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Local work ethic program expands Initative aims to help local students find employment By EDMUND BANNISTER
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The Evanston Work Ethic Program, an initiative that provides technical training and employment opportunities for Evanston Township High School students, is planning to expand in its second year. Nancy Baker, executive director of the program, said the WE Program has secured funding for 15 students and will accept applications through Oct. 21. Seven students participated in the program last year. Hecky Powell, owner of Hecky’s Barbecue, founded the WE Program to teach local students marketable skills and help them secure well-paying jobs. The program was launched with help from the Evanston Community Foundation and the Evanston Chamber of Commerce, Powell told The Daily in February. Powell, who grew up in a working-class family, said he wanted to provide quality alternatives to the traditional
college path. The first class of mentees were chosen from 31 total applicants, he said. Baker, who runs the program’s day-to-day operations, said the directors tried to match students with professionals in industries the teens had interest in. She expressed frustration at the myopic “college or nothing” attitude she said pervades the Evanston community. “It codifies this idea that we are a college-bound culture and that is the only way we can survive and prosper,” Baker said. “But in the meantime we know that isn’t true.” Baker said that since the decline of American manufacturing in the 1970s, people have held the outdated view that college is the only viable path for students. She pointed to German and Japanese companies that have achieved great success in high-tech manufacturing by coordinating with high schools and technical colleges to fill job vacancies. Evanston, she said, should follow their example by treating job-training programs with more respect. “We find it ironic that in a town that says so much about diversity … that we » See WORK, page 4
Faculty discusses freedom of speech Senate considers University policy on demonstrations By GERARDO ALVEREZ
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the University of Wisconsin and University of California, Berkeley –– students were dismayed that professors taught how to maintain the status quo when they wanted to transform it. “The work of William Blake, the visions that he offers, it seems to me were one way for some of (the students) to reimagine the world that they had inherited,” Allen said. “To imagine it in a way that would be more democratic, more safe, more humane and ultimately a more beloved community.” African American studies Prof. Martha Biondi offered a look back on failures of the Civil Rights Movement and connected past defendant’s rights campaigns to today’s Black Lives Matter movement. She said with each landmark Supreme Court case there were more stop-andfrisk and “No Knock” laws that set back the defendant’s rights movement. Susy Bielak, recently named the associate director of engagement for the Block
Members of Faculty Senate discussed concerns about Northwestern’s policy on free expression and peaceful demonstration during its first meeting of the quarter Wednesday at the Pancoe Life Sciences Pavilion. The policy, last amended in January, describes the “parameters University community members must adhere to when engaging in free expression and peaceful demonstration.” Communication Prof. Robert Hariman said several professors told him the current definitions of disruption and demonstration are too broad, which restricts free expression on campus. “The consensus is that the definition of disruption and demonstration is absolutely too broad and that it’s going to lead to bad cases and bad policies,” said Hariman, who is the Faculty Senate president. The University’s current definition of disruption and demonstration “refers to engaging in assemblies, demonstrations, picketing, protests, counterprotests, sit-ins, or any other exercise of free expression on or near the University campus.” English Prof. Jeffrey Masten said the current definition conflicts with the University’s goal to support freedom of speech on campus. “I hope that we can see that this is a very broadly-drawn definition,” he said. “It holds freedom of expression not as the center and foundation of what we do as a university, but as a counterfactual.” Hariman said the Faculty Rights and Responsibilities committee is working on revising the policy. Classics Prof. Robert Wallace said the policy’s current definition implies all demonstrations are disruptive, so the two acts should not be grouped together. “A demonstration is fine — in a peaceful way — but what we don’t want is disruption,” he said. “So just get rid of the word disruption in the definition.” Earlier in the meeting, Kellogg Prof. Ravi Jagannathan said the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility had nothing new to report. The committee, officially chartered last academic year, was created to promote transparency in investment decisions. The group will consider community proposals
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Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) speaks at City Council’s equity training on Wednesday. Aldermen and city officials held the training to learn how to communicate with the community’s vulnerable populations.
City gets equity training Aldermen, officials seek to increase accessibility By CATHERINE HENDERSON
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After months of discussion, Evanston officials held their first equity training Wednesday night to learn how they can best empower local residents. City Council met at a
roundtable with two officials from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. The IPFW administrators provided leadership tools for city officials, with the goal of increasing the community’s equitable access to council members. Kristina Creager, assistant vice chancellor for student
success and transitions at IPFW, told aldermen to focus on strategies such as expanding one’s “constellation of input” and taking responsibility for any mistakes. Creager said while leaders need “accountability partners” — people who call them out on their » See EQUITY, page 4
Northwestern professors talk 1960s culture
Block Museum hosts presentations connected to existing William Blake exhibition By SAMANTHA HANDLER
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Northwestern professors tackled cultural issues from the 1960s during a lecture at the Block Museum of Art on Wednesday. The event, titled “Love and Then Some: 1960s Protest and Liberation, Civil and Human Rights,” built on the ideas of social transformation highlighted in the museum’s current exhibition, “William Blake and the Age of Aquarius.” Four Northwestern faculty members presented on revolutions in the 1960s and their effects on the political and cultural climate of the time. History Prof. Michael Kramer spoke about how Jimi Hendrix’s music reflected the counterculture of the decade. He said Blake would have liked Hendrix’s oppositional anthem, “Purple Haze,” which displayed a more “ominous” call for liberation. “This is no call for peace and love,” Kramer said. “It’s a fuzzed out nasty snarl, a sneering announcement that something is not right.”
Gender and sexuality studies lecturer Amy Partridge discussed how two works –– “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” and “Liberating Masturbation” –– spurned the sexual revolution and several feminist movements. The articles were indicative of the two types of feminist groups in the 1960s: “anti-sex” and “pro-sex.”
She said that despite the differences in the movements, both critique the social norms of intimacy and advocate for living in ways that challenge those norms. “What I want to suggest in comparing these two figures about the politics of pleasure and the pleasure of engaging in politics is that we should recognize
both of these figures as fundamental to the sexual revolution and as important contributors,” Partridge said. History Prof. Michael Allen analyzed the politics of the left, specifically about how radical students were dissatisfied with the liberal establishment. When they arrived at universities –– including
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The Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Dr. Professors presented on Wednesday about revolutions in the 1960s and their effects on the political and cultural climate.
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