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By MATTHEW CHOI
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An ad hoc committee on academic freedom presented a report Wednesday to Faculty Senate recommending University responses to separate academic freedom cases involving Communication Prof. Laura Kipnis and former bioethics Prof. Alice Dreger. The committee was formed in response to the two cases, which caused lengthy disputes between Kipnis and Dreger and the administration. The committee was headed by law and political science Prof. Andrew Koppelman and also included performance studies Prof. Carol Simpson Stern, law and public policy Prof. Martin Redish and psychology Prof. Benjamin Gorvine. Dreger served as a guest editor for Atrium, a magazine edited and published by faculty in Feinberg’s Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program, in 2014 when medical school administrators asked to pull an article describing an author’s experience receiving consensual oral sex from a nurse after he was paralyzed. Dreger said at the time administrators urged the article to be pulled because it was “inflammatory” and against the Northwestern Medicine “brand.” Though the article was eventually republished online following faculty protest, the journal’s budget was cut, and the medical school created a committee that could review and veto faculty editorial decisions. Dreger, a part-time non-tenure-track professor, and another Feinberg professor resigned in protest after the administration failed to acknowledge the censorship of the bioethics magazine, Dreger said. The report critiques the actions of the University in handling the situation and urges the administration to issue an official apology to the professors who resigned. The report also advised the adoption of a » See FACULTY, page 7
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intensified their efforts to form a graduate student union at the university. Ward said he aims to bring graduate students from various disciplines together to create a unified voice on a fragmented campus. Though Northwestern raised the stipend for teaching assistants earlier in the academic year, from $22,992 to $29,000, Ward said there needs to be student input on decisions that affect stipends and
On the night of Feb. 6, University President Morton Schapiro logged online to check the news when he saw a security alert that he said shocked him. The alert, posted on the University’s website and sent in an email to Northwestern students from Chief of Police Bruce Lewis just after 8:30 p.m., notified students of anonymous reports alleging multiple sexual assaults and possible druggings at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house and another unnamed fraternity earlier in the quarter. It notified students that the University had received a report Feb. 2 alleging that four female students were possibly given a date rape drug at SAE on Jan. 21. The report, which a University spokesman later confirmed was anonymous, alleged that two of the students believe they were also sexually assaulted. The notification also said the University received an anonymous report Feb. 3 alleging that another female student was sexually assaulted, potentially with the use of a date rape drug, after attending an event at a second, unnamed fraternity house the previous night. “I was horrified to read about
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Grad student unionization effort diverges despite common cause By SAM KREVLIN
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As a graduate student instructor, LaCharles Ward always considered himself a Northwestern employee. The fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the School of Communication grew up on the West Side of Chicago, where he said he saw the benefits of unions first hand. His grandfather was a union worker for
the city and helped build the thenSears Tower, Ward said. Unions have always helped Ward understand his family’s history, he said. “Unions are there to guarantee that workers’ rights are respected,” Ward said. “It is making sure that we have a way to express our grievances if we feel our rights have been breached.” In the past few months, Ward, along with his peers in Northwestern Graduate Workers, have
Steve Hagerty outspends Mark Tendam in race By DAVID FISHMAN
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Businessman Steve Hagerty has raised more money and far outspent Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) in Evanston’s mayoral race, according to campaign finance disclosures from mid-August to the end of the year. In that time period, Hagerty raised $109,079 — with about 53 percent coming from loans he made to himself — and he
spent $80,374, according to data from the Illinois State Board of Elections. Tendam, on the other hand, raised $16,245 — roughly 75 percent of which came from self loans — and spent $2,323. Since then, Hagerty has raised an additional $32,555 and Tendam another $5,000, according to finance disclosures for contributions over $1,000. However, Tendam said about two-thirds of his total funds have come from supporters who make mostly small donations. The next quarterly report is
due on April 15, after the general election. This campaign cycle has been significantly more expensive than when Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl ran roughly eight years ago. In that campaign — the last contested mayoral election — she spent more than $77,000 and loaned herself about $45,000. Hagerty said he would have “loved to have a campaign that cost less,” but that the primary » See FUNDRAISING, page 5
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