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Students, residents object to high-rise Proposed building could close some local businesses By MADDIE BURAKOFF
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Whenever Communication senior Orli Spierer moves to a new city, she said she always seeks out small, independent bookstores. In Evanston, her bookstore of choice is Bookends and Beginnings, Spierer said. So when she heard about a proposed 37-story development that would demolish the store and several other small businesses, she took action. “I’ve been living in Evanston for three years at this point, so it definitely feels like home,”
Spierer said. “I have a lot of my favorite shops and places downtown … so you don’t want to see that go away.” Spierer joined a group of more than 1,100 Northwestern students and community members who signed an online petition protesting the building’s development. The petition calls on the city to “Stop the Tower in Evanston” and will eventually be delivered to City Council. The proposed building would bring nonprofit Northlight Theatre back to Evanston after it moved to Skokie in 1998, and would also include a hotel, a restaurant, residential units and parking. At 395 feet, the development would be the tallest building in Evanston if current plans are approved. However, its proposed » See PETITION, page 5
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Jennifer Eason, owner of Jennifer’s Edibles, poses in front of a store menu. The restaurant, 1623 Simpson St., received both a microloan and business services through LEND.
LEND helps businesses in city
Student-run organization provides financial, strategic support By JAKE HOLLAND
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After funds were disbursed this summer, recipients of LEND’s Entrepreneurship Support Program have expanded their outreach, using microfinance to drive growth. The $300,000 annual program
was designed by LEND — a Northwestern student-run microfinance organization — specifically for low-income and minority-owned Evanston businesses. It provides clients with direct capital and services like marketing strategies and legal aid. Jennifer Eason, a member of the new program and owner of Jennifer’s Edibles, said LEND helped her add essential
equipment to her comfort food restaurant in west Evanston, which opened in January. “If they weren’t there, I would probably not be in business,” Eason said. “They supported me, and I was able to purchase a gas range, freezers, work tables and utensils that are needed in my everyday work.” Many small business owners who seek loans or capital,
especially those with poor or nonexistent credit scores, are turned down by banks. Eason said because her personal credit “wasn’t stellar,” she could not find a bank willing to help get her business off the ground through commercial lending. “(Groups) like LEND that don’t deal with just credit scores » See LEND, page 5
University hires Title IX educator Kate Harrington-Rosen will work to ‘demystify’ reporting process By ERICA SNOW
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Bookends and Beginnings, 1712 Sherman Ave. The bookstore may close if a proposed high-rise complex is approved.
Northwestern has filled a position to educate the community about the sexual misconduct reporting process.
Kate Harrington-Rosen began working as the Title IX/ Equity Outreach and Education Specialist in July, she said. The position focuses solely on education and outreach, and is not involved in the resolution process of sexual misconduct complaints, former Title IX coordinator Joan
Slavin told The Daily in April. Harrington-Rosen will train students and faculty members about the sexual misconduct reporting process to “demystify” it by educating them about the next steps after a sexual misconduct complaint is reported. “It doesn’t really matter if
those policies and procedures exist if folks aren’t aware of them and don’t feel like the office is something they can access,” she said. Harrington-Rosen has trained about 1,150 people and » See TITLE IX, page 5
NU partners with local schools to improve college readiness Initial project to focus on identifying methods to improve college readiness in Evanston students
By AMELIA LANGAS
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After four years of discussion about improving the success of Evanston students in postsecondary education, a Northwestern partnership with local school districts is beginning its first project. The initial project will focus on identifying characteristics of college readiness, as part of the partnership’s larger goal of better connecting NU and Evanston school districts, SESP Dean David Figlio said. “Our ideals with this collaboration are to have Northwestern
and Evanston schools become real strong, true partners aimed at having the breakthroughs that are going to improve educational outcomes for kids currently in school and kids who aren’t even born yet,” said Figlio, who helped develop the partnership. Figlio said the research is still getting “up and running,” but the pilot project is the “Evanstonspecific on-track indicator.” This research initiative aims to identify the stages in development through school that can predict success in college, he said. Once the predictive factors are identified, schools can start to determine which students are on track and which ones need
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additional resources to ensure success, Figlio said. Evanston/Skokie School District 65 board member Candance Chow said educators should begin watching for indicators of college readiness as far back as kindergarten. “The most critical thing we’ve been talking about is really having a line of sight from right to left,” Chow said. “So being able to … understand at least at some level, what does that mean in earlier grades?” Pete Bavis, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction at Evanston School District 202, said with the research partnership — officially
known as the NorthwesternEvanston Education Research Alliance — comes a data-sharing agreement between the three entities. The agreement enables district administrators to work with NU researchers on addressing questions about policy and programming, Bavis said. He said the alliance also uses data from National Student Clearinghouse, which collects information from colleges and universities that regularly report enrollment and degree information, according to its website. Bavis said this data will help to label some of the factors that lead to a student’s collegiate success
— like academic performance, class schedule, attendance and disciplinary record. “There’s a real way to take theory, take big data and apply it to help increase students’ trajectories in Evanston,” Bavis said. “We think it can be a real game changer for how we support kids and how we talk to kids and nurture them on their path.” Bavis said District 202 has “enhanced” its analytic team, since it will be crucial for identifying problems the administrators can address. Though no analyses have been conducted yet, the program has already received funding from the Lewis-Sebring Family
Foundation, Spencer Foundation and contributions from the School of Education and Social Policy, Figlio said. Figlio said though it is ultimately up to district administrators to decide how they want to utilize the project’s final data, NU will remain a part of the process. “I fully anticipate that Northwestern researchers will be at the table helping to think about what those programs will look like and helping to set them up for evaluation,” Figlio said. Rishika Dugyala contributed reporting. amelialangas@u.northwestern.edu
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