The Daily Northwestern Friday, September 22, 2017
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First-year voter registration up over 57 percent
Voter registration among eligible new students rose more than 57 percent after a push by NU Votes, with 96.4 percent of eligible first-years registering to vote by the end
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All UP officers to get body cameras
5k race for mental health relocates to city
The National Alliance on Mental Illness will hold a 5k race, which has previously been held in Park Ridge, Illinois, on Clark Street Beach this Sunday to raise awareness about mental illness. The NAMI Cook County North Suburban 5K RUN WALK, which will begin at 8 a.m., is part of a national series of races held by NAMI during Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, which is September. Steven Arkin will speak at the 5k in Evanston to honor his son, Jason Arkin, who took his own life in 2015 while attending Northwestern. NAMI received authorization from the University and the city to hold the race on Clark Street Beach, Arkin said. “It is important for me to have a presence on campus of this type of organization and this type of representation and awareness to go along with the National Suicide Prevention (Awareness) Month,” Arkin said. Arkin said he hopes the University will implement a screening system for mental health issues so that all students can receive the services they need to assimilate to a new atmosphere. It is also important for organizations on campus to identify students who are at risk so that there is a crisis plan in place, he said. He added that the University has made a positive change by lifting the 12-session limit at Counseling and Psychological Services. It is important to provide as much help as possible on campus because some students lack the resources to seek private help, Arkin said. “Northwestern is great, and I think that they can expand on that greatness by being completely open about the fact that there are students that have mental illnesses and to protect them once they get onto campus,” he said.
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Decision comes after month-long trial, federal grant By ALLY MAUCH
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The Syrian refugee family’s old house, located in the 1700 block of Lyons Street. The family finalized their housing after weeks of living without a permanent home following an accidental fire.
City rallies for refugees Following fire, community helps family find home By RISHIKA DUGYALA
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A Syrian refugee family that settled in Evanston last year and lost its house in a fire this August has finally found a new place to settle down with the help of nonprofits and the local community. RefugeeOne — the
Chicago-based nonprofit resettlement agency that initially found and furnished a home for the family — will help them relocate and set up their new house within the next few weeks, said Jims Porter, the organization’s communications and policy coordinator. Porter said he did not know where the family would be living, but said finding another home had proved difficult. “The house we found for them at first was through a landlord we work with pretty regularly, but since it’s a larger family, it was
a challenge to find an affordable single-family house that fits them,” Porter said. “And we had to do that again.” The family came to the United States from Jordan as refugees, Porter said. They arrived in Chicago in July 2016 and moved to Evanston shortly thereafter. Early in the morning on Aug. 22, the family’s house — located in the 1700 block of Lyons Street — caught on fire, according to a news release from Evanston Fire Department division chief Paul
After conducting a 30-day trial for body-worn cameras, University Police plans to outfit all officers with the cameras by the end of the calendar year, deputy chief of police Gloria Graham said. Five officers volunteered for the original June trial, after UP and the Evanston Police Department received a federal grant for the implementation of bodyworn cameras, Graham said. The $139,277 grant covers the cost of 160 cameras for both police departments to share, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. After the trial concluded, Graham said the officers gave no negative feedback and found the cameras “easy to use.” Graham said UP plans
to purchase the cameras by Oct. 1 and implement them for all 47 officers by the end of the year. She said it will take time to get each officer equipped and install the necessary software. “In the 21st Century Policing documentation that came out during Barack Obama’s administration, one of the recommendations … is body-worn cameras,” Graham said. “So we decided to test it and see if we thought that it was something that both our community members and officers thought would be beneficial here at Northwestern.” The task force on 21st Century Policing was issued by President Obama in 2014 in response to instances of tension between police departments and their communities, including the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Weinberg senior Sara Halloran said though bodyworn cameras are a step forward for police transparency, » See CAMERAS, page 5
» See REFUGEES, page 5
Biss retains Evanston base By RISHIKA DUGYALA
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Amid a contentious decision by gubernatorial candidate state Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) to drop his popular young running mate, Evanston volunteers have remained firmly in his camp. The move, which came less of move-in day, according to a Thursday news release. Student representatives were integrated into the Sept. 11 move-in process at five booths in residence halls across campus, according to the release. “This helps us send a message to incoming students right from day one that we value civic responsibility at
than a week after announcing Chicago Ald. Carlos RamirezRosa (35th) as his running mate, drew ire from left-wing groups and some supporters. But local volunteers said they trusted the politician after having voted for him over many years — from when he first ran for the state legislature in 2008 to his brief bid for Illinois Comptroller in 2015.
Northwestern,” said Rob Donahue, associate director for the Center for Civic Engagement, in the release. The NU Votes initiative was launched by the Center for Civic Engagement in 2011 to raise awareness and participation among student voters. Based on a 1998 amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1965, universities
“I don’t see that anything has really changed here,” said Jerry Specht, a 67-year-old Evanston resident and Biss campaign volunteer. “He’s pretty well loved in Evanston, so the concerns are mainly outside.” Biss said in a Sept. 6 news release that he and Ramirez-Rosa separated after it became clear » See BISS, page 5
are required to “make a good faith effort to distribute voter registration forms” as a condition of their federal funding, the release said. The federal requirement sets a “fairly low” bar, Donahue said, but NU Votes decided to provide extra materials so students could easily register — whether instate or out-of-state. NU Votes has been working
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University Police is now moving forward with a plan to outfit all officers with body-worn cameras by the end of the calendar year. The plan follows a 30-day trial of the cameras conducted in June.
to share its model with other institutions including Stanford University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, according to the release. Northwestern is also participating in the Big Ten Voting Challenge, for which all Big Ten university presidents have pledged $10,000 to “promote student civic engagement.” “One of the most important
values we teach at our universities is the importance of civic engagement,” said a Big Ten letter signed by University President Morton Schapiro. “Voting in elections gives our students a voice in the democratic process and in the decisions that affect local, state and national issues.” — Maddie Burakoff
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