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Stage reading sparks discussion Play set in 1860s featured for Black History Month By CLARE PROCTOR
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Protesters march to Swift Hall for a teach-in about racism in academia. The event was organized by both graduate and undergraduate student groups and is only the latest way students are showing their opposition to Satoshi Kanazawa’s controversial appointment.
Activists hold Kanazawa teach-in
Students march, draft demands in response to controversial scholar
By CAMERON COOK
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Student activists expressed their frustration over visiting scholar Satoshi Kanazawa’s continued presence on campus and learned about racism in academia at a march and teach-in event
Friday. Kanazawa, whose work in the field of evolutionary psychology has been criticized as racist and misogynist, is at Northwestern this year while on sabbatical from the London School of Economics. Although he isn’t teaching or being paid, according to University leadership, his presence on campus has spurred outrage and
Paper waste shreds NU’s sustainability
Despite NU efforts, students criticize classroom usage By PRIYANSHI KATARE
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While Northwestern has been recognized for its efforts to be environmentally conscious on a broader scale of resource purchases, some students said sustainability in daily consumption can still be improved. Sustainability has been one of NU’s top strategic and community engagement priorities in the recent past, according to the sustainNU website. In 2018, the University was recognized at the Illinois Sustainability Awards, honored for its efforts to engage its student body in sustainable practices and increase its landfill diversion rate to 38 percent. However, some students said the broad overarching sustainability goals of Northwestern do not manifest themselves into the everyday practices of students and faculty on campus. McCormick first-year Nora Chambers said two of her four classes require printouts every week. Some statistics and economics classes –– which are as large
as 200 students — require students to print about 10 pages of notes each week. Over 10 weeks, this can add up to 20,000 pages of paper produced for one class, or 10,000 if double-sided. In such classes, professors claim the use of any digital devices can provide possible distractions. Yet Chambers said this reluctance toward technology use can prove to be environmentally unsustainable in the long run. “We need to get more onboard with technology, however inconvenient it may seem,” Chambers said. “Anything that can only be used once is adding to unsustainability on campus.” For some students, paper in classrooms cannot be fully avoided. McCormick first-year Ahan Sahu said his Design Thinking and Communication sequence requires him to be able to draw directly on paper. Kathia Benitez, director of sustainNU, said she acknowledges the issue of excessive paper use on campus, which is why paper reduction is one of the office’s goals. While Associated Student Government is incentivizing students to promote more sustainable practices, Benitez said her office is trying » See SUSTAIN, page 6
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calls for action from students. The march and teach-in, organized by several groups of both graduate and undergraduate students, is only the latest of several student-organized movements opposing Kanazawa. Activists circulated a petition in December calling for Kanazawa’s removal and took to direct confrontation after Provost Jonathan
Holloway sent an email defending Kanazawa’s right to remain at Northwestern on the basis of academic freedom. Students marched from The Rock to the Rebecca Crown Center, and then onto Swift Hall, where they settled in for a day full of breakout sessions. » See TEACH-IN, page 6
A stage reading of a play set immediately after the Civil War sparked conversation about systems of oppression still prevalent in today’s society. “Blacks aren’t the only souls eroded by the monster of racism,” Taurean Webb, one of the organizers of the event, said. “How are we all implicated? Because part of the nature of the system is that we are all implicated.” Webb is the interim director of the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary’s Center for the Church and the Black Experience and has received a masters degree in African American studies from Northwestern. CBE partnered with the Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre to produce a stage reading of “The Whipping Man” at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center as a part of Evanston’s celebration of Black History Month. The play is the second of a 10-part “Out of the African
Diaspora to Evanston” series, organized by CBE. The project aims to educate community members about the history of black Americans through different mediums such as art and preaching. The play by Matthew Lopez is set in Richmond, Virginia, in April 1865. It describes the reunion of a young Confederate soldier with two of his former slaves after the end of the Civil War during Passover. Following the performance, audience members joined the actors to discuss the play’s themes. Cedric Young portrayed Simon in the play, a former slave who takes care of his master’s son after he returns from battle with a bullet wound in his leg. After the performance, Young said the theme of former slaves and masters attempting to understand their post-abolition relationships is still relevant today. “This is something that’s going to take so much longer to start sinking in with people,” Young said. “Even today, some people have problems with who is inferior and who is not.” Chicago resident Molly Burns said chamber readings such as “The Whipping Man” can be very powerful. She added that it was » See STAGE, page 6
Farmers’ market creates connections Indoor market brings vendors, residents together at Ecology Center By ZOE MALIN
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Every Saturday morning from December to April, the Evanston Ecology Center comes alive as vendors set up for the city’s indoor farmers’ market. Businesses from across the Midwest and Chicagoland area share their offerings at this weekly event, highlighting fresh food and other unique products. In its eighth year of operation, the Evanston Ecology Center Indoor Farmers’ Market draws 150-200 customers each weekend, Matt Poole, program coordinator at the Evanston Ecology Center, said. He said a few vendors from Evanston’s outdoor farmers’ market began to rent out the space in 2012. The City of Evanston eventually took over and now runs the event. Dušan Katić, head baker of Katić Breads, said of all the benefits the market offers, nothing compares to the “one-on-one connection” with customers. “The indoor farmers’ market is a way for us to remain in contact with customers who appreciate what we create,” Katić said. “My work and that
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John Brandell, owner of Frosty Productions, sells his honey and maple products to customer Ronda Patino. He is a vendor every week at the Evanston Ecology Center Indoor Farmers’ Market.
of other small business owners is best embraced in Evanston.” Katić said the indoor farmers’ market is essential to what he sees as a “mutual relationship” between business owners and customers. He highlighted the difference between the farmers’ market and online shopping in an “internet age.”
“The market emphasizes that the person buying is a human being and the person producing is a human being,” he said. “Having this contact is something online buying takes away, but something small businesses can’t lose.” Poole said the Ecology Center holds up to 14 vendors, though the number varies as
different vendors are scheduled each week. But some business owners set up shop at the market every Saturday, including Denny Wright, owner of The Wright Way Farm in Beloit, Wisconsin. He travels over 100 miles to the Ecology Center each week to sell fresh » See FARMERS, page 6
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