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Saving Harley Clarke collaborative Supporters of the mansion discuss working together By JULIA ESPARZA
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Students Organizing for Labor Rights shows a film during an International Workers’ Day Event on Wednesday. SOLR and Northwestern Graduate Workers recognized the holiday, which commemorates gains made by labor movements all over the world.
Student groups celebrate May Day Events celebrate International Workers’ Day with cards, screenings By CAMERON COOK
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Northwestern student groups held events Wednesday to celebrate International
Workers’ Day, a holiday that commemorates gains made by labor movements all over the world. International Workers’ Day — sometimes called Workers’ Day or May Day — has its roots in a Federation of
Organized Trades and Labor Unions convention that took place May 1, 1884 in Chicago, during which organizers called for an eight hour work day and an end to inhumane working conditions. Two years later, in 1886, hundreds of thousands of
workers participated in a May 1 strike, beginning the tradition of a May Day rally. Northwestern University Graduate Workers, the University’s graduate student union, » See MAYDAY, page 6
Supporters of Harley Clarke are taking a new approach in their efforts to save the mansion: collaboration. In the past, many groups have submitted varying proposals for what to do with the historic lakefront mansion, but failed to reach either consensus or enough monetary support. Over the past year, there has been much uncertainty as to what will happen to the mansion, which has sat vacant since the Evanston Art Center moved out in 2015. In July 2018, City Council voted in favor of a proposal that would demolish the mansion. Four months later, citizens participated in a referendum that showed about 80 percent of voters wanted to preserve it. Most recently, aldermen approved a draft of the request for proposal for the long-term lease of the Harley Clarke Mansion. The city plans on releasing the request for proposal May 16 and in preparation, a coalition of Harley Clarke supporters have come together to draft a request. Evanston resident Audrey Niffenegger said she is interested
in the prospect of having different stakeholders work together to operate the building. “There is so much to this,” Niffenegger said. “The group that is good at raising money for the house might not be the most genius gardeners and that the group that has wonderful ideas for reviving Jens Jensen Garden may not necessarily have enough programming to fill a 20,000 square foot house.” During the meeting, community members discussed possible issues that could arise, including a lack of wheelchair accessibility in the mansion and the availability of public transportation. But despite these concerns, the group agreed the mansion should be a community space. Ideas for programming in the space ranged from cooking classes to art studios to a welcome center, and the group embraced the possibility of them all. Resident Clare Kelly, who has long been a supporter of preserving the mansion, emphasized the need for an event space in the mansion. She said providing that option would help to make communities that are traditionally excluded from the lakefront feel welcomed. “It’s really important because that’s such a rarified part of town,” Kelly said. “I mean, who has been enjoying our beautiful coveted lakefront... I think we know who » See HARLEY, page 6
Black House to get Students struggle to find internships temporary location Some are still waiting to hear back, apply to summertime positions Administrators to announce new space in two weeks By ATUL JALAN
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Northwestern administrators confirmed that they will announce the location of a temporary space for students who will be displaced by the renovation of the Black House — which is scheduled to occur from July 2019 through fall 2020 — in approximately two weeks. “We will sit down and come up with — of the alternatives that we’ve looked at together — which one’s the best. We will make that recommendation, and we think, (in) give or take two weeks, we’ll have the answer,” said Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, the associate vice president and chief of staff for student affairs. “Once we identify the location, we will need to notify the internal stakeholders, notify the black community, then we will do a public announcement.”
The announcement occurred during a Q&A held by ASG during its Wednesday senate meeting. ASG invited Kirchmeier, Daviree Velázquez Phillip, the director of Multicultural Student Affairs, and Kelly Schaefer, the assistant vice president of student engagement. They spoke in response to a resolution it passed demanding further student autonomy in operating the Black House and a temporary location for students during the House’s renovation. Renovating the Black House has been a process years in the making, involving surveys, focus groups, meetings and copious deliberation with relevant stakeholders, Kirchmeier said. Over that period, administration members have reduced the number of possible temporary locations to a few spaces, which they, along with eight representatives from relevant groups, including Associated Student Government, For Members Only and Multicultural Student Affairs, will tour next Monday. The group will consider four metrics for evaluation: the cost » See SENATE, page 6
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By THEA SHOWALTER
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By week five, spring quarter is officially half over, and many students are looking ahead to the summer — for some, that means applying for summer internships. But students say that Northwestern’s pre-professional atmosphere can make that process stressful. McCormick junior Noah Laughlin said he has been actively applying for summer industry internships since the beginning of this quarter and now, the pressure is mounting. “I know a lot of people who don’t have summer plans lined up but I also know a lot of people who lined things up really early,” Laughlin said. “I realized, ‘Oh, I need to get on this,’ more and more.” Laughlin said he’s “the kind of person who really struggles with long-term deadlines,” so getting started on the internship search was hard. He said the intense focus on internships at Northwestern is one of the things he doesn’t like about the University’s culture.
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Northwestern Career Advancement Center. The center is one place where students can seek help for summer internship plans.
Other students, like McCormick and Communication first-year Sreya Parakala, think it’s important that “people don’t cave into the pressure of feeling like they have to do everything,”
which she said can be a damaging mentality. However, Parakala said peer pressure impacted her decision to pursue summer opportunities, and eventually agreed to a second
internship at a startup at Northwestern’s Garage this summer. “It’s the environment. When you’re in McCormick, you’re » See INTERNSHIPS, page 6
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