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Dave’s owner turns down loan Dave Glatt’s daughter starts crowdfunding campaign By DAVID FISHMAN
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Lauren Duquette/Daily Senior Staffer
PULITZER CENTENNIAL Journalist James Risen speaks at the McCormick Foundation Center Forum. Risen, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, criticized the media’s coverage of the Islamic State.
Risen talks national security By SHANSHAN ZHANG
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Journalist James Risen, who said the FBI spied on him while he was writing a book about post-9/11 America, told journalism students Friday they should view the government
skeptically. “Remember to take time to dig in deeper,” he said. “That, to me, is the thing that is getting lost today. People are not willing to just push back.” Risen (Medill ‘78), a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his reporting on national security, criticized journalists’ coverage of the Islamic State, as well as discussed his
experience reporting on the Central Intelligence Agency. More than 40 people attended the event, held at the McCormick Foundation Center Forum. The event was part of a daylong symposium hosted by the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications » See PULITZER, page 6
The owner of Dave’s Italian Kitchen, which closed its location on Chicago Avenue last month, will no longer pursue a loan from the city and will instead rely on individual donations to help fund a new restaurant on Noyes Street. “This is easier and it’s more politically palatable,” Dave Glatt said. “The only people we’re getting money from are people who are a) getting something in return and b) have voluntarily donated.” After the 44-year-old Evanston restaurant shut its doors April 11 due to financial woes and profit loss, Glatt said he worked with the city to find a new, smaller space for the restaurant. The city subsequently offered him a nearly $30,000 loan for kitchen equipment — approved by the Economic Development Committee and scheduled for a vote by
City Council on May 9 — but Glatt said he did not end up needing the money. Instead, he started an online fundraiser which by Sunday night had received about a quarter of its $21,000 goal. The decision to turn down the city’s money came after Glatt said he received a donation of kitchen equipment from a friend, which reduced his financial need. He added that he did not want to deal with the paperwork of a new loan despite the city’s generous lending rates. “This project began with the city beckoning to me and so explicit in that was that they would arrange some kind of financing,” he said. “I thought that would have just been it.” Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said crowdfunding seemed like the “most appropriate” way to handle raising money for the new restaurant. Wilson, who sits on the Economic Development Committee but was not present at the April meeting, said he has consistently voted down loans to Evanston businesses. “Public money is not for investing in private businesses,” he said. “The » See DAVE’S, page 6
Prof talks origns of racism at Buffett Institute event By MATTHEW CHOI
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The West did not begin to reject racism until it affected Europeans, Weinberg Prof. Barnor Hesse argued at his talk Friday hosted by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies. During his talk, “Racism’s Alterity,” Hesse described how the West grew to reject certain aspects of racism in the mainstream by discussing the origins, evolution and current state of contemporary racism. Political science Prof. Brian Hanson, director of research and strategic planning at the
PHA apologizes for delayed response to banners
Northwestern’s Panhellenic Association apologized to its chapters Saturday morning via email for what it
Buffett Institute, introduced Hesse at the beginning of the talk, which was followed by a Q&A with the audience of about 80 people. Hesse, who teaches in the departments of African American studies, sociology and political science, focused on racism in the context of World War II, Nazism and colonialism to illustrate its evolution on a global scale. “(Critiquing racism) emerges at the point of wanting to critique the violation of white populations, so that its conceptual lineage has little to nothing to do with non-white populations,” Hesse said. Hesse described the history of racism, arguing racism in its current form
began in the 1890s in the context of anti-Semitism and nationalism in Europe. The word racism, Hesse said, originally referred to the belief in the existence and significance of one’s race, then often synonymous with one’s nationality. Western powers began to reject racism during World War II, Hesse said, as Nazi Germany began to colonize the rest of Europe, treating Jewish and Slavic people as subhuman. Hesse said this rejection of racism, however, was restricted to white people and did nothing to confront their own beliefs of white supremacy exercised in colonizing parts of Africa and Asia. “The western, liberal, colonial
regimes, in order to critique Nazism, is making the implicit argument (Jewish people) are white, and you’re violating white populations,” Hesse said. “Because if they conceded that they were not white … they would have to say something about all of the nonwhite populations who were being violated with colonialism.” Hesse said the fear of colonization of Europe that was not matched with an equal resentment toward colonization of people of color represents the Western-centered views on racism in the early 20th century. These ideas based in colonialism continue to influence contemporary understanding of racism today.
Hanson said he appreciated the global view of racism Hesse provided. An international understanding of racism in the world aligns with the mission of the Buffett Institute in educating on global issues, he said. “One of the things the Buffett Institute tries to do is to link people together in new ways,” Hanson said. “And one of the things I hope we’ve accomplished with this is get people … to be introduced in the way that Barnor is thinking about these things, to be able to hopefully then engage in dialogue.” Weinberg sophomore Callie Leone
called a delayed public response to the recent Sexual Assault Awareness Month banners controversy. In its statement, PHA noted the effort was well-intentioned, but that it was “triggering and silencing” for women affected by sexual violence. “Over the last week, we have come to fully comprehend the negative
consequences of our silence,” the PHA executive board said in the email. “We sincerely apologize to every member of the Panhellenic community that we hurt and disappointed with our lack of immediate response.” NU Interfraternity Council faced criticism for banners that several
fraternities hung outside their houses with messages such as “It’s everyone’s problem” and “We support survivors.” Some students criticized the banner effort, saying IFC should do more to combat sexual assault. PHA announced that it will host a community forum Monday evening for PHA members to voice their
concerns and offer feedback to PHA’s executive board, the email said. PHA’s executive board will also meet with IFC’s executive board Monday evening to discuss the campaign’s impact and how to move forward.
» See RACISM, page 6
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