his sights on glory off the field, hoping rap could launch him out of the city, according to his friends. Glass took the goal more and more seriously, going from shooting music videos on iPhones to recruiting a camera crew, James said.
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Glass was inspired by a group of up-and-coming rappers from Chicago, including Chief Keef, and saw their music “as a way to make it,” James said. But Glass knew there was a dark side to Chicago hip-hop, said Craig, who goes by “SoHusky” and initially reached out to Glass about working together last summer. In a number of conversations on the Web since then, Craig said he could tell Glass did not want to face the same fate as his cousin, another rapper from Chicago who was fatally shot in the city. “He didn’t want the same thing to happen to his people and where he was,” Craig said. “And he wanted to get out.” Glass was killed about two blocks east of a convenience store where a shooting April 7 killed another Chicago man and wounded two others. Last summer, a 22-year-old man was fatally shot about a block north of the convenience store. Since then, four other people have been killed elsewhere in Rogers Park, according to reports. Evanston police have apparently taken notice of the bloodshed, saying Thursday in a newsletter that officers near the Chicago border are ready to “monitor and intervene if necessary in the rising tide of gang activity occurring in Rogers Park.” It was unclear Tuesday evening whether Glass’ slaying was gang-related, though in the same newsletter, Evanston police characterized the April 7 incident as one of two “gang shootings” around that time in the Evanston area. patricksvitek2014@u.northwestern.edu
online education goals By CAT ZAKRZEWSKI
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After its first experiment in for-credit online courses for undergraduates failed, Northwestern is now shifting its focus to developing Web courses for its graduate programs and building up its Massive Open Online Courses. Jake Julia, associate provost for academic initiatives, said the University is assessing the for-credit Semester Online pilot program that was called off earlier this month. “Now we can really look into this,” said Julia, noting the program was a success in sparking a “critical dialogue” about online learning. Few NU students participated in the
NU picks architect for student center
Northwestern announced on Tuesday the architects who will be responsible for designing the University’s new student center. NU chose Ennead Architects of New York from four finalists after a series of interviews were conducted and a committee analyzed the firms. Associated Student Government president Ani Ajith said Ennead stood out among the other candidates, noting the other firms the committee looked at were “some of the top architectural firms in the world.” “At the end of this, Ennead was kind of the clear choice of the committee
online courses; thirteen students took courses in the fall. University registrar Jaci Casazza was not able to provide an exact number of students enrolled in winter Semester Online courses as of Tuesday evening, but she said enrollment decreased for winter courses and fewer than a dozen students enrolled. The pilot program that launched last year will come to an end after the summer semester, for which students can still register. The semester-based program poses a possible deterrent from enrollment for NU students on the quarter system. Because the courses are offered on the semester system, they do not start and begin when NU’s courses do. For example, students enrolling in Semester Online courses for the summer » See ONLINE, page 6 because of their experience and the way they presented their vision,” Ajith said, “For how they would not only go about building this building but engaging with the community in order to really make sure that this building reflects not only who we are but who we want to be and where we want to be over the next several decades.” Ajith said moving forward, several focus groups will be held among community members from across NU to put together the final design. The new student center is predicted to be 80,000 square feet larger than the current Norris University Center and will include more meeting areas and a larger multipurpose room. — Rebecca Savransky
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