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EPL to form Racial Equity Task Force Library seeking up to six community members By CLARE PROCTOR
daily senior staffer @ceproctor23
The Evanston Public Library is accepting applications from community members interested in joining its Racial Equity Task Force. EPL launched the application May 1 and is seeking up to six community members to offer feedback and make recommendations for how the library can better integrate diversity, equity and inclusion into the services. EPL board president Ben Schapiro said racial equity has been a “growing concern” for the board. He said there has been a “circle of inequity of how services are distributed,” and the board hopes the task force will help address that. “While the board represents a diverse population in the city, it may not know or see everything or understand everything in the same way that other members of the community can,” Schapiro said. “We’re looking for this group to help us formulate responses to our problem with not having good services everywhere in the community that we wish we had.” Forming the task force was one of the recommendations
made by DeEtta Jones and Associates, a consulting group that addresses workplace equity, diversity and inclusion, said library director Karen Danczak Lyons. The firm produced a community report for the library, Danczak Lyons said, which looked into how the library can better address racial equity issues. Danczak Lyons said EPL has been trying to increase its diversity by having board meetings at various locations throughout the city, but the task force will allow for a more “structured conversation” around diversity and equity. “We’re hoping to draw a diverse group of residents with lived experience who will share their thoughts, and have a conversation with them,” Danczak Lyons said. “It does no good to engage with people if you don’t have somebody sitting across the table from me that wants to talk.” The application allows residents to voice their thoughts without being “overly cumbersome,” Danczak Lyons said. Since it went live, EPL has already received applications. Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th), who shared the application on Facebook, said “every entity plays a role” in either creating disparities or alleviating them. She said she is hopeful of what the task force will accomplish. Board member Ruth Hays » See EQUITY, page 6
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Mariachi NU performs at their seventh annual spring show. Guitars, trumpets, violins and traditional instruments like the guitarrón and the vihuela make up the instrumentation for the group.
Groups celebrate Mexican culture Ballet Folklórico Mexicano, Mariachi NU perform in showcases By AUSTIN BENAVIDES
daily senior staffer @awstinbenavides
Wepa! Flashes of colorful dresses and the sound of trumpets and guitarrónes filled the Ryan and McCormick auditoriums this weekend as Ballet Folklórico Mexicano de Northwestern and Mariachi NU performed their annual spring
showcases. On May 4, Ballet Folklórico hosted their sixth annual Colores de la Primavera show. Dancers were clad in traditional dresses, sombreros ponchos and special tap shoes to make the traditional sound for folkloric dance. While dancing “El Rascapetate,” the performers wore black dresses adorned with bright flowers from the Mexican state of Chiapas. Vicky Delira, the president of
Ballet Folklórico, said the dresses were specific to Chiapas’ Mexican culture. The black dresses represented the dark forests of Chiapas, and the flowers symbolized the beauty found within this darkness. Medill senior Sidney Thomas attended the show and said people should “broaden their horizons” and attend cultural events like Ballet Folklorico. “It was really colorful, really beautiful,”Thomas said. “I thought
that the speed that they were moving at was incredible and the amount of time that they kept that speed — I was getting tired just looking at them.” An important focus of this show, Delira said, was to represent the various different regions that make up Mexico. Ballet Folklorico performed dances from several different states including Jalisco, Baja » See MARIACHI, page 6
Federal judge blocks Wildcats win Big Ten Championship Trump visa rules LACROSSE
Northwestern defeats Maryland for its first-ever Big Ten title By KARIM NOORANI
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Northwestern has conquered its giant. After eight consecutive losses to Maryland since joining the conference before the 2015 season, the No. 5 Wildcats toppled the No. 1 Terrapins 16-11 on Sunday to capture their first Big Ten Championship in program history. Maryland (18-1, 7-1 Big Ten) came into the game with an undefeated record alongside a top-10 scoring offense and defense. The Terrapins had beat the Cats (14-4, 7-1) 17-13 earlier in the season after a rain delay caused the game to be moved indoors to Ryan Fieldhouse from Martin Stadium. “I think that everyone worked hard. Things just really clicked today,” senior goalkeeper Mallory Weisse
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said. “It was an amazing overall team effort.” Freshman attacker Izzy Scane ignited NU from the start of the game, scoring the first two goals within four minutes. Scane also capped off a 5-0 Cats run at the end of the first half, scoring off a sloppy Maryland turnover. Scane suffered a twisted ankle in the Cats’ semifinal win Friday against Michigan, but was able to play through the pain Sunday. Scane finished the championship game as one of four attackers who scored three or more goals. Joining Scane on the offensive effort were attackers Lindsey McKone, Lauren Gilbert, and Selena Lasota.
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The Wildcats celebrate. NU won its first-ever Big Ten Tournament crown in an upset over Maryland on Sunday.
The trio combined for ten goals. Lasota scored four on her own — continuing her streak of 12 straight games with more than 2 goals — and McKone added three for the third consecutive game.
“I think (the offense) did great,” Scane said. “We did a good of job of running our offense and finding the openings in Maryland’s defense to » See LACROSSE, page 6
By ALAN PEREZ
daily senior staffer @_perezalan_
A federal judge is putting a temporary halt to rules issued by the Trump administration that would make it easier to find international students and scholars in violation of their visas. Judge Loretta Biggs of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina — who is overseeing a lawsuit against the policy — handed down the nationwide preliminary injunction of an August 2018 policy memorandum on unlawful presence time accrual. The judge concluded the regulations would cause “irreparable harm” to visa holders, making the injunction order necessary for the public interest. The order is in place until the conclusion of the case, though Biggs cited the plaintiffs’ likelihood of winning as a reason for the ruling. Northwestern had joined much of the higher education
community in opposing the policy change, arguing it would make the U.S. a less welcoming place for international study and would harm American universities. The policy changed federal rules so that visa holders would be found in violation of their visa terms the day they stop doing what their visa allows, like discontinuing their studies. The previous policy determined unlawful presence started the day an immigration official found a visa holder in violation. The policy would make it easier to impose the 3- or 10-year bans handed down to scholars with more than 180 days of unlawful presence during a single visit, as it would allow the government to retroactively find visa holders in violation. Biggs sided with the plaintiffs, who brought the suit against the U.S. Homeland Security Department and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, in its motion seeking the injunction. » See INJUNCTION, page 6
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