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NU on track to balance budget Email details effort to resolve def icit by 2021 Northwestern is on track to bring the budget back to balance by the 2021 fiscal year, according to a Thursday email sent to faculty and staff. The email –– signed off by President Morton Schapiro, Provost Jonathan Holloway and Senior Vice President for Business and Finance Craig Johnson –– is part of the University’s commitment to increasing transparency by annually providing detailed financial updates. About a year ago, Holloway announced a budget deficit at a Faculty Senate meeting, which Johnson later clarified to be about $100 million. NU addressed the budget issue by cutting 1 percent of central administration staff, reducing costs in specific departments, reviewing the hiring process for open positions and making cuts in administrative and academic
units, according to the email. “ We deeply appreciate the spirit of shared sacrifice across this extraordinary University community, which helped put us on a path to operating stability,” the email stated. “As a result, we were able to close fiscal year 2018 with an operating deficit slightly better than our initial forecasts.” Despite optimistic outlooks, the 2019 and 2020 fiscal years will continue to operate under a deficit. In response, NU is developing a seven-year financial plan to provide greater guidance for resource allocation, the email wrote. Despite a growing endowment and successful fundraisers, the University made cost reductions for a list of reasons –– including market conditions, the timing of gifts and restriction of using donor funds for specific purposes, according to the email. NU also considered the long-term management of the funds. “Our endowment » See LETTER, page 6
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Vishaan Chakrabarti speaks at the opening keynote of the Northwestern University Community for Human Rights’ 16th annual conference. Chakrabarti spoke about the future of urbanization and changes in the perception of public goods and services.
Architect discusses urban planning Vishaan Chakrabarti appears as NUCHR opening keynote speaker By AVI VARGHESE
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The key to making public spending more equitable is to change the cultural norms
surrounding the topic, Architect and urban planner Vishaan Chakrabarti said during a Thursday speech at Harris Hall. Chakrabarti spoke in front of about 100 people as the opening keynote speaker for the Northwestern University
Retail stores struggle with rising rent
Rent prices in Evanston unlikely to decrease in the near future By ASHLEY CAPOOT
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Steep increases in rent prices are making it more difficult for local retail stores to stay in business, and, in some cases, local businesses have been forced to close. Rent prices in Evanston increased by 2.3 percent in 2018, according to a January 2019 report conducted by Apartment List. Paul Zalmezak, Evanston’s economic development manager, said rent prices are not likely to decrease in the near future. “(The city is) not ever going to go after landlords to tell them to lower their rents,” he said. “We can encourage them to be competitive, but that’s about all we can do.” Zalmezak said landlords have control over rent prices and likely only decrease those prices when they are unable to attract renters. Mark Jones, the owner of Saville Flowers on Sherman Avenue, said he has especially seen increasing rent prices challenge businesses in Evanston’s retail industry. “We see a lot of small businesses closing, and the entire retail industry is just more
Community for Human Rights’ 16th annual conference. Titled “The Right to the City: Mapping Human Rights in the Urban Landscape,” the conference focuses on how to mindfully design cities during a time of rapid urbanization.
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difficult to keep alive and stay competitive and be able to afford rents,” he said. “We’re on a high visibility block, and we have some decent in-store traffic, but it’s difficult to try to keep up on making enough profit to afford our rent.”
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Jones said he has noticed that many restaurants have moved to Evanston as retail businesses close. But even restaurants that were popular among Northwestern students — such as Cheesie’s, which closed in June 2018 — were
unable to stay open largely because of expensive rent prices, he said. Nina Barrett, the owner of Bookends & Beginnings, thought she would lose her » See RENT, page 6
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Feinberg professor researches allergies By JOSHUA IRVINE
Bookends & Beginnings, 1712 Sherman Ave. The bookstore’s owner, Nina Barrett, said rising rent prices in Evanston are intimidating to local retail businesses.
Chakrabarti spoke about Practice for Architecture Urbanism, a socially conscious architecture firm he founded, as well as the future of urbanization in the United States.
More than 10 percent of U.S. adults have food allergies, nearly half of whom developed an allergy in adulthood, according to a new study by Feinberg Prof. Dr. Ruchi Gupta. The study found 10.8 percent of American adults –– over 26 million people –– have food allergies. It determined another 19 percent have negative reactions to food, but that their symptoms are not consistent with an allergic reaction. Additionally, 48 percent of those with at least one food allergy had developed that allergy as an adult. Gupta is the director of the Science and Outcomes of Allergy and Asthma Research Team at Northwestern and is an attending clinician at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. She is nationally known for her research in food allergy and asthma, according to Feinberg. The study randomly sampled 40,443 adults from across the nation. Although food allergy in children has been examined in several population-based studies,
less is known about food allergy in adults, according to the study. This study is the first to provide comprehensive, nationally representative data on food allergy in adults. Shellfish was the most common food allergy among adults, with 2.9 percent reporting that food allergy. Milk and shrimp were the next most common, with 1.9 percent each. Gupta stated that a milk allergy is distinct from lactose intolerance, as the former is an immune system reaction while the latter is caused by the lack of a stomach enzyme that allows humans to digest milk. The study also found that only 24 percent of adults with food allergies had a current epinephrine prescription, which is used to treat severe allergic reactions. “With true food allergy you can have severe anaphylaxis, which can be life-threatening,” Gupta said. “So it’s really, really important to have a proper management plan, to know what to do, in case you have a life-threatening reaction.” According to the study, 38.3 percent of adults reported one or more allergy-related emergency room visits in their lifetime. Gupta said more research was needed to understand allergies that developed in adulthood, suggesting that factors including changes in living conditions, antibody » See ALLERGY, page 6
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