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Security upped after intrusion Battery of student at dorm leads University to increase staff, hours By KELLI NGUYEN
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Residential Services has increased security staff and added additional security desk hours to residential buildings following the intruder incident at Allison Hall last Thursday. Additional officers will patrol the perimeter of residential buildings and security personnel will staff residential facility front desks two hours earlier for the duration of Spring Quarter. The enhanced security follows an incident last week in which a student was verbally threatened and physically battered by an unknown male who gained entrance to Allison, Executive Director of Residential Services Paul Riel said in an email to students who live on
campus. University spokesman Bob Rowley said University Police are investigating the incident with assistance from the Evanston Police Department. He said UP is following a number of leads but has not yet found the suspect. “Various departments, including University Police, are working really had to figure out what happened in this incident,” Rowley said. “We work really hard to make sure that we do everything we can to make sure students are safe. … The University is doing everything it can do to make sure that we guard against these kinds of incidents.” Riel could not be reach for comment Tuesday. Medill freshman Priyanka Godbole lives on the second floor of Allison, where the altercations began. She said she was in the building when the incident occurred. She said she didn’t immediately realize the severity of the situation. » See SECURITY, page 6
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PARK PLAYTIME Penny Park’s playground is set to begin reconstruction after Labor Day. City officials said the new structure will comply with Americans with Disabilities Act and federal playground safety standards.
Penny Park updates planned By RISHIKA DUGYALA
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ALERT AT ALLISON Police congregate outside Allison Hall to respond to reports of an intrusion and altercations. Residential Services has increased security across campus following the incident.
The demolition and reconstruction of Penny Park’s playground will begin after Labor Day, but city officials stressed the new structure would match the original’s wood design as much as possible, addressing resident concerns that the new park would lose its trademark style. “The plan is to rebuild Penny Park just like it is right now, with there being current 2016 codes,” said Dave
Stoneback, the city’s Public Works Agency director, at a 2nd Ward meeting last Thursday. At the meeting, held in the Joseph E. Hill Education Center at 1500 McDaniel Ave., Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) asked Stoneback to discuss summer plans that could impact the ward, including the Penny Park renovations, which are planned to kick off after Sept. 5. The park, located at 1500 Lake St. in the 2nd Ward, was originally constructed in 1990 through a community build process, according to city documents. However, the existing
playground’s lumber structure is now deteriorating and the playground does not follow current Americans with Disabilities Act requirements or playground safety standards from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the American Society for Testing and Materials, according to the documents. Last monday, City Council approved a $478,400 contract with the Elanar Construction Company to rebuild the park under the new codes. Stoneback said one minor difference » See PENNY PARK, page 6
Play based on vandalism debuts WNUR second stage Performance interprets Alice Millar incident By FATHMA RAHMAN
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Former School of Communication lecturer and playwright Elaine Romero wrote a short play based on the vandalism incident at Alice Millar Chapel. The show was performed Tuesday night at a Chicago theater. The seven-minute play, titled “Swastika,” is a jailhouse scene between a mother and her son — who was imprisoned for an act of vandalism — in which she confronts him for his actions. The performance was part of the American Blues Theater’s “Ripped: The Living Newspaper Festival.” “Plays always raise certain questions,” Romero said. “What if you were raised with certain values, but then you did something that is so ugly and hideous and your parent, who raised you not to be that way, came to jail and saw you?”
T h e n - We i nb e rg f re s h m e n Anthony Morales and Matthew Kafker were charged with felony vandalism in connection with graffiti found in Alice Millar Chapel in March. As of last month, the two students are no longer enrolled at Northwestern.
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I didn’t know before doing this piece that this actually happened. Roberto Jonson, actor
Romero said she was not retelling the event in her play, but instead “trying to get underneath the psychology of what it takes for somebody to do that.” Although her play doesn’t specify that it is derived from the incident at NU, she said it is made clear by the details in the scene. Roberto Jonson plays the role
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of the troubled son who draws a swastika inside a chapel and goes to prison for it. “I didn’t know before doing this piece that this actually happened,” Jonson said. “(Romero) dissected the true events behind the story at one rehearsal and explained it to us. It was very shocking.” More than anything, Jonson said he hopes people walk away feeling more aware about the news element of the play and acknowledge how these kinds of decisions can impact families. Carmen Roman, who plays the parent, said she hopes the audience finds a way to empathize with both the mother and son. Roman said she also thought about what role Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump played in the Alice Millar incident. In addition to a swastika and male genitalia, the two former students also painted the word » See PLAY, page 6
artists announced By EMILY CHIN
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WNUR announced Tuesday night its lineup for Dillo Day’s second stage, featuring DJ Derrick Carter and singer Colleen Green. The lineup also includes Akenya, a singer and pianist, and rappers Mister Wallace and Smino. The student-run radio station and Mayfest first partnered three years ago to include another stage at Dillo Day to add a new dimension to the festival, said Maddie Higgins, general manager of WNUR. WNUR aims to expose students to up-and-coming artists, with an emphasis on local artists, the Weinberg senior said. “It’s great because it allows for a style of music that draws a different type of Northwestern student,” she said. “There’s definitely a group of students at Northwestern who are more into underrepresented or underground sound. It
accesses a different part of the Northwestern community than is normally accessed by the main stage.” This year, WNUR collaborated with Studio 22, a student-run production company, to produce the second stage. In the past, they have worked with IndieU and Freshii. Although Studio 22 was not involved in the selection of artists for the second stage, they sponsored one-third of the booking budget, Higgins said. “We partnered with Studio 22 because it seems like the perfect pairing in our minds,” Higgins said. “RTVF is all in one title, so this seems like a perfect marriage of communications groups.” This year, WNUR is putting emphasis on bringing artists from Chicago or artists who are particularly popular in the city, said Weinberg senior Joe Greenbaum, music director for Streetbeat. WNUR also tries to bring artists that are representative of the station as a whole, Greenbaum said. » See WNUR, page 6
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