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Students: stop rape culture in India Kellogg students march to protest sexual violence By ALAN PEREZ
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Evanston’s equity and empowerment coordinator Patricia Efiom speaks at a 5th Ward meeting on Thursday. Efiom spoke about equity’s role in the priority-based budgeting that Evanston will work on in preparation for the upcoming budget deficit.
Officials, residents discuss deficit Budgeting workshop gathers input about priorities of 5th Ward
By COLIN BOYLE and RYAN WANGMAN daily senior staffers @colinbphoto, @ryanwangman
Residents of the 5th Ward participated in the first prioritybased budgeting workshop at a
meeting Thursday in anticipation of the projected city budget deficit for fiscal year 2019. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz projected the city’s deficit for the upcoming year to be about $3 million, according to the Chicago Tribune. To
promote transparency in the budget-making process, Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) said Thursday she used the workshop to get input on how residents feel about the many competing priorities of the city, information she will ultimately use in
the decision-making process. Rue Simmons said she asked for this workshop to happen during the meeting to prepare her residents for her handling of the upcoming deficit. » See FIFTH, page 5
Dozens of students marched from the Kellogg School of Management Global Hub to Deering Library on Thursday to protest the Indian government’s response to sexual violence against women. More than 50 Kellogg students participated in the march, which ended with speeches from Kellogg firstyear student Urvashi Goel and second-year student Ashish Kakran. Goel said India needs to address multiple deep-rooted issues, including victim-blaming, pressure to remain silent and unprosecuted cases. “I want to ask you all to end the rape culture around the world,” Goel told demonstrators. “I want to ask you all to change this … culture of shaming women who have been victims of sexual assault and crimes. Help their voices be heard. Make them feel safe
and comfortable. Tell them that you’re with them.” Goel then asked demonstrators to pull out their phones and tweet to the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, calling on him to be proactive in addressing sexual assault. The march comes amid public outcry after two highprofile cases garnered considerable media attention, Goel added, prompting the country to confront a long-ignored problem. Kakran told The Daily the demonstration aimed to show Modi that Indian citizens around the world also care about the issue. The group coordinated with other business schools that planned on holding their own protests, he said. Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business also held a demonstration Thursday. Kellogg first-year student Rahul Garg said the demonstration was coordinated by a group of international students from India, though he said he appreciated that other students showed up to support a widespread issue. “We wanted to make everyone aware that this can happen » See PROTEST, page 5
Union Squared Hagerty addresses climate change pizzeria to expand Experts, city officials talk Paris Agreement post-US withdrawal Renovations will double size, seating capacity By CLARE PROCTOR
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A renovation and expansion at Union Squared Evanston will add up to 10 more seats to accommodate the restaurant’s large customer “fan base,” coowner Heather Behm said. “We were pretty packed all the time, doing lots and lots of carry-out because there isn’t much room inside in the dining room during bad weather,” Behm said. The Detroit-style pizzeria, located at 1307 Chicago Ave., has been under construction since February. The new space will house the operations counter and an expanded kitchen, allowing the original space to be used strictly as a dining area, she said. Evanston’s economic development manager Paul Zalmezak said several businesses in the Main-Dempster Mile business district, including Union Squared, are holding ribboncutting ceremonies Saturday. “There really isn’t a pizzeria
in the neighborhood where you can just sit and enjoy a pizza,” he said. “The expansion will really help the neighborhood have a place to enjoy pizza on site.” Behm co-owns Union Squared and its sister restaurants — Union Pizzeria at 1245 Chicago Ave. and Union Squared Chicago at Revival Food Hall — with Vince DiBattista, Craig Golden and Steve Schwartz. Behm said most of Union Squared’s current seating is in the backyard beer garden, which can seat up to 75 customers. However, she said she realized they needed more space when the winter weather made the outdoor seating space unusable. The expansion, which will add 550 square feet to the original 550-square-foot space, will also increase the restaurant’s visibility, said DiBattista. “We’ll have more presence,” he said. “It’s such a small, little space that people could drive by and go unnoticed because it’s so tiny.” The addition expands to the property next door, which formerly housed a dry cleaning service, Behm said. Both the new and original properties were owned by Blue Star Properties — a real estate company » See UNION, page 5
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By KRISTINA KARISCH
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Cities must take climate change prevention into their own hands in the face of a skeptical administration, climate change expert Kathleen Biggins said during a speech Thursday. She addressed a crowd of about 100 people at Rotary International headquarters, 1560 Sherman Ave., as part of a broader event hosted by the Garden Club of Evanston. Biggins is a co-founder of C-Change Conversations, a group that holds climate talks across the country. In addition to Biggins, Mayor Steve Hagerty and Kumar Jensen, the city’s sustainability coordinator, spoke at the event. Biggins walked the audience through a number of climate change-related statistics before pointing out that scientists overwhelmingly agree humans are responsible and the effects must be reversed. But in the United States, she said, climate change has shifted from being strictly scientific to becoming increasingly politicized. “Both parties used this topic to whip up their base,” Biggins said. “Suddenly we had
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Mayor Steve Hagerty speaks during a Thursday event at Rotary International, 1560 Sherman Ave. Hagerty reiterated the city’s commitment to sustainability efforts.
something that was radioactive. The vast majority of Americans understand climate change is happening, and a strong majority understand that it is influenced by man. But what Americans don’t understand is how it will impact them personally, and why there is such urgency to address it.” She said that across the world, countries have been taking steps to address climate
change, culminating in the 2015 Paris Agreement, where signatories promised to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. After joining on to the agreement initially, the United States — under President Donald Trump — announced its withdrawal in 2017. Since the United States’ withdrawal, governors and mayors throughout the country have made pledges to uphold
the climate standards outlined in the agreement. Hagerty said Evanston is committed to sustainability across the city, and that he has been encouraged by residents’ commitments to fighting climate change. News broke that Trump planned to pull out of the climate accord while Hagerty was in a meeting with U.S. Rep. Jan » See CLIMATE, page 5
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