The Daily Northwestern Monday, April 10, 2017
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Tendam accepts election defeat
Under 1,000 students cast vote Mulukutla wins uncontested ASG race for president
Alderman concedes mayoral race to Steve Hagerty
By JONAH DYLAN
daily senior staffer @thejonahdylan
Weinberg juniors Nehaarika Mulukutla and Rosalie Gambrah won the uncontested Associated Student Government election Friday and will serve as ASG’s new president and executive vice president. Mulukutla and Gambrah won 76.8 percent of the vote, election commissioner Shayna Servillas told The Daily. More than 23 percent of voters voted no confidence in the first uncontested presidential election in institutional memory. Following the 2016 election, which featured one of the highest voter turnouts in ASG history, only 894 students voted this year. There were 4,060 total votes in 2016, when Christina Cilento and Macs Vinson narrowly beat Joji Syed and Archit Baskaran. The 2017 election had the lowest voter turnout in at least eight years. Mulukutla said her reaction to seeing the number of no confidence votes was “complete shock.” However, she said the pair is looking forward to the upcoming term. “We have this amazing, incredible opportunity to actually enact all the things we stand for,” she said, “in terms of pushing for students’ wellbeing and making students happier on this campus, and providing better Northwestern » See ELECTION, page 8
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By DAVID FISHMAN
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self-help through social movement,” Ogwumike said. Ogwumike worked with the other co-chair, Carolyn Brooks, to bring Mckesson to campus. Brooks, a Weinberg senior, said Mckesson is particularly relevant to NU students because many are interested in the Black Lives Matter movement. “(We) sensed that there was a campus-wide need for someone to address the social movement going on,” Brooks said. “We thought DeRay Mckesson would just be the perfect speaker to address sustaining yourself in the midst of a social movement.” Brooks described activism as “long, hard, unforgiving work,” which makes a seasoned activist like Mckesson qualified to speak to students who may be frustrated if their work doesn’t
Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) conceded the mayoral race to businessman Steve Hagerty on Sunday, capping off a roughly six-month long election season that included a rare primary and a slew of contentious legal challenges. In a statement provided to The Daily, Tendam expressed his support for Hagerty and pledged to help him fulfill campaign promises. Tendam — who trailed his opponent by just 129 votes as of Friday afternoon — encouraged voters to celebrate the successful Evanston/Skokie District 65 referendum, which will help alleviate rising costs associated with an uptick in new students over the past decade. “As Evanstonians, we came together over that issue to send a message: Whatever else divides us, we are united in our support for the values that bind our community together,” Tendam wrote in the statement. “A community that wants to give every child the same chance to succeed can and will work together to stamp out inequity wherever and however it rears its ugly head in our town.” Evanston had the second highest turnout rate — roughly 36 percent, or more than 18,000 voters — among Cook County municipalities with contested mayoral or presidential races. As of Friday, that rate was significantly higher than that of the last contested election in 2009, when only 10,375 people voted. Tendam said he decided to concede after updated results came out Friday, which narrowed the already close race to 129 votes. The slight improvement in his direction was not enough to make a “long shot” viable, Tendam said. At the end of last week, about 450 mail ballots had not been received by election officials, Cook County clerk communications director Nick Shields told The Daily in an email. However, those ballots may never be returned because voters have the option to discard their mail ballot and vote on election day; others may choose not to send them back at all. In an interview Sunday night, Tendam said he would remain invested in the issues he campaigned on, particularly those
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Transgender activist Janet Mock speaks to an audience in Alice Millar Chapel on Friday. Mock discussed intersectional identities and encouraged people to be allies to the transgender community.
Janet Mock discusses allyship
Transgender activist speaks at Family Action Network event By ALAN PEREZ
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Writer, transgender rights activist and TV host Janet Mock addressed issues on intersectional identities and encouraged people to take an active role in “carving out” safe spaces for the transgender community during an
event at Alice Millar Chapel on Friday. More than 50 people listened to Mock’s conversation with Medill senior and former Daily staffer Bailey Williams, during which Mock reflected on her own intersectional identity. The event was hosted by Family Action Network, an organization that uses collaborative programming to connect and
inspire people. Mock spoke about her experience growing up poor and black and how those parts of her identity made it more difficult to come out as a transgender woman. “I had learned through culture, the world, family, friends (and) haters that by speaking out I will be shunned or exiled,” Mock said. Mock said her activism
began after finding a community where she felt comfortable enough coming out as a transgender woman. Though Mock told the audience about her personal life, she decided not to tell most of her stories. Instead, she encouraged people to read her book, “Redefining Realness.” She said she wrote the » See MOCK, page 8
DeRay Mckesson to visit NU for GES event By ERICA SNOW
daily senior staffer @ericasnoww
Courtesy: Global Engagement Summit
DeRay Mckesson
Serving the University and Evanston since 1881
Civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson will speak at Northwestern on Thursday as Global Engagement Summit’s inaugural keynote speaker. Mckesson, known for his Black Lives Matter activism and signature blue puffer vest, will speak in McCormick Auditorium at Norris University Center. Tickets are free and will be available for pickup with a Wildcard at the Norris front desk starting Monday. The event is open to all Northwestern students as well as the international and domestic delegates involved in the summit, which begins Wednesday. Mckesson helped create Campaign Zero, an organization that proposes data-driven
methods to combat police violence. Previously, Mckesson taught 6th grade math in the Teach for America program. He ran for public office in 2016, placing sixth in the Baltimore mayoral primary. As part of his activist work, Mckesson travels to different protests and shares pictures and videos to more than 775,000 Twitter followers. Weinberg sophomore Jessica Ogwumike said Mckesson’s talk will be valuable to student activists. As one of the co-chairs of campus relations for GES, Ogwumike said the group wanted to bring a prominent speaker and host an event open to all students because many would be interested in his message. “I’m really interested in Northwestern student activists learning (from) him techniques for sustaining optimism and sustaining self-care and
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