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New school board members elected Two newcomers, one incumbent promise equity By CASSIDY WANG
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Evanston elected two newcomers and one incumbent to the Evanston Township High School/District 202 board during Tuesday’s municipal election. Monique Parsons, the board’s current vice president, joined Stephanie Teterycz and Elizabeth Rolewicz in claiming victory. All board member-elects previously said they want to work toward ensuring academic equity in schools. Evanston residents cast 5,190 ballots, with 31.4 percent of voters supporting Parsons, the most of any person up for election. Slaney Palmer received 18.2 percent of votes, trailing Rolewicz and Teterycz, who received 26.7 percent and 23.8 percent, respectively. Four candidates ran in the race, which had three open seats after Jonathan Baum and Mark Metz opted out of reelection runs and Monique Parsons’ term ended. Rolewicz said she will seek to address the issues she has seen continuously come up “over
and over.” Rolewicz has worked on community organizations including the Parent Teacher Association Equity project, the D65 African American, Black and Caribbean parent group and Evanston CASE. Teterycz is the director of Northwestern’s Summer Session and college preparation programs and runs educational programming for schools, including ETHS and Chicago Public Schools. Parsons has served on the board since 2015. In addition to promoting equity within schools, she wants to work toward providing fiscal transparency and accountability and strengthening community engagements and partnerships, according to her campaign website. The Organization for Positive Action and Leadership, a grassroots racial advocacy group in Evanston, endorsed all three elected candidates. The organization seeks to promote candidates who place emphasis on racial equity. The newly-elected officials will join the rest of the board in taking on the responsibility of hiring a superintendent and setting educational goals for the schools. cassidywang2022@u.northwestern. edu
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Lori Lightfoot gives her acceptance speech in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel. Lightfoot won the mayoral runoff election with about 73 percent of the vote.
Lightfoot elected mayor of Chicago She will be the first openly gay and black woman to hold the office By ANDRES CORREA
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Lori Lightfoot defeated Toni Preckwinkle to become the next mayor of Chicago in
a landslide victory on Tuesday. With over 90 percent of the precincts reporting, Lightfoot received 73.70 percent of the vote to become Chicago’s first black female mayor. Lightfoot, who will also be Chicago’s first openly-gay
mayor, mounted the stage of the Hilton Grand Ballroom to announce her victory. “With this mandate for change, now we are going to take the next steps together,” Lightfoot said. “Together we will make
Chicago a place where your zip code doesn’t determine your destiny.” Lightfoot, with 341,661 ballots casted in her favor, defeated Preckwinkle who » See CHICAGO, page 6
Northwestern acceptance rate rises Poli sci class pulled The increase was the first seen in 10 years; 8.9 percent admitted By GABBY BIRENBAUM
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Northwestern accepted 8.9 percent of its applicants for the class of 2023, Christopher Watson, the dean of undergraduate enrollment, told The Daily in an email. Having risen from last year’s record low of 8.4 percent, this year marks the first time in a decade that Northwestern’s acceptance rate has risen. The acceptance rate rose in 2009 to 27.1 percent from 2008’s 26.2 percent, but had fallen every successive year until 2019. In 2017, the acceptance rate fell below 10 percent for the first time, where it has remained ever since. At a time when declining single-digit admissions rates have come to signal prestige for elite universities, the news is a notable shift for Northwestern. Schools like Harvard and Yale posted a drop in rates, underscoring just how cutthroat admissions have become. But other schools like Princeton and Cornell also saw a rise in rates, though Princeton’s rate is closer to 6 percent, while Cornell’s is closer to 10. Watson
after visa delay Visiting professor still unsure of document status By CADENCE QUARANTA
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Northwestern’s acceptance rate over the years. 2019 marked the first year in a decade in which the acceptance rate rose.
predicted Northwestern’s rate would remain about the same when the University announced the number of applications this year flattened. President Morton Schapiro said he had expected applications to stabilize. NU received 40,579 total applications this year, setting a new record after last year’s high of 40,425. Of those 40,579 applications, 4,399 were submitted in December through
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the Early Decision process. The acceptance rate was about 25 percent for Early Decision applicants, who are expected to make up 53 to 54 percent of the class of 2023, Watson told The Daily in a December email. After considering Early Decision numbers, the Regular Decision acceptance rate becomes about 6.9 percent. For the class of 2022, the Regular Decision acceptance rate was about 6.4
percent. While the acceptance rate rose from 2018, the 8.9 percent rate is still slightly lower than 2017’s 9 percent acceptance rate. Students accepted in the Regular Decision pool have until May 1 to make a decision regarding their enrollment at NU. gabriellebirenbaum2021@u. northwestern.edu
Just days before Spring Quarter began, NU students enrolled in the Political Science 390 course “Turkey and the World” were forced to remove the class from their schedules after receiving unexpected news: Ioannis Grigoriadis, the expected visiting professor, had yet to acquire an American visa. A Greek citizen and university professor in Turkey, Grigoriadis applied for an American visa on Jan. 9, anticipating a mid-January arrival to Northwestern. Almost three months later, however, Grigoriadis said his visa has still yet to be issued. Instead, his application was placed under “administrative processing,” which according to Grigoriadis, means it has been transferred to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for further examination. Since Jan. 9, Grigoriadis said he has received no further information regarding the status of his visa.
“I am apparently under investigation, but there are no details,” Grigoriadis said. “I haven’t even the slightest hint about what raised this concern regarding my application.” NU filed a congressional inquiry regarding the status of examination soon after becoming aware of the issue. Grigoriadis said the answer they received was unclear. Recent data from the U.S. State Department shows that visa numbers are significantly down compared to recent years. It comes at a time when the Trump administrations has cracked down on immigration, though the president has embraced legal immigration. The federal government has also imposed stricter rules for student and scholar visas. “International students and scholars are under heavy compliance burden,” Ravi Shankar, the director of the International Office, told The Daily in December. This is not the first time Grigoriadis has applied for an American visa. In fact, he said he studied at Columbia University for two years on a student visa, taught at Princeton University on an academic visa, » See VISA, page 6
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