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Student panelists speak at an event about inequality on campus. The discussion, held by psychology department faculty, was funded by the Provost Awards for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity.
Panel addresses inequality at NU Psychology department hosts talk to improve campus inclusion By CATHERINE KIM
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During a Tuesday discussion with psychology department faculty, student panelists shared their experiences of inequality on campus and institutional solutions to the issue.
The talk, which attracted approximately 120 people at the McCormick Foundation Center Forum, is the first installment in a series of events held by the psychology department to focus on the psychology of inequality. The series is funded by the Provost Awards for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity, which are provided to faculty members
who work to improve inclusion on campus. First-year graduate student Ivan Hernandez said he first became interested in inequality after being admitted into Northwestern. Until his admission, he said he never realized his struggles –– both social and financial –– as the child of Mexican immigrants were not widely
shared experiences. “When both of my parents worked, I cared for my siblings, and there’s five of us,” he said. “I started working just after I turned 12. But I just thought this was normal, right? It wasn’t until college where I found out that that definitely wasn’t the case.” » See INEQUALITY, page 6
believes it is the first major journalism professorship to focus on the topic. Foster said the position was established through an endowment provided by the husband of By WILSON CHAPMAN the late Renberg (Medill ’52). The the daily northwestern committee worked to narrow a @wilsonchapman10 field of 60 applicants to five finalists, who were invited to Medill to Steven Thrasher, a 2012 recipi- host lectures about LGBTQ topent of the National Lesbian and ics. After reviewing the lectures, Gay Journalists Association’s Jour- the committee decided to offer nalist of the Year Award, will join Thrasher the position. 4x4lecheight the Medill School of Journalism “Thrasher gave a terrific in 2019. ture, and we ultimately decided Thrasher, who has written that he was the best man for the about LGBTQ issues for pub- job,” Foster said. lications including The New Thrasher said he is excited Half page York Times, The Guardian and to join the Medill faculty and Buzzfeed, will join the Univer- already established goals for the sity as the inaugural Daniel H. new position. One of his primary Syllabus Yearbook Renberg chair, a newly created focuses as the chair, he said, will be position in which he will lead to establish programs and classes programming on LGBTQ issues that examine media coverage of and teach classes on similar sub- sexual and gender minorities. jects. Associate dean of Medill Though he won’t join NU until Charles Whitaker said Thrasher’s next year, Thrasher said he has combined experience in journal- already started developing ideas ism and academia makes him a for classes that can help fulfill good fit for Medill. those goals. These tentative plans “Thrasher is both an accom- include classes on 21st-century plished journalist and an social movements and journalistic accomplished academic, and his narrative framing. strengths in both fields will make He also said while his position him a great addition Medill’s the is through Medill, he willfolder work Plsto check classifieds faculty,” Whitaker said. with other departments such as dailynorthwestern .camPusave . Medill Prof. and Douglas Foster, the American studies program, chair of a faculty search committee com every day :> looking to fill the position, said he » See THRASHER, page 6
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Journalist Megan Twohey reflects on career’s success By JULIA ESPARZA
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Megan Twohey learned how to swim at the McGaw YMCA, took a journalism class at Evanston Township High School and would catch up with friends at Tommy Nevin’s Pub. Now, Twohey is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the New York Times article that exposed years of sexual abuse allegedly committed by Harvey Weinstein. In April, Twohey won a Pulitzer Prize for public service and was also named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in 2018. “ Their hard work and impeccable journalism have changed attitudes, behavior, conversations, norms, laws and policies, yielding enormous personal and public good,” actress Ashley Judd wrote in a Time Magazine piece about Twohey, Jodi Kantor and
Ronan Farrow, the reporting team that received the title. Twohey told The Daily the article had been months in the making. “(We) were just staggered to see our coverage become part of this broader world-wide reckoning on sexual harassment and abuse,” she said. Twohey grew up in a “journalism family.” She said her father was an editor at the Chicago Tribune and her mother was a television news producer. She said she was raised to question “the establishment.” “Coming up in an economically and racially diverse school system was significant for me,” Twohey said. “The Evanston public school system forced me to examine issues of economic, social and racial justice.” She said when she was a teen, Medill Prof. Alex Kotlowitz’s reporting on public housing in Chicago “stuck with her.” She cited his work as one of the pieces that inspired her to become a journalist because it demonstrated the power reporters have to “pull back the curtain” on instances of injustice. » See TWOHEY, page 6
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menu in the works. relatively quick move, which file with The space is similarly sizedsolution, ruled outDrag a construction-based to the previous location —(previous relocation, and there day’s date)weren’t sud-s.tif without the outdoor area —into many options for large enough small box, fit proportionwhich was one of the reasons spaces that had previously ally Strom decided to move the housed a restaurant. business there. He said the restaurant needed to make a » See PRAIRIE MOON, page 6
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