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Dwight McBride to become provost at Emory in July By ALLYSON CHIU and ERICA SNOW daily senior staffers @_allysonchiu, @ericasnoww
The Graduate School Dean Dwight McBride will leave Northwestern to serve as Emory University’s provost and executive vice president of academic affairs, the University announced Wednesday. McBride has served as the TGS dean since 2010 and led initiatives which resulted in “unprecedented progress” in recruiting students of color, the release said. Under McBride’s leadership, an Office of Diversity and Inclusion was established at TGS. His appointment to Emory University is effective beginning July 1. “Community does not happen by accident, and each of you » See MCBRIDE, page 6
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Students hold signs in support of a new transgender policy at a Monday meeting. The policy, which goes into effect in the fall, will allow transgender students to use the locker room of their choice.
Community lauds transgender policy vote ETHS board passed resolution Monday to enact stronger protections for students By RYAN WANGMAN
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Evanston Township High School students, board members and community stakeholders lauded a new policy passed
Monday that will allow transgender students to use the locker room of their choice. The policy was passed by the board after months of deliberation and calls from ETHS community members to enact stronger protections for transgender students. Board president Pat
Savage-Williams said the policy would go into effect in the fall to give the administration time to develop and understand the change. School board member Jonathan Baum said most of the credit for the “significant civil rights breakthrough” should go
to the students that supported it along the way. “What people have to understand is that this victory came from the bottom up, not the top down,” Baum said. “It was the courage and empathy and activism of our students — and to some extent their parents — that
Northwestern emails phished in national hack
A phishing email attack disguised as a Google doc link has compromised the accounts of many Northwestern students and employees, NU Information Technology said Wednesday. The attack was discovered by NUIT at 1:30 p.m., according to an email from its office. Anyone who receives an email from a Northwestern address containing a link to view a Google doc
got us here.” Previously, transgender students could use the bathroom of their choice but had to request access to a separate locker room. Eric Greenfield, a transgender senior at ETHS, said the locker » See POLICY, page 6
should not open it, NUIT recommended. If opened, the recipient’s email also becomes compromised, the office said in the email. According to students from other institutions, including the University of Virginia and Georgetown University, the same attack has affected their school email addresses. NUIT is aware of the attack and is investigating solutions, the email said. NUIT recommended that those who have already been affected by the attack change their email passwords. — Allyson Chiu
Major in global MGMT named Dillo Day headliner health announced Source: Mayfest Productions
By MARIANA ALFARO
daily senior staffer @marianaa_alfaro
Grammy-nominated alternative rock group MGMT will perform at Dillo Day as the festival’s headliner, Mayfest announced Wednesday. Known for hit songs “Time to Pretend,” “Electric Feel” and “Kids,” the group was formed by Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden while both were students at Wesleyan University. MGMT’s 2008 album,
“Oracular Spectacular,” was named album of the year by NME, a British music magazine. The album was also one of Rolling Stone’s top 20 albums of the decade and sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. Mayfest teased the band Wednesday at noon by setting up a phone number that directed callers to a recording of the song “Kids.” Communication senior Yumiko Mannarelli, Mayfest codirector of concerts, said MGMT was the act most voted on in a poll Mayfest sent to students in
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the fall. Mannarelli said Mayfest was trying to move away from bringing a hip-hop artist as a headliner. The group, she said, was very excited when it saw MGMT’s popularity on campus and its availability to participate in Dillo. Mannarelli said bringing MGMT to campus is “somewhat nostalgic.” “(MGMT) is a band that’s been integral and a very influential part of our generation’s music,” she said. “They’ve kind of been on a hiatus the past couple of years, but they’re coming back
in full force. They’re on the festival circuit, they’re actually playing a festival the day before. They’re really everywhere.” Before securing the performance, MGMT asked Mayfest to install a video wall as a stage backdrop, Mannarelli said. This is the first time the group has done something like that, she said, and it’s really excited to be able to provide an “incredible” audio-visual experience. The video wall will be 16 feet by 9 feet and other Dillo artists » See MGMT, page 6
By ALLYSON CHIU
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Beginning Fall Quarter, students will be able to declare adjunct majors in global health studies, the University announced. The adjunct major is comprised of 11 courses: seven in global health — four core classes and three electives — and four in related classes outside global health, said anthropology Prof. William Leonard, director of the global health studies program. The adjunct major was created
due to the popularity of the minor, which now has around 300 students enrolled each year, vice president for international relations Dévora Grynspan said. Student demand has been a driving force in the growth of the global health studies program, Grynspan said. “We created a program from the ground up as it were,” Grynspan said. “It was not that the University or the administration said, ‘This is an important topic, we should have something.’ We created a program basically due to student interest and student » See GLOBAL, page 6
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