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No gentrification in city, report says Residents disagree with study results By SAM HELLER
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residents. The criteria the study used for gentrification was strict — requiring an increase in median home value to the 60th percentile and at least a 5 percent decline in the population of a racial or ethnic group — leading researchers to acknowledge that the study likely undercounted the number of gentrified areas. The median home value in that area dropped to just above $177,000. Though the population of all racial and ethnic groups fell, a larger share of the Hispanic and black population was affected. Evanston residents and sisters Renee and Tina Paden are landlords at Paden Properties. Renee Paden said she has seen an extremely large change through gentrification in the last 20 years. “We can point out specific examples of gentrification,” she said. “We can go through Evanston house by house and point to areas that were low income and now are not.” Tina Paden said her family has seen the effects of gentrification on their block — they are the last house standing amongst luxury apartment complexes like E2 Apartments. She has seen gentrification on almost every street, from Garnett through
According to a recent study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, no area in Evanston has experienced gentrification between 2000 and 2013. The study considered neighborhoods gentrified, if in 2000, they were below the 40th percentile of household incomes and home values in the metropolitan area. In 2000, the cut off for household income was $61,121 and for home value it was $183,040. The only region of Evanston considered gentrified was an area in the 8th Ward, Census Tract 8102, which had a median home value of $182,017 and household income of $59,830 in 2000, according to the study’s analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. The study defines gentrification as a process when an influx in investment leads to rising home values, incomes and education levels. This displaces what are usually communities of color and replaces them with wealthy, white » See GENTRIFICATION, page 6
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U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D - Ill.) speaks to a crowd of 20 in Annenberg Hall. The congresswoman discussed her frustration with pharmaceutical companies.
Schakowsky speaks during Q&A U.S. congresswoman discusses healthcare, immigration, politics By JOSIAH BONIFANT
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U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) spoke to around 20 Northwestern students
Thursday in an informal Q&A hosted by NU College Democrats. Schakowsky elaborated on her opinions on healthcare by recounting an experience she had in a Senate Finance Committee hearing last week with
three pharmaceutical representatives about the increased price of insulin. “There were three CEOs of Big Pharma companies that have made insulin, which has been around since the 1930s,” Schakowsky said. “They’re
smooth as silk, these sons of bitches. And people are dying. I don’t know how they sleep at night.” Schakowsky said Republicans still see issues like » See JAN, page 6
Local newspapers remain well-read Students discuss Despite changing landscape, Evanston residents support city press By ANDREW MYERS
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For Vikki Proctor, a regular reader of the Evanston RoundTable and The Daily Northwestern, local newspapers are the glue that pulls a community together. “It’s how we show up at city hall for the issues that concern us,” Proctor said. “To not have a newspaper is an enormous mistake.” In recent years, local newspapers have been struggling to remain afloat. This has led to the creation of “news deserts” –– towns that lack any form of local news. In 2018, 1,449 American counties had only one newspaper, mostly weekly publications, and 171. counties had no local newspaper, according to a recent study from the University of North Carolina’s Center for Innovation. In Evanston, however, this is not the case. Unlike other city and towns, Evanston has three news publications: the
Evanston RoundTable, Evanston Now, and The Daily. Readership is one of the largest contributing factors in the decline of local newspapers. According to the Pew Research Center, only 17 percent of Americans rely on local news, and weekday print circulation has decreased by 11 percent from 2017 to 2018. While some local Evanston residents turn to local Evanston newspapers for their news, others rely on national news. Evanston resident Gwynn Blaser said she does not engage with local newspapers “a great deal,” except for elections. She said she gets most of her news online and doesn’t subscribe to any newspapers. “I usually do a search on a subject,” she said. “Whatever hits come up on that subject, that’s what I look at, not a specific newspaper.” Blaser is not the only one. In 2016, 59 percent of Americans prefered reading the news online, according to the Pew Research Center. T im Franklin, senior
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college inequities First-gen, lowincome students saw unfair system
By MARISSA MARTINEZ
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Local newspapers struggle to stay afloat, but Evanston newspapers remain strong.
associate dean of Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, has worked for several local newspapers, including The Indianapolis Star and The Orlando Sentinel. He said local newspapers inform citizens about matters
of great public importance and create a sense of shared experience. “It’s creating an experience for people who live in a community so they feel like the local news organization cares » See DESERT, page 6
Rick Singer, the head of the college-admissions preparation business implicated in the nationwide admissions scandal, described the college admissions process as consisting of three methods, or “doors.” There’s a front door, getting in on a student’s own merit; a back door, through paying for institutional advancement like paying for buildings; and his own creation, a side door. Only one of those three doors was available to SESP junior David Guirgis, a firstgeneration, low-income student — albeit barely. “I had to kick down the front door to get here,” he said. Guirgis is one of several first-generation and lowincome students who were
upset and frustrated by the cheating scandal that broke last month, which prompted many to take to the Internet and share personal narratives and critiques of the elite college application process. The most famous celebrities indicted for fraud and bribery include Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, but two Northwestern parents, Manuel and Elizabeth Henriquez, have been charged as well. When Medill sophomore Cayla Clements got a news notification about the scandal, she said she was shocked, especially as a “Full House” fan, a show in which Loughlin starred. Clements said she grew angry because of how easy it is for wealthy students to gain entrance into top opportunities and schools. Coming from a low-income family, Clements said the college application process was difficult because of how meaningful going to college was to her. She was so nervous to finally receive the results she » See REACT, page 6
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