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International Baggage Northwestern grapples with unique needs of international students as percentage of foreign undergraduates grows
Recommendations now await approval by Student Affairs By MARIANA ALFARO
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The Black House Facility Review Committee submitted its final report to the Office of Student Affairs, recommending the University upgrade the building and restructure the facility’s programming and leadership. The committee’s final report, which became public Sunday, will be reviewed by Patricia Telles-Irvin, the vice president for student affairs, who will make a final decision on the recommendations this summer. The report, which is the result of the committee’s months-long examination of the Black House’s facilities and role on campus, details different ways Student Affairs can work to enhance the Black House and black students’ experiences on campus. Recommendations include reinstituting the associate dean-level position for African American Student Affairs, a role which disappeared after Student Affairs was restructured, as well as adding a soundproof practice room, an elevator and a free printing station to the Black House. The committee announced the news Sunday through the Northwestern University Black Alumni Association’s website
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By SOPHIA BOLLAG
daily senior staffer @sophiabollag
The opportunity to work as a journalist in South Africa helped convince Sofia Rada she wanted to attend Northwestern. “Because the adrenaline found in exploring unknown territory excites me, I would jump on the opportunity to complete my (journalism) residency in South Africa,” Rada wrote in her application essay four years ago. “Working in a country completely foreign to me
would ... push me to achieve greatness in an unfamiliar setting.” Once she was admitted, Rada, now a Medill junior, started planning her education around doing her journalism residency — a mandatory internship for all Medill students — in South Africa. She was accepted to the South Africa program, completed all the necessary coursework and worked with NU’s International Program Development office to submit her application for a South African visa. But years of work and planning fell through two weeks before she was supposed to leave. Rada is a Mexican
citizen, and just before her departure she learned South Africa had denied her a visa to intern in the country. Instead of packing for the trip she had been anticipating for years, Rada scrambled to rearrange her academic plans as she said goodbye to her American classmates. They hadn’t run into the same problem because U.S. citizens don’t require visas to travel to South Africa for 90 days or fewer. “Me being able to go to this school, it’s beyond words how extremely lucky I am, and I understand that international students have a lot of benefits ... but that doesn’t mean that we don’t
have to face all these other obstacles that American students don’t have to face,” Rada told The Daily. “This school operates under the assumption that you’re American.” Rada is part of a growing percentage of foreign students at NU. For the first time, international students are projected to make up more than 10 percent of next year’s entering class. As the school welcomes more nonAmericans, administrators are faced with new challenges to help these students find jobs, travel and navigate a » See INTERNATIONAL, page 4
» See BLACK HOUSE, page 7
Hospital transports up, citations down on Dillo Day
Police said 28 people were transported to the hospital due to alcohol intoxication during Dillo Day on Saturday, up from 22 people during 2014’s festival. The Evanston Police Department shut down 19 parties, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said, and citations were issued for three of the parties. In addition, four citations were issued for public urination, one for having fake identification, one for possession of cannabis and one for possession of alcohol
in public. Police handed out 19 citations during last year’s Dillo Day. For the third year in a row, no one was arrested. Evanston police received 49 calls related to Dillo Day activities, Dugan said. He added that it is difficult to compare to last year, when the festival was canceled. “The calls seemed to come in later on this year, because last year it was shut down because of the weather,” Dugan said. “Looking at the numbers, it was a busy day.” Juliet Freudman contributed reporting. — Shane McKeon
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Council rejects massage rule By NORA SHELLY
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City Council rejected an ordinance that would regulate massage and bodywork establishments Monday night. “What we were trying to accomplish was a very specific, discrete thing which was generally if someone is operating an illegal, improper business, probably without state licensing … the police department needs a way to shut down the bad business,” said Ald. Donald Wilson (4th), who voted against the ordinance. “We have to maintain order, we have to maintain legality, but this just goes way … beyond that.” The massage ordinance was introduced before the council in March, but was held after complaints from many Evanston massage therapists and bodyworkers made it clear they did not approve of the ordinance. According to City Council documents, city staff has since worked with many massage therapists and bodyworkers to revise the proposed regulations. The revised proposed ordinance removed items such as the
requirements to have on-site gender-separated changing rooms and to post prominently the price ranges for massages in the reception area. The ordinance voted down Monday night would have required massage therapists and bodyworkers to register with the city and implemented various other requirements, such as prohibiting an individual convicted of prostitution, rape, sexual misconduct or any other similar crime from being licensed. Additionally, it would have required that the rooms in which massages are performed be able to be unlocked from the interior and prohibited massage therapists and bodyworkers from touching the sexual or genital area or advertising their age, gender or physical attributes. “It’s kind of convoluted and complicated,” Evanston massage therapist Sarah McLaughlin told The Daily. “Ultimately I think that what they were looking for is something very simple and it’s just not that simple.” Although she says she would not have issues with an ordinance that required licensing and was appreciative of the city’s efforts to get input from industry professionals,
Mclaughlin said any future ordinance just “has to make sense.” The ordinance was originally proposed to address illicit behavior from a specific establishment, said Ald. Delores Holmes (5th), who voted for the ordinance. Holmes said she and Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) received an email earlier this year from Evanston Township High School parents who were concerned with a business on Church Street their children frequently walked past that appeared to be involved in illicit activities. Although the ordinance may be overkill, Holmes said there needed to be a middle ground so businesses that were breaking the law could be shut down. “I think that having the police close the bad guys down is what we always want, but the police have to have something in order to be able to close them down,” she said. “It is about having some regulations that will keep this kind of thing from happening.” Holmes told The Daily that she was also in support of regulating other service businesses, like nail or beauty shops, to prevent crime. » See MASSAGE, page 7
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