The Daily Northwestern – April 16, 2019

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The Daily Northwestern Tuesday, April 16, 2019

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ASG to file Black House petition Resolution demands more student autonomy By MARISSA MARTINEZ

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King Arts parents appeal to board

Community members frustrated with lack of off icial response By ANDRES CORREA

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Literary and Fine Arts School parent groups on Sunday afternoon sent a

joint email to administrators in the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 in response to a town hall which addressed academic disparities between black and white students. In the email sent by Black Parents of King Arts, King Arts Parent Teacher Association and

ONE King Arts, parents expressed concerns with the administration’s involvement in the town hall and asked that they listen and work more closely with black parents at the school. The March 22 town hall sought to address disparities in the results

of the latest Measures of Academic Progress scores between black and white students. According to the MAP scores, no black students in the third, fifth, sixth and seventh grades at King Arts met the college » See KING ARTS, page 6

ASG senators and community members will present a petition this Wednesday titled “Resolution In Support of Student Autonomy in the Black House,” which will be voted on next week. The petition concerns the lack of a guaranteed space for the temporary Black House while the building undergoes renovation next school year. Options for future locations were discussed during Monday’s meeting in the Black House, which was attended by about 35 people, but no official vote was held. The document details the role of the Black House in Northwestern’s black community and its current functions. It also includes demands from the 1968 Bursar’s Takeover for a space “to be used for social and recreational activities… and provide us with the necessary facilities to function as independently as the Student Senate office.” According to the document, this request has

not yet been fully realized. The petition describes the necessity of an independent, uniquely black space on campus, and asks for greater student autonomy in running the building, including 24-hour access, prioritizing the interests of the black community and moving the control of the building into the hands of students instead of remaining under Multicultural Student Affairs. Even though the Takeover occurred 50 years ago, Meron Amariw, the For Members Only ASG senator and Christian Wade, a Weinberg senator, said the black community on campus still feels ignored and overlooked. Part of the petition’s purpose is to emphasize how important the Black House is to many black students on campus. While the petition was co-authored by six students — including four members of ASG — both Wade and Amariw said it is meant to represent the opinions of the wider black community on campus. “Yes, some of us are senators and some of us aren’t but it’s not even an ASG thing,” Amariw said. “It’s more of a black student thing.” The petition includes requests » See BLACK HOUSE, page

Work-study jobs Council to add decorum guidelines difficult to balance Under new rules, speakers could be barred from meeting participation Students share challenges, obstacles to employment

By PRANAV BASKAR

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Miranda Chabot works two jobs. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, she gets techy — she’s a member of Northwestern News Network’s production crew. Her other job is a little more flexible hour-wise: as a research assistant, she makes her own schedule. Chabot, a Medill first-year, is one of the hundreds of students at the University who qualify for Federal Work-Study – a program created by Congress in the 1960s to supply college students with part-time employment opportunities. The goal — to help students afford college while simultaneously affording them valuable work experience — seems straightforward. But today, decades after the program’s inception, some students feel short-charged. Part of the problem, students said, is that work-study money is far from a guarantee. Chabot said given NNN’s production

schedule, it’s impossible for her to work — and, thus, earn — enough to fully cover her workstudy allotment. “Because of that, there’s a block on my financial aid statement that’s already in the red,” Chabot said. “Since there’s no guarantee you’ll be able to make what the University estimates you will in financial aid calculations, it’s fallen to me to figure out other options. I was lucky, but I’m sure not everyone else is.” Chabot said it’s “insane” the University expects students to figure this out for themselves, adding that when she arrived, she didn’t understand that the number displayed on her financial award was a potentiality — not a surefire assurance. Chabot was able to find a backup plan, her research assistantship, but that’s also meant having to balance two jobs on top of school, social commitments and everything in between. For some students, like Medill first-year Maggie Galloway, there are other problems with the work-study system: wages. Galloway said she loves her job at the Medill Office of External Programs and the » See HIRING, page 6

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Aldermen voted Monday to provide decorum guidelines for citizen participation during City Council, standing committees and ward meetings. The guidelines state that anyone who uses “ loud, threatening, personal or abusive language” during citizen comment could be barred from further participation during the meeting at the discretion of the mayor or presiding officer. The same rule will also apply to anyone who “disrupts, disturbs or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of a meeting.” The guidelines state that the mayor or presiding officer can try to provide a verbal warning to the speaker, but that a warning is not required for the speaker’s microphone to be turned off or for the speaker to be removed from the meeting. Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) echoed other aldermen’s sentiments when she said the tone of citizen comment has

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Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th). Fleming encouraged meeting chairs to explain the purpose of public comment to meeting attendees, clarifying what speakers should and should not expect during the public comment period.

changed over the past few years. “We have had this issue where we have someone who’s been disruptive or disturbing, and the mayor has not had a tool to use,” Wynne said. “This is not going to be invoked very often, but I think it’s worth having.” The resolution amends the City Council Rules about

citizen participation, adding a new section dealing specifically with decorum guidelines. The current rules also provide guidelines for signing up for public comment, sending in a written comment and defining the length of public comment speaking times. In addition to the new guidelines, Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) recommended the

chair of each meeting remind speakers how public comment works. She said speakers are sometimes confused and think that they might be getting an answer to questions from aldermen, when in reality public comment is just a time for speakers to make a short speech, and aldermen typically » See COUNCIL, page 6

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