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Rocky start for Ajith Transition process snarled by tragedy, politics team. At the ASG meeting May 8, Senate voted to block three of his cabinet nominees. One nominee, Stephen Piotrkowski, daily senior staffer was denied the associate vice president of diversity and @Cat_Zakrzewski inclusion position after senators and outside groups raised concerns about whether his experience and qualifications About three weeks after spring showers washed his — as well as whether a straight, white male can adequately chalked campaign slogans away, Ani Ajith’s fledgling Assotake on diversity issues. ciated Student Government presidency grappled with a series The other two nominees were denied due to unreof external and internal challenges. solved tensions after a contentious election that pitted Ajith and ASG executive vice president Alex Van Atta ran Ajith against another ASG insider, SESP junior David in the April election as the ticket Harris. with the most ASG experience. But Amid the internal bickering, Senas a transition many expected to Being able to juggle ate rejected Weinberg junior Stephabe smooth has had a rocky start, Hong and Weinberg complex issues is part of nie sophomore Julia Watson the pair has been both hampered the promise we make. for executive board posiand helped by the very experience they ran on. Ani Ajith, tions. Former members of Although the two were just Associated Student Harris’ campaign publicly sworn in April 24, the pair has Government president lobbied during Senate debate against already been confronted with internal ASG divisions, a student Hong and Watson, who served as Ajith’s campaign death and public backlash after a controversial letter about manager. Cinco de Mayo. They have been forced to deal with each of these issues while still taking on the basic responsibilities Stewart said the election associated with their new roles, like meeting top adminisleft ASG particularly divided because both Ajith and Harris trators and maintaining ongoing projects with former ASG president Victor Shao and executive vice president Brad drew endorsements and camStewart. paign support from within ASG, and many of those supporters still Ajith said balancing the unexpected challenges with the hold on to conflicts that flared up durtime-consuming transition is just part of the job. “Being able to juggle complex issues is part of the promise ing the campaign. Skylar Zhang/Daily Senior Staffer we make, the assurance we gave to students when we won,” Although the controversial Senate ‘COMPLEX ISSUES’ Associated Student Government president Ani Ajith speaks at Senate on the Weinberg junior said. » See AJITH, page 6 Wednesday. He and executive vice president Alex Van Atta have had a challenging start to their term. However, Ajith is currently at work with an incomplete By CAT ZAKRZEWSKI
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Unique performance Man’s death tied to gang activity Resident’s tackles poverty crisis Police: slaying may be related By REBECCA SAVRANSKY
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Communication Prof. Michael Rohd directed an interactive performance Wednesday night focused on engaging the audience in discussion to find an effective solution to the poverty crisis. More than 120 people attended the performance, “How to End Poverty in 90 Minutes (with 199 people you may or may not know).” After engaging with different concepts throughout the performance, the audience voted on how to donate $1,000 of the ticket sales to
attempt to end the poverty crisis. “I think that participatory theater keeps theater alive because that’s something film and TV can’t do,” said Weinberg junior Daphne Kim, one of the 16 cast members. Throughout the performance, audience members discussed which cause most deserved their donation. The cast compiled five different local organizations that deal with issues surrounding poverty based around daily needs, policy changes, education, employment opportunities and individual need. Attendees were not told of the specific organization their money would go » See POVERTY, page 6
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INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE Communication sophomore Brannon Bowers performs a concept of poverty in the interactive piece “How to Solve Poverty in 90 Minutes.” The show allows audience members to decide how to allocate $1,000 after learning about different possible organizations.
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Police say an Evanston man killed Sunday on the South Side of Chicago may have been the intended target of a shooting last week in west Evanston. Blake Ross, 20, was shot dead Sunday in the 2800 block of East 76th Street. Ross, of the 2300 block of Greenwood
Street, attended Evanston Township High School, ETHS spokeswoman Takumi Iseda said. Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said Ross was a “possible intended target” in last week’s shooting near FleetwoodJourdain Community Center, 1655 Foster St. Shots were fired the afternoon of May 7 near the community center. The gun activity led Evanston police to deploy greater manpower in the area. Officers interviewed Ross after the incident, although he did not provide any information, Parrott said. Parrott said Ross’s death appeared to be gang-related. Following reports of shots fired on Foster Street, the community center
was locked down, building coordinator Alando Massie said. Earlier this month, Massie said the shootings near the community center had no connection to gang activity. “These guys grew up with each other. They know each other,” Massie said. “Whatever personal beef they had seemed to catch up.” Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) said she will address the recent violence during Thursday’s 5th Ward meeting at the community center. “It’s just unacceptable behavior that cannot continue in the community,” Holmes said.
just elevates our sport to a whole other level.” The addition of Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten in 2015 means at least six teams already in the conference will have a women’s lacrosse program. Because six teams will compete in the sport, women’s lacrosse is eligible to receive sponsorship from the conference. A Big Ten lacrosse conference also brings together the country’s two biggest women’s lacrosse powerhouses: NU and Maryland. “It just makes our conference that much more competitive, and I think that we should have the most competitive conference in the country,” Amonte Hiller said, noting NU will no longer face ALC rival Florida during the regular season. Amonte Hiller said she hopes other Big Ten schools will introduce women’s lacrosse programs in the future to flesh
out the conference. Benefits of having the conference also include an added level of local support — Big Ten headquarters is just outside of Chicago — as well as extra media attention. Amonte Hiller, who played at Maryland, also recruits heavily from the East Coast. She hopes the draw of being able to play in the Big Ten will pull more Midwest players to NU’s team as well. Ultimately, Amonte Hiller said she is excited for what the conference means for the expansion of the sport. “For us, it’s a great thing,” Amonte Hiller said. “For our sport, it’s a whole other great thing, and I don’t think people really realize it yet. I think we realize it because we’ve been an outlier, we’ve been building this outside of the East Coast, and I think that this is a big step for the sport of lacrosse.”
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Women’s lacrosse to debut as Big Ten sport in 2014-15
Northwestern coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said Thursday a Big Ten women’s lacrosse conference will debut in the 2014-15 season. NU, Ohio State and Penn State will play one last season in the American Lacrosse Conference before moving to the Big Ten conference. Michigan, which will debut its women’s lacrosse program next year, will also play in the ALC for the 2013-14 season and then move to the Big Ten, Amonte Hiller said. “It’s very, very exciting for us,” Amonte Hiller said. “And we’ve garnered a lot of attention from the Big Ten, just with our success and being in Chicago … and I think having a conference now
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