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Graduate students march for funding Protesters demand adoption of sixthyear guarantee By CAMERON COOK
daily senior staffer @cam_e_cook
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New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman speaks at an event Thursday. Haberman emphasized the need for strong local news and truthful political reporting.
Haberman chats Trump, career
NYT White House correspondent talks shifting norms in current era By JOSIAH BONIFANT
daily senior staffer @bonijos_iahfant
New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman doesn’t ever have a “typical” day. In the hectic Trump administration news cycle, she splits her
time between New York and Washington, keeping up with breaking news that develops at breakneck speed. In the 24-hour news cycle, Haberman is practically attached to her phone and email, and she’s had to take “more and more forced breaks” away from them. One such break came
Thursday night, when she spoke to a crowd of roughly 100 Northwestern students, faculty and Evanston residents at an event hosted by Northwestern Hillel. The event, which was held at the McCormick Foundation Center and co-hosted by the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing
Communications, consisted of a discussion moderated by Medill Dean Charles Whitaker and a Q&A session. Whitaker began by asking Haberman how she became such a key figure in journalism; last year, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on » See HABERMAN, page 6
Graduate students rallied Thursday and presented a list of demands of The Graduate School during Northwestern University Graduate Workers’ first public action to lobby for guaranteed sixth-year research funding since it was discontinued last spring. Protesters marched from The Rock to Rebecca Crown Center, where Sergey Kucherenko, TGS’s associate dean of finance, met them to receive their demands in place of Dean Teresa Woodruff, who Kucherenko said was in Chicago. Kucherenko told the protesters he could “guarantee” their voices would be heard. Fifth-year graduate student Kitty Yang handed Kucherenko the demands and told him the students expected a response and timeline for action “within a week.” Kucherenko told Yang she and the other students could expect a response within “a couple of days.”
“These are not demands that are new,” Yang told Kucherenko. “TGS knows that sixth-year funding is really important.” NUGW, the University’s graduate student union, has been pushing for guaranteed funding since TGS stopped granting funding to sixth-year students through assistantships — which include research and teaching positions — last May. Though assistantships are only available to second through fifth-year students, in the past, some students were granted exceptions. In an email to graduate students last year, Woodruff said the school would no longer make those exceptions. In response, NUWG put together a letter campaign that fourth-year math graduate student Perry Kleinhenz said garnered over 250 graduate student signatures. “A lot of us need a sixth-year of funding to get degrees and good jobs,” Kleinhenz said to cheers at the rally. “We haven’t been able to make our voices heard. We don’t have a seat at the table. So this is what we have to do.” Especially in the humanities, completing a doctoral degree is rarely something » See SIXTH-YEAR, page 6
Executive order’s Piven Theatre works with inmates NU impact unclear Organization leads weekly acting workshops for incarcerated women Trump orders colleges to promote free speech or lose funds By ALAN PEREZ
daily senior staffer @_perezalan_
President Donald Trump last month issued an executive order directing colleges that receive federal funding to promote “free inquiry” or lose the funding, a clear step in addressing what the Trump administration says is an effort in higher education to undermine the views of conservative students and speakers. The order mandates that public schools comply with the laws and regulations related to the First Amendment and that private schools like Northwestern abide by their own institutional policies regarding freedom of speech. It calls on 12 federal agencies to work with the White House Office of Management and Budget to ensure schools comply with these laws and policies, though it was scant on details of its enforcement. The president offered few additional details, but said at a signing ceremony that it was necessary amid the “censorship
and coercion” some campuses have placed on students. He referenced a February incident when a conservative activist on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley was punched in the face after recruiting for a conservative organization. “We’re delivering a clear message to the professors and power structures trying to suppress dissent and keep young Americans, and all Americans… from challenging rigid, far-left ideology,” Trump said. But any change in policies or procedures at Northwestern is unclear. While public colleges are bound by the First Amendment, private colleges are not, though the federal government has legal authority to impose such measures to schools it funds. The order directs the OMB to “take appropriate steps” to ensure private schools comply with their “stated institutional policies regarding freedom of speech” or risk losing federal research grants, though it kept safe money related to federal student aid programs. University spokesman Bob Rowley said the right to freedom of expression and speech is “part of our values, and it predates the » See ORDER, page 6
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Gillian Hemme is not one to “skip her 9 a.m.’s” — especially on Tuesdays. She wakes up as early as 5 a.m. to ensure she arrives on time at 8. Once she parks, she leaves her cell phone and computer in her locked car, knowing they’d never make it inside. Even so, it takes at least 30 minutes to get through security clearance at Cook County Jail, and another 30 minutes to gather the women from around the jail and bring them to the chapel, where her class is held. Hemme, who is an education and community partnerships manager at Evanstonbased Piven Theatre Workshop, leads a weekly acting class with inmates from the jail. Founded in 2014, the group, Ensemble Play in Cook County Jail, provides weekly workshops for female inmates as an escape from their daily lives. “We wanted to do the thing that we do best, which is this Piven technique of improvisation, story theater and theater games because we’ve seen and experienced ourselves what a
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Women in Cook County jail work with members of Piven Theatre Project. The weekly workshops allow the women to express themselves in an environment where such chances are rare.
difference it makes,” Hemme said. “Whoever wants to be involved, we try to make space for.” Given Piven’s work within the jail, it was a natural choice for Piven to produce “Hopelessly Devoted” for its 20182019 capstone project. It’s a play about the experience of women in prison. “Hopelessly Devoted” tells the story of Chess, a woman
facing a long prison sentence, separated from her children and isolated from other inmates. The play, written by Kate Tempest, is based on her experiences visiting a women’s jail in London, and runs from April 6 May 5. “ There’s an immense amount of pain around it,” said Linda Stevenson, a volunteer with EPIC. “When the women talk about their
children, it’s very painful... how do you explain? How do you parent from a jail?” According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, over 80 percent of incarcerated in Illinois women are mothers. Stevenson said many incarcerated women face emotional challenges when separated from their children and families. » See PIVEN, page 6
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