The Daily Northwestern Tuesday, October 10, 2017
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Admins, students talk textbook costs Dialogue follows petition that got over 850 signatures By KEERTI GOPAL
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Forrest Bruce (SESP ‘17) discusses his work with indigenous children in Chicago Public Schools at the Baha’i House of Worship on Monday. He said he encourages them to practice beading and language in addition to their schoolwork.
Panelists talk indigenous culture Discussion held in Wilmette in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day By JULIA ESPARZA
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Nanabah Foguth, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, recalls being unable to mail a letter at the post
office last year because it was closed for Columbus Day. She said the holiday reminded her that many didn’t recognize the hypocrisy of honoring Christopher Columbus. Evanston joined a number of other cities last year by replacing
Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. “Indigenous Peoples’ Day to me is an empowering identity, a spiritual identity and it means sharing that in a way that is in balance and harmony,” Foguth said.
Foguth was one of three panelists who discussed their culture in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day at the Baha’i House of Worship in Wilmette on Monday. Jim DeNomie, a » See INDIGENOUS, page 6
Students called on Northwestern to lower textbook costs and increase accessibility during a community dialogue in Allison Hall on Monday. The request comes after a petition, created Thursday, that asks the University to lower the average amount of money spent on textbooks. It also follows a new pilot program that loans eligible first-year students textbooks for science, technology, engineering and mathematics classes. Out of roughly 350 eligible students, about 150 have taken advantage of the program, associate provost for University enrollment Michael Mills said. Communication sophomore Kimani Isaac presented her petition — which has garnered more than 850 signatures — to students, faculty and administrators at the dialogue. Isaac said her personal experiences prompted her to spearhead the campaign. “The problem of being a low-income student, whose family is being stretched to even be on this campus — and then you are stretched even further to pay for the books
so that you can get the education — is that sometimes you can’t afford to fail,” Isaac said. “I want to move from a survival mindset to a thriving mindset, but sometimes you just can’t.” Isaac outlined the petition’s seven requests, including ending the use of course packets –– which she said are both financially and environmentally inefficient –– and buying licenses for popular online resources like Sapling, Pearson and McGraw Hill. The petition also calls for the elimination of the summer-work contribution from financial aid packages and requests the University provide financial aid recipients with grants to cover textbook costs. University director of financial aid Phil Asbury said those costs are about $1,660 per student each year. Mills said he had not yet seen the petition but looked forward to reading it. He added that the University is working hard to meet students’ growing need for financial support but acknowledged its room for improvement. “I would give Northwestern about a C if I were grading (its financial aid),” Mills said. “We’ve got so much more to do. … We are trying to make thoughtful decisions within the resource base that we have.” » See TEXTBOOKS, page 7
District 65 reviews ‘Welcoming city’ ordinance amended language program Undocumented Evanston residents receive additional protections School officials consider expanding immersion program By CATHERINE HENDERSON
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Evanston/Skokie School District 65 board members debated how to implement new classes for the district’s Two-Way Immersion program, a curriculum in which native English and Spanish speakers attend class together to increase cultural competence. The program — popular among parents but difficult to execute — also aims to increase academic achievement and bilingualism, said Stacy Beardsley, District 65’s associate superintendent of curriculum and instruction. Five of the district’s elementary schools — Dawes, Dewey, Oakton, Washington and Willard — have implemented TWI programs since 2001. Although school board members discussed the creation of two more
TWI programs by fall 2018, they said the decision would be complicated. “This is something that is going to be good for our district, but there will be some growing pains,” board president Suni Kartha said. Beardsley agreed and emphasized the issue of division between TWI classes and monolingual classes. She said the best solution would be implementing the two new TWI programs in a way that creates an environment centered on bilingualism. For example, the district could put the new programs at one school or split them between schools with existing TWI classes, Beardsley said. However, she also said the TWI classes would have to replace English-only classes due to the lack of space and resources. Board members said TWI fits into the district’s emphasis on equity, but underrepresentation in the program among black students is still an issue. Board vice president Anya » See IMMERSION, page 7
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Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) attends a meeting in the aldermanic library. Fleming and other aldermen voted to amend Evanston’s “welcoming city” ordinance at Monday’s meeting.
Aldermen formally amended Evanston’s “welcoming city” ordinance at Monday’s City Council meeting to include broader protections for undocumented residents. The amendment expanded a subsection that stated law enforcement officers may not arrest individuals solely on the suspicion they are undocumented unless they are conducting investigations. Under the new amendment, this rule also applies to stops and searches. Additionally, the amendment clarifies that if law enforcement officers want to stop an individual, they must have a valid judicial warrant. Marcelo Ferrer, a member of the Welcoming Evanston Coalition, which seeks to foster inclusivity for undocumented residents in the city, said his group wants to raise » See WELCOMING, page 6
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