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Financial aid to cover four years School policy restructured, no longer 12 quarters By GABBY BIRENBAUM
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The Office of Financial Aid has restructured its renewability policy so that financial aid is now available to incoming freshmen for four years rather than 12 quarters, Phil Asbury, the University’s director of financial aid, told The Daily in an email. The change, which will be implemented in the 2019-2020 academic year, was made to allow students more flexibility, particularly in pursuing summer study, Asbury added. Previously, a student taking classes during Summer Quarter would either have to graduate a quarter early or find a way to pay for school without financial aid for that additional thirteenth quarter. With financial aid now being measured by years rather than quarters, students can enroll in summer courses without considering “long term loss of financial aid eligibility,” Asbury said in an email. “Our goal in financial aid is to see that students have
ample flexibility and stay on course through to graduation,” Asbury said in the email. “The prior policy that focused on quarters was too constraining. My hope is that students will take advantage of this flexibility and better stretch their enrollment across a larger volume of quarters, when helpful. Hopefully and ideally, this change will relieve some of the stress that might accompany enrollment in only the fall/winter/ spring quarters.” Anor Chen, a Weinberg freshman and Quest+ secretary, said the change will be beneficial for him. Chen is planning to do Engage Chicago, which involves taking classes on campus, so he needs financial aid to afford summer tuition, room and board. The twelve-quarter renewability policy had forced Chen to debate whether he could do the program. He had to consider whether or not to “sacrifice” a quarter of aid, which would involve planning his graduation date years in advance and restricting his ability to experiment with classes, as he would have to limit himself in order to graduate early. Chen said hearing about the » See AID, page 6
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Journalist Alex V. Hernandez talks during the panel held at Evanston Public Library on Monday night. Hernandez and Prof. Wendy Pearlman discussed covering refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers through storytelling.
Panel talks immigration reporting Journalists discuss the power of covering communities using narratives By MARISSA MARTINEZ
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In recent years, refugees and immigrants have been highly covered communities by the media — from detention centers near the border to President Donald Trump’s so-called “Muslim ban,” there has been no shortage of policy updates and panels about the
government’s treatment of those seeking entry to the United States. Journalist Alex V. Hernandez, of Block Club Chicago, and Political Science Prof. Wendy Pearlman discussed telling the stories of refugee and asylum seekers during their panel at Evanston Public Library on Monday night. The event was sponsored by the Northwestern Middle East and North African Studies Program and 90 Days, 90 Voices. The panelists said media
should be more focused on telling the stories of the people these abstract policies affect. Pearlman wrote the book “We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled,” a collection of interviews with Syrians across Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East over several years. She pointed out that the term “refugee” has been used as a categorization or type of person, rather than a description of a situation or moment in someone’s life. The
Syrians Pearlman interviewed in 2012, for instance, did not consider themselves to be refugees at first. “Their sense of themselves as identifying as refugees has been a process,” Pearlman said during the event. “It didn’t begin when they cross the border. The words we use sometimes reify things into these concrete bounded categories, and they don’t capture the fluidity of a » See REFUGEES, page 6
Aldermen vote on Oakton property Finding LGBTQ Space to be considered for rock-climbing gym company First Ascent By CASSIDY WANG
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Aldermen on Monday voted to introduce an ordinance authorizing the entrance of a real estate contract that would sell the cityowned property at 2222 Oakton St. to Clark Street Real Estate. According to city documents, the developer, Clark Street Real Estate, is proposing to purchase the building and adjacent land currently serving as parking to secure a long-term lease with First Ascent, a rock-climbing gym. The proposal specifies the development of 20,000 square feet for climbing, while also providing space for a fitness area, weekly yoga and fitness classes and at least one community event each week. First Ascent also proposed to provide other various youth and community outreach programs, including after-school youth programs focusing on fitness, agility and social interaction, summer camps and youth birthday parties. Although the proposal emphasizes goals of community development, Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said real estate tax revenue contributions would be the only benefit the city would get from the development.
space in UCM Despite Methodist vote, NU group remains open By JOSIAH BONIFANT
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Ald. Ann Rainey (8th). Aldermen on Monday voted to introduce an ordinance authorizing the entrance of a real estate contract that would sell the city-owned property at 2222 Oakton St.
“The user of this property should generate more than just real estate taxes,” Rainey said. “However, it generates really nothing else other than real estate taxes.” Rainey does not support the immediate sale of the property. She said she is also skeptical of the development’s promises of being a “really inclusive operation.” “I see that a birthday party for
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children is going to be $30 a kid,” Rainey said. “That includes nothing but rock-climbing. I guess that’s what middle-class kids are paying for birthday parties this year, but that doesn’t seem very inclusive.” Rainey said she also does not support the development because the activity spurred by the facility is contained within the building. She described the proposal as “not
so exciting, not so out there, not alive.” According to city documents, First Ascent estimates 2,000 members and several hundred visitors each day if they open in January 2021. Nearly half of these daily visitors would be nonmember day users from the Evanston and adjacent North Shore » See OAKTON, page 6
Julie Windsor Mitchell has been executive director and campus minister at Northwestern’s University Christian Ministry since 1999. When she was being considered for the role 20 years ago, the hiring committee asked Windsor Mitchell how she felt about LGBTQ inclusion in the ministry, as queer affirmation was an important aspect of the role. The ministry was founded under both the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the United Methodist Church. The United Methodist Church has been considered a progressive mainline branch of Protestant Christianity, having allowed female clergy members since 1956, but at a General Conference in February, worldwide delegates voted to uphold the “traditional plan” on homosexuality at a 53 percent majority. The plan bans same-sex weddings and LGBTQ people from clergy positions. However, about
60 percent of the delegates from the United States voted against the plan, [cq][cq] especially delegates from liberal areas like Evanston. “It’s been a very upsetting situation since our ministry has always been queer-inclusive and many of our students identify as queer,” Windsor Mitchell said. “It’s been very challenging to hear a message from the global church that says you’re not included.” Despite the vote, Windsor Mitchell said she is striving to keep University Christian Ministry inclusive of all gender identities and sexualities Windsor Mitchell said she has married same-sex couples, typically UCM alumni, and will continue to do so despite the harsh consequences the United Methodist Church could enact. A first offense yields a six-month suspension and a second offense results in an immediate revoking of ones ordination. She said “fighting” is worth any possible repercussions, because it directly affects future generations, whom she closely works with and for. “For the sake of all the next groups of young people that will be coming to Northwestern, I don’t want them to grow up in a church where they’re told they can’t be gay » See OVERLOOKED, page 6
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