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New D202 board to focus on equity After election, new members outline goals By CASSIDY WANG thwww @cassidyw_
Newly elected Evanston Township High School/ District 202 school board members plan to put issues concerning equity and bridging the achievement gap at the forefront of their agendas. Following Tuesday’s election, two new members were elected for the first time, and one incumbent will be returning to her position. Stephanie Teterycz and Elizabeth Rolewicz will replace two former members, Jonathan Baum and Mark Metz, who both stepped down. Monique Parsons, the board’s current vice president, was reelected. When the new group convenes for the first time, Parsons said the board will need to first have conversations about their priorities and the agenda they intend to pursue. “My hopes are that we are able to work together and be very focused and intentional on creating a goal that will help us address the
achievement gap that students are currently facing, especially black students within Evanston Township High School,” Parsons said. Like Parsons, Teterycz identified the achievement and opportunity gaps between white students and students of color as an important issue. She said these gaps are related to literacy discrepancies that arise in middle school. “This has been a problem ongoing from what I understand but this is something that they have been trying to address and have not resolved,” Teterycz said. At a Jan. 15 school board meeting, Scott Bramley, the associate principal for instruction and literacy at ETHS, said 59 percent of incoming freshmen score at or above grade-level in reading, according to results from the standardized literacy test STAR. For Rolewicz, the achievement gap, along with the literacy discrepancy of students entering ETHS, needs immediate attention. She also said she hopes to continue to engage with the community, seek knowledge from local leaders and build » See ELECTIONS, page 6
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The Sigma Chi house. The fraternity’s February suspension was lifted in March.
Sigma Chi reinstated on campus The temporary suspension was lifted last month after 23 days The temporary suspension on Northwestern’s chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity has been lifted by their national headquarters. “As a chapter, we’re glad to be back to our normal status and functioning as usual,”Trevor Lystad, the president of the chapter, told The Daily in a text. “I want to thank the University and our national headquarters for their
help through this process.” The suspension, which went into effect on Feb. 19, was lifted on March 14, according to Medill sophomore and Sigma Chi member Alex Moore. In February, Lystad said he could not comment on the details of the situation that led to the intramurals and officer elections, but they were allowed to remain in their on-campus house, serve
meals and meet “financial commitments,” Michael Church, the executive director of Sigma Chi International, said in a February email to The Daily. The fraternity also remained members of the Interfraternity Council. fraternity’s suspension. The fraternity had been suspended while Sigma Chi’s national headquarters investigated alleged violations of Sigma Chi’s
policies. The lifting of the suspension signals that the investigation is complete and no punitive measures were taken regarding the alleged violations. While under suspension, Sigma Chi was not allowed to hold social functions, including initiation. Sigma Chi is now free to host social events once again. — Gabby Birenbaum
Residents discuss new developments NU part of Native Meeting allows for collaboration, brainstorming among attendees By THEA SHOWALTER
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Open-air restaurants, residential housing with a walkthrough to the nearby Purple Line Metra station, eco-friendly office space and apartments are only a few of the structures that Evanston community members envision along Chicago Avenue. Evanston residents and business owners gathered Thursday evening for a community meeting to discuss potential changes to buildings at 1012-1034 Chicago Ave. The meeting took place in Evanston business owner Richard Fisher’s Fiat Autobarn store, one of the buildings facing potential redevelopment. According to Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) the community meeting was a unique move on the part of Evanston developers. “This is a flipped process from what we’ve done in the past,” Wynne said. “[Development plans] are usually a finished concept the first
writing series Program hopes to boost visibility of Indigenous writers By ZOE MALIN
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Evanston community members break into small groups to brainstorm and discuss changes to the Chicago Avenue streetfront. Residents expressed concern with traffic and building heights.
time the community gets to see it.” Wynne added that presenting finished concepts to the Evanston community
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has been difficult since the desires of Evanston residents often differ from the desires of developers. The unique opportunity for the
community to voice concerns and express preferences before any formal » See THIRD WARD, page 6
Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago have established a new Indigenous Lecture & Writing Series in an effort to increase the visibility of Native American and Indigenous communities. This 10-month program pairs public lectures by indigenous scholars with writing produced by a cohort of 20 Native-identifying individuals. Overall, it aims to “cultivate more first-voice stories,” said Jasmine Gurneau, manager of Native American and Indigenous Initiatives at NU. “Chicago is home to one of the largest Native American populations,” Gurneau said. “Even so, Natives are largely invisible.” The Indigenous Lecture & Writing Series was funded by a grant from the Spencer
Foundation, an organization focused on supporting education research. It is supported by NU’s Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion as well as UIC’s Native American Support Program and Learning Sciences Research Institute. The group will first meet later this April. Applications to the series’ writing cohort was open to anyone who self-identifies as Native American or Indigenous. The selected participants range from college students to those in their 60s, and Gurneau said members of the group are interested in a variety of storytelling genres such as photojournalism and autobiographical writing. Gurneau and her co-facilitators, Joshua Radinsky and Cynthia Soto, both faculty members at UIC, were inspired to create the series after the publication of the 2018 study, “Reclaiming Native Truth.” Gurneau said it showed when people are exposed to narratives about Native peoples, it leads to greater support for the community. Radinsky, an associate » See IWLS, page 6
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