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ENU to feature mental health By CAT ZAKRZEWSKI
daily senior staffer
Starting in the fall of 2013, Northwestern will offer orientation programming about mental health services to all incoming students. The programming will be a part of the Wildcat Welcome Essential NU series, which has addressed topics such as inclusion and alcohol policy. Many students, particularly those from Associated Student Government and the mental health group NU Active Minds, advocated last quarter for the new Mental Health ENU. Student demand for orientation programming about mental health resources was brought to the spotlight following the death of Weinberg junior Alyssa Weaver, who took her own life in November while studying abroad. However, Patricia Hilkert, director of new student and family programs, said NU Active Minds first approached her about creating a Mental Health ENU soon after she began working at the university last March. “There does seem to be more stress and pressure here than at other universities I’ve been at,” Hilkert said. “(Active Minds) got it on my radar in the spring as an issue we should be tackling.” Hilkert said she planned to meet with representatives from NU’s Counseling and Psychological Services and students from NU Active Minds shortly after the completion of the 2012 Wildcat Welcome
programming. Their meeting was incidentally scheduled around the time of Weaver’s death as the mental health debate was growing on campus, she said. “It all kind of happened at the same time,” Hilkert said. Following the meeting, CAPS executive director John Dunkle assured Hilkert and NU Active We just never Minds that CAPS had the would fund resources to do an ENU addressit before and ing mennow we do. tal health. Dunkle John Dunkle, confirmed CAPS executive the prodirector gram will be funded through gifts from donors who do not wish to be named. “We just have never had the resources to do it before and now we do,” Dunkle said. Hilkert said that the meeting where the decision was made to create an ENU for Fall Quarter 2013 occurred prior to ASG passing a resolution on mental health last quarter. Dunkle said that while recent events both on campus and in the national news have fueled the debate about mental health resources, many of the improvements being made to mental health at NU are related to a strategic
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PRESERVATION PRESENTATION Bonnie Humphrey, NU director of design and construction, presents the University’s plan for a new six-story garage on North Campus. The commission hopes to vote on the proposal at their meeting next Tuesday, while the University hopes to begin construction in Febuary.
NU presents garage plan Committee skeptical about $220 million athletic complex By JOSEPH DIEBOLD and JILLIAN SANDLER daily senior staffers
The Evanston Preservation Commission challenged Northwestern representatives at a special meeting Thursday night after the University announced plans earlier in the day to begin construction next month on one part of the new North Campus athletic complex.
Members of the commission expressed skepticism at times during the more than two-and-a-half-hour-long meeting at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center, which featured University presentations from Bonnie Humphrey, director of design and construction, and Paul Weller, director of facilities planning. The most immediate topic of discussion was a parking garage, intended to replace current parking on North Campus, as part of the $220 million athletic complex announced in September. The garage has been proposed for the space immediately west of the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion and Norris Aquatics Center and will contain 1,125 parking
spots in a six-level structure, according to a University news release. These spaces will replace the approximately 400 spots that currently exist in the location, as well as another 450 spots that will be taken away when construction starts in May on a new building for the Kellogg School of Management. The garage will also contain space for a new weight room and fitness studios as well as offices for recreation and fitness staff, according to the news release. Construction is slated to begin in February, university spokesman Al Cubbage said. “The new facility will provide » See PRESERVATION, page 9
Ill. to grant immigrants permits Social media safer for job applicants By CIARA MCCARTHY
the daily northwestern
The passage of Senate Bill 957 on Tuesday will likely make Illinois the next state to grant undocumented immigrants the right to driver’s licenses. State officials estimate that as many as 250,000 Illinois residents could qualify for a Temporary Visitor Driver’s License under this bill. State Rep. Edward Acevedo (D-Chicago) sponsored the measure in the House, where the bill passed in a 65-46 vote. The bill first passed the Senate in December. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced in a news release Tuesday his intention to sign the bill into law. “I want to commend members of the Illinois House for their bipartisan passage of legislation that will help ensure every Illinois motorist is properly licensed and empower more immigrants to become stronger contributors to our economy,” Quinn said in the release. Grant Klinzman, a spokesperson for the governor, confirmed Thursday that Quinn would sign the legislation once it arrived in his office. The bill will take effect 10 months after Quinn’s approval, Klinzman said.
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Illinois is the first state since 2003 to pass such legislation, marking a major victory for immigrants’ rights groups such as the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. The bill will be implemented by the Illinois Secretary of State’s office. Henry Haupt, a spokesperson for the secretary, noted that a Temporary Visitor Driver’s License is not a valid form of identification and can only be used for driving
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purposes. Applicants for a TVDL must pass Illinois vision, written and road exams. Candidates must also have documented evidence of a year-long residence in Illinois along with other paperwork, Haupt said. A TVDL will remain valid for three years, after which it must be renewed. Supporters of the bill believe it will » See LICENSE, page 9
An Illinois law that went into effect Jan. 1 prohibits employers from asking for access to a job applicant’s social networking accounts. Gov. Pat Quinn signed the bill, which was sponsored by state Rep. La Shawn Ford (D-Chicago), in August. “It was the view of the government and the bill sponsor that it wasn’t appropriate for employers to ask for this kind of information,” said spokesperson Andrew Mason from the Illinois Governor’s Office. The law, which amended the state’s Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act, stipulates employers will have to focus on applicants’ resumes and not information found on their social media pages, Mason added. One of many students applying to internships, Weinberg sophomore Chandler Dutton said the new law is a bit of a relief for him. “The new law is good for my
search because now I don’t have to worry that an employer will be able to see the social media activity that I have kept private,” Dutton said. But Erin McElhenie, marketing and social It wasn’t speappropriate for media cialist at employers to the Youth ask for this kind Job Center, said the law of information. gives job applicants Andrew Mason, Illinois Governor’s “a fa ls e Office spokesman sense of security,” because employers could find other ways to see applicants’ personal information, such as through a Google search. Social media has always been a concern among students applying to jobs or internships, said Lonnie Dunlap, executive director of University Career Services.
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