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Students talk new conduct policy ASG, SHAPE host town hall to gather feedback
City manager to investigate finance possibilities
By RACHEL KUPFER
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Associated Student Government and Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators hosted a town hall Wednesday to solicit student feedback on revisions made to Northwestern’s sexual misconduct policy. Attendees discussed the new policy’s standards and definitions to help ASG better gauge the student body’s perspectives before submitting an official proposal of recommendations to the administration, ASG President Nehaarika Mulukutla said. Facilitators introduced the policy’s guidelines surrounding consent, which prompted requests for clarification regarding who “initiates” sexual activity. Students expressed an overall unfamiliarity with the definition and complexities of language used to describe consent, in both the old and new policies. “It was really important to understand: What is consent, and how do you acquire it, and how do you know it’s not present?” Mulukutla, a Weinberg senior, said. “That is the underpinning of the entire situation surrounding » See MISCONDUCT, page 6
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By ALANE LIM
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Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) and businessman J.B. Pritzker — sounded off on Rauner’s address and tenure in office following the speech on Wednesday. Biss challenged Rauner’s calls for bipartisanship in a news release, saying that the governor has spent his time in office blaming Democrats for his failures rather than taking responsibility for his actions. He said Rauner has taken advantage of the very property tax system he criticized, and that Rauner blames others for perpetuating it. “Bruce Rauner is a failed governor, and we can’t afford to give him and his right wing agenda another chance,” Biss said in the release. “But we also know it ’s not enough to just beat Bruce Rauner, because our state’s problems began long before he was elected to office.”
Economic Development Committee members narrowly voted to approve an amended resolution concerning the construction of a building that would house Northlight Theatre at a meeting Jan. 31. Committee members voted 4-3 in favor of the amended resolution, which removed language specifying the proposed location in the 1700 block of Sherman Avenue and authorized the city manager to investigate how a “single purpose unit of government” and public parking could support the return of Northlight Theatre from Skokie. In 1996, the Illinois General Assembly created a unit of local government to finance and enable the construction of the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, according to city documents. The center is where the theater is currently housed. In September, Farpoint Development proposed the building which would include Northlight Theatre, a boutique hotel, a restaurant, residential units and parking spaces. At the meeting, Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said she would like to receive more information about how such a government entity could help finance the Northlight project, and especially whether it would benefit other projects in the city. “It is not like this council, and certainly not like this community, not to want to understand a tool that allows for development” Rainey said at the meeting. “It is an opportunity to get information about something we’ve never known about and we’ve never used.” City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said he wanted permission to investigate, not take action on, whether Northlight could finance itself in a way similar to how Skokie funded its facility. More than 20 residents raised concerns with the resolution at the meeting. Several said they were worried about the transparency of the project and whether it would compromise the identity and personality of Evanston. Additionally, residents noted the possible loss of many local businesses to the construction.
» See RAUNER, page 6
» See THEATER, page 6
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Evanston artist Melissa Blount. Blount hosted a quilt-making circle to honor the lives of black women and girls lost to interpersonal violence.
Quilt artist honors black women Participants sew patches, remember names of victims of violence
By TEJAS SEKHAR
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Evanston artist Melissa Blount held a quilt-making session Wednesday to honor the lives of black women and girls lost to interpersonal violence. Held at the Segal Visitors Center with over 100 in attendance, the event also featured Blount ’s
“Black Lives Matter Witness Quilt,” a project that engaged community members to highlight the pervasiveness of interpersonal violence — violence against spouses, partners or family members — and its connection to institutionalized state violence. “The enormity of the loss of these lives that go unrecognized … really hit me,” Blount told The Daily. “People see the statistics, but
don’t really personalize or connect with the loss.” Following a reception at the Block Museum of Art, Blount spoke about her art at the visitors center, where community members engaged in discussion and stitched patches themselves, which when completed, will eventually be stitched together to create a new quilt. Many participants embroidered the words “Say Her Name” to commemorate
the lives of women lost to violence. Blount said she hopes her work will further the interests of the Black Lives Matter movement, which she said experiences polarization and misrepresentation, especially through the media. Trauma caused by white supremacy exists not only nationally, Blount said, but within Evanston as well. » See QUILT, page 6
Rauner promises budget proposal in address Speech urging term limits, improved job growth met with criticism from Dems By RYAN WANGMAN
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Source: Terrence Antonio James (Chicago Tribune/TNS)
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner at a press conference on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017 at the State of Illinois Building in Chicago, Ill. Rauner delivered his State of the State speech on Wednesday.
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Gov. Bruce Rauner called for term limits on state politicians, encouraged property tax reform and challenged Illinois residents to unite to promote job growth in his State of the State address on Wednesday. In the address, held in Springfield, Rauner also promised assembled lawmakers that he would present a balanced budget proposal to them next month, a commitment that brought a cheering crowd on both sides of the aisle to its feet. He said the proposal would offer a path to reduce spending and lower taxes. “It is time we do what the people of Illinois want,” Rauner said. “Halt the advance of taxes. Stop spending money we don’t have. Get our pensions under control. And give
power back to the people of Illinois.” “No one” is happy with the property tax assessment system in Illinois, he added. The governor asked lawmakers in attendance to pass legislation that brings “true property tax relief ” to state residents and give them the ability to lower their taxes through a voter referendum. Rauner also emphasized that about 80 percent of Illinois voters want to see term limits, joking that the other 20 percent were sitting in the chambers and in elected Illinois courts. He said term limits would help regain the public’s trust in the government. “It is past time to make this good governance move,” Rauner said. “Put term limits on the ballot and let the people decide.” The Democratic frontrunners looking to challenge Rauner in November’s general election — State Sen.
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