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By YUNKYO KIM
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University President Morton Schapiro announced in an email to the Northwestern community that senior administrators have formed a committee to find a successor for Provost Jonathan Holloway. Amid rumors that Holloway will leave Northwestern, Schapiro announced earlier this week that the provost is set to become Rutgers University’s 21st president. Holloway has been at the University since August 2017 and formerly served as dean of Yale College. In his statement, Schapiro said the committee seeks to find a replacement by the start of the next academic year. Holloway will continue to serve as a provost until the end of Winter Quarter. In the meantime, Kathleen Hagerty, Associate Provost for faculty and former interim dean of the Kellogg School of Management, will serve as interim provost starting April 1. Hagerty has also served as a senior associate dean of faculty and research, chair of the finance department and faculty director of Ph.D. programs at Kellogg. The search committee will be spearheaded by Schapiro and includes Craig Johnson, senior vice president for business and finance, Jeri Ward, vice president for global marketing and communications and other University officials. In his email, Schapiro encouraged students to contribute to the provost hiring process by reaching out to members of the search committee with nominations. “The committee welcomes input from across our campuses,” Schapiro said in his email. As Rutgers welcomes its first black president next academic year, Northwestern will lose an important member of the community, Associated Student Government vice president Adam Davies said. The SESP senior said during Wednesday’s meeting they were working on drafting legislation to expand student inputs around the hiring process. “We would like to make sure there’s sufficient student representation,” Davies said.
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While Medill rebuilds its investigative journalism program, shadow of damaged legacy still lingers By CLARE PROCTOR
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Anthony Porter had two days left to live. He had been found guilty of murdering a young couple on the South Side of Chicago in 1982. Porter was set to be executed in September 1998. Porter’s lawyers were able to get him a stay of execution from the Illinois Supreme Court, on the basis that Porter, who had a low IQ score, may not have comprehended that he was about to be executed. Immediately after the stay was issued, David Protess, then an investigative reporting professor at the Medill School of Journalism, began investigating the case. Porter was released in 1999, largely due to investigative reporting conducted by Protess and his students. Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan later pardoned Porter. Protess worked with a group of students on Porter’s case in a class that would later be known as the Medill Innocence Project and become one of Medill’s most renowned programs. Since the early 1990s, students have dug up evidence on potential wrongful convictions, and under Protess’ oversight, students’ work led
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Medill alum Philip Jacobson detained in Borneo By AUSTIN BENAVIDES
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Northwestern graduate and environmental journalist Philip Jacobson was arrested Tuesday by Indonesian authorities for an alleged visa violation. Jacobson, an editor for the environmental science website Mongabay, was arrested in the city of Palangkaraya on the island of Borneo. Immigration authorities based their case on his use of a multiple-entry business visa instead of a journalism visa. Mongabay CEO Rhett Butler told the Chicago Sun-Times he did not know why Jacobson didn’t have a journalism visa but said attaining one is difficult. He added that Jacobson was not in Palangkaraya for any “specific journalistic assignment,” and he found it surprising that Indonesian authorities would arrest Jacobson for what he called an “administrative matter.” Jacobson was first detained Dec. 17 in Indonesia last year after attending a hearing at the parliament a day prior between government officials and the local chapter of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago. Immigration officials then confiscated his passport and interrogated Jacobson, ordering him to stay in the city pending their investigation. It would take another month before Jacobson would be formally arrested by Indonesian authorities last Tuesday. “It’s a very unusual situation for them to take this very severe approach,” Butler said. “It’s not commensurate with what they’d accused him of doing.” According to the Sun-Times, as of now, Mongabay is covering all of Jacobson’s attorney fees as well as other costs. Jacobson is being represented by a local attorney. Jacobson graduated from NU in 2011, and he worked at the Jakarta Globe after his graduation. In recent years, he divided his time between the United States, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia, according to the Sun-Times. “( Jacobson has) been fully cooperative with authorities, he hasn’t been adversarial at all and we held off on saying anything publicly for over a month,” Butler told the Sun-Times. “It was only when he was put in jail that we went public.” austinbenavides2022@u.northwestern.edu
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