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Evanston Voter Initiative loses suit Option not allowed to be added to ballot By EMMA YARGER
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Fossil Free Northwestern gathered in front of Technology Institution this Thursday in an act of protest. It was followed by a teach-in on environmental justice at Seabury Hall.
Fossil Free NU takes action for environmental justice By YUNKYO KIM
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Battling Thursday’s heavy winds and snow, members of Fossil Free Northwestern conducted a die-in protest in front of the Technological Institute to denounce the University’s financial investments in fossil fuel extraction and sales companies. The protest was later followed by a teach-in at Seabury Hall, which included student-led presentations and performances about environmental justice. The events were organized as part of Global Divestment Day, in coordination with over 50 other universities in the United States under Divest Ed, which is a training hub dedicated to working with college campuses in mobilizing divestment movements. Fossil Free NU members believe this is the first step to escalating mobilization against the University and fossil fuel institutions that
disproportionately oppress marginalized communities. “It’s really important that we are unifying with other organizations that are asking for the same thing that we are,” Grace DolezalNg, Fossil Free director of marketing and media and Communications senior, said. “There’s power in numbers.” The protest activities also respond to the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility’s quarterly open meeting this Tuesday. At the meeting, Fossil Free NU did not receive a response on their divestment proposal from the Board of Trustees. The proposal calls for a “stop, drop and roll” policy, which stipulates the university halt all future investments from fossil fuel companies, withdraw investments following a five-year timeline then plan to reinvest funds to renewable energy. At the die-in, students held up signs denouncing the University’s financial investments and chanted for 15 minutes during heavy foot traffic going into the Technology Institute, before dispersing. » See DIVESTMENT, page 7
The Evanston Voter Initiative lost its suit Thursday against its objectors and Evanston in the Circuit Court of Cook County in what the judge called a “first-impression case.” Judge Maureen Kirby affirmed the decision made Jan. 15 by Evanston’s Municipal Officers Electoral Board, which said the Evanston Voter Initiative cannot be added to the ballot on March 17. The Evanston Voter Initiative aims to design a legislative option for Evanston residents to create and pass ordinances. The Municipal Officers Electoral Board was comprised of Mayor Steve Hagerty, City Clerk Devon Reid and Ald. Ann Rainey (8th). They decided in a 2-1 vote with Hagerty and Rainey upholding the objection and Reid voting against it. The electoral board said the initiative was too confusing and violated state law, as the objectors argued at the Jan. 15 hearing. The first order Kirby addressed was the objectors’ motion to strike some of the court documents. Former Gov. Pat Quinn presented some exhibits that were not in the legal record provided to the judge, which makes them unable to be considered in the court proceedings. Kirby » See EVI, page 7
They painted The Rock as freshmen — now, they’re married
Medill alums who met through Rainbow Week were dating by graduation, married four years later By YUNKYO KIM
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It was Rainbow Week of their freshman year when Camille Beredjick (Medill ‘13) and Kaitlyn Jakola (Medill ‘13) said they found themselves painting The Rock together in pride colors. A senior member of Rainbow Alliance, Northwestern’s undergraduate LGBTQ student group, was taking pictures of the event. The senior pushed the two self-described “nervous queer
Scan this QR code to listen to our latest podcast: Speak Your Mind: Making long-distance work on Valentine’s Day freshmen” together for a picture, Beredjick said. “So we took that picture in front of a rock,” Berejick said. “Then we didn’t talk again for like two and a half years.” They did not know it then, but within 8 years, the two NU alumnae would get married. After taking the fateful photo,
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Beredjick said though she and Jakola ran in similar circles and shared mutual friends, they did not interact much. Plus, Jakola wrote for The Daily and Beredjick was a member of North By Northwestern. “Technically being on a rival publication,” Beredjick said, “was a real Romeo and Juliet story.”
Their relationship began in their senior year, Beredjick said. She was in charge of the Medill Equal Media Project, a short-term grant initiative that provided resources to cover the 2012 election with an emphasis on LGBTQ issues. Jakola, a former Daily editor in chief, drafted a grant proposal and joined the initiative. The two became fast friends, Beredjick said. The media project later became a class. Even though Jackola completed all her credits and moved off-campus, she said she took on the extra class, partly to be closer
to Beredjick. She would wake up at 8 a.m. to drive to campus, then spend three hours talking with Beredjick, Jakola said. By graduation, they started dating. Beredjick and Jakola said their relationship was very powerful because they are both passionate about storytelling around LGBTQ issues, sharing “why queer stories matter and are important.” “I got to know (Camille) very well, very quickly because we were talking about stuff that we both thought about all the time and felt very strongly about,” Jakola said.
Doglas Foster, who served as the faculty adviser for the Equal Media Project, said the couple’s relationship meant a lot at a time in which students were choosing to “recloset” themselves as they didn’t feel safe being out on campus. When he came to Medill in 2004, Foster said he was the only out, gay faculty member in the school. In collaboration with Foster, Beredjick hosted a regular coffee house to engage LGBTQidentifying students journalists » See ROCK, page 7
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