The Daily Northwestern Thursday, January 25, 2018
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Evanston man injured in arrest Police handcuff man mistaken for robbery suspect By NIKKI BAIM
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Former Feinberg Prof. Alice Dreger. Dreger discusses sexuality and academic freedom at a talk sponsored by Northwestern’s Queer Pride Graduate Student Association. Dreger resigned from NU in 2015.
Former prof discusses censorship
In a return to campus, Alice Dreger says retraction ‘broke her heart’ By ADRIAN WAN
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Former NU Prof. Alice Dreger said when the University censored work addressing sexuality, they violated academic freedom and “broke her heart.” Dreger, a former Feinberg School of Medicine professor, resigned in 2015 after she alleged NU censored
the faculty-edited magazine Atrium. Speaking to about 30 attendees on Wednesday, she discussed academic freedom and obstacles in research on sexuality. As guest editor of Atrium’s Winter 2014 issue, Dreger edited a controversial essay describing the author’s experience of a nurse performing consensual oral sex on him after he was paralyzed at age 18. Digital issues of the magazine were
later retracted after NU officials raised concerns about the article. After she said the Feinberg dean’s office failed to address her concerns over censorship, Dreger resigned. Dreger said the retraction of the magazine points to a larger issue of censorship and academic freedom. Dreger said she feels that administrators worry more about how much money an article will bring in rather than its scholarship.
“If we have the situation where Northwestern medical school’s dean has the right to decide what people are allowed to read, to know and to say,” Dreger said in her talk. “The right … to learn and to go forward is taken from us. It’s severely disappointing.” At the event, sponsored by Northwestern’s Queer Pride Graduate Student Association, » See DREGER, page 6
A 60-year old Evanston man was injured Monday when he was handcuffed by Evanston Police after they mistook him for an armed robbery suspect. Two officers approached Gregory Hall as he was leaving the Evanston Public Library south branch, located at 900 Chicago Ave., around 5 p.m. Police were searching for suspects in an armed robbery at 920 Chicago Ave. that occurred around 4:30 p.m., Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said. Hall, who is black, said two officers approached him as he was crossing the street in front of the library. The officers drew their guns and commanded him to stop. Hall said he was handcuffed and frisked amid his objections. Police searched through Hall’s pockets for a gun and patted him down. The handcuffs were too tight and police forced him down to his knees, Hall said. “I’ll never forget this the rest of my life,” he said. “They said that I had just committed an armed robbery and had a gun. … I’ve never owned a gun in my life.”
Police said Hall — who had his hood up and was wearing multiple layers of clothing — matched the description of the suspect from the armed robbery. The suspect was described as a black male in his 50s to 60s with a scruffy beard. One witness to the robbery said the suspect wore a plaid shirt, police said. Hall said he was wearing a blue Champion t-shirt. Elisha Hall, the son of Gregory Hall, said his father does not have a scruffy beard. Gregory Hall said he asked the police repeatedly to ask the librarian if he had just come from the library, but they refused. Glew said Hall was not physically resistive, but was not “very cooperative.” Police instead brought the woman who was robbed to see if she could identify Hall. She said she didn’t know, but added that Hall was not wearing a plaid shirt. “When people are leaving the area, they will shed clothes or put on clothes,” Glew said. “Clothing description is good, but not always the most reliable.” Police released Gregory Hall a few minutes later when the suspect was located in another part of Evanston. The suspect police found was 5-foot-8 and “thicker in build.” Gregory Hall described himself as a “thin man” who is 6-foot-2. » See POLICE, page 6
Evanston residents Senate to allocate budget surplus respond to tax bill Student Enrichment Services to receive half of leftover $20k Residents rush to prepay taxes after new legislation By ALAN PEREZ
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After taxpayers rushed to prepay property taxes after the Republican tax bill was passed in December, Cook County announced it is removing fees for online tax payments. The initiative is a “change designed to boost the growing number of taxpayers who make electronic payments,” according to a news release from the office of the Cook County Treasurer, Maria Pappas. The removal of the $1 fee, which taxpayers were previously required to pay, will make payments more “convenient,” the release said. The move comes after nearly 4,000 Evanston residents prepaid their property taxes in hopes of delaying the effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which capped
the State and Local Tax deduction at $10,000. The cap on the deduction — which exempts income paid on state and local taxes from federal taxes — will predominantly impact Americans in high-tax jurisdictions like Evanston, where taxpayers were previously allowed an unlimited deduction. The tax overhaul was advertised by Republicans as a relief for the middle class, with President Donald Trump calling it a “gift” to the middle class. But many of the tax cuts in the new law are offset by the elimination of some current provisions. Tina Foster, a 5th Ward resident, said though the state and local deductions limit won’t affect her immediately, she expects it will in the future, saying she is worried that new developments may increase Evanston property values. She said she opposes developers’ efforts to build more high-rise buildings and turn the “quaint little college town” into “Little Chicago.” » See TAXES, page 6
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By ALEXIS WHITE
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Associated Student Government president Nehaarika Mulukutla announced in Wednesday’s
Senate meeting that the group currently has a $20,000 surplus due to a budget misallocation. “As an executive board, we just got to decide what we were going to do with it,” Mulukutla said. She said the executive board had already decided to allocate
$10,000 of the sum to Student Enrichment Services. Chief of staff Lars Benson told The Daily that ASG decided to donate the $10,000 to the SES Student Activities Scholarship Fund in addition to the $10,000 ASG has donated
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Associated Student Government chief of staff Lars Benson presents to ASG on Wednesday. During the meeting, ASG announced they had a $20,000 surplus.
annually to SES for the past three years. “The fund is available to students who need money to participate in extracurricular activities,” Benson said. “So this can be anything from club sports, to Greek life dues, to trips to Chicago.” The extra money came from a student group that applied for an additional $20,000 from the University for their budget last year, speaker Daniella Lumpkin told The Daily. She said the money was intended for an event, but it wasn’t spent and rolled back at the end of Fall Quarter into the general A-status group funds. The remaining $10,000 is not yet allocated, but Lumpkin said ASG is evaluating which departments would best use the funding to make the greatest impact on the student body. “(Mid-October), we were in communication with that student group as well as different administrators that were involved … about what should we be doing,” the Weinberg senior said. » See ASG, page 6
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