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Yearly sustainability report shows gains 2016-2017 data hopeful about sustainNU progress By ALLIE GOULDING
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Northwestern diverted about 38 percent of campus waste from landfills during the 2016-2017 academic year, according to a new sustainability report released last week. The report detailed progress NU has made in sustainNU’s program areas — the built environment, transportation, resource conservation, experiential learning and communication and engagement. NU collected nearly 10,000 pounds of food, clothing and household items to donate to charity during move-out from campus housing alone, the report said. Katie Mansur, Associated Student Government’s vice president for sustainability, said recycling opportunities during move-out periods and throughout the year help students pay attention to the things they throw away. “Those are great opportunities where students are able to make a real difference,” the Weinberg senior said. “Not
even by changing their behavior in a great way, but by just changing the way they address student waste.” To attain its goals, sustainNU created a five-year strategic sustainability plan released In October. The plan allowed the University to build on efforts from previous years and “pick up the pace” in some areas, said Stephanie Folk, sustainNU‘s sustainability communications manager. “The strategic plan … brings together all of the big issues and sets specific goals for where we want to get within the next five years, and looking forward a little bit too in some areas,” Folk said. Meanwhile, Divvy bike memberships among NU students reached 667 by the end of the year. The purple, NUbranded bike — introduced to campus in Fall 2016 — took 821 trips with 640 riders for a total of 1,619 miles, the report said. The report also said the University increased its purchases of “real food” — food that is produced in a way that is fair, humane and environmentally sound — from 2 percent to 5.5 percent, with a goal of reaching 20 percent by 2020. Greenhouse gas emissions » See SUSTAIN, page 6
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Floyd’s 99 Barbershop, 1741 Sherman Ave. The barber shop is one of several businesses looking to open in Evanston in coming months.
Barber, barbecue to open soon New businesses will set up shop in downtown Evanston in spring By CLARE PROCTOR
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A new barbecue restaurant and well-known barber shop chain will be opening in downtown Evanston this spring, hoping to establish themselves
in the city’s competitive retail market. Floyd’s 99 Barbershop has more than 100 locations across the country and will be opening in upcoming months. Falcon Eddy’s Barbecue was founded by the owners of Evanston sports bar and sandwich restaurant Bat 17, located just around
DACA talks draw student reaction College Democrats, Republicans respond to partial federal shutdown By ALAN PEREZ
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Students expressed varied reactions to the partial government shutdown, but several students agreed that Congress should find a bipartisan, long-term solution for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The federal government shut down Saturday after Senate Democrats and Republicans failed to resolve a dispute over immigration and the budget, threatening federal funding for University research and stipends for members of Northwestern’s Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. The government has been operating on short-term funding bills since September as the two parties have been unable to agree on spending levels for the year. Senate Democrats demanded the latest stopgap measure include a solution for DACA recipients. The program, which protects undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation, will expire in March. University President Morton Schapiro, who has expressed
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Silverman Hall, 2170 Campus Drive. The partial government shutdown threatened federal funding for University research.
support for the DACA program in the past, told The Daily on Tuesday that his stance has not changed and that the issue is “as important as ever.” Members of College Republicans and College Democrats expressed support for extended DACA protections, though they held differing opinions on the Democrats’ strategy. College Republicans’ secretary of events Dominic Bayer and public relations secretary Sammy Cuautle placed blame on Senate
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Democrats, who blocked the temporary spending bill and did not initially concede despite the risk of a shutdown. “Regardless of what you feel over the program, it’s pretty unreasonable to shut down the government over 800,000 people, especially when you have a much bigger policy agenda on the line that can be discussed,” said Cuautle, a Weinberg junior. “Not a great move by the Democrats.” The move wasn’t strategically sound, he added, because many
Republicans do support immigration reform, which is “long overdue.” DACA recipients continue to live in the “shadows” as a result of partisan gridlock, he said. Bayer, a Weinberg sophomore, echoed Cuautle’s sentiments and added that the decision to hold out on a vote was “highly irresponsible” and rooted in an issue unrelated to the funding bill. The government reopened late Monday night after Democrats » See SHUTDOWN, page 6
the corner. Bat 17 co-owner Jim Hurley said he and his partner had been “kicking around” the idea of opening a Texas-style barbecue restaurant for a long time. When a space opened up under the same landlord as Bat 17’s property, he said the idea became tangible.
Endowment tax implications worry Schapiro After a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — signed into law Dec. 22 — enacted a new endowment tax that could affect Northwestern and a handful of other private institutions, University President Morton Schapiro said he was “worried.” The new law would enforce a 1.4 percent income tax for private universities with at least 500 students and assets valued at $500,000 or more per student. With its reported $10.5 billion endowment, NU’s assets are valued at about $510,000 per student, meaning the University could face the tax in coming years. But the issue was not the money, Schapiro told The Daily on Tuesday. Though he does not want to potentially “throw away” millions in tax dollars, he was mainly concerned that the government had singled out a small number of private universities. “(The provision) wasn’t about raising money,” Schapiro said. “It was about punishing the heavily endowed,
“The space has only very recently become available,” Hurley said. “The landlord has been really amenable in getting us in there. It’s all come together really quickly here at the end.” Hurley added that co-owner » See BUSINESSES, page 6
highly selective (private universities).” Shapiro said the endowment tax would only account for about $1.5 billion of the $1.5 trillion total raised through the tax bill over 10 years. And on the University’s end, the tax would likely take somewhere between $10 million and $15 million out of NU’s $2.5 billion operating budget, which wouldn’t “break us,” he said. The real intent of the tax, Schapiro said, was to send a message to institutions like NU in opposition to their support for philosophies like “safe spaces.” Other provisions that Schapiro said would have had significant negative impacts on the University — like repealing tax exemptions for graduate student tuition waivers — were removed before the bill was signed into law. Still, the law that was enacted was enough to worry Schapiro about the future. “If you look at what a substantial number of Americans think about schools like Northwestern, it’s not a surprise that they went after us … in the tax bill,” Schapiro said. “And who knows what they’ll do next.” — Maddie Burakoff
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