The Daily Northwestern Monday, October 24, 2016
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coordinated with the offices of Risk Management, Facilities Management and Neighborhood and Community Relations, as well as Faculty Senate, she said. In addition to pedestrian and biker safety, Cilento said the task force will examine other ways to improve student safety, including transit accessibility for students with disabilities. “We wanted to make sure we could do something more sustained,” Cilento said. “We’re just trying to create a group responsible for talking with students about the way they use campus and where things are currently unsafe and ways to improve.”
During a panel moderated by University President Morton Schapiro, Isola Jones (Bienen ‘71) reflected on a “major influx” of black students enrolling at Northwestern during her freshman year. “That same year, the first African-American homecoming queen was from our campus,” she said. “This made national news, and I was just so proud of the university.” Jones, former mezzo-soprano at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, is the only AfricanAmerican artist to have sung more than 500 performances with the opera. She was joined at the homecoming panel, held Friday in Norris University Center, by four other alumni: Linn Hobbs (McCormick ‘66), a professor of materials science and nuclear engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Samir Mayekar (Weinberg ‘06, Kellogg ‘13), co-founder and CEO of SiNode Systems; Phyllis Elliott Oakley (Weinberg ‘56), an foreign service officer at the State Department; and Dave Revsine (Weinberg ‘91), the lead host for
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A new position could be created within Evanston government starting next year that would work exclusively toward increasing equity in the city. The staffer, called the equity and empowerment coordinator, would look into all city practices, including hiring and how the city enforces laws, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said. The new position, which was included in the 2017 proposed budget, would be focused both on internal and external operations, Bobkiewicz said. “The issues of equity and empowerment are pretty wide ranging,” he said. Cicely Fleming, the president of Organization for Positive Action and Leadership, said she would like to see the coordinator focus on racial equity. “When we think of what equity is about, (it’s) working with the population who is kind of at the bottom, bringing them to a more equal level,” she said. “The idea of equity is really focused on race.” Fleming, who is running for Ninth Ward alderman, said work with racial equity would also serve to help other underrepresented or disadvantaged groups, but, if the coordinator’s focus was too broad, race might “get lost.” Bobkiewicz said the city is looking to address the process and procedures the city has in place for issues such as construction permits and park uses. Additionally, the coordinator would look into how the city can best partner with outside organizations and individuals to get “a sense of what our larger community wants,” Bobkiewicz said. “We want to make sure that we’re hiring folks that are representative of the community,” he said. “Then there are issues … (of ) making sure that we have resources citywide, that we » See EQUITY, page 5
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University President Morton Schapiro speaks during Homecoming weekend and stands next to chemistry Prof. Sir Fraser Stoddart (left), who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Stoddart participated in the Homecoming parade Friday.
ASG to give out free bike helmets at The Arch
Associated Student Government, in partnership with University administration and the Evanston bikeshop Wheel and Sprocket, will distribute free bicycle helmets to Northwestern students Monday afternoon. ASG will give out 330 helmets at The Arch from noon to 2 p.m. to any undergraduate student with a valid Wildcard. University Police will also sell bike locks, register bikes and sell informational material on biker safety. The Office of the President granted $10,000 to ASG
for the initiative, and Wheel and Sprocket offered ASG a $10 discount on helmets. The initiative follows a unanimously-passed resolution in ASG Senate to improve transportation safety following the death of Chuyuan Qiu, who was killed in a crash with a cement truck while biking on Sheridan Road. The resolution, passed in coordination with Faculty Senate, also called for lowering the speed limit on Sheridan Road between Davis and Central streets to 25 mph. Christina Cilento, president of ASG,said she wanted to initiate a distribution for free helmets the day after Qiu died. “Helmets were something I knew fewer students have and
sometimes are stigmatized as being uncool on campus,” the SESP senior said. ASG partnered with Evanston to host a similar event, “Pedal Bright,” on Oct. 13 to distribute free flashing front bike lights at The Arch and at the Gibbs-Morrison Cultural Center, 1823 Church St. Although this is the first year ASG has distributed helmets, the city has distributed lights for years, Cilento said. ASG is moving forward in creating the Transportation Safety Task Force, which will continuously examine ways to improve the safety of students as they move about campus. The task force comes from the same resolution and will be
Cubs fans express hope ahead of World Series Northwestern students share stories, excitement By YVONNE KIM
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As his team fought for a historic World Series appearance, lifelong Chicago Cubs fan Sammy Esparza decided he would do his part to help end a curse. The curse was that of the Billy Goat, which — the story goes — has plagued the North Side team for decades. In 1945, William “Billy Goat” Sianis was barred from bringing his pet goat into a playoff game at Wrigley Field. It is said Sianis then cursed the Cubs, and the rest is history: The team struggled over the rest of the century, tallying only 21 winning seasons since.
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In an attempt to reverse the curse, Esparza started a GoFundMe page to raise $107, representing the 107 seasons that have passed since the Cubs last won the World Series. Esparza raised the money in less than 24 hours, and used it to purchase a goat — named “Billy” — for a family across the world in need of dairy. “The thought is that the curse of the Billy Goat will go with that goat,” the Weinberg senior said, “and the Cubs can now win a World Series.” It might just work. For the first time since the curse supposedly began, the Cubs have won the National League pennant. They beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 in Game 6 on Saturday night, winning the series 4-2, and punching their ticket to a World Series against the Cleveland Indians. The Cubs last won the
World Series in 1908 and have not appeared in one in 71 years. Preston Michelson, a lifelong baseball fan who works as a media intern for the Cubs, said being behind the scenes has changed his perspective on the team. “ When you’re at every home game, you just are connected to the team,” the Medill senior said. “You feel all the highs, and you feel all the lows, and you just understand this fan base and what it means to them. It’s pretty special to see the same faces at the ballpark everyday and see some really happy people yesterday.” He said he “couldn’t even see the road” hours before Saturday’s game because fans had swarmed the streets. He added that the Cubs are unique because they often play
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A Cubs fan smiles outside Wrigley Field after the Chicago Cubs defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night. The team won 5-0 in Game 6, making it to their first World Series in 71 years.
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