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NU holds $15M in oil company University has investments in Black Stone Minerals By MADELINE FOX
daily senior staffer @maddycfox
Northwestern owns more than $15 million worth of stock in Black Stone Minerals, one of the largest oil and gas mineral and royalty companies in the country, according to the University’s filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month. Chief Investment Officer Will McLean said the University has held shares of Black Stone Minerals for several years. The University was required to report these shares to the SEC this year because under federal law, institutional investment managers must file with the SEC if their organization holds more than $100 million in certain types of securities. McLean said NU hit the $100 million threshold after Roberta Buffett Elliott (Weinberg ’54) donated shares in Berkshire Hathaway, of which her brother Warren Buffett is CEO, to NU last year. In the fall, the University signed President Barack Obama’s American Campuses Act on Climate Pledge
and announced its intent to sign the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing in November. Christina Cilento, a spokeswoman for Fossil Free NU, a student divestment movement calling for the University to remove its investments from coal and other fossil fuels, said although she was disheartened to hear the University has a large position in Black Stone, she was happy the filing rule allows students to know more about NU’s investments. “It’s nice to know we can find out a little bit more about the University’s investment,” the SESP junior said. “I just wish there were more positive things to report.” The group will meet with McLean and three members of the Board of Trustees on Wednesday to discuss fossil fuel divestment and socially responsible investment, Cilento said. Fossil Free NU has met with members of the Board of Trustees three times since November 2014 to discuss the University’s investments in fossil fuels, she said. “They have a positive impact,” McLean said of the group. “The fossil fuel conversations … played a role in our decision to sign on to the UNPRI.” At Wednesday’s meeting, Cilento said the group will ask to bring some of its members to the full meeting of the Board of Trustees in March to » See INVESTMENT, page 6
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FOURTH MEAL Students eat and work in Fran’s Cafe, a late-night dining spot in Willard Residential College. With Willard scheduled to be renovated next year, a similar eating location will open in 1835 Hinman.
New cafe set to replace Fran’s 1835 Hinman to host late-night dining option By KELLI NGUYEN
the daily northwestern @kellipnguyen
With Willard Residential College closing for renovations next year, a new late-night cafe is set to launch at 1835
Hinman in the fall. Willard is relocating to 1835 Hinman as part of the Housing Master Plan, and plans for a Fran’s-like late-night cafe are still being decided, but students can expect to find a similar concept at Hinman, said Ken Field, Northwestern’s director of dining.
In a meeting with Field, Brad Zakarin, director of residential academic initiatives, discussed Willard residents’ desire to relocate Fran’s to 1835 Hinman along with the residential college, Zakarin said. However, it is unknown whether the new » See FRAN’S, page 6
Shops complying with signage YMCA’s Brillianteen By ELENA SUCHARETZA
the daily northwestern @elenasucharetza
Evanston businesses are so far complying with a gender neutral signage ordinance that took effect at the beginning of 2016 after it was unanimously approved in October, city officials said. When the ordinance was initially approved, City Council had bypassed rules requiring a two-week waiting period before an ordinance is given final approval due to widespread agreement. Mark Muenzer, the city’s director of community development and LGBT liaison, said most questions from businesses regarding the ordinance have been mostly clarification questions about what types of signage is allowed for businesses in order to comply with the ordinance. The ordinance mandates that all buildings with one single occupancy restroom use gender neutral signage, and buildings with three or more restrooms require at least one bathroom to have the signage as well. Due to certain limits of an Illinois Plumbing Code, if an establishment has two restrooms, one is required to be labeled for women, and the other for men, Muenzer said. He said that although no date has been set for a discussion, city officials are looking into ways to bypass the code’s requirements.
“It’s not really a political thing, it’s just about issues that are not addressed in the code right now,” he said. “Transgender and gender neutral issues are coming to the forefront in the state code so we will be investigating ways to possibly get past those issues.” City manager Wally Bobkiewicz told The Daily earlier this month the main
barrier to full compliance with the ordinance has been discomfort with the original design city staff offered for the signage. He said the staff ’s design, a hybrid of the standard men and women signs, was considered “awkward” by » See SIGNAGE, page 6
Graphic by Rachel Dubner
OPEN TO ALL Evanston recommended this symbol for gender neutral bathroom signage in the city. Council passed an ordinance in October, which took effect in the beginning of 2016, to require gender neutral signage in establishments that meet certain qualifications.
Serving the University and Evanston since 1881
to end after 65 years
By MARISSA PAGE
daily senior staffer @marissahpage
After 65 years, the McGaw YMCA will close the curtain on its annual production “Brillianteen,” produced and performed by Evanston Township High School students. Sue Sowle, McGaw’s senior director of youth initiatives and enrichment, said five years ago, the YMCA began to closely analyze its outreach programs to ensure services aligned with the mission of the organization — supporting development, healthy living and social responsibility among Evanston youth with special attention to underserved communities in the city. Some programs were cut, but Brillianteen remained despite what Sowle outlined as three major problems: a lack of diversity, diminished student leadership opportunities and underage drinking associated with the program. YMCA staff reworked their recruiting tactics and made some changes to the culture of the program, but Sowle said after five years, the changes have not been significant enough to justify Brillianteen’s continuation. “At the end of this, the program still doesn’t align well enough with the mission, who we are and who we want to
be,” she said. “We’ve got limited dollars and we want the dollars to go where we know it’s going to have the most impact.” Brillianteen was created in 1952 by Bill Harper, an Evanston resident who wanted to initiate a theater program for youth in the city. Beginning with just 25 performers, the program swelled to include upwards of 250 cast and crew members, who work for several months to direct, design and perform a full-length musical. YMCA organizers awarded scholarships to two Brillianteen participants who had demonstrated outstanding leadership at the end of each performance, Sowle said. Although the program is ending, McGaw YMCA has established a new scholarship commemorating Brillianteen, which will be awarded to two ETHS seniors interested in the arts each year. This year, just over 100 ETHS juniors and seniors, along with volunteers from the community and the YMCA, have been working since December to organize the final Brillianteen show, the 65th Anniversary Brillianteen Revue, which will run from March 4-6. Participants rehearse four days a week, twice on weeknights and on Saturdays and » See BRILLIANTEEN, page 6
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