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State doubles down after Flint Illinois look to better monitoring, testing of water lead levels By RISHIKA DUGYALA
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Although many Illinois communities such as Evanston have not experienced recent issues with lead poisoning, state officials are working to improve practices for monitoring and testing lead levels in the water in light of the crisis in Flint, Michigan and incidents in Illinois. In the past three years, there have been 19 lead action level exceedances among Illinois community water supplies, said Kim Biggs, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. However, after each of these 19 communities received their individual reports, Biggs said community officials took the additional steps to protect their water supplies as required by the Lead and Copper Rule, a treatment technique instructing public water systems to take certain actions to minimize lead and copper in
drinking water. In September 2015, Flint’s Hurley Medical Center released a study revealing the proportion of infants and children with above-average levels of lead in their blood nearly doubled after the city switched to using the Flint River as its water source in 2014. Evanston’s water production bureau chief Darrell King said the city has not experienced any issues with lead since 1992 when the water department added a protective layer of phosphate into the water treatment plant’s pipes, preventing lead from contaminating the water. King said Evanston was awarded reduced monitoring status and only has to sample the water for lead every three years because of the success of their safety precautions. The city has yet to exceed the lead action level of 15 parts per billion in more than 10 percent of their samples since the addition of the phosphate barrier, King said. “What happened in Flint, Michigan is completely different. They changed water sources and it created a lot of problems, more than just lead,” King said. “In Evanston, our water source hasn’t changed. We use Lake Michigan » See LEAD, page 7
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SHAVED HEADS Weinberg sophomore Bethany Ketchem (right) shares a moment with her mother after getting her head shaved Saturday to support St. Baldrick’s, a pediatric cancer research foundation.
RTVF program to Cats tie record with 23rd win add refugee resident Men’s Tennis
By BENJY APELBAUM
the daily northwestern @benjyapelbaum
Northwestern is inching closer to history. The No. 15 Wildcats (23-2, 9-0 Big Ten) secured their 23rd win of the season, tying the single-season program record for wins, thanks to a 4-0 triumph over Michigan State (10-16, 0-9) on Sunday. This came after the team defeated No. 21 Michigan (17-6, 6-3) 4-1 on Friday. “The guys are performing at a high level,” coach Arvid Swan said. “Our goals are still ahead of us and we want to finish strong. … We know we have to be ready, we know the Big Ten championship is on the line this coming weekend and our guys will be up for it.” Before tying the record, the Cats had to first take care of Michigan on Friday. NU got off to a good start by winning a competitive doubles point, taking second and third doubles. The Cats doubles dominance is a familiar sight — they have yet to lose a match this season when they win the doubles point. NU’s singles lineup also performed well, especially at the top. Juniors Konrad Zieba and Sam Shropshire won their matches at first and second singles in straight sets, by scores of 6-3, 7-5 and 6-2, 6-3, respectively. Freshman Ben Vandixhorn continued to roll en route to his 14th dual victory of the year, good for second most on the team behind junior Strong Kirchheimer.
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“It was a really great performance,” Swan said. “We played with a lot of energy in doubles and really
throughout the entire match. Michigan is a great opponent so we knew we had to play at our best.” After handling Michigan, NU hosted Michigan State — a team that has not won in the Big Ten this season — for the Cats’ final home game of the regular season. Seniors Mihir Kumar and Fedor Baev had their careers honored in a Senior Day ceremony before the match. NU then went on to dominate the Spartans in a 4-0 shutout that was barely competitive. However, the team suffered a » See MEN’S TENNIS, page 7
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23 AND COUNTING Ben Vandixhorn eyes the ball before a forehand. The freshman won No. 6 singles against Michigan but did not finish his match against Michigan State.
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By JULIA DORAN
the daily northwestern @_juliadoran
The School of Communication will offer a refugee living in the United States an artist-scholar residency position for the next academic year in the Department of Radio, Television and Film. Galya Ruffer, the director of the Buffett Institute for Global Studies’ Center for Forced Migration Studies, said the position will preserve and showcase the work of a refugee that would otherwise be lost in resettlement. “When you use the word ‘refugee’ it conjures up the idea of somebody who’s somehow different, but then you meet one and you realize they’re a whole lot like us,” Ruffer said. The selected refugee will be a recognized artist in a field of communication with his or her work produced or published in well-known venues or outlets, and will teach three courses during the residency, according to the job posting. Ruffer said the position was created through a collaboration between her program and the School of Communication after the idea was proposed by officials from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. “We’ll get to see art from another part of the world that we might have never had an opportunity to access,” she said. She said the position reflects recent efforts of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to encourage institutions to find new ways to integrate refugees into society.
“Now that it’s on the public agenda, it’s great to see this kind of transformation with new employers stepping up and trying to help refugees get back into the same work they’ve been doing,” Ruffer said. “The whole point is to harness the great skills these people bring.” RTVF Prof. David Tolchinsky, the chair of the department, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Shweta Moorthy, a visiting scholar in the Center for Forced Migration Studies who teaches at Northern Illinois University, said efforts such as this would help counteract the widespread hostility and skepticism that refugees currently face. “We ignore the positive implications of having refugees in our countries,” she said. “It’s important for refugees to be seen as human beings — people with life, experience, skills, talents, personalities and with things that bring them happiness and things that bring them sadness.” Ruffer said being exposed to the refugee’s art will allow students to appreciate the fluidity of his or her work as they watch it adapt to the new culture, setting and audience. She also said she wants to broaden this initiative’s reach in the future. “Right now, this program is taking someone who’s already here, but I hope that as we expand this program, we can be able to open this up to people who were not yet resettled, to expand the paths through which people can come,” she said. juliadoran2018@u.northwestern.edu
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