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Travel order impacts students Executive order has students fearing for future By MATTHEW CHOI and KRISTINA KARISCH daily senior staffers @matthewchoi2018, @ kristinakarsich Jeffrey Wang/Daily Senior Staffer
Protesters rally outside Harris Hall against President Trump’s recent executive order. The protest, organized by Immigrant Justice Project and other groups, was held Wednesday afternoon.
Hundreds protest against Trump order By CATHERINE KIM
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Hundreds of students and faculty gathered outside the Multicultural Center on Wednesday afternoon to demonstrate against President Trump’s recent immigration action, the culmination of an orchestrated walkout from classes in protest of the executive order. Participants left academic buildings and residence halls at
3:10 p.m. to meet at the building on Sheridan road, after which several speakers — mostly Muslim students — addressed the crowd. A list of demands to the University were then presented after the crowd marched to Harris Hall, such as ceasing the use of E-Verify — which some criticize as dangerous to undocumented students and faculty — and providing free housing during breaks to students who cannot return to their home countries. Weinberg sophomore Rowan Hussein, who immigrated from
Sudan at age 8, said she feels unwanted by her own country because of her background. Though she takes pride in embodying the “intersection of four resilient identities” — black, Muslim, woman and immigrant — she said she is angry that some fail to respect those identities. “When you say ‘ban,’ you are not just erasing my identity,” she said. “You are erasing me.” The “#NoMuslimBan Walkout” was organized by the Immigrant Justice Project and various other groups on campus
in response to Trump’s order, a 90-day ban prohibiting citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — from entering the United States. The executive order also blocks refugees from entering the country for 120 days, and it prevents Syrian refugees from entering indefinitely. Walkout organizers collected more than $1,000 in donations to the National Immigrant Justice Center and the Council on American Islamic Relations in Chicago.
Communication junior Aneesa Abdul-Fattaah Johnson, who is Muslim, described her father as the strongest man she knows. She said it is scary that her family has to worry about what’s next for Muslims in the United States. “My dad is scared, and that really means something to me that the fear has gotten to that level where the person who is a pillar in my life is afraid too,” she said in front of the crowd. Abdul-Fattaah Johnson » See PROTEST, page 6
Illinois senators NU Republicans in new era consider cabinet By AMANDA SVACHULA
By NORA SHELLY
daily senior staffer @noracshelly
Both Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) voted against the nomination of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson today and have shown opposition to other Trump
administration nominees. In a statement, Durbin said he was “deeply disturbed” that Tillerson was not concerned with the Russian cyber attacks during the election reported by national intelligence agencies and that he would potentially drop sanctions » See NOMINEES, page 6
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Last Thursday, College Republicans treasurer David Donnelly dismissed the idea that President Trump would actually go through with an immigration ban, which he had proposed during his campaign. “He’s already said he’s not going to do the Muslim ban,” the McCormick junior told The Daily last week. “That was
a little political trip.” But the next day, the 45th president signed an executive order suspending the entry of citizens from seven Muslimmajority countries for 90 days, halting entrance of refugees for 120 days and of Syrian refugees indefinitely. Since his inauguration, Trump has signed seven executive orders and 11 memoranda. He has started implementing his campaign promises for a wall at the U.S.-Mexican border, appointed a new Supreme
Court justice and called for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. As Trump’s decisions face backlash, Northwestern’s College Republicans chapter has struggled to settle on the organization’s stance on his presidency. While some have supported the president since his 2016 campaign, others are voicing concerns about his controversial actions. The group’s vice president Julia Cohen said the election
» See REPUBLICANS, page 6
NLRB memo addresses NU By MAX GELMAN
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Sen. Dick Durbin looks on at then-Representative Tammy Duckworth as she accepts victory in her race for the Senate in November.
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The National Labor Relations Board general counsel made public Tuesday an advice memorandum expressing his position that college football players at private universities can legally seek compensation and improved working conditions.
The memorandum referenced the case in which some members of Northwestern’s football team moved to unionize in January 2014. A regional board sided with the players in March of that year, but the NLRB rejected the petition altogether in August 2015, declining to rule on the case and effectively declaring that student-athletes should not be considered employees. Citing evidence that
Azza Akasha, a Feinberg School of Medicine graduate student, always imagined that her first interview with a reporter would be about a discovery she had made or a medical breakthrough she had done. “Anything,” Akasha said, “but not my nationality.” Akasha, a Sudanese citizen, studies at Northwestern on an F-1 visa. Sudan is one of the Muslim-majority countries targeted in an executive order President Donald Trump signed Friday, which also bars citizens of Syria, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia from entering the United States for 90 days — a timeline that could be extended with another motion. The order also blocks refugees from entering the country for 120 days and prevents Syrian refugees from entering indefinitely. Since Trump signed the order, the University has attempted to organize a response and provide resources for students, faculty and staff who are citizens of those countries. Currently, there are 71 international students and scholars who hold citizenship in an affected country. University President Morton Schapiro sent two university-wide emails responding to the executive order and stating the administration would not reveal the immigration status of its students, faculty or staff. Several University deans, faculty members and staffers have sent similar emails offering support and expressing solidarity. But that has not assuaged the concerns of students who read the news with the knowledge that they or their families could be affected by the Trump administration’s actions.
college football programs and the NCAA regulate “players’ hourly tasks from the time they wake up until the appointed hour that they go to sleep,” the counsel stated that scholarship football players possess employment rights protected under the law. The lawyer’s position would not solely apply to Northwestern, but also to
Unexpected challenges Third-year computer science Ph.D. student Neda Rohani, who is an Iranian citizen studying on a student visa, said she came to the United States in 2012 because there were better job opportunities here than in Europe or Iran. She said she had hoped to work in the country for several years after graduating. Above all, though, she said
» See NLRB, page 3
» See STUDENTS, page 3
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