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Abortion law requires minors to notify guardian By NATALIE CHUN
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lecturer on medicine at the Harvard Medical School and a higher education administration fellow. In his time as chief diversity officer, Bennett created the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion. Since its inception, the office has sponsored and taken part in the University’s first Staff Engagement Survey Recommendation Implementation Team for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. “It is irrefutable that Jabbar has helped the University to better articulate, refine and focus its global diversity and inclusion efforts over the past several years,” Provost Jonathan Holloway said in a University news release. Bennett expanded the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion to host
For the past six years, Illinois has enforced the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Law, which requires minors to notify a parent, grandparent, step-parent or legal guardian before they may get an abortion, but some groups are pushing for the law to be repealed. In March of last year, a bill was brought to the Illinois legislature to repeal the law, and has since passed the Senate Public Health Committee. The bill is now awaiting a full vote in the Senate. Personal PAC, a statewide prochoice PAC, has supported this bill and the repeal of the Parental Notice of Abortion Law. Personal PAC CEO and President Terry Cosgrove said the group hopes to have enough votes early in the Senate General Assembly’s spring session for the bill to move to the House. Cosgrove said he takes issue with the law because it limits the type of health care young women can receive. He said when a young woman becomes pregnant in Illinois, she can carry the baby to term and have a cesarean section, all without telling her parents. The only medical decision that a pregnant minor cannot make without parental notification is having an abortion, according to the Illinois Health and Hospital Association. “It is wrong, and it puts the health and lives of teenagers at risk,” Cosgrove said. “She can ask for PrEP, the HIV prevention pill, contraception, suicide counseling, HIV testing, a whole bunch of services, but the only thing that she has to involve her parents in is the abortion decision, which is designed solely to prevent young women from getting the medical care they need and deserve.” Cosgrove also said fear is often the most traumatic part of the abortion process, especially for minors experiencing physical or sexual abuse at home. Mary Kate Knorr, executive director at Illinois Right to Life, said she agreed that in cases where the guardian abuses the pregnant minor, “the law is flawed.” However, she also said the law addresses these flaws with some exemptions for parental abuse. If minors live in abusive homes or feel unsafe notifying a parent or guardian, they may present their
» See BENNETT, page 6
» See ABORTION, page 6
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Junior guard Lindsey Pulliam drives the ball. Northwestern won 71-69 over Indiana in overtime in a game that places the Wildcats at the ton of the Big Ten.
By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH
daily senior staffer @2021_charlie
Before Northwestern upset Indiana and before the Wildcats became the first place team in the Big Ten, Veronica Burton fell down to the court with her right arm bracing the
fall. Down three points with 28 seconds left, the sophomore forward just helped NU get a pivotal stop and made an andone layup on the other end of the floor. But she still had to get up and make the free throw to tie the score and send the game to overtime. Burton said that hit left her sore the rest of the
game, but she made the free throw and scored four more points in the extra period to lead NU to its most unlikely win of the season. The Cats have faced adversity several times this season, and Thursday they trailed by 12 points in the middle of the fourth quarter. This time, it was Burton who kept NU’s
NCAA Tournament aspirations on track. Burton scored 15 points to lead the Cats (15-2, 5-1 Big Ten) to a 71-69 win over the No. 15 Hoosiers (14-4, 4-2), making NU the first place team in the conference. “I knew I didn’t want to go through all that to lose that game,” Burton said. “No matter
what, no matter how I was feeling, I had to put them in the net. We all were laying it out there on the line.” The Cats haven’t made the NCAA Tournament in four seasons, and last year they lost four of their five conference games decided by five or fewer » See WBALL, page 6
Loew talks Native history Jabbar Bennett Prof. emphasizes inclusion at Wednesday event By ANUSHUYA THAPA
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Director for Native American and Indigenous Research and Medill Prof. Patty Loew emphasized the history of Native Americans in Evanston at a Wednesday event at Reprise Coffee Roasters. The talk was the first of “Drinks and Thinks,” an event series sponsored by the cafe. Loew spoke to an audience of a dozen people as a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. She recounted her encounters with various Native people and their stories as well as answered questions about Native American representation. Loew discussed the sense of place central to the Native conception of community. “History is not about time,
it’s about place,” she said. “And every Native community that I’ve encountered has a place that is the essence of who they are. And everything worth remembering… is conceived of around that place.” Hunter Owen, manager of Reprise Coffee Roasters’ branch on Main Street, said Loew embodied “the idea of connecting to your community,” which coincides with the cafe’s mission to be connected to the city. Despite the low turnout, Owens was not discouraged from hosting events like this in the future. “It’s not like we filled the cafe up,” said Owens. “But I think that the people that were present were really engaged and super interested.” During the talk, Loew also discussed her appreciation for oral tradition, developed from hearing about Evanston’s history from Native orators.
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She played video clips of Native elders like Nelson Sheppo, who explained historical events such as the Treaties of Chicago and the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which forcibly relocated Natives to the west of the Mississippi River. “These were forced marches,” said Loew. “In some cases they were marched in chains to the west.” The talk also highlighted the history of successful Native Northwestern alumni like James Johnson, the first Native “AllAmerican” football player and Carlos Montezuma (1889), the first Native American student to be admitted to NU and to earn a medical degree. Loew spoke against a “monolithic notion” of who a Native person is, and said to avoid keeping them “frozen in » See PATTY, page 6
to step down Chief Diversity Officer to leave role in mid-Feb. By AUSTIN BENAVIDES
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Northwestern’s provost for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer Jabbar Bennett is stepping down mid-February, the University announced Wednesday. Bennett began working at Northwestern in 2015 after serving as associate dean for recruiting and professional development at the Graduate School at Brown University, where he was also an associate dean for diversity in the division of biology and medicine. Before that, he was a
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