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Ban on non-local bakeries rescinded
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ELECTION KICK-OFF
Residents criticize Y.O.U. over contracts
Bakeries outside city will be allowed at farmers’ market
Organization says construction project exceeds standards
By BILLY KOBIN
By RISHIKA DUGYALA
Evanston officials announced last week they will not implement a ban on non-Evanston bakers contributing to the Downtown Evanston Farmers’ Market despite city staff internally agreeing to such a restriction last summer. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said in a memo on the city’s website on March 22 that the ban was put in place “based on complaints from some Evanston-based bakeries that there were too many out-of-town bakers represented at the market.” “Upon inquiry, I learned this change in rule was not shared in a timely basis by city staff with the bakers or the Friends of the Evanston Farmers’ Market,” Bobkiewicz wrote. “Bakers had already applied for the 2016 market and would have no ability to make other arrangements for the 2016 season when many learned of this change.” Seven out-of-town bakeries are set to appear again at this year’s market, which starts May 7 and is run by the city’s Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department. Evanstonbased Bennison’s Bakery and Great Harvest Bread Co. will be at the market as well. Skokie-based Sweety Pies Bakery has set up at the Downtown Evanston Farmers’ Market for the past four years, selling a variety of items including pies,
Community members are protesting the Youth & Opportunity United’s new construction project, asserting the organization has not employed enough local minority contractors. In building its new youth center and headquarters, which broke ground on March 21, executive director Seth Green said Y.O.U. surpassed Evanston’s goal to award 25 percent of contracts to minority-owned, woman-owned and locally-owned businesses. On its $4.5 million project, more than 30 percent of Y.O.U.’s contractors fit those categories, Green said. However, Lonnie Wilson, a protester and spokesperson for the Committee for Community Developmental Change, said although many of Y.O.U.’s hires are minority-owned, not enough minority-owned contractors are locally-owned. The benefit of working with locally-owned businesses is that they are are more likely to employ the residents of the neighborhood where the building is located, Wilson said. “We keep coming up with these programs and then we build these $4.5 million buildings in our neighborhood and we don’t allow the people who live there to be part of the process. It’s crazy,” he said. “You can’t have a program for the sons and the daughters and not have something for the fathers and the mothers.”
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HEAD TO HEAD Weinberg junior Joji Syed (left) and SESP junior Christina Cilento announced their Associated Student Government presidential bids Tuesday night.
Two juniors launch ASG campaigns By ERICA SNOW
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Weinberg junior Joji Syed and SESP junior Christina Cilento announced their bids to run for Associated Student Government president Tuesday night, beginning their nineday campaigns. Weinberg sophomore Archit Baskaran will run for executive vice president alongside Syed, and McCormick junior Macs Vinson will run with Cilento. Syed and Baskaran said they aim to better incorporate voices from different student groups and leverage
decision-making powers to aid them. Cilento and Vinson said they want to make ASG more responsive to marginalized students and make the University respond to those concerns. Both tickets emphasized a focus on amplifying underrepresented voices in student government. Syed currently serves as vice president for community relations, and Cilento is vice president for sustainability. Baskaran sits on the community relations committee and Vinson serves as vice president for student activities. Syed and Baskaran emphasized having a determined mindset and initiating a “paradigm shift” in how ASG works and impacts students on
campus, a platform highlighted by their slogan “A NU Deal.” “People (in ASG) tend to go with what has been successful in the past if something has been tried, and if it hasn’t been successful, students try to avoid that project,” Syed said. “For me, I’m very big on ‘give it a shot,’” she said of her involvement with the community relations committee, which she joined her freshman year. Syed said she was involved in bringing Divvy bikes to campus and collaborated with local elementary and middle schools to reach out to the Evanston community and make new resources available to students. » See ELECTION, page 6
» See MARKET, page 6
» See Y.O.U., page 6
Judge rules Alstory Simon’s lawsuit can move forward
Source: Brandon Kimber
HIS STORY Alstory Simon gives his account of his own conviction for double homicide in the documentary “A Murder in the Park,” released in July.
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Alstory Simon’s lawsuit against Northwestern and former Medill Prof. David Protess is allowed to proceed, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. In the suit, filed in February 2014, Simon alleges NU, his then-attorney Jack Rimland, Protess and a private investigator who worked with Protess’ Medill class “conspired to frame Simon for the murders.” Simon is seeking $40 million as redress for the time he spent in prison after he says he was wrongfully
incarcerated following what he says was a coerced confession to a double homicide. In a landmark case that garnered international attention and contributed to the end of the Illinois death penalty, a 1998 Medill class led by Protess found evidence that overturned a death sentence against Anthony Porter in the 1982 murders of Jerry Hillard and Marilyn Green. Porter was originally found guilty of the double homicide. Ciolino, the private investigator, obtained a video of Simon confessing to the killings. Simon pled guilty to charges of murder and manslaughter and was sentenced to 37 years in prison. However, Cook County prosecutors threw
out Simon’s conviction in October 2014 when questions were raised about the investigative methods of Protess’ class. Matthew Piers, Protess’ lawyer, stressed that the judge’s Tuesday ruling simply means that Simon can move forward with his suit, not that the allegations made by Simon’s lawyers in the suit occurred. He told The Daily he is confident Simon’s suit would not proceed further once the court could rule on “evidence rather than allegations.” University spokesman Al Cubbage declined to comment on behalf of the University. Neither Ciolino nor Rimland could be reached for comment. — Madeline Fox
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